person
Ce Zhang
ETH Zürich → University of Chicago; ML systems
Professor at the University of Chicago and previously at ETH Zürich; co-founder of Together AI. Researches the systems substrate of large-scale ML training and inference.
current Anita and Robert Lucas Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago; Co-founder, Together AI
Strategy positions
Open sourceendorses
Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues distributed and open ML infrastructure is necessary to keep frontier capabilities accessible to academic research and small organizations; co-founded Together AI on this thesis.
Open and decentralized infrastructure for foundation models is the only way to make sure academic research and small companies can keep contributing to the frontier.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.