Ali Farhadi

Former CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Microsoft AI Researcher

<cite index="42-1,42-2">Ali Farhadi is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and also serves as CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)</cite>. <cite index="41-14">A computer vision specialist, Farhadi founded and led Ai2 spinout Xnor.ai as CEO, and sold the AI startup to Apple in 2020 in an estimated $200 million deal that represents one of the institute's biggest commercial successes to date</cite>. <cite index="45-4">He oversaw releasing 300+ models and artifacts, empowering 33M+ downloads, and enabling 6B+ live interactions to Ai2's online services and APIs</cite>.