American computer scientist who joined Renaissance Technologies from IBM, co-developed language models for speech recognition, became co-CEO of RenTec, and used his enormous wealth to fund right-wing political causes including Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica.
Contributed to the computational scaling that drove Medallion Fund performance as co-CEO, and became one of the most significant political donors in the right-wing media ecosystem — funding Breitbart News and Cambridge Analytica in ways that shaped the 2016 US election.
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