Co-founder, President, and CTO of Reflection, building frontier open-source AI models. Former founding engineer at DeepMind (15 years), worked on DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and RLHF for Gemini. Signed $1B compute deal with Nebius.
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Reflection leverages talent from closed frontier labs (DeepMind, Gemini) who have 'seen the frontier' to build open models, now backed by a $1B Nebius compute deal. The company argues Western labs' compliance with IP/distillation norms is a long-term advantage over Chinese labs accused of industrial-scale distillation, and aims to close the gap between open and closed frontier intelligence.