Andrew Dai
Official Role
Co-founder and CEO at Elorian.
Official Bio
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, a company building AI systems that understand the visual medium and apply reasoning the way humans do. Elorian recently launched with $55M at a $300M valuation, backed by Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, Striker Venture Partners, NVIDIA and Jeff Dean.
Scheduled 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)