Peter Sarlin
Co-founder and former CEO of Silo AI, acquired by AMD in 2024; co-author of the Poro 34B open model paper
- Founder and chairperson of the board (since 2025, per a CV dated March 2026), Qutwo Oy and NestAI Oy3
- Professor of Practice in applied machine learning and AI (since 2022, per a CV dated March 2026), Aalto University34
Peter Sarlin co-founded Silo AI and was its CEO when AMD announced in July 2024 that it would acquire the company, saying Sarlin would continue to lead the Silo AI team within the AMD Artificial Intelligence Group; AMD completed the acquisition in August 2024. A CV published by Zalando for its 2026 annual general meeting lists Sarlin as Silo AI's co-founder, CEO and board member from 2017 to 2026, as founder and chairperson of the board of Qutwo Oy and NestAI Oy since 2025, and as Professor of Practice in applied machine learning and AI at Aalto University since 2022. Sarlin is a co-author of Poro 34B and the Blessing of Multilinguality (2024), which lists Sarlin with Silo AI and Aalto University; the Poro 34B model card says the model was created by SiloGen from Silo AI with the TurkuNLP group at the University of Turku and HPLT, under the Apache 2.0 license.12345
Work
Poro 34B (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
Co-author of Poro 34B and the Blessing of Multilinguality (2024), on a 34-billion-parameter model trained on Finnish, English and programming-language text; the model card credits SiloGen from Silo AI, TurkuNLP and HPLT and lists the Apache 2.0 license.45
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