Nous Research Inc. develops open-source artificial intelligence language models and systems for the public.
Co-founder, founding CEO & president. Built from the ground up to Series A; raised $70M in venture.
The ‘Nous Girl’ logo was designed by John Galt in 2023. She symbolized the freedom of expression, rebellion against digital censorship, preserving humanity in science.
The Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△) built a fine art collection of tokenized imagery (Ethereum NFTs), and a community of internet-age digital artists.
From 2020-2023, I built an infrastructure to empower global digital art using cryptocurrency: open tools, critical thought experiments, art exhibitions in virtual worlds.
[2018] Created a historical analysis of Leonardo Da Vinci’s deluge drawings at MIT.
[2019] Published qualitative research on interdisciplinary collaborations that improve surgical care in low-resource settings in the British Medical Journal.
[2019] Wrote a commentary on applied AI for systems innovation in The Lancet.
I combine passions for free expression, consciousness, technology as co-founder of Nous Research and managing director at Shiro San Fund.
New York based. Previously lived in Bangalore, Cape Town, Boston. Raised in California by two computer nerds.
Art History and Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Also into ancient history, alternative medical systems, wildlife conservation, yoga (RYT 200).