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The company is Silurian AI, building foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with the weather. The company’s mission is to scale these models to their full potential and push them to the limits of physical predictability, with the aim of modeling all infrastructure affected by weather, including the energy grid, agriculture, logistics, and defense. Hence: simulate the Earth. The founders are Cristian Bodnar (Chief Scientist), Jayesh K. Gupta (Co-founder and CEO), and Nikhil Shankar (Co-founder and Chief Engineer). Bodnar previously was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and co-led the development of the Aurora foundation model; Gupta previously served as Head of AI at Poly Corporation and co-authored the Aurora foundation model; Shankar previously worked as a software engineer at AWS SageMaker and pursued a PhD in applied mathematics focused on problems in fluid dynamics.
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