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Augustus Odena

Co-founder and Chief AI Officer at Arda Industries

Odena co-developed scratchpads, showing that language models solve harder problems when trained to write intermediate steps. He also advanced AI image generation through self-attention, which connects distant parts of an image, and led research at Adept on agents that operate software.

Career & education

Current role
Nov 2025-present
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer
Previously
Jul 2025-Nov 2025
Research Scientist, TBD team
Jun 2024-Jun 2025
Research Scientist
Dec 2021-Jun 2024
Co-founder; research lead
Oct 2016-Oct 2021
Research Scientist

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
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Citation snapshot on Oct 23, '2625,765Oct 23, '26
citations25,765As of Oct 23, '26
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