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Yaniv Leviathan

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Distinguished Engineer and AI Research Lab Lead at Google

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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Background

Current role
Distinguished Engineer and AI Research Lab Lead 2022-present
Previously
2016-2022Founder and Engineering Director, Google Duplex,
2010-2018Engineer, Search and Knowledge Graph,
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026