Co-founder & CEO · ex-Salesforce Chief ScientistCo-founder & CEO · ex-Salesforce Chief Scientist
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German-American NLP researcher who did his Stanford PhD co-advised by Christopher Manning and Andrew Ng, pioneering recursive neural networks and tree-structured models for language. He founded MetaMind (acquired by Salesforce, where he became Chief Scientist) and the AI search engine You.com. In May 2026 he launched Recursive Superintelligence, a self-improving-AI lab, with a $650M raise at a $4.65B valuation.
German-American NLP researcher who did his Stanford PhD co-advised by Christopher Manning and Andrew Ng, pioneering recursive neural networks and tree-structured models for language. He founded MetaMind (acquired by Salesforce, where he became Chief Scientist) and the AI search engine You.com. In May 2026 he launched Recursive Superintelligence, a self-improving-AI lab, with a $650M raise at a $4.65B valuation.