Lucas Atkins is CTO and head of research at RCAI, an AI research company focused on pre-training open-weight models for developers and enterprises. He previously worked on post-training of open-source models like Mistral and Qwen.
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RCAI moved into pre-training to control the full stack for developers, avoiding reliance on Chinese base models and Western labs whose revenue doesn't depend on open-weight model quality.