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Jaan Tallinn (born 14 February 1972) is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and investor [2] [3] known for his participation in the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/Kazaa. [4] Recognized as a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence, Tallinn is a leading investor and advocate for AI safety.
FLI was founded in March 2014 by MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, DeepMind research scientist Viktoriya Krakovna, Tufts University postdoctoral scholar Meia Chita-Tegmark, and UCSC physicist Anthony Aguirre.
MetaMed Research was an American medical consulting firm aiming to provide personalized medical research services. It was founded in 2012 by Michael Vassar (previously of the Singularity Institute [1]), [2] Jaan Tallinn (co-founder of Skype and Kazaa), [3] [4] Zvi Mowshowitz, [3] and Nevin Freeman [5] with startup funding from Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel. [4]
Skype cofounder and billionaire Jaan Tallinn, who has five children, donated just under half a million dollars to a foundation started by prominent pronatalists Malcolm and Simone Collins.
The letter was presented in Buenos Aires at the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15) and was co-signed by Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Noam Chomsky, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, among others. [12] [13]
He started off as programmer for a local hardware manufacturer in 1986 with his class-mate Jaan Tallinn. The company was assembling 8-bit computers for use in public schools. In 1992 he studied computer science at Tallinn Technical University. [3] On 7 June 1993, he and Jaan officially registered BlueMoon as a privately held Estonian software ...
Tara AI has raised $13 million in investment from a number of notable venture capital firms and angel investors including Aspect Ventures, Y Combinator, Slack Fund, Jaan Tallinn of Skype and Di-Ann Eisnor of Waze. [5] In October 2017, Tara AI won a $500,000 prize at the fourth annual 43North business plan competition. [6]
Jaan Kross died in Tallinn, at the age of 87, on 27 December 2007. [2] He was survived by his wife, children's author and poet Ellen Niit , and four children. The President of Estonia , Toomas Hendrik Ilves , praised Kross "as a preserver of the Estonian language and culture."