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Anand Kannappan

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Co-Founder and CEO at Patronus AI
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Anand Kannappan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Patronus AI, a company focused on automated AI evaluation and safety. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he previously worked on applied machine learning at Meta and graduated from the University of Chicago. Those who have worked with him describe him as a great scientist who brings novel approaches to tough problems.

Anand has a deep background in leveraging AI and data to solve complex problems, stemming from his time in machine learning at Meta Reality Labs. He co-founded Patronus AI after identifying a critical need for enterprise-grade AI evaluation, a concern highlighted when his brothers investment bank banned internal access to early AI tools due to reliability issues.

Before focusing on AI safety, Anand co-founded and ran a quantitative futures hedge fund that managed over $15 million for high-profile investors like Mark Cuban.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder and CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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AI Evaluation
His company, Patronus AI, builds tools to help enterprises catch large language model mistakes and improve AI safety, a topic he frequently discusses in interviews and podcasts.
Scalable AI Oversight
Believes scalable oversight is a critical research problem for humanity and a core concept behind starting Patronus AI, aiming for humans to supervise systems that outperform them.
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Career

Work history

4-2023
Co-Founder and CEO
Patronus AI
ML
Facebook
Co-Founder
Kyber Technologies
Data Scientist
Oculus VR
1-2017 - 6-2017
Research Assistant
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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Education
Bachelor's degree
University of Chicago
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Stanford University
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