FlashAttention creator Tri Dao joins Radical Numerics as scientific advisor
exnx · x · 2026-10-16
Radical Numerics announced that Tri Dao—co-founder and Chief Scientist of Together AI, head of Princeton's Dao AI Lab, and creator of FlashAttention and Mamba—has joined as scientific advisor. CEO Eric Nguyen, his former labmate at Stanford's Hazy Research (Chris Ré's group), says Dao will guide research strategy in ML systems, optimization, and scaling for the startup's biological foundation models (Omnii), targeting general biological intelligence.
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