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Sara Hooker

Co-founder and CEO · Adaption

At a glance. Sara Hooker is listed as Co-founder and CEO at Adaption. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Language models, Datasets and data and Training systems. The source lists 1 official page.

Summary

Co-founder and CEO of Adaption; author of The Hardware Lottery and last author of the Aya model paper.

Known for: The Hardware Lottery; Aya-101.

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Other documented roles

Not confirmed as current in the source profile.

  • Author affiliated with Google Research, Brain Team, on the 2020 essay The Hardware Lottery, Google Research (Brain Team)
  • Author affiliated with Cohere For AI on the 2024 Aya model paper, Cohere For AI

Source and corrections

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