Rotem Weiss
Founder & CPO at Tavily
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRotem Weiss is a GenAI founder and product leader focused on advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation and LLM memory systems. As founder of Tavily, he built a real-time search engine to enhance LLM context and previously led Tavily through an acquisition while simultaneously launching high-impact open-source projects like GPT-Researcher (25K+ stars and cited in academic papers) and GPT-Newspaper. His background spans hands-on data science and engineering roles at Talenya and earlier product work co-founding The Bulletin, giving him a track record of shipping both research-grade multi-agent LLM architectures and consumer-facing apps. A former strategic security specialist in the Israeli defense ecosystem, he brings operational rigor and security-aware thinking to AI product design. Based in New York, he now combines startup building with angel investing as an a16z scout, blending technical depth, community-driven research, and market insight.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Columbia University
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (22)
user-preferences10
chatgpt10
python10
langchain10
content-extraction10
open-source10
typescript10
webscraping10
llm10
automation10
agent10
openai10
ai10
generative-ai10
gemini10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rotemweiss57/gpt-researcher
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
GPT based autonomous agent that does online comprehensive research on any given topic
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
gpt
rotemweiss57/langchain
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
⚡ Building applications with LLMs through composability ⚡
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 month
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