We talk to Douwe Kiela, CEO and co-founder of Contextual AI, about his game-changing approach to AI agents and the benefits of deploying on Snowflake.
MAR 20, 2025|3 min read
Douwe Kiela
Douwe Kiela is the CEO and co-founder of Contextual AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a Research Lead at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, where he pioneered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) among other key AI breakthroughs.