Steven HaoFounder
Cognition
Co-founder and CTO
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Executive · Engineer
Russell Kaplan
RK
President at Cognition
Kaplan has worked on machine-learning systems from Tesla Autopilot to Scale's tools for finding valuable examples in large vision datasets. After founding the real-time computer-vision startup Helia, he moved into building and scaling AI software-engineering products.
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026