Igor Babuschkin co-founded and leads River AI, which builds tools for training and personalizing open AI models. He also co-founded xAI, has worked at DeepMind and OpenAI, and backs founders through Babuschkin Ventures.
Igor Babuschkin co-founded and leads River AI, which builds tools for training and personalizing open AI models. He also co-founded xAI, has worked at DeepMind and OpenAI, and backs founders through Babuschkin Ventures.
Career
Co-founder and CEO at River AI until Present.
Co-founder and Founding Chief Engineer at xAI from 2023-03 to 2025-08.
Research Engineer; Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind from 2017 to 2023-02.
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI from 2020 to 2022.