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Douwe Kiela
Researcher at Google DeepMind; formerly CEO and co-founder of Contextual AI at google-deepmind
Dutch-American AI researcher and entrepreneur specializing in machine learning and natural language processing. Kiela led research at Meta AI on retrieval-augmented generation and served as Head of Research at Hugging Face before founding Contextual AI. In May 2026, he joined Google DeepMind as part of a licensing agreement.
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