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Yaniv Leviathan
GoogleDistinguished Engineer and AI Research Lab Lead
Leviathan invented speculative decoding, a method that makes language models faster by letting a small model draft several tokens for a larger model to verify in parallel without changing the result. He also founded Google Duplex, whose natural phone conversations helped keep business information current at enormous scale.
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