Ari Heljakka
Co-Founder & CEO
Root Signals
Root Signals
Ari is the Founder and CEO of Root Signals. In 2005, he identified Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as a pivotal goal and collaborated with early pioneers in cognitive architecture, reinforcement learning, and probabilistic inference from 2005 to 2007.
Due to limited funding in AI at the time, Ari started a SaaS company Dream Broker, with the goal of funding his future AI research. Dream Broker became Finland's fastest-growing company in 2012 according to Deloitte, serving over 1,000 enterprise and public sector clients.
In 2017, Ari returned to his AI passion, identifying generative models as the field's most promising frontier and completed his Ph.D. in Generative AI in 2021. With AGI becoming a mainstream concept in 2022, he founded Root Signals to advance this vision. Ari has published 10+ academic AI articles on venues including in NeurIPS, ICLR and AAAI.
Due to limited funding in AI at the time, Ari started a SaaS company Dream Broker, with the goal of funding his future AI research. Dream Broker became Finland's fastest-growing company in 2012 according to Deloitte, serving over 1,000 enterprise and public sector clients.
In 2017, Ari returned to his AI passion, identifying generative models as the field's most promising frontier and completed his Ph.D. in Generative AI in 2021. With AGI becoming a mainstream concept in 2022, he founded Root Signals to advance this vision. Ari has published 10+ academic AI articles on venues including in NeurIPS, ICLR and AAAI.
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