Oren Etzioni

Columnist at GeekWire

Greater Seattle Area

Oren Etzioni is the Founder at AI2 Incubator, Columnist at GeekWire, Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group, Founder and CEO at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and works at Anthropic. He founded AI2 Incubator and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, both of which are still running, as well as Decide and Farecast, which were acquired, and TrueMedia.org, which closed. His expertise includes fundamental problems in AI, machine reading, deepfake detection, and agents.

GeekWire Columnist 2026–present · current
AI House Founder 2014–present · current
Madrona Venture Partner 2000–present · current
AI House Technical Director · current
Allen Institute for AI Founder and CEO, Former CEO · current
Anthropic current
GeekWire Columnist · current
TrueMedia Founder · current
University of Washington Founder and Emeritus Professor, Former CEO, Former Professor, Former Leader of TrueMedia · current
TrueMedia.org Founder 2024–2025 · past
Vercept Co-Founder 2024–2026, Co-founder and Early Investor 2026, Co-founder of Vercept, Founder of AI2 Incubator, Professor Emeritus 2026, Founding CEO of Allen Institute for AI, Co-founder 2026 · past
Xnor.ai Director 2017 · past
Ai2 Founding Chief Executive Officer 2013–2022, CEO 2022, Founding CEO 2022 · past
Decide Co-Founder and CTO 2010–2013 · past
Farecast Founder 2003–2008 · past
Go2Net CTO 1999–2000 · past
ClearForest Co-founder 1997–1998 · past
Netbot Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer 1996–1997 · past
TrueMedia.org Founder and Leader of TrueMedia.org 2025, Former CEO of Allen Institute for AI 2025 · past