| Known as | American software engineer (born 1978) |
|---|---|
| Roles | Co-founder, Modular |
| Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Portland |
| Recognition | ACM Software System Award |
| Links | Wikipedia · modular.com |
About Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is a co-founder of Modular.
Modular: Mojo language and the MAX inference stack.
Chris studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Portland.
Honours for Chris's work include: ACM Software System Award.
Today Modular ranks #107 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 3 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Chris is part of that story.
Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Chris, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.