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Asher SpectorFounder
Flapping Airplanes
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Founder · Researcher · Engineer
Benjamin F. Spector
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Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes
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.
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026