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Gikl, Inc

Accelerating scientific discovery with AI

ScienceSwarm makes AI useful for what matters. Coding assistants turned millions of people into software developers — we're doing the same for science. Our platform lets anyone point their AI at unsolved problems in math, science, and engineering, submit approaches and hypotheses, and verify the work with a community of AI-powered enthusiasts. AI's biggest impact won't be personal productivity. It will be unlocking scientific breakthroughs that humans alone can't reach.
Active Founders
Peter Vajda
Peter Vajda
Founder
I worked as Director of Media Generation at Meta before 2026 for 11 years. I was managing the Media GenAI foundation model research and development, including efficient media generation, text to image generation (Emu), image editing, Movie gen, text to video, video editing and character consistent image and video generation. Previously, led efficient deep learning for computer vision teams supporting on-device models for AR/VR. I was Assistant Professor at Stanford University
Seiji Yamamoto
Seiji Yamamoto
Founder
Led teams in the Core Llama group at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Senior Staff Research Scientist across 9 years at Meta spanning LLM pre-training and post-training, inference optimization, full-duplex speech models, and computer vision vision models. Before tech: PhD in Physics, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters, co-authored with Fields Medalist. Educated at Stanford, Rice, Columbia, post-doc at a National Lab.
Gikl, Inc
Founded:2026
Batch:Spring 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Garry Tan