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Ray ChengunlockedLedell: together at Creatify AI (2023–2026)
Ledell: together at Creatify AI
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About
Ledell Wu is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Creatify AI, where the focus is on agentic AI, multimodal modeling, and systems-level design for generative agents. Wu co-authored Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR), a component used in retrieval-augmented generation, and received the ICML 2023 Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Learning Fair Representations." Wu has led teams that published more than 20 papers, cited over 9,000 times, and released open-source tools.
Founder at Creatify AI
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Creatify AI's investors · 10
Brighter CapitalCupertino · $25K – $100K checks · since 2023Comcast VenturesNew York · $2M – $15M checks · since 2023Creator VenturesLondon · $200K – $2.5M checks · since 2023Kindred VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $2M checks · since 2023Leadout CapitalPortola Valley · $250K – $1.5M checks · since 2023Millennium New HorizonsSilicon Valley · since 2023Millennium Technology Value PartnersBelgrade · since 2023NFDGWilmington · since 2023The MBA Fundsince 2023WndrCoRedwood City · $100K – $10M checks · since 2023
Co-founders at Creatify AI
Experience
- Creatify AICo-Founder & Chief Scientistcurrent2023 — presentMountain View, California, United States
- Prominent AI Research InstitutionResearch Lead on Multimodal Foundation model2021 — 2023
- MetaFounding Research Engineer - Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)2014 — 2021NYC / Menlo Park, CA
- MetaMachine Learning Engineer2013 — 2014Menlo Park, California
- GoogleMachine Learning Engineer Intern2011Mountain View, Calfornia.
Skills & more
Python1LaTeX4Matlab4Recommender Systems1Generative AI1Natural Language Processing (NLP)1Large Language Models (LLM)MultimodalDeep LearningStatistics2Machine Learning3Algorithms3
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ledell Wu?
- Ledell Wu is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Creatify AI, where the focus is on agentic AI, multimodal modeling, and systems-level design for generative agents. Wu co-authored Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR), a component used in retrieval-augmented generation, and received the ICML 2023 Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Learning Fair Representations." Wu has led teams that published more than 20 papers, cited over 9,000 times, and released open-source tools.
- Where does Ledell Wu work?
- Ledell Wu is Founder of Creatify AI.
- What companies did Ledell Wu found?
- Ledell Wu founded Creatify AI.
- Where did Ledell Wu go to school?
- Ledell Wu studied at University of Toronto (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); Peking University (Bachelor of Science - BS, School of Mathematics); Yali High School.
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University of Toronto mafia253
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Peking University mafia71
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Ben JacobsFounded Saturday Landscapes +2Vince NingChina's Economic DevelopmentFounded Nabis +2Chris ThomasStudy AbroadFounded Terrascope +1Marcus LimaSummer CourseFounded Torus +1Ben ColmanPeking UniversityFounded Realitydefender +1Nicholas ManskeHarvard Yenching Institute FellowshipFounded Alariss +1
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Same school
Also attended University of Toronto655
Ilya SutskeverCo-founder of OpenAI; co-founder & CEO of Safe SuperintelligenceNick FrosstCo-founder of CohereYasmin RazaviInvestor at Spark CapitalImran BashirFounding Partner, Chief Operating Officer at Extreme Venture PartnersKarim GillaniGeneral Partner at Luge CapitalAndrew MiklasGeneral Partner at Y Combinator
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Also attended Peking University234
Erica WuInvestment Director at Intel CapitalGiuseppe IademarcoHead of Global Partnership at P101 VenturesGaby PanVentures Manager at Qualcomm VenturesLucy BradyHead of Product at Giant Ventures Global LlpPeng ChengManaging Partner at Sv Tech Ventures, Inc.Jun LiInvestor at Sv Tech Ventures, Inc.
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Also attended Yali High School2
Shared employers
Also worked at Creatify AI2
Also worked at Meta438
Nat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGDaniel GrossMeta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDG and Safe SuperintelligenceDrew HoustonCo-founder & CEO of DropboxGabriel PereyraCo-founder & President of HarveyTinaInvestments & Portfolio Services Team Member at Clear VenturesMike ArpaiaComputer scientist working on machine learning and data infrastructure
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Also worked at Google2,000
Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBrian SingermanCo-founder of GPx; Partner Emeritus at Founders FundHunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at HomebrewAydin SenkutFounder & Managing Partner at FelicisLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalGArash FerdowsiCo-founder of Dropbox
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