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Drishan Arora

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Co-Founder & CEO at Deep Cogito
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Drishan Arora is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deep Cogito, an AI research startup with the mission to build general superintelligence. A former Senior Software Engineer at Google, he specialized in machine learning and natural language processing. He is an alumnus of Columbia University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Drishan is a strong proponent of leveraging technology for social good, particularly using Natural Language Processing to foster technological inclusion for non-English speaking populations in India. He has also expressed a passion for teaching, having served as a Teaching Assistant for five courses while at Columbia University.

His company, Deep Cogito, developed and released a new family of high-performing hybrid AI models in just 75 days.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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General Superintelligence
This is the stated mission of his new company, Deep Cogito, aiming to build AI that can outperform humans and unlock new capabilities.
Hybrid AI Models
His company's core innovation is creating models that can toggle between fast, direct-response modes and slower, step-by-step reasoning for complex problems.
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Career

Work history

6-2024
Co-Founder & CEO
Deep Cogito
9-2016 - 5-2024
Senior Software Engineer
Google
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Deep Cogito goes big, releasing 4 new open source hybrid reasoning models with self‑improving intuition. Featured in VentureBeat
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Deep Cogito releases open‑source language models that outperform LLaMA. Featured in SiliconANGLE
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Education
2014 - 2016
Master's degree (MS)
Columbia University
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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