About
Vishakh Hegde led machine learning work at Ambient AI and holds an undergraduate degree from IIT Madras and graduate studies in machine learning and AI from Stanford. He has published research papers in machine learning and authored a book on deep learning.
Vishakh Hegde @vishakhhegde
As a corollary - the fastest way to create AI slop is to use AI in the creative brainstorming process. There is something about writing/typing your ideas word by word that produces unmatched clarity of thought.
Jun 23, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Vishakh Hegde @vishakhhegde
My contrarian take is that a lot of the truly creative work in software engineering and other areas (anything that needs a lot of articulation and thought) will be done outside of the agent loop. Regression to the Mean phenomena is real (although the Mean is very high now) and
Jun 23, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Vishakh Hegde @vishakhhegde
This is not hype. The missing skill right now is self replication. Once these agents learn this, they will basically live forever. This is not a hard thing to learn. All they need is access to a bank account and the ability to use them to create new instances of themselves on https://t.co/6cg61YpTr4
Jan 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Founder and CTO at Inventive AIYC S23
Intro paths
Vishakh went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Inventive AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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Experience
- Inventive AICo-Founder and CTOcurrent2023 β presentMountain View, California, United States
- Ambient.aiApplied Research Scientist2019 β 2023
- PacktAuthor2022
- SLBML Scientist2017 β 2019
- Stanford UniversityResearch Assistant2016 β 2017Stanford, California
- MatroidML Engineer20163239 El Camino Real #310, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States
- Stanford UniversityTeaching Assistant2016
- MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsSummer Research Intern2013Dresden, Germany
- The University of QueenslandSummer Intern2012 β 2013Brisban
Education
- Stanford UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Applied Math and Engineering - Machine Learning / Computer Vision
- Indian Institute of Technology, MadrasDual Degree (BS + MS)
- MES Kishora KendraHigh School
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AlgorithmsResearchMachine LearningStatisticsData MiningProgrammingTechnical WritingRCaffeTensorFlowStart-upsTeachingLanguages Chinese Β· English Β· Kannada
- Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization β Coursera
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