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Eugene Cheah

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CEO / Co-Founder at Featherless AI (also known as Recursal AI)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Eugene Cheah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Featherless AI, aiming to democratize AI by making open-source models accessible and affordable. He also co-leads the RWKV open-source group under the Linux Foundation, focusing on developing efficient, attention-free AI architectures. He is a Computer Science graduate from the National University of Singapore.

An experienced founder, Eugene previously co-founded Uilicious, a low-code UI testing platform. He has been deeply involved in the open-source community for over a decade, contributing to projects like GPU. js. He frequently speaks at events and participates in podcasts, sharing his insights on the future of AI and technology.

His core mission is to build scalable, open-source AI models as an alternative to dominant, costly transformer-based systems.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
CEO / Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Open-Source AI
He co-leads the RWKV project, the first AI model under the Linux Foundation, with the goal of making AI accessible to everyone, regardless of language or nation.
Attention-Free Models
He is building RWKV, a 'transformer killer, ' which uses an architecture that scales efficiently with lower inference costs compared to traditional transformer models.
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Career

Work history

10-2023
CEO / Co-Founder
Featherless AI (also known as Recursal AI)
Co-lead
RWKV opensource group (a project under Linux Foundation Data & AI)
9-2016 - 12-2023
CTO / Co-Founder
Uilicious
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Education
1-2012 - 1-2014
Computer Science
National University of Singapore
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