Denis Yarats is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Perplexity AI, an AI-native search tool company he co-founded in August 2022. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from New York University (NYU) and previously worked as an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research from 2016 to 2022. Yarats also serves as an Angel Investor, backing companies like Cognition Labs and Cursor.

PhD, New York University

United States

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