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Douwe Kiela

Co-founder, Contextual AI

Known asDutch-American AI researcher (born 1986)
RolesCo-founder, Contextual AI
EducationUniversity of Cambridge, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam
LinksWikipedia · contextual.ai

About Douwe Kiela

Douwe Kiela is a co-founder of Contextual AI.

Contextual AI: Retrieval-augmented language models for enterprises.

Douwe studied at University of Cambridge, Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam.

Today Contextual AI ranks #106 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 3 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Douwe is part of that story.

Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Douwe, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

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