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  "markdown": "Founder, Nomic, Inc.. Founder and CEO; Nomic Embed coauthor.\n\nAndriy Mulyar founded Nomic in 2022 after leaving a machine learning PhD at NYU Courant, where he worked on interpretability. He was previously an early engineer at Rad AI, training language models on radiology reports. He led engineering as CTO before becoming CEO in 2024.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriymulyar\n- X: https://x.com/andriy_mulyar\n\n## What Andriy builds\n\n- [GPT4All](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt4all.md), graded F, 36.4/100, in Local AI. Desktop app from Nomic that runs GGUF models on Windows, macOS and Linux through Nomic's fork of llama.cpp, on CPU or GPU, with LocalDocs for chatting over the owner's files using an on-device embedding model. Founder, Nomic, Inc., researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Nomic Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nomic-embed.md), graded D, 49.6/100, in Embeddings \u0026 rerankers. Nomic's hosted embedding endpoints on the Atlas API turn text and images into vectors with the open-weight Nomic Embed models. Agents call them over HTTP with an API key or through the Python and TypeScript clients. Founder and CEO; Nomic Embed coauthor, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Adam Treat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adam-treat/), Overall GPT4All project and Chat UI maintainer\n- [Ben Schmidt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-schmidt/), Chief Technology Officer; founding team member\n- [Brandon Duderstadt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-duderstadt/), Historical founding CEO and Nomic Embed coauthor; now Calcifer Computing founder/CEO and Nomic advisor\n- [Jared Van Bortel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-van-bortel/), GPT4All backend, Python binding and Python CLI maintainer\n- [Zach Nussbaum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zach-nussbaum/), Original Nomic Embed model lead and first author; now Microsoft AI\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)\n- [Contrary Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/contrary-capital/)\n- [Betaworks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/betaworks/)\n- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)\n- [Story Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/story-ventures/)\n- [Factorial Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/factorial-capital/)\n- [Aurecon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aurecon/)\n- [Arcadis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/arcadis/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Andriy Mulyar?\n\nAndriy Mulyar founded Nomic in 2022 after leaving a machine learning PhD at NYU Courant, where he worked on interpretability. He was previously an early engineer at Rad AI, training language models on radiology reports. He led engineering as CTO before becoming CEO in 2024.\n\n### What does Nomic, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists GPT4All and Nomic Embed from Nomic, Inc.. Desktop app from Nomic that runs GGUF models on Windows, macOS and Linux through Nomic's fork of llama.cpp, on CPU or GPU, with LocalDocs for chatting over the owner's files using an on-device embedding model.\n\n### Who has invested in Nomic, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Coatue, Contrary Capital, Betaworks, SV Angel, Story Ventures, Factorial Capital, Aurecon and Arcadis.\n\n### How are Andriy's tools graded?\n\nGPT4All is graded F, 36.4 out of 100; Nomic Embed is graded D, 49.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md\n- https://github.com/manyoso\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-treat-4b977056\n- https://github.com/cebtenzzre\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredvanbortel\n- https://www.nomic.ai/about\n- https://www.nomic.ai/\n- https://github.com/nomic-ai\n- https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all\n- https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01613\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriymulyar\n- https://x.com/andriy_mulyar\n- https://www.nomad.garden/posts/bio\n- https://www.google.com/search?q=Brandon+Duderstadt+Nomic+founder\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bstadt\n- https://www.google.com/search?q=Zach+Nussbaum+X\n- https://x.com/zach_nussbaum\n- https://www.google.com/search?q=Ben+Schmidt+Nomic+LinkedIn\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmschmidt\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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