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Taner Topal

Co-Founder & COO at Flower Labs

Topal co-created Flower, open-source software for training AI across separate devices and organizations without gathering their data in one place. He co-authored the original Flower paper and research examining the energy use and carbon footprint of this approach to collaborative training.

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2023-present
Co-Founder & COO

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 21, '262,904Oct 21, '26
citations2,904As of Oct 21, '26
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person_addedFlower co-creators Daniel J. Beutel and Taner Topal added

The Flower Labs co-founders helped build open-source tools for training AI together while keeping data distributed.

October 5, 2026
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