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Gilad Cohen Is Teaching Industrial AI to Earn the Right to Touch the Controls
A mathematician turned repeat founder learned that the central challenge of industrial AI is not making a model smarter. It is giving engineers enough visibility, agency and evidence to let the model act.
Itzik Gilboa
Itzik Gilboa is the CEO of minds.ai, a Santa Cruz-based AI company applying multi-agent reinforcement learning to semiconductor fabrication. With aerospace and materials science degrees from the Technion and decades of experience at Cypress, SanDisk, and Western Digital, he bridges the gap between chip-floor pragmatism and cutting-edge AI research. Under his leadership, minds.ai secured a multi-year partnership with GlobalFoundries to deploy its Maestro(R) platform across global fab operations, aiming to reduce cycle times, improve on-time delivery, and help fabs run at peak efficiency in a world where every nanosecond of lost throughput costs millions.