Matt Shumer

Matt Shumer is the CEO and Co-Founder of OthersideAI, an applied AI company based in New York.1 He founded the company in July 2020, focusing on developing advanced autocomplete tools powered by large-scale AI systems like GPT-3.1

Career Highlights

OthersideAI is known for creating HyperWrite, a popular AI autocomplete Chrome extension for consumers.1 The company also offers HyperWrite for Customer Support, an AI writing assistant designed for customer support teams.1

Prior to OthersideAI, Matt founded two other companies:

1. Visos: A startup developing virtual reality software for medical applications (April 2018 - July 2020)1
2. FURI: A direct-to-consumer sports lifestyle brand focused on making tennis more accessible (November 2015 - April 2018)1

Education and Recognition

Matt attended Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, studying Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises.1 His entrepreneurial efforts have gained recognition, as he was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2024 along with his OthersideAI co-founder, Jason Kuperberg.4

Recent Developments

In September 2024, Matt Shumer was involved in a controversy surrounding the release of an AI model called Reflection 70B. He initially claimed the model achieved top performance on benchmarks, but these results could not be replicated by third-party researchers.2 Shumer later apologized for getting "ahead of himself" and stated that his team was working to understand what happened.2

Matt Shumer is known for his expertise in working with large language models (LLMs) and AI systems, particularly in areas such as prompting, fine-tuning, dataset creation, and combining multiple AI systems to create more capable solutions.3