Anna Veronika Dorogush is quietly reshaping generative AI. A former creator of CatBoost at Yandex, she’s long been known as one of the world’s top machine learning infrastructure minds. Now, as founder of Taler, she’s leading a stealth image generation model that recently outperformed DALL·E and Midjourney on the Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image benchmark. Backed with $30M in funding, her work blends elite technical precision with bold creative potential—making her a formidable force in the next era of AI.