# David Herel

> David Herel is co-founder and AI Researcher of BottleCap AI. ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder and AI Researcher, BottleCap AI.

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 David builds

- [ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md), graded C, 61/100, in 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 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Jaroslav Beck](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jaroslav-beck/), Co-founder and CEO, BottleCap AI
- [Tomas Mikolov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tomas-mikolov/), Co-founder and CSO, BottleCap AI

## Backed by

- [20VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/20vc/)

## Questions

### 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.

## Sources

- https://bottlecapai.com/
- https://bottlecapai.com/tomas/
- https://bottlecapai.com/jaroslav/
- https://bottlecapai.com/david/

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