# Mihail Eric

> Mihail Eric is a Palo Alto-based ML engineer, researcher, educator, and serial founder who has spent a decade bridging cutting-edge AI research and production systems. A Stanford CS alumnus who studied under Christopher Manning and Percy Liang, he built some of Amazon Alexa's earliest large language models, co-founded YC-backed Storia AI, founded Confetti AI (acquired by Towards AI), and now teaches 'The Modern Software Developer' at Stanford while running a newsletter for 17,000+ AI practitioners.

- **Role:** Head of AI at Monaco GTM; Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University
- **Organizations:** Monaco GTM, Stanford University, Storia AI, Confetti AI, Pametan Data Innovation, Amazon Alexa, RideOS, MLOps Community
- **Education:** B.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, M.S. Computer Science (AI/NLP), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Built some of Amazon Alexa's earliest large language models as a founding member of Alexa's special projects team, Founded Confetti AI, an ML education platform that was acquired by Towards AI in 2022, Co-founded Storia AI, a YC-backed AI-powered creative assistant startup

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Enrolled at Stanford University; joined Stanford NLP Group under Christopher Manning, Percy Liang, and Christopher Potts
- **2017** — Teaching Assistant at Stanford for CS106A, CS106B, CS224N, CS109
- **2018** — Helped start teams at RideOS, an autonomous vehicle startup
- **2019** — Joined Amazon Alexa as Senior ML Scientist on the Conversational Modeling team; founding member of Alexa's first special projects team; built some of Alexa's earliest large language models
- **2020** — Founded Pametan Data Innovation, an ML consultancy
- **2021** — Founded Confetti AI, an ML interview prep and education platform
- **2022** — Confetti AI acquired by Towards AI; co-founded Storia AI (YC-backed) - AI-powered creative assistant for image and video generation
- **2023** — Began co-hosting the MLOps Community Podcast; launched ML Ops Notes newsletter
- **2024** — Joined Monaco GTM as Head of AI; newsletter reaches 17,000+ subscribers
- **2025** — Launched CS146S 'The Modern Software Developer' at Stanford - first Stanford course focused on LLM-driven software engineering; launched public course on Maven

## Achievements

- Built some of Amazon Alexa's earliest large language models as a founding member of Alexa's special projects team
- Founded Confetti AI, an ML education platform that was acquired by Towards AI in 2022
- Co-founded Storia AI, a YC-backed AI-powered creative assistant startup
- Published research at top-tier conferences including ACL, AAAI, and NeurIPS with 2,431+ citations on Google Scholar
- Grew ML Ops Notes newsletter to 17,000+ subscribers
- Created and teaches CS146S 'The Modern Software Developer' at Stanford - the first Stanford course focused on LLM-driven software development
- Co-host of the MLOps Community Podcast
- Created DialoGLUE benchmark for dialogue understanding research

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Launched CS146S 'The Modern Software Developer' at Stanford University
- **2024-12** — Newsletter ML Ops Notes reaches 17,000+ subscribers
- **2024-06** — Joined Monaco GTM as Head of AI to build AI-powered revenue platform
- **2024-01** — Appeared on MLOps Community Podcast episode #200 'Founding, Funding, and the Future of MLOps'

## Links

- Website: https://www.mihaileric.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihaileric
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mihail_eric
- GitHub: https://github.com/mihail911

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Last updated: 2026-04-21