Kiara Nirghin

Kiara Nirghin is an award-winning Stanford AI technologist and author originally from South Africa. She won the Google Grand Prize for seminal research in AI algorithms for real-world applications. Since then she has been featured by TIME Magazine and Forbes on their Most Influential lists. She's also a Thiel Fellow, the youngest member of Google Impact Fund and a YC alum.

Human cognitive capacity limitations and AI abstraction complexity are the key barriers to accelerating AI advancement, combined with insufficient breakthrough innovations. Chima unblocks the latter by achieving the former as quickly as possible.

"The future is being built right now. We are living in an era of exponential change, where technology and bold thinking are reshaping what's possible in real time."

"A more daring, open, and abundant reality is emerging."

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