Yi TayCo Founder

Singapore - ND

Present: Chief Scientist and Cofounder of Reka. An AI research and product startup working on generative models and advancing AI research.

Previously, I worked on Large language models and Artificial Intelligence at Google Brain.
* I was the architecture co-lead on new PaLM-2 & PaLM API
* I was the inventor of UL2, the goto LM objective at Google.
* I was also a core contributor on Flan-2, Flan-T5 and Flan-UL2.
* I contributed to PaLM-1, PaLI-X, MUM, VIT22B.
* I was a member of Bard/LaMDA Core Team (My work impacts Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Safety & Persona)
* I was an inventor and pioneer of generative retrieval - fully end to end search with LLMs.

For the full list of my papers, research interests and awards, please visit my personal homepage at yitay.net.