Source: Bloomberg Law
Cerebras Systems Inc. and Glean Technologies Inc., a pair of prominent startups in the generative artificial intelligence space, have enlisted new human legal executives as they expand operations.
Glean, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company founded in 2019 by former Google engineers that’s reportedly nearing a $2 billion valuation, this month recruited former aiXplain Inc. general counsel Victor Huang. A Glean spokeswoman said that Huang started Dec. 4 as its first head of legal.
Cerebras, a chipmaker specializing in artificial intelligence processors, confirmed it hired Shirley Li this month as general counsel. Li is a former Goodwin Procter associate who most recently was chief legal and people officer for Snapdocs Inc., a real estate and mortgage technology startup. She takes over a role vacated earlier this year by Rebecca Boyden, the company’s first general counsel.
Cerebras, founded in 2016 and valued two years ago at more than $4 billion, made waves this year by announcing it built the first of nine artificial intelligence supercomputers in partnership with the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is battling for a share of the competitive artificial intelligence hardware market with Nvidia Corp., a growing industry giant.
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