Leemon Baird on Hedera's Technical Gambit and AI’s Future

Leemon Baird first published his work on hashgraph consensus in 2016, positioning it as an alternative to traditional blockchain architectures. With a background in computer science and a career spanning both academia and industry, Baird co-founded Hedera to commercialize the technology.His academic trajectory is notable for his early work in neural networks and reinforcement learning during the 1990s, a period when AI research was navigating what would later be called the "AI winter." Since then, the Hedera project has evolved in a landscape crowded with competing distributed ledger approaches, each claiming technical superiority and targeting different segments of the market source: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-toronto-2025-coverage/2025/05/12/leemon-baird-on-hederas-technical-gambit-and-ais-future