Jerome Pesenti

Jerome has been leading teams in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and search for the past 25 years. Prior to starting Sizzle, Jerome led the AI team at Meta -- pursuing fundamental and applied research in AI and making Meta products safer and more valuable to people through the use of AI. MetaAI's main contributions during his time there were PyTorch, AI for content moderation, very large models for ads and recommendations, and FAIR's research breakthroughs. Before Meta, Jerome was co-CEO of BenevolentAI, and led the global team of researchers and software engineers within IBM Watson doing research and developing state-of-the-art software in question and answering, dialog, speech, natural language processing, and automated machine translation. Jerome joined IBM through its acquisition of Vivisimo, the search and text analytics company he co-founded in 2000. Vivisimo's technology was based on the machine learning research Jerome conducted with his co-founders in the CS department of CMU from 1998 to 2000 .On the policy side, Jerome has served as co-chair of an independent review on the growth of AI commissioned by the UK government. This report led to a sector deal - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/artificial-intelligence-sector-deal/ai-sector-deal - and most of its recommendations have been since implemented by the UK government. Jerome has a Ph.D in Mathematics.