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Lukas Biewald is an American entrepreneur and a prominent figure in artificial intelligence. He is recognized for his contributions to machine learning and as the CEO and co-founder of Weights & Biases[1][2][3], a company that builds developer tools for AI. He previously founded and was CEO of Figure Eight, a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform. He has co-authored 26 AI research papers from 2004 through 2018.[4]

Early life and education

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Biewald was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1981[5]. He attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School[6] and later earned both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University[2][7].

Early Career and Founding Figure Eight

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After graduation, Biewald joined Yahoo! as an engineer, working on machine translations to improve search results, and eventually led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan[2]. He later joined Powerset[8], a natural language search technology company, as their Senior Scientist, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for an estimated $100M.[9][10]

In 2007, Biewald co-founded Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower), a data labeling and crowdsourcing company that created datasets for training machine learning models. Figure Eight was acquired by Appen in 2019 for $300 million.[11][12]

Weights & Biases

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In 2017, Biewald co-founded Weights & Biases with Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis.[13] The company provides tools for tracking machine learning experiments, model management, and collaborative AI and LLM app development. The platform has been adopted by organizations such as OpenAI, Salesforce, and Microsoft[14][15]. Investors have valued the company at $1.25 billion[16].

Gradient Dissent

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Biewald hosts the bi-weekly podcast,Gradient Dissent. On the podcast, he interviews leaders in the AI space on how AI works in production. Guest have included:

Awards and recognition

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  • In 2010, Lukas Biewald won the Netexplorateur Award for creating the GiveWork iPhone app, which allows users to perform small tasks that assist refugees and people in developing countries.[21]
  • In 2010, Inc Magazine included Biewald and Van Pelt on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.[22]

Publications

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  • Ensuring quality in crowdsourced search relevance evaluation: The effects of training question distribution by John Le, Andy Edmonds, Vaughn Hester, Lukas Biewald. SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation, July, 2010.[23]
  • Superficial Data Analysis: Exploring Millions of Social Stereotypes by Lukas Biewald, Brendan O’Connor. O’Reilly July, 2009[24]
  • Biewald has co-authored 26 AI research papers from 2004 through 2018.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Report: Weights & Biases Business Breakdown & Founding Story | Contrary Research". research.contrary.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  2. ^ a b c "Who is the CEO of Weights & Biases? Lukas Biewald's Bio | Clay". www.clay.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  3. ^ "Lukas Biewald". World Economic Forum. December 23, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b "Lukas Biewald". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  5. ^ Press, Cedar Street (April 20, 2012). "Mercury News Interview: Lukas Biewald, Co-founder/CEO, CrowdFlower". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on December 3, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
  6. ^ Cambridge Rindge and Latin School yearbook. Cambridge Public Library. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Published by the Senior Class Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. 1999.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ "Lukas Biewald". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  8. ^ "Lukas Biewald". Mucker Capital. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  9. ^ Arrington, Michael (2008-07-01). "Ok, Now It's Done. Microsoft To Acquire Powerset". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  10. ^ Weisenthal, Joseph; PaidContent. "Microsoft Buys Powerset - NYTimes.com". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  11. ^ "Appen to Acquire Figure Eight to Create Industry Leader". www.appen.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  12. ^ Ha, Anthony (2019-03-10). "Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  13. ^ "Weights & Biases | Company Overview & News". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  14. ^ "Case Studies". Weights & Biases. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  15. ^ Partners, Insight (2023-09-21). "How Lukas Biewald grew Weights & Biases from a side project to the AI revolution's must-use service". Insight Partners. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  16. ^ "AI development tooling startup Weights & Biases reels in $50M". SiliconANGLE. 2023-08-09. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  17. ^ "Jensen Huang — NVIDIA's CEO on the Next Generation of AI and MLOps". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  18. ^ "Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  19. ^ "Drago Anguelov — Robustness, Safety, and Scalability at Waymo". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  20. ^ Anthony Goldbloom — How to Win Kaggle Competitions, 2020-09-09, retrieved 2024-12-24
  21. ^ "Lukas Beiwald, CEO in CrowdFlower|GlobalBigDataConference". www.globalbigdataconference.com. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  22. ^ "Inc.com's 2010 30 Under 30 List: Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, Founders of Crowdflower". Inc. July 19, 2012. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved December 23, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  23. ^ "Ensuring quality in crowdsourced search relevance evaluation: The effects of training question distribution". ResearchGate. July 23, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
  24. ^ "17. Superficial Data Analysis: Exploring Millions of Social Stereotypes - Beautiful Data [Book]". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
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