
He helped make software run on billions of devices, then left Meta at 50 to build another foundation. The Mysten Labs CEO is still chasing a stubborn question: who gets to control what people create online?

From LLVM and Swift to Mojo and Modular, Chris Lattner has spent a quarter-century removing the seams between an idea and the machine that runs it. His newest chapter puts that long campaign inside Qualcomm.
Chris Lattner built the compilers inside every iPhone and Mac. His next act, Modular, is a bet that AI shouldn't be chained to one company's chips - and Qualcomm just paid billions to own it.