Alex Varga

ai researcher. tech founder.
combining things that don't go together.

my whole life, i've been combining things that aren't supposed to go together.

at 16, top-200 league of legends player in europe while studying in one of moscow's strongest math schools. won ~15 math olympiads and hackathons, $20k+ in prizes. studied alongside 3 IMO winners.

did bachelor's and (unofficially) master's at the same time (MIPT + Yandex Data School). my supervisor laughed and said: “we don't know what to give you for a real master's program.” my thesis in machine learning gave Yandex +$12M/year in revenue.

turned down a promotion, moved to europe, raised $200k, hired 9 elite people from my university for my first ai startup. that was 2018.

trained image models with my cofounder on GPUs in 2019. sold ai-generated art in 5-star hotels for 1 ETH ($400 then, $2000 now). before NFTs were even a thing.

on the side, built a hackathon community of 40,000 devs. judged $2M prize ai competitions.

2023: grew a food tech company to $500k ARR, sold it. 2024: built 10 projects in one year.

also speak hungarian and russian — both top-5 hardest languages in the world.

moved to SF. started varg.ai. $200k revenue in 4 months from ai video consulting. now building media infrastructure for ai agents.

long term motivation: build something useful for humanity.

sauna, photography, radical life extension.

if you want to chat, please write what do you see on this picture and send me a message at alex@varg.ai