Connor Leahy is an German-American entrepreneur and artificial intelligence researcher. He is best known as a co-founder and co-lead of EleutherAI, a grassroots non-profit organization focused on advancing open-source artificial intelligence research.
A talented coder, he famously reverse-engineered OpenAI’s large language model (LLM) GPT-2 in 2019.
In 2022 he co-founded Conjecture, which he currently leads as the CEO.
Conjecture’s mission is to make a major breakthrough in the AI Alignment problem, by creating a new paradigm for infrastructure that allows us to build scalable, auditable, controllable AI systems (they refer to it as Cognitive Emulation).
Connor is a passionate and gifted communicator, the mainstream media love him and the academic intellectual community respects him and places him on the front of the discourse. Being an expert in the field, while also being a very eloquent speaker, positions him at a unique spot for influencing the public opinion and swaying politicians and decision makers.
His second name happens to be “Johannes”, which is the German equivalent of “John“.
For those who have watched the Terminator movies, they know John Connor was the leader of the resistance to the machines (after Skynet took over)…
