Iz Beltagy, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Spiffy, was an early pioneer of LLMs and has dedicated his career to advancing the technology and its adoption.
Iz is a leader in the field of LLM training. Before Spiffy, he was the Research Lead of the OLMo project At Allen Institute of AI (AI2), a project building a truly open source state-of-the-art language model that narrows the gap between open and proprietary research.
He also had a leading role in notable LLM projects like BLOOM and Longformer, which are being used millions of times each month. His research has received over 15,000 citations, a best paper runner up at ACL 2020, and outstanding paper award at AKBC 2021.