Matt Deitke

Matt Deitke (born 2001) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. As of August 2025, he works at Meta Platforms’s Superintelligence Lab, after accepting a $250 million employment offer, following earlier public attention around declining a $125 million offer from the same company. He is also known for his work at the Allen Institute for AI and as the co-founder of the AI startup Vercept.

Early life and education Matt Deitke was born around 2001 in suburban Chicago, Illinois, United States. He developed an early interest in computer vision and AI technologies. Deitke enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he began research into embodied AI and machine learning, but ultimately dropped out to focus on industry research and entrepreneurship.

Career

Allen Institute for AI After leaving academia, Deitke joined the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), based in Seattle, Washington, where he contributed to multimodal reasoning systems and vision-language models. There he was involved in the development of an AI chatbot named Molmo, a project that uses images, sound, and text.