# Dirk Kingma (ex OpenAI, today Anthropic)

**Source:** https://www.startuphub.ai/investors/dirk-kingma-ex-openai-today-anthropic
**Profile type:** Investor

## About

Dirk Kingma is a computer scientist and researcher focused on scalable methods for machine learning and generative modeling. His contributions include the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and the Adam optimizer. He was a co-founder of OpenAI and is now a research scientist at Anthropic.

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- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Social:**
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