Problem
Artificial Intelligence has the capacity to positively impact humanity but the infrastructure in which it is being built is flawed. Permissioned and centralized APIs, lack of privacy and computational integrity, lack of censorship resistance — all risking the potential AI can unleash.
Mission
Ritual is the network for open AI infrastructure. We build groundbreaking, new architecture on a crowdsourced governance layer aimed to handle safety, funding, alignment, and model evolution.
Values
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Open access
AI is the most powerful technology we've ever seen and ensuring that it remains accessible to anyone is core to Ritual's mission.
Humanity-first
Ritual is building a network that ensures AI is firmly stewarded by the people- and not monolithic corporations.
Innovation over all
The intersection of crypto and AI is a rapidly developing frontier. Understanding and integrating the innovations made at this frontier is critical to the products that we build at Ritual.
Team
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Niraj Pant
GP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC
Akilesh Potti
Partner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}
Ricky Moezinia
Founder @ Alta, Software Engineer @ Libra, Quant @ Point72, EECS @ MIT
Anish Agnihotri
MEV, Research @ Paradigm, Trading @ Polychain, CS @ UWaterloo
Eva Zhang
Founder @ Socket, Apple, Google, ML Research @ Stanford, Math & CS @ Stanford
Saneel Sreeni
Founding Team @ Alkimiya, Venture Partner @ Accomplice, EECS @ UC Berkeley
Igor Sylvester
Engineering Partner @ Trust Machines, Staff SWE ML @ Reddit & Meta, Citadel, EECS @ MIT
Achal Srinivasan
Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.
Stelios Rousoglou
Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale
Asif Karimbux
Applied AI, GTM @ OpenAI, Deployment Strategist @ Palantir, Associate @ Blackrock
Harshil Mattoo
Deployment Strategist @ Palantir, Quant Trading @ HFT, CS + Applied Math @ Cornell
Stef Henao
Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse
Mayank Pandey
PhD student @ Princeton, Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel
Micah Goldblum
Postdoc @ NYU, AI PhD @ University of Maryland, Mathematics
Naveen Durvasula
PhD student @ Columbia, Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley
0xEmperor
Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.
Daniel Bernardo
Head of Inside Sales @ Palantir
William Wang
PhD student @ NYU, post quantum cryptographic primitives, CTF (DiceGang), Trail of Bits
Varun Hariprasad
EECS @ MIT, Research @ MIT Physics (Marin Soljačić), CSAIL (LIS)
Advisors
Illia Polosukhin
Founder @ Near, Google Research, Tensorflow & Transformers, Co-Author “Attention is All You Need”
Tarun Chitra
Founder @ Gauntlet, GP @ Robot Ventures, HFT, DE Shaw Research, Math & CS @ Cornell
Sreeram Kannan
Founder @ EigenLayer, Assistant Prof @ UW, Postdoc @ Stanford, PhD @ UC Berkeley
Divya Gupta
Partner @ Sequoia, ML @ Airbnb, Databricks, Palantir, CS @ Stanford
Sid Reddy
Research Scientist @ Isomorphic Labs, Meta Reality Labs, Deepmind, PhD @ UC Berkeley CS @ Cornell