Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard is Answer.AI’s founding CEO and a co-founder of fast.ai. His career connects useful software, machine-learning competitions, medical applications, and teaching. He helped create Fastmail with Rob Mueller, later served as Kaggle’s president and chief scientist, and founded Enlitic for medical deep-learning work. In 2016, Howard and Rachel Thomas started fast.ai. Its teaching begins with working models and practical examples, supported by shared software. Howard and Sebastian Ruder coauthored ULMFiT in 2018, and Howard and Sylvain Gugger described fastai in 2020. Answer.AI launched in 2023 with Howard and Eric Ries. fast.ai later joined it, continuing practical teaching and AI-assisted coding through the SolveIt course.
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- Answer.AI and fast.ai
Timeline
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1999
Fastmail
Howard and Rob Mueller work together on the email service’s early development.
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Before fast.ai
Kaggle and Enlitic
Howard’s competition and leadership work precedes a company applying deep learning to medicine.
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2016
fast.ai
Howard and Rachel Thomas start practical deep-learning education.
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2018–2020
Methods and software
ULMFiT with Ruder and fastai with Gugger connect reusable learning methods with teaching tools.
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2023–2024 and after
Answer.AI and SolveIt
Howard and Eric Ries launch Answer.AI; fast.ai joins and develops further practical teaching.
Sources and credits
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