About


I'm a researcher working on generative models, mainly those that can simulate world dynamics (named world models), I'm also interested in what the next generation of generative models will look like, and how to scale them up.

Previously I worked on research in diffusion models with some brilliant friends. I also built a research chat over Twitter known for its high taste, ml_chat. And prior to that I worked on software at several startups (including my own).

I like to surround myself with soulful people who inspire me to think deeper and never stop questioning. Ignoring the silly labels, check out my friends. I also like to read and indulge in the opinions of others, check out some of these posts that I like.

I am always cognizant of the fact that I missed out on many possible lives I could have had, and often contemplate what is the best way to increase the likelihood of arriving at the marginal unlikelihoodsReferring to the out-of-distribution outcomes, not just the long tail.... People coin this β€œluck surface area”, for me it's more about the unexpected appreciation I have for things I didn't even know I cared for. Perhaps one day I will write about this.

A brief timeline of my life:

rami@life ~ $ git log --graph --all --decorate
2026
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New updates on the horizon...
Jan 2025
Exploring world models @ Lucid.ai
Excited by the prospects of these models and how to scale them up, I started Lucid, got into YC W25, and raised ~$7m from YC and other investors
2024
Research on diffusion models
Worked on several research projects with some friends, published https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02352, and started working on video models, unfortunately the project didn't pan out because of NDAs, I pivoted to constraining models to simple environments to focus on the world modelling aspect.
2024
Made wandview & ml chat
In need of a way to visualize my weights and biases projects I built a mobile app that allows me to do just that, it became incredibly viral and got me a lot of attention (4,000+ researchers used it!), this also led me to start mlchat to learn more about research, it was often referred to as the most productive thing on Twitter.
May 2023
Left my startup
The company was severely focused on business dealings and not technical work, so I decided to leave and start working at Toptal as a software engineer that briefly introduced me to ML again on one of my projects
Apr 2021
Cofounded telecom startup
Helped resolve a major bug with .et TLD that caught the attention of the CTO of the largest telecom company in ethiopia, excited by the prospect of building native solutions (current systems are imported from abroad) I started a company, At 18 I won several government telecom contracts that were valued at M$+
Jan 2019 β€” Dec 2021
360Ground
Started helping them with Google natural machine translation models and ended up taking several roles including design and development, I ended up becoming the CTO/Tech lead briefly after the existing CTO was poached by microsoft, there, I worked on one of the largest apps in ethiopia at the time...
Mar 2017
Dropped out of junior high school to pursue my love for building things, interned at iCog Labs (known for Sophia realistic humanoid)
It was very clear to me that I was wasting my time in school and learning things that were not exactly useful to me, I liked reading a lot about similiar concepts but I didn't like them being forced upon me, so I decided to drop out and start building things that I was actually interested in...
~ 2014
Started coding at 11 years old
Built a website for my school to help them manage assignments and attendance, it was perhaps the first time i felt like I was doing something meaningful