Glenn Ko
I am Co-Founder and CEO of Stochastic and a former AI systems research faculty at Harvard University. After spending a decade in academia, I co-founded Stochastic to enable all organizations with their own AI.
My primary interest lies in building AI systems that push the boundaries of computing. In today’s AI landscape, the siloed approach of developing layers independently no longer suffices. Algorithm choices directly impact system performance when hardware or compiler support is misaligned. To achieve truly breakthrough performance—orders of magnitude beyond conventional approaches—we must optimize not just within individual layers but across the entire stack. This holistic, cross-layer optimization isn’t merely preferable; it’s essential for advancing the frontier of AI capability.