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Douwe Kiela

CEO of Contextual AI
Douwe Kiela is the CEO and co-founder of Contextual AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a Research Lead at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, where he pioneered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) among other key AI breakthroughs.
MAR 20, 2025Partner & Customer Value

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