Niklas Muennighoff

Niklas Muennighoff, born in Munich, Germany, is pursuing a PhD in computer science at Stanford School of Engineering. He graduated top of his class from Peking University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Niklas aspires to contribute to developing artificial general intelligence that can one day help cure human diseases. He led 23 researchers at the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI in building OLMoE, the best open language model for its efficiency when it was released. He previously led the creation of MTEB, an open-source AI evaluation software used by OpenAI and Google with over a million downloads in 2024. At Peking University, Niklas built an AI system to reduce hate speech and placed second among 3,300 teams in a Meta-sponsored competition. His research has earned Best Paper awards at ACL and the ICLR AGI Workshop, and a NeurIPS Outstanding Main Track Runner-Up.