Matthew Wang is a technologist and entrepreneur who co-founded OpenGradient, a decentralized AI infrastructure network. Matthew's Twitter Score is 70 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #11,691 (top 5%) among 482,999 tracked accounts.
Matthew serves as CEO of OpenGradient, a network designed to host, execute and verify AI models using specialized GPU and Trusted Execution Environment nodes. Rather than operating as a standalone blockchain, it functions as an AI coprocessor with a verifiable inference network, decentralized Model Hub, and developer-facing SDKs and APIs. OPG is the network's native token, used for verifiable AI inference, governance and ecosystem growth. Before founding OpenGradient, Matthew previously worked at Two Sigma in quantitative research, and earlier held software engineering roles at Google, Facebook and NASA.
Matthew's OpenGradient raised an $8.5 million seed round in October 2024, led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, with participation from SV Angel, Coinbase Ventures, SALT Fund, Symbolic Capital and Foresight Ventures, alongside angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin and Sandeep Nailwal. The project subsequently announced $9.5 million in total funding in April 2026, with additional angel participation from Bruno Faviero, Daniel Cheung, Ryan Watkins and Ekram Ahmed. Matthew's account has 1,483 posts and has been active since 2023. Matthew has been mentioned by 34 accounts, with 76 total mentions.
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