Alek Dimitriev

About

Building one machine god after another

I am a member of technical staff at Anthropic, working on inference. Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at Google, working on Gemini finetuning and inference. Before that, I did my PhD in machine learning at UT Austin, advised by Prof. Mingyuan Zhou, where I did research in backpropagating through discrete variables in deep learning.

In my free time I like to read mostly non-fiction, and on rare occasions interview people about their work. You can watch my interview with Scott Aaronson on LLM watermarking, or read my interview with Richard Dawkins on the future of religion & skepticism.