Anand Kannappan

Anand Kannappan is co-founder and CEO of Patronus AI, which started out building evaluation and security tools for large language models and now develops training data and simulated environments for AI labs. He previously led ML explainability and advanced experimentation work at Meta Reality Labs, according to Unite.AI.

Classmates at the University of Chicago

He and co-founder Rebecca Qian studied computer science together at the University of Chicago. At Meta both faced problems evaluating and interpreting machine learning outputs, she from a research standpoint and he from an applied one.

A Bank's ChatGPT Ban

When ChatGPT launched, they saw enterprises holding back over mistakes and unpredictable behavior. "The turning point came when my brother's investment bank, Piper Sandler, decided to ban OpenAI access internally," he said. They founded Patronus AI to give enterprises an evaluation and security layer for LLMs.