The best AIs will be constructed, not emergent
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About us
We’re an AI native product company, advancing the way humans discover and create knowledge.
Our story
The perfect moment
In 2021, renowned AI researchers Maithra Raghu and Fabio Petroni were busy deepening their expertise in similar fields, but on different sides of the planet. Maithra was at Google Brain in Mountain View, CA, working on neural network training, while Fabio was at Meta AI in London, leading research breakthroughs in Knowledge Intensive NLP such as Language Models as Knowledge Bases? and the original RAG paper.
Meanwhile, other developments in AI opened up an opportunity to transform the problem space our founders know so well: knowledge-intensive workflows.
An email made its way from Silicon Valley to Europe and, some weeks later, Samaya AI was born.
Samaya is a Sanskrit word, meaning “the appointed or proper time for doing something”.
We seized the moment to assemble a best-in-class team. Next, we got to work building a solution from the ground up - starting with a deep understanding of domain experts and their needs.
Meet the team
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Founder & CEO
Maithra Raghu, PhD
Previously
Google Brain
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Founder & CTO
Fabio Petroni, PhD
Previously
Meta AI
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Technical Team
Michele Bevilacqua, PhD
Previously
Meta AI
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Technical Team
Ashwin Paranjape, PhD
Previously
Stanford
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Operations Lead
Anna Cavolowsky
Previously
NASA
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Technical Team
Flavio Carvalho
Previously
Informa
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Technical Team
Megan Leszczynski, PhD
Previously
Google
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Engineering Manager
Suharsh Sivakumar
Previously
Google
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Technical Team
Vadim Nikulin
Previously
Meta
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Technical Team
Merlin Mason
Previously
Founder mo.work
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Technical Team
Christos Baziotis, PhD
Previously
Meta AI (FAIR)
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Technical Team
Mingyi Yang
Previously
Square
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Technical Team
Jack Hessel, PhD
Previously
Allen Institute for AI
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Annotation Manager
Jack Santos Silva
Previously
Lionbridge
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Platform Engineer
Bram Mulders
Previously
ASML
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Technical Team
Yuhao Zhang, PhD
Previously
AWS AI
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Technical Team
Andrea Cortoni
Previously
Tesla
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Business Development
Jeffrey Tha, CFA
Previously
JPMorgan
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Operations Lead
Cat Stevenson
Previously
Synova
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Technical Recruiter
Sandra Altug
Previously
Meta AI
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Technical Team
Roberto Dessi, PhD
Previously
Meta AI
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Product Designer
Alessandro Spinosi
Previously
DAZN
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Technical Team
Zuo Wang
Previously
Tesla
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Technical Team
Alex Baranov
Previously
Headspace
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Technical Team
Thejas Venkatesh
Previously
Atlassian
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Technical Team
Francisco Moretti
Previously
iRobot
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Technical Team
Karan Handa
Previously
Uber
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Technical Team
Varun Patel
Previously
Course Hero
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Technical Team
Sachin Raj
Previously
AWS AI
Our values
As our company grows, it’s important we stay true to our founding principles.
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Humans first
Humans are at the heart of everything we do. We build tools that supercharge our users.
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Many voices, one team
We’re passionate about collaboration, and welcome diverse perspectives to get us to the best solutions.
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Endless curiosity
We’re constantly asking questions to deepen our understanding of the problem.
Careers
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When we say we’re the best to work with, we mean it.
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Investors
We're backed by Gen AI leaders
Eric Schmidt (lead)
AI Grant
Air Street Capital
Anne Wojcicki
Christopher Manning
David Siegel
Diane Greene
Jeff Dean
Jeff Hammerbacher
Jeff Wilke
Khosla Ventures
Mark Cuban
Martin Chavez
Ram Shriram
Vento (Exor)
Yann LeCun