Matt el kadi In 2017, El Kadi co-founded Together AI with the goal of making AI more accessible and useful for businesses and individuals. The company's flagship product is a large language model that can be used for a variety of NLP tasks, such as text generation, summarization, and translation. The model is based on the transformer architecture and has been trained on a large corpus of text data. Under El Kadi's leadership, Together AI has grown to become one of the leading AI companies in the world. The company has raised over $100 million in funding from top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital and Benchmark. Together AI's customers include major corporations, such as Microsoft, Samsung, and HSBC, as well as startups and small businesses. El Kadi is also a prominent speaker and thought leader in the AI community. He has given talks at major conferences, such as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. He has also published numerous papers in top-tier AI and NLP journals. In addition to his work at Together AI, El Kadi is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches courses on AI and NLP. He is also a mentor and advisor to several AI startups. El Kadi has a strong background in computer science and machine learning. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. After completing his Ph.D., El Kadi worked as a research scientist at Microsoft Research, where he focused on developing NLP technologies for search and dialogue systems. In 2017, El Kadi co-founded Together AI with the goal of making AI more accessible and useful for businesses and individuals. The company's flagship product is a large language model that can be used for a variety of NLP tasks, such as text generation, summarization, and translation. The model is based on the transformer architecture and has been trained on a large corpus of text data. Under El Kadi's leadership, Together AI has grown to become one of the leading AI companies in the world. The company has raised over $100 million in funding from top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital and Benchmark. Together AI's customers include major corporations, such as Microsoft, Samsung, and HSBC, as well as startups and small businesses. El Kadi is also a prominent speaker and thought leader in the AI community. He has given talks at major conferences, such as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. He has also published numerous papers in top-tier AI and NLP journals.