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San Francisco · Building Exowill

Jonathan
Ward

Building models that become yours.

I’m working on continual data, automatic training, and user-owned models—starting with Exowill.

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Jonathan Ward Founder, Exowill
Now

Your digital life should make your model better.

Exowill turns the data you already create into a living dataset, then continuously trains a model you own. The goal is simple: personal AI that compounds with you.

Continual data Automatic training User-owned models
An abstract wave of mathematical notation flowing from a person at a desk
From context to capability Data should accumulate into something you control.
Before

Posttraining, data systems, and quantum computing.

A path through the layers that make intelligent systems possible.

  1. 2020—2026

    OpenAI

    Research manager · Posttraining

  2. 2019—2020

    Sisu Data

    Software engineer

  3. 2017—2019

    Rigetti Computing

    Junior quantum engineer

Physics · Harvard ’17 St. Albans ’12
Writing

Notes from building personal AI in public.

Product ideas, technical experiments, and the argument for models that learn from your life without ceasing to be yours.

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Open channel

Ideas at the edge of models, memory, and agency?