Beff Jezos

Beff Jezos, the pseudonymous online persona of physicist and entrepreneur Guillaume Verdon, is the co-founder of effective accelerationism (e/acc), a techno-optimist philosophy that advocates accelerating AI and technological progress as humanity's ethical imperative—rooted in thermodynamics, viewing the universe's drive toward greater entropy and complexity as a bias toward ever-smarter, energy-harnessing civilizations climbing the Kardashev scale. A former Google X quantum machine learning researcher who worked on TensorFlow Quantum and earned a PhD in applied quantum physics, Verdon founded Extropic AI in 2022 to develop thermodynamic computing chips that harness probabilistic physics for more energy-efficient generative AI acceleration, raising $14M+ in seed funding. Doxxed by Forbes in 2023 after building e/acc into a counter-movement against AI decelerationists and doomers, attracting endorsements from Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and others, Verdon continues blending rigorous science, memetic warfare, and post-humanist vision to propel an abundant, star-faring future through innovation.