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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.

Career & education

Current role
2022-present
Distinguished Engineer and AI Research Lab Lead
Previously
Founder and Engineering Director, Google Duplex2016-2022
Engineer, Search and Knowledge Graph2010-2018

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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