Naveen Rao
CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI; founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML; former Databricks VP of AI
- CEO and cofounder, Unconventional AI1
Naveen Rao is the CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI, a company rethinking the foundations of computing with the aim of bringing biology-scale efficiency to AI. Unconventional AI's author page says Rao founded two earlier AI startups: Nervana Systems, which was acquired by Intel, and MosaicML, which was acquired by Databricks. Databricks' July 2023 release on completing the MosaicML acquisition quotes Rao as MosaicML's co-founder and CEO, and a June 2024 Databricks release names Rao as Vice President of AI at Databricks. Rao is one of six bylined authors of Databricks' March 2024 post announcing DBRX, a mixture-of-experts language model.12345
Work
DBRX (external site: databricks.com)
One of six bylined authors of Databricks' March 2024 post announcing DBRX, a mixture-of-experts language model built on the MegaBlocks research and open-source project.5
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Vice President of AI, Databricks4
- Co-Founder and CEO, MosaicML31
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