The Radical AI Founders Masterclass is an exclusive annual program designed to equip AI researchers and technical entrepreneurs with the inspiration and practical knowledge to build AI products and businesses. Over four weeks, we host virtual, free sessions with world-leading AI pioneers, successful entrepreneurs, and leaders from top AI companies, complemented by tactical sessions covering AI product development, business integration strategies, and other essential areas that AI founders need to master.
Our 2026 Masterclass will launch in early October. Every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon at 1 PM PT | 4 PM ET, you’ll hear from prominent AI leaders and walk away with the tactical playbook for building an AI business from the ground up.
By joining the flagship program, you’ll become a member of our AI Founders Masterclass community, along with 2000+ AI researchers and entrepreneurs from the world’s top industry and university labs. Our members are associated with leading global research organizations including Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, University of Toronto, and premier AI institutes like Vector, Mila, and Allen Institute for AI. The community offers year-round events, meetups, and access to dedicated Slack channels for ongoing collaboration and idea exchange.
Aidan Gomez is Co-Founder and CEO of Cohere, an enterprise AI company valued at $7 billion that has raised nearly $1 billion from investors including NVIDIA, Oracle, and Radical Ventures. Aidan interned at Google Brain under Geoffrey Hinton and co-authored "Attention is All You Need" — the seminal paper introducing the Transformer architecture that underpins today's large language models. It was there he met his future co-founders Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, and in 2019 the trio launched Cohere to help developers build AI-powered products at enterprise scale. Aidan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, and sits on the Board of Directors for Rivian.
Anna Goldie is Founder and CEO of Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab focused on chip design. Previously a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and an early employee at Anthropic, where she worked on Gemini and Claude, Anna co-founded and led the ML for Systems team at Google Brain. There, she co-led the AlphaChip project — published in Nature and deployed across four generations of Google TPUs and datacenter CPUs. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford, and a B.S. in CS, B.S. in Linguistics, and M.S. in EECS from MIT.
Artificial intelligence pioneer. Turing award winner.
Computer vision pioneer. Scientific partner at Radical Ventures; Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
CEO and founder of Insitro; Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Coursera. In 2023 Daphne was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Co-Founder of Anyscale, Co-Founder of Databricks and Professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and Co-Director of AMPLab.
Founder of stealth startup. Former product lead at Cruise; Co-Founder of Voyage.
Co-Founder of Covariant. Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.
Natural Language Processing pioneer. CEO and Founder of You.com.
Autonomous driving pioneer. Founder of Waabi.
CEO and co-founder of Writer, the leading generative AI platform for enterprises.
Chief AI Officer at Cohere; Professor at McGill University and core member of Mila; former VP of AI Research at Meta.
Head of Research at Databricks; former Chief Scientist and founding team member of MosaicML (acquired for $1.3B).
Director & Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA; co-lead of Isaac GR00T humanoid robotics platform.
Co-Founder of Hello Astro; former creative leader at Google across Creative Lab, Brand Studio, and DeepMind.
Founder & CEO of OffDeal, an AI-enabled investment bank for buying and selling small businesses.
AI Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind; former Principal Product Manager at GitHub.
Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon, an AI recruiting agent; PhD from The Francis Crick Institute.
