About
Jacob Buckman is a visionary deep learning researcher and entrepreneur, serving as co-founder and CEO of Manifest AI, an open-source research lab dedicated to advancing long-context learning through innovative algorithms, architectures, and datasets aimed at modeling all human processes. With prior experience at Google Brain and Microsoft Research, he holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and pursued a PhD at McGill University (Mila), contributing highly cited publications at top conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR on topics including reinforcement learning, representation learning, and transformer alternatives. At Manifest AI, founded in 2023 with collaborator Carles Gelada, Buckman has pioneered breakthroughs such as the Power Retention architecture—offering massive efficiency gains over traditional transformers—and open-source tools like Vidrial and PowerCoder, positioning long-context scaling as the next frontier in overcoming AI limitations like hallucinations and unreliability while pushing toward more capable, reliable systems.