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Zhanibek Datbayev

Co-founder and CTO, named behind the Drex 1.5 listing on Anchor Terminal.

Zhanibek Datbayev

Co-founder and CTO

Zhanibek Datbayev is co-founder and CTO of Nace.AI, which builds small models for professional work. He was previously responsible for model training infrastructure at Meta AI. He is a Purdue University graduate and an ACM ICPC finalist.

What Zhanibek builds

  • Drex 1.5 B · Decision models

    Drex 1.5 is Nace.AI's decision model. It returns a probability for each option in typed yes or no, choice and score questions. Hosted at console.nace.ai, with open weights under the Nace AI Open RAIL-M licence.

    Co-founder and CTO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Zhanibek Datbayev?

Zhanibek Datbayev is co-founder and CTO of Nace.AI, which builds small models for professional work. He was previously responsible for model training infrastructure at Meta AI. He is a Purdue University graduate and an ACM ICPC finalist.

What does Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Drex 1.5 from Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI). Drex 1.5 is Nace.AI's decision model. It returns a probability for each option in typed yes or no, choice and score questions. Hosted at console.nace.ai, with open weights under the Nace AI Open RAIL-M licence.

How are Zhanibek's tools graded?

Drex 1.5 is graded B, 69.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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