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Jeff Hawkins

Co-founder, Numenta

Known asAmerican businessperson
RolesCo-founder, Numenta
EducationCornell University, University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University College of Engineering
LinksWikipedia · numenta.com

About Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins is a co-founder of Numenta.

Numenta: Neuroscience-based machine intelligence (Thousand Brains Project).

Jeff studied at Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University College of Engineering.

Today Numenta ranks #127 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Jeff is part of that story.

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

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