- Researcher (Composer), Cursor1
- PhD student, Stanford University since 202413
Niklas Muennighoff is a Stanford CS PhD student and Knight-Hennessy Scholar advised by Yejin Choi and Andrew Ng. His site states he is building Composer, an AI coding model, at Cursor. He coauthored MTEB (Massive Text Embedding Benchmark) and has worked on open models including OLMoE at Ai2; earlier roles include Hugging Face.123
At a glance
- Current roles
- Researcher (Composer) +1 more
- Company
- Cursor
- Fields
- Evaluation, Language models, Developer tools
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
MTEB and open evaluation
MTEB, published at EACL 2023 with coauthors including Nils Reimers, established a large multi-task benchmark and public leaderboard for text embeddings spanning dozens of datasets and languages.21
Cursor and Stanford
Muennighoff's homepage lists Composer at Cursor among select work and describes Stanford PhD study with Choi and Ng. Knight-Hennessy materials note prior leadership on Ai2's OLMoE effort.13
Timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Researcher, Ai23
- Researcher, Hugging Face1
Where they work
- Cursor 9 people in the wiki
Related people
- Michael TruellAlso at Cursor
- Luke Melas-KyriaziAlso at Cursor
- Sasha RushAlso at Cursor
- Sualeh AsifAlso at Cursor
- Arvid LunnemarkAlso at Cursor
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- Albert VillanovaDeveloper tools · Language models
- Andrew LaackDeveloper tools · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Thomas ScialomLanguage models · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Arvind NeelakantanLanguage models · Developer tools
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026