Advaith Vaithianathan

AI-native builder pushing the frontier.

[ Bengaluru, India ]

[ Founder of artificial hedge, in stealth ]

[ 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 ]

Selected work(6)

[ 2022–now ]

  1. 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

    LLM · From scratch · Astronomy

  2. 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

    Hardware · Graphics · From scratch

  3. 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

    Languages · Compilers · Agents

  4. 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

    Agents · LLM tooling

  5. 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

    Generative chemistry

  6. 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

    Spacecraft · Planetary science

[ Approach ]

  1. Build it from scratch.

    speedX · ddrx-001
  2. Find what the pipeline misses.

    Light curves, via Zooniverse
  3. Ship it open.

    zane · limits
Full record

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