Magnus Sahlgren is Head of Research for Natural Language Understanding at AI Sweden. He has a PhD in computational linguistics, and his research lies at the intersection between computational linguistics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Magnus is primarily known for his work on computational models of meaning, and he is currently driving the initiative to train large language models for Swedish. He has previously held positions at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Stockholm university, and is the co-founder of the language technology company Gavagai AB.
