Bryan McCann
Bryan McCann is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and philosopher, and a You.comYou.comYou.com is an AI search and infrastructure company founded by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. It provides search, content extraction and research tools connecting AI models and agents with web information.Open the full entry co-founder, director and adviser. He previously served as its CTO and as a research lead at SalesforceSalesforceSalesforce is a U.S. enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, providing cloud applications, data platforms and AI agent tools centered on customer relationship management (CRM).Open the full entry Research.
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2016Stanford education
McCann received StanfordStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and a bachelor’s in philosophy in 2016, connecting interests in language, meaning and AI.[1]
2017Contextualized word vectors
At Salesforce Research he studied deep learning for NLP, co-authoring CoVe with Richard SocherRichard SocherRichard Socher is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Recursive, founder and CEO of You.com, and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. A Stanford computer science PhD, he contributed to the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and GloVe, founded MetaMind, and served as chief scientist at Salesforce.Open the full entry and colleagues in 2017 to derive contextual word representations from a translation encoder.[2][3]
2018–2020Unified tasks and generative models
2020Co-founding You.com
2021AI and literary creativity
His collaboration with writer Daniel Kehlmann received the inaugural eVe award at SXSW 2021. He also writes, paints and discusses how AI can support human creativity.[1]
March 2026Advisory and board roles
On March 17, 2026, You.com announced Saahil JainSaahil JainSaahil Jain is You.com’s CTO. He joined as a founding engineer in 2020 and subsequently led engineering and AI teams, after researching NLP and medical machine learning at Stanford.Open the full entry as the next CTO; McCann became an adviser and remained a director.[8]
Public accounts: Website and social profiles
His website, https://www.bryanmccann.org/ (opens in a new window), links to X at https://x.com/BMarcusMcCann (opens in a new window), LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmarcusmccann/ (opens in a new window) and Instagram at https://instagram.com/bryanmarcusmccann (opens in a new window).[1]
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- Bryan McCann (opens in a new window)
- Bryan McCann (opens in a new window)
- Learned in Translation: Contextualized Word Vectors (opens in a new window)
- The Natural Language Decathlon: Multitask Learning as Question Answering (opens in a new window)
- CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation (opens in a new window)
- ProGen: Language Modeling for Protein Generation (opens in a new window)
- How Richard Socher, Inventor of Prompt Engineering, Built a $1.5B AI Search Company (opens in a new window)
- Welcoming Saahil Jain as the Next You.com CTO (opens in a new window)