Stephen Hood

Co-founder Telepath. Former Mozilla, Blockboard, Storium, Delicious. Multiclass founder, geek, music lover, pet rescuer. I level slowly but wear plate.

SF Bay Area

6 Talks

Will you own your next computer, or rent it? | Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Mozilla)

Jun 3rd, 2026

In this episode we talk with Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla, in a broad conversation that touches on the role that open source — and our own values as builders — will play both in creating the new computer, and deciding who truly controls it. Co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi also discuss their startup’s new product, television.run, as well as HTML artifacts and… the pope? Links: * www.linkedin.com/in/rkrikorian/ (LinkedIn) * newsletter.ownersnotrenters.com/ (Raffi's Substack) * television.run, the missing GUI for personal agents * www.mozilla.ai/ * hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ * openclaw.ai/ * x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935 (by Thariq Shihipar) * www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9lRdM5eO0 (Geoffrey Litt and Max Schoening's podcast) * www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html (Pope Leo's encyclical on AI)

North Bay NEXT 2026 - 5 - Startup Showcase: Stephen Hood, Telepath

May 21st, 2026

Stephen Hood, Telepath

A New Podcast

Apr 27th, 2026

In this first episode, co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi discuss the podcast's themes, the origins of their passion for personal computers, and observations about two recent technological developments (the "Flipbook" generative UI demo, and the Hermes personal agent).

Telepath's Sensemaking Computer Upends Personal Computing

Nov 25th, 2025

The current paradigm around personal computing is built on a series of accrued decisions, all underpinned by the idea that computers don’t understand natural language. That foundation is no longer true. Telepath is building the first sensemaking computer. This computer has no apps, and is built natively with AI that has a deep understanding of the user and the data on the computer, without the siloes usually formed by those application sandboxes. ---------------------------------------------------- For more from Telepath: Website: telepath.computer/ ---------------------------------------------------- For more from Betaworks: Website: www.betaworks.com/ X: twitter.com/betaworks Medium: render.betaworks.com/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/betaworks/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/betaworks YouTube: @betaworks872

The Hyperspace Bypass: Building a new AI-powered Era for Computing and the Web

Mar 4th, 2025

Mozilla

Barcelona, Spain

A talk I gave at the Talent Arena event of Mobile World Capital 2025 in Barcelona.

Llamafile: bringing AI to the masses with fast CPU inference: Stephen Hood and Justine Tunney

Jul 16th, 2024

Mozilla's Llamafile open source project democratizes access to AI not only by making open models easier to use, but also by making them run fast on consumer CPUs. Lead developer Justine Tunney will share the insights, tricks, and hacks that she and the project community are using to deliver these performance breakthroughs, and project leader Stephen Hood will discuss Mozilla's approach to supporting open source AI. Recorded live in San Francisco at the AI Engineer World's Fair. See the full schedule of talks at www.ai.engineer/worldsfair/2024/schedule & join us at the AI Engineer World's Fair in 2025! Get your tickets today at ai.engineer/2025 About Stephen Open source AI at Mozilla. Formerly of del.icio.us, Yahoo Search. Co-founder of Storium (AI-assisted storytelling game) and Blockboard. About Justine Justine is a founder of Mozilla’s LLaMAfile project, a Google Brain alumni, and the owner of the Cosmopolitan C Library. She's focusing on democratizing access to open source AI software while elevating its performance and quality.