Salman Avestimehr is an AI researcher and professor who co-founded ChainOpera AI, a decentralized AI infrastructure platform combining a Super AI Agent app, a developer platform, decentralized model and GPU infrastructure, and an AI-native blockchain. Salman Avestimehr's Twitter Score is 7.4 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #117,969 among 482,999 tracked accounts.
Salman Avestimehr co-founded ChainOpera AI and serves as its CEO, while also holding a Dean's Professor position in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California. His research spans information theory, machine learning, distributed systems, and trustworthy AI. Beyond ChainOpera AI, he co-founded TensorOpera AI, FedML, and Teamily AI, and serves as inaugural Director of the USC-Amazon Center on Trustworthy AI, Director of the vITAL Research Lab, and Founding Co-Director of the Falcon AI Lab.
Salman Avestimehr has been publicly active in the AI and crypto space, including an appearance at an AI Agents and Crypto event associated with Devconnect. ChainOpera AI announced a $3.5 million seed round in December 2024, led by Finality Capital, Road Capital, and IDG Capital, bringing combined funding for ChainOpera AI and TensorOpera AI to $17 million. ChainOpera AI's native utility token is $COAI, with a fixed total supply of 1 billion tokens per its official tokenomics. TensorOpera AI, formerly associated with the FedML brand, supplies ChainOpera AI's model-training and serving infrastructure, while FedML serves as its exclusive federated-learning partner. Salman Avestimehr has 2,837 followers as of August 2026 and has published 181 posts. Salman Avestimehr has been mentioned by 11 accounts, with 45 total mentions.
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