AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

Andrew Dai spent 12 years as a Research Scientist at Google Brain and DeepMind. He wrote the 2015 paper that OpenAI later cited as the original recipe for ChatGPT, was a core Lead on Gemini, GLaM, and PaLM 2, and his published research has accumulated over 67,000 citations. Now, he leads Elorian, a company building AI systems that understand the visual medium and apply reasoning the way humans do. Elorian recently launched with $55M at a $300M valuation, backed by Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, Striker Venture Partners, NVIDIA and Jeff Dean.

Sessions

• The Best Models Still Reason Like ToddlersTuesday, June 30 · 1:55 PM – 2:15 PM · Track 2Vision & OCR