Founder of a listed tool
David Herel
Co-founder and AI Researcher, BottleCap AI, named behind the ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) listing on Anchor Terminal.
What David builds
ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) C · Open-weight models
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B is BottleCap AI's fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B that shortens its reasoning traces, a 27B dense vision-language model on Hugging Face under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0, with a gated main repository.
Co-founder and AI Researcher, BottleCap AI, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Jaroslav Beck Co-founder and CEO, BottleCap AI
- Tomas Mikolov Co-founder and CSO, BottleCap AI
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Who is David Herel?
David Herel is co-founder and an AI researcher at BottleCap AI, working on faster and more efficient large language models. He earlier co-founded Hive Spirit Technologies with Tomas Mikolov and has published at ICLR and ECAI.
What does BottleCap AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) from BottleCap AI. ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B is BottleCap AI's fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B that shortens its reasoning traces, a 27B dense vision-language model on Hugging Face under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0, with a gated main repository.
Who has invested in BottleCap AI?
The sources our research read name 20VC.
How are David's tools graded?
ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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