---
title: "Andrew Dai"
category: "people"
role: "Co-founder and CEO"
company: "Elorian"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdai/"
twitter: "https://x.com/andrewdai"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Andrew Dai

## Profile
Co-founder and CEO at [[elorian|Elorian]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdai/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/andrewdai)

## Biography
Andrew Dai spent 12 years as a Research Scientist at Google Brain and DeepMind. He wrote the 2015 paper that OpenAI later cited as the original recipe for ChatGPT, was a core Lead on Gemini, GLaM, and PaLM 2, and his published research has accumulated over 67,000 citations. Now, he leads [[elorian|Elorian]], a company building AI systems that understand the visual medium and apply reasoning the way humans do. [[elorian|Elorian]] recently launched with $55M at a $300M valuation, backed by Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, Striker Venture Partners, NVIDIA and Jeff Dean.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-andrew-dai-the-best-models-still-reason-like-toddlers]] — The Best Models Still Reason Like Toddlers (2026-06-29, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-andrew-dai-the-best-models-still-reason-like-toddlers|The Best Models Still Reason Like Toddlers]]

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