Georges Harik, Google Employee #7 Who Built AdWords, Raises $107M for Inference Cloud DeepInfra
npinto · x · 2026-10-12
jhong profiles Georges Harik, one of the most prescient yet least known figures in AI: Google employee #7 who joined in 1999 to build a better ad system, co-created AdWords with Salar Kamangar, and was a driving force behind Google's Android acquisition. He left to self-fund AI research. His company DeepInfra announces a $107M Series B to scale its inference cloud.
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