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Daniel Moon

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Founder at dmodel
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Daniel Moon is the founder of dmodel, a San Francisco-based AI startup backed by Y Combinator. Leveraging his Masters in Engineering from MIT and his background in silicon design at AMD and Xilinx, his company provides real-time insights into LLMs to control accuracy and brand alignment without retraining.

Inspired by reading Paul Grahams essays during his time at MIT, Daniel has long held the dream of founding his own company. Outside of his work studying core problems in AI, he is passionate about illustration and drawing, a hobby he creatively describes as finding excuses to move tiny marks on paper.

Unique fact: Daniel was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for an advanced computer vision course while studying at MIT.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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LLM Interpretability
His startup, dmodel, is built around technology that allows companies to "look inside the mind" of a large language model to adjust its responses in real-time.
AI Alignment
His company's website states a focus on creating agents to automate the path to an aligned superintelligence, indicating a deep interest in the topic.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Founder
dmodel
6-2024 - 7-2024
Member of Technical Staff
AMD
7-2022 - 6-2024
Senior Silicon Design Engineer
AMD
6-2018 - 7-2022
Senior Design Engineer
Xilinx
9-2017 - 1-2018
Graduate Teaching Assitant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Education
2024 - 2024
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Y Combinator
Master of Engineering - MEng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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