Jack Cook
Hello! I’m Jack, and I’m currently studying neuroscience at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and making LLMs run fast at Modal. Previously, I worked on generative AI at The New York Times R&D while I studied computer science at MIT. I’ll return to MIT to start my PhD in computer science in fall 2025.
I previously studied LLMs at NVIDIA research, and I was on the founding team of Mixer (formerly Beam), acquired by Microsoft in 2018. I was also previously the director of HackMIT and Blueprint.
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How Do I Pay For College?
Your questions, answered by experts.
Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here.
Questions and answers about climate change, updated in response to questions from readers.
There’s Always a Bigger Fish
A clarifying analysis of a machine-learning-assisted side-channel attack.
Answers to All Your Questions About Getting Vaccinated for Covid-19
Answering commonly asked questions about Covid-19 vaccines.
Switchboard
Streamlining reader Q&A with zero-shot learning.
Playground / HackMIT 2020
A fun and unique virtual event platform I helped build for HackMIT 2020.
Answers to Your Current Coronavirus Questions
Helping New York Times readers find answers to their questions about Covid-19.
NeMo (Neural Modules)
Open-source framework for speech recognition and language understanding.
HackMIT 2019
My first HackMIT as director. Our theme encouraged hackers to ‘Hack for a Reason.’
Mixer
Live-streaming startup acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
Element Animation
Mobile app for Element Animation, a YouTube channel with over 4 million subscribers.