About

Abhay is leading Frontier AI efforts to deploy foundation models into core product at Anduril. He is also an angel investor in startups, many of which have raised follow-on financing from funds like Founders Fund, Sequoia and Benchmark, and achieved unicorn $B+ valuations. He has worked closely with funds like Greylock, Index and others.

Previously, he joined Anduril as one of the first AI hires under Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf (who was previously Director of Engineering at Palantir, training under CEO Alex Karp), with whom he invented Lattice for Mission Autonomy.

He saw Anduril from <50 employees to more than 6000, from $250M valuation to $28B in valuation and growing, becoming a core contributor to most of Anduril’s key early software systems in the process. He wrote down his learnings from Anduril and startups here.

Before Anduril, Abhay was an AI researcher publishing papers in conferences like AAAI, CVPR and similar, and dropped out of a PhD in AI from Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department. He trained in AI at institutions such as Meta and Stanford.

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