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Asher SpectorCo-founder · Flapping AirplanesFounder↗Both at Flapping Airplanes
Founder · Researcher · Engineer
Benjamin F. Spector
Flapping AirplanesCo-founder and CEO
Spector co-founded Flapping Airplanes to pursue radically more data-efficient ways of training AI. His earlier Stanford systems research produced ThunderKittens and MegaKernels, tools for writing fast GPU programs, and studied how model quality changes when calculations use lower numerical precision.
Career & education
Current roleFlapping AirplanesOct 2025-presentCo-founder and CEO
Flapping AirplanesOct 2025-presentPreviously
Co-founder
Education
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