Sami Jaghouar
Leads research at Prime Intellect; first author of the INTELLECT-1 technical report and OpenDiLoCo
- Research lead ("leading research" at Prime Intellect, per Jaghouar's GitHub profile, October 2026), Prime Intellect1234
Sami Jaghouar leads research at Prime Intellect, according to Jaghouar's GitHub profile, and was listed on Prime Intellect's research team in the May 2025 INTELLECT-2 announcement. Jaghouar is first author of the INTELLECT-1 technical report, on a model trained across globally distributed infrastructure, and of OpenDiLoCo, an open-source framework for distributed training with low communication.123458
Research
Jaghouar's published work centres on training models across distributed compute. OpenDiLoCo (2024) presented an open-source framework for globally distributed low-communication training, and the INTELLECT-1 technical report (2024) described a model trained on such infrastructure.85
Jaghouar is the first named individual author of the INTELLECT-2 report (2025), on a reasoning model trained through globally decentralized reinforcement learning, and a co-author of the INTELLECT-3 technical report (2025). Other co-authored work includes TOPLOC (2025), on verifiable inference, and METAGENE-1 (2025), a metagenomic foundation model.67910
Prime Intellect
Jaghouar's GitHub profile, linked from the Hugging Face account that Hugging Face lists as the author of the INTELLECT-1 technical report, describes Jaghouar's role as leading research at Prime Intellect. The same Hugging Face account is a member of the Prime Intellect organization and publishes models there, including a checkpoint released in October 2026.123
Work
INTELLECT model seriesOpen weights
First author of the INTELLECT-1 technical report (2024) and the first named individual author of the INTELLECT-2 report (2025).56
OpenDiLoCo (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of OpenDiLoCo (2024), an open-source framework for globally distributed low-communication training, written with Jack Min Ong and Johannes Hagemann.8
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