Waseem AlShikh
Co-founder and CTO of WRITER, developer of the Palmyra large language models
Waseem AlShikh is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of WRITER, an enterprise generative AI company that trains its own Palmyra family of large language models. AlShikh co-founded WRITER with May Habib in 2020 and co-authored a 2024 paper on long-context inference.13
Career
AlShikh and May Habib began working together in 2013, when they started a company to localize enterprise content dynamically using machine translation. Their experiments with transformer models led them to launch WRITER in 2020, where AlShikh is CTO.1
Research
AlShikh is the last-listed author of Writing in the Margins, a 2024 paper on a chunked prefill approach for long-context retrieval. The method adds "margin" notes generated for each chunk and uses them to steer the final answer.3
WRITER's flagship model today, Palmyra X6, is the default model across the WRITER platform and is built for long-running agentic work; the company says it can hold one goal for hours.2
Work
Writing in the Margins: Better Inference Pattern for Long Context Retrieval (external site: arxiv.org)
Co-author of a 2024 paper introducing Writing in the Margins, an inference pattern that processes long inputs in chunks and generates intermediate notes to guide a model toward the relevant information.3
Palmyra model family
CTO of the company that builds the Palmyra models, whose flagship Palmyra X6 is the default model on the WRITER platform.21
Career timeline
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