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Mark McQuade

1 entry · 16 September 2026

Mark McQuade is the co-founder and chief executive of Arcee AI, a US startup building small, specialised open language models and tooling for domain adaptation. Before Arcee, he held engineering and customer-facing roles in cloud and machine learning, including at Hugging Face and the AWS consultancy Onica.

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  1. Arcee AI crosses a $1bn valuation

    The round funds Arcee's open-weight Trinity models; the company said it had built its entire 2025 lineup, a 400-billion-parameter sparse model among them, for about $20m.

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