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Eric Steinberger

Eric Steinberger

Co-Founder & CEO, Magic AI

Organization
Magic

Position
Co-Founder & CEO, Magic AI

🇦🇹Austrian
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Intelligence Briefing

Founded Magic in 2022 to build superhuman AI through long-horizon reliable code generation. Began AI research at age 14; became the youngest employee at Meta FAIR after his RL research caught attention. Collaborated with Noam Brown on poker AI. Built proprietary 100M-token context window models (LTM architecture). Raised over $500M.

Expertise
Deep Reinforcement LearningLong-Context ModelsAGIAI CodingEx-Meta
Education

Attended, Computer ScienceUniversity of Cambridge

AGI Position Assessment

Risk Level
LOW
MODERATE
HIGH
CRITICAL
Predicted AGI Timeline

Unknown

Primarily research-focused public profile; no detailed standalone safety doctrine is documented here.

Safety Approach

Primarily research-focused public profile; no detailed standalone safety doctrine is documented here.

Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10