PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Luca Weihs

Luca Weihs is a co-founder of Vercept, which Anthropic acquired in February 2026. He earned a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Washington in 2018. He helped build AllenAct and ProcTHOR, both embodied AI projects, and ProcTHOR won a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper award. He also coauthored the Molmo and PixMo paper, which appeared on arXiv in September 2024 and received a CVPR 2025 Best Paper honorable mention. He is at Anthropic, where he works on computer use with the Vercept team.

Timeline

  1. 2018

    A statistics doctorate

    He earns a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Washington in 2018, with a dissertation on multivariate statistical modeling.

  2. August 2020

    AllenAct, an embodied AI framework

    He coauthors AllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research, which appears on arXiv in August 2020.

  3. March 2021

    Visual room rearrangement

    Visual room rearrangement, a paper he coauthors, appears on arXiv in March 2021.

  4. 2022

    An outstanding paper for ProcTHOR

    He helps build ProcTHOR, an embodied AI project that wins a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper award.

  5. September 2024

    Molmo and PixMo

    The Molmo and PixMo paper appears on arXiv in September 2024.

  6. 2025

    A CVPR honorable mention

    CVPR gives Molmo and PixMo, a paper he coauthors, a Best Paper honorable mention in 2025.

  7. Since 2026

    Vercept joins Anthropic

    Anthropic acquires Vercept in February 2026, and co-founder Luca Weihs joins the company with the team to push the frontiers of computer use.

Sources and credits

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  1. Luca Weihs - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. [2008.12760] AllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. [2103.16544] Visual Room Rearrangement arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. NeurIPS 2022 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Allen School and AI2 researchers recognized at NeurIPS for outstanding contributions in large-scale embodied AI and next-generation image-text models news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. [2409.17146] Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Matt Deitke mattdeitke.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders techcrunch.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude's computer use capabilities anthropic.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  10. Vercept Joins Anthropic: A Winning Combination of Human + AI Collaborative Reasoning madrona.com. Checked 15 October 2026.