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title: "Fast.ai: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "ai is a non-profit research group focused on deep learning and artificial intelligence. It was founded in 2016 by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas with the goal of democratizing deep learning."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-fast-ai
type: Organization
wikidata: Q96377821
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast.ai
website: http://www.fast.ai/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Fast.ai

> ai is a non-profit research group focused on deep learning and artificial intelligence. It was founded in 2016 by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas with the goal of democratizing deep learning.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-fast-ai

## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.fast.ai/
- Industries: artificial intelligence

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/fastdotai
- github: https://github.com/fastai

## Key people

- Rachel Thomas, founder (American computer scientist)
- Jeremy Howard, founder (Australian data scientist (b. 1973))

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Fast.ai, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-fast-ai#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96377821, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast.ai

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