Advaith Vaithianathan
AI-native builder pushing the frontier.
[ About ]
I’m Advaith, a builder from Bengaluru. Built my first programming language at 7, an LLM from scratch at 13 and a GPU that runs retro games at 14. Now I’m building the next generation of high-level languages for AI agents , and artificial hedge, in stealth. I’m 16.
[ In numbers ]
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13
Age I built my first LLM, from scratch
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~7B
Parameters in speedX
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5,000+
Subagents coordinated by ctxt-mAM
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2×
IAAC Silver Honour
Selected work(6)
[ 2022–now ]
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A language model of roughly 7 billion parameters, built from scratch at 13. It reads Hubble and James Webb data from NASA’s Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes and classifies the objects in it.
- Built
- From scratch, at 13
- Scale
- ~7B parameters
- Data
- Hubble and JWST, via MAST
- Recognition
- NASA Citizen Science
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A graphics processor designed and built from scratch at 14, capable enough to run retro games.
- Built
- From scratch, at 14
- Type
- GPU
- Runs
- Retro games
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A programming language built for AI agents rather than for people. Open source, written in C++, and in active development.
- Built for
- AI agents
- Written in
- C++
- Status
- In active development
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A fork of ohmyclaude, rebuilt to coordinate thousands of subagents on one task. Each subagent gets its own 10k-token context, prompts are refined between them, and stronger models are consulted inside the plan. It drops into Claude Code and Codex.
- Scale
- 5,000+ subagents
- Context
- 10k tokens per subagent
- Result
- 27.5× fewer hallucinations in internal tests
- Built at
- rhø
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A generative chemistry engine for drug candidates, tuned to keep toxicity low. GuacaMol benchmarking and RDKit cheminformatics are built in. Open-sourced so access isn’t gated by a commercial licence.
- Toolkit
- RDKit, GuacaMol
- Focus
- Low-toxicity generation
- Licence
- Open source
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Research staff on FLARE+, an international mission concept for Enceladus, Saturn’s geologically active ocean moon, led by Denis Acker with the Space Generation Advisory Council. The job: fit plume science into a CubeSat’s power, pointing and data budget.
- Role
- Research Engineer
- When
- 2024–2026, part-time
- Focus
- Pointing, spectral observation planning, flyby geometry, payload–power–data trade-offs
[ Approach ]
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Build it from scratch.
speedX · ddrx-001 -
Find what the pipeline misses.
Light curves, via Zooniverse -
Ship it open.
zane · limits
Record
[ 2022–now ]
[ Experience ]
- 2026–now
Founder
artificial hedge · In stealth
- 2022–2026
AI Engineer
rhø · Part-time
- 2024–2026
Research Engineer
Space Generation Advisory Council · FLARE+ · Part-time
- Volunteer
Co-founder and CTO
Space4Climate
- 2023–now
Ambassador
International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition
- 2026–now
Student Affiliate
Royal Aeronautical Society
- 2024–2026
Citizen Scientist
NASA, via Zooniverse
[ Recognition ]
Palantir Winter Tech Fellowship
2026
Microsoft Certified Professional at 15
2026
Software engineering job simulations
JPMorganChase and Quantium, via Forage · 2026
IAAC Silver Honour, twice
2023 · 2024
National Award, National Space Innovation Challenge
Rocketry design · ISRO × NITI Aayog, with Navars Edutech · 2023
[ Education ]
Precollege programme in AI
Northwestern University · 2026–now · Graded summa cum laude
The Knowledge Society
Alumnus