Julie Belião, a former VP of Product at Mozilla.ai and Google executive, joined Sentient Foundation as Vice President of Product on November 10. Belião brings over 15 years of experience in AI research and product development, and will oversee product development across the nonprofit's open-source AI initiatives, with focus on recursive self-improvement and model provenance.
At Mozilla.ai, Belião led open-source ecosystem strategy across 61 repositories. Her previous experience spans multilingual AI development including work on speech synthesis and natural language processing for Google Assistant, Google Translate, and YouTube. Sentient Foundation's projects have attracted contributions from thousands of developers worldwide, with over 12,500 GitHub stars across its open-source initiatives.