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Emil Anker Wiik

Emil Anker Wiik

AI founder, product leader, and community builder

Oslo, Norway
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Joined September 2025
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Emil is a serial entrepreneur and founder, having co-founded Lunda.ai (a digital sales assistant) and Hallucinate (focused on computer vision and generative AI). He is also the founder of Prettycool.ai, which leverages virtual furniture for real estate sales, and is set to be Cofounder & CTO at The Agentic Commerce Co. from 2025. lunda+3
He is a product and AI specialist with a decade of experience in product development. He interned as a Product Manager at Vipps, where he led a team to develop a customer loyalty MVP, and his educational background includes a BSc in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, indicating a deep interest in understanding and building AI systems. lorn+1
Emil is a key figure in the Norwegian AI community, leading AI Mad Lab, the fastest-growing AI community in the Nordics. He also serves as a Member of the Future Advisory Board at Reitan Retail, contributing to strategic discussions on responsible AI use. aimadlab+1
His academic journey reflects a global perspective, starting with Business Administration at Lancaster University and an exchange semester at HEC Montréal, before pursuing Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at Tilburg University. He intentionally moved abroad to gain a broader understanding of business and later to learn to "build things himself" in AI. quora+1

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Generativ AI – hva er det?

November 1, 2022

An interview (podcast/article) where Emil Anker Wiik discusses generative AI, its applications, and different models like GANs, diffuse models, and transformers, and his journey into the field.

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How does the neurobiology of syntactic processing inform computational NLP?

An article exploring the connection between neurobiology of syntactic processing and computational natural language processing, specifically how state-of-the-art generative transformers utilize attention mechanisms.

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