About the Author
Richard Socher is the CEO and cofounder of Recursive, a company building self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery, and the CEO and founder of You.com, a web search infrastructure provider for AI. He is also the founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures, an AI venture capital firm. Socher was previously an adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford, where he received his PhD, and chief scientist and EVP at Salesforce, following the acquisition of his AI startup MetaMind. His pioneering research in natural language processing—including landmark work on word vectors and prompt engineering—has shaped how neural networks understand language. He lives in the Bay Area.
