Johannes Hagemann
Johannes Hagemann is an artificial intelligence research engineer and a co-founder of Prime Intellect, a company focused on decentralized AI training, who previously helped develop a distributed training framework at the German AI company Aleph Alpha.
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Key facts
2020Turning to Large Language Models
According to his personal website, after reading about the Scaling Hypothesis in 2020, he shifted his focus entirely to large language models.[1]
2022Joining Aleph Alpha
According to his personal website, he joined Aleph Alpha in early 2022 to help build a new distributed training framework from scratch.[1]
2023Publishing a Paper on Parallelization for Large-Scale Distributed Training
As first author, with collaborators from Aleph Alpha and the Hasso Plattner Institute, he published a paper on parallelization layouts for training large language models, listing his affiliations as Aleph Alpha and the Hasso Plattner Institute; the work was presented as a contributed talk and poster at the WANT workshop at NeurIPS 2023.[2][3]
Late 2023Going Full-Time on Prime Intellect
According to his personal website, he and Vincent Weisser decided at the end of 2023 to go all in on Prime Intellect to pursue an open and decentralized future for artificial intelligence.[1]
April 23, 2024Prime Intellect Announces Seed Funding
The Block reported on April 23, 2024 that Prime Intellect had raised $5.5 million in seed funding co-led by Distributed Global and CoinFund; the report named him as a co-founder of the company who had built large language models for the previous two years.[4]
November 29, 2024Releasing INTELLECT-1
On November 29, 2024, Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-1, which it described as the first 10-billion-parameter language model collaboratively trained across the globe; he was one of the authors of the announcement.[5]
The INTELLECT-1 technical report, submitted to arXiv on December 2 of that year, also lists him among its authors.[6]
As of October 2026: San Francisco–Based Co-Founder of Prime Intellect
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Aleph Alpha: Official website: https://aleph-alpha.com/ (opens in a new window)[2]
Prime Intellect: Official website: https://www.primeintellect.ai/ (opens in a new window)[5]
Personal website: Public link: https://hagemann.ai/ (opens in a new window)[1]
X: Public account: https://x.com/johannes_hage (opens in a new window)[1][5]
GitHub: Public account: https://github.com/JohannesHa (opens in a new window)[1]
Sources
- Johannes Hagemann (opens in a new window)
- Efficient Parallelization Layouts for Large-Scale Distributed Model Training (opens in a new window)
- Efficient Parallelization Layouts for Large-Scale Distributed Model Training (opens in a new window)
- CoinFund and Distributed Global lead $5.5 million seed round for decentralized AI firm Prime Intellect (opens in a new window)
- INTELLECT-1 Release: The First Globally Trained 10B Parameter Model (opens in a new window)
- INTELLECT-1 Technical Report (opens in a new window)
- Distributed Training & Decentralized AI: Prime Intellect's Master Plan to Make AI Too Cheap to Meter (opens in a new window)