Who is Aleksa Gordić?

Aleksa Gordić is a machine learning engineer and tech entrepreneur who has previously worked at Google DeepMind and Microsoft. He built an AI community of over 200,000 members and has been featured in prominent publications, including Forbes, VentureBeat, Analytics India Magazine.

Aleksa graduated at 23 from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Serbia, specializing in electronics and computer science.

At 26, Aleksa left Microsoft to join Google DeepMind. While at Microsoft, he contributed significantly to the HoloLens 2 project and next-generation HoloLens devices. His work focused on eyeglass detection and eye-tracking technology, which is now deployed on hundreds of thousands of HoloLens units worldwide.

During his time at DeepMind, Aleksa led the development of a bulk inference tool for the Flamingo vision-language model, which enabled YouTube Shorts to index videos and improve searchability.

At 28, he left Google DeepMind to found his own tech startup, Runa AI. He led the development of industry-leading large language models (LLM) for Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, and Slovenian, providing proprietary LLM technology to businesses and governments. He is also one of main contributors on the llm.c project led by Andrej Karpathy – an ex Tesla AI director, and a founding member of OpenAI.