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Aitomatic
Aitomatic builds autonomous AI agents that capture and operationalize the hard-won knowledge of veteran industrial experts - the kind of know-how that quietly walks out the door when senior engineers retire. Founded in 2021 by ex-Google and ex-Panasonic veterans, the Palo Alto company has open-sourced OpenSSA (Small Specialist Agents) as an inaugural member of the AI Alliance with IBM and Meta, and released SemiKong, the world's first open-source LLM purpose-built for the semiconductor industry.
Christopher Nguyen
Dr. Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen is CEO and Co-Founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley-based Industrial AI company advancing what he calls 'Knowledge-First AI' - the conviction that decades of human domain expertise must be encoded alongside data, not replaced by it. A Stanford PhD and UC Berkeley summa cum laude graduate, his four-decade arc runs from building Intel's first flash memory transistors to launching Google Apps as founding Engineering Director, co-founding HKUST's Computer Engineering program, and helping connect Vietnam to the internet. Today he leads Aitomatic in deploying Small Specialist Agents for semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing industries, and sits on the Steering Committee of The AI Alliance.