Jacob Buckman is a 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 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 publications at 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 developed the Power Retention architecture—offering efficiency gains over traditional transformers—and open-source tools like Vidrial and PowerCoder.
