Daanish Khazi
FounderCo-Founder at Paper Instruments
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedPaper Instruments · YC
About
Daanish Khazi is co-founder of Paper Instruments, which develops frontier models and tooling designed for knowledge work, including agent-first office documentation libraries and models tailored for professional services.
Daanish Khazi @bertgodel
on the current things, broke: OPSD woke: looped transformers
Jul 20, 2026 · ♥ 13
Daanish Khazi @bertgodel
looped transformers make the most sense now when HBM is a bottleneck. scaling parameters might win pound for pound on flops but it's pretty nice to have a smaller model. https://t.co/HoErEwQuKM
Jul 20, 2026 · ♥ 11 · ⇄ 1
Daanish Khazi @bertgodel
he wrote MoS with xAI cofounder @ZihangDai when both were at cmu – briefly the sota language model https://t.co/tDowTOpyzV i remember exploring their results across embedding dimensions for an undergrad seminar in 2019 (embedding dim matters less with mos!) https://t.co/lv1hmOSG1W https://t.co/DPQlUYvQbi
Jul 18, 2026 · ♥ 17 · ⇄ 2
Co-Founder at Paper InstrumentsYC X25
Intro paths
Daanish went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Paper Instruments's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Daanish can intro founders to Paper Instruments's investors below.
Paper Instruments's investors · 1
Co-founders at Paper Instruments
Experience
- Paper InstrumentsCo-Founder, CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- TrabaAgents2023 — 2025New York, New York, United States
- Various StartupsFounder / Advisor2021 — 2023
- Roland BergerJunior Consultant2019 — 2021
Education
- Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Philosophy
- Y CombinatorX25
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