Silen Naihin is Co-Founder at Experiential Labs, a Y Combinator-backed applied AI research lab building world models for agents, enabling AI intelligence layers to continuously improve from real-world experience.

Silen dropped out of a CS degree at Minerva University and went on to help build AutoGPT to 160k GitHub stars, publish the first open-source agent benchmark to NeurIPS, and co-found StackwiseAI (YC W24).

Silen is a developer, researcher, and speaker on generative AI, AI automation, and AI governance, with his work cited by the New York Times, Wired, and VentureBeat.

He has held roles spanning AI for science at the DOE, ML and AI engineering contractor positions, and founding engineer roles across multiple AI ventures, bringing deep technical and entrepreneurial range.

AutoGPT reached 160k GitHub stars under his contribution, and Experiential Labs is now backed by Y Combinator (S26), building simulation infrastructure that achieves 99.7% reconstruction fidelity for AI agent training.