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Bill MacCartney

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AI Fund Fellow at AI Fund · Former VP ML at Cohere at SignalFire

Palo Alto, California, United States

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About

Bill MacCartney is CTO in Residence at SignalFire. He previously served as VP of Machine Learning at Cohere, where he led a team of 50+ scientists and engineers on large language models, and held roles including Director of Proactive Intelligence at Apple, Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Managing Director at BlackRock, and Senior Research Scientist at Google.

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AI & Machine Learning

Experience

  1. SignalFireCTO in Residencecurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. AI FundFellowcurrent2023 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  3. LaurelAdvisorcurrent2025 — present
  4. TuringAdvisorcurrent2024 — present
  5. ParasailAdvisorcurrent2024 — present
  6. Civio.aiAdvisorcurrent2024 — present
  7. OumiAdvisorcurrent2024 — present
  8. RegrelloAdvisorcurrent2023 — present
  9. Stanford UniversityConsulting Professor of Computer Science2010 — 2024
  10. CohereVP of AI and Machine Learning2021 — 2022Palo Alto, California, United States
  11. AppleDirector, Proactive Intelligence2016 — 2021Cupertino
  12. BlackRockManaging Director2015 — 2016San Francisco
  13. GoogleSenior Research Scientist2010 — 2015
  14. AardvarkSenior Research Scientist2009 — 2010
  15. Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford UniversityResearcher2002 — 2003
  16. SayItCofounder & VP Production1999 — 2000
  17. The D. E. Shaw GroupQuant/Trader1996 — 1998

Skills & more

Natural Language Processing50Machine Learning46Artificial Intelligence41Computational Linguistics21Text Analytics16Information Retrieval14Text Mining12Data Mining13Knowledge Representation8Java6Semantics5Python11
+8 morePattern RecognitionLinguisticsHadoopLispSearchInformation ExtractionSentiment AnalysisData Science

Languages Cantonese · English · French · German

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Colleagues at AI Fund

Andrew Ng
Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Andy Ku
Partner at AI Fund
Anthony Soohoo
Venture Partner at Copper Sky Capital
Brendan Marx
Engineer at AI Fund
Carlos Alzate
CTO at AI Fund
Dan Landau
Sr. Marketing Manager at AI Fund
Daniel Macklin
Venture Advisor at AI Fund
David Sobie
Venture Advisor at AI Fund

Frequently asked questions

Who is Bill MacCartney?
Bill MacCartney is CTO in Residence at SignalFire. He previously served as VP of Machine Learning at Cohere, where he led a team of 50+ scientists and engineers on large language models, and held roles including Director of Proactive Intelligence at Apple, Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Managing Director at BlackRock, and Senior Research Scientist at Google.
Where does Bill MacCartney work?
Bill MacCartney is AI Fund Fellow at AI Fund.
What does Bill MacCartney invest in?
Bill MacCartney invests in AI & Machine Learning.
Where did Bill MacCartney go to school?
Bill MacCartney studied at Stanford University (Ph.D., Computer Science); Goethe University Frankfurt (Philosophy); Princeton University (A.B., Philosophy).

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