person
Tianqi Chen
CMU professor; XGBoost and TVM creator
CMU professor who created XGBoost and TVM. Foundational figure in AI infrastructure tooling.
current Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Co-founder, OctoML
Strategy positions
Open sourceendorses
Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyBuilt foundational open-source AI tools used industry-wide. Argues the AI ecosystem depends on open infrastructure.
Open infrastructure is what allowed many actors to build AI. Closing it now would be a fundamental mistake.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.