Sara Hooker
Co-founder and CEO of Adaption; author of The Hardware Lottery and last author of the Aya model paper
Sara Hooker is the co-founder and CEO of Adaption, which builds adaptive AI systems that keep learning, with a platform for custom model training, data optimization and continuous learning at inference. Hooker wrote "The Hardware Lottery" (2020) with a Google Research, Brain Team affiliation; the essay describes how research ideas can succeed because they suit the available hardware and software. With a Cohere For AI affiliation, Hooker was the last-listed author of the Aya model paper (2024), which introduced an instruction-following multilingual model covering 101 languages; the aya-101 weights are published on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.1234567
Work
The Hardware Lottery (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Sole author of the 2020 essay, written with a Google Research, Brain Team affiliation, which introduces the term "hardware lottery" for research ideas that win because they suit the available software and hardware.34
Aya-101 (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
Last-listed author and a corresponding author of "Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model" (2024), which introduces a model that follows instructions in 101 languages; the aya-101 model card lists the Apache 2.0 license.567
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Author affiliated with Google Research, Brain Team, on the 2020 essay The Hardware Lottery, Google Research (Brain Team)4
- Author affiliated with Cohere For AI on the 2024 Aya model paper, Cohere For AI6
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