Thomas Baker works with clients across Distinctive Edge Partners, assisting in technology scouting, relationship building, and general technical advisory.
He is a passionate technical founder, early-stage investor, and engineer focusing on the development of experimental Artificial Intelligence and collaborative intelligence with a multidisciplinary background in experimental aerospace, rocketry and propulsion systems, energy generation, robotics, magnetics, and semiconductor engineering, space infrastructure, and generative AI development.
In addition to his work with clients at Distinctive Edge, Thomas is actively shaping the next generation of AI leaders. He is an Executive Fellow at Harvard and works with the MIT Decentralized AI lab to help shape and secure decentralized AI architectures for mission-critical defense applications, ensuring that next-generation aerospace and defense professionals have the guidance and resources to push the limits of innovation. He additionally actively mentors startups through Techstars Space, serves as a Technical Fellow at Type One Ventures, and contributes to the Future of Defense Task Force Panel.
Thomas brings an impressive history of helping the most advanced engineering teams create groundbreaking impact.
As the former CTO at AGI, he led the development of the groundbreaking Arx AI agents, which recently topped the MMLU-Pro AI benchmark, surpassing OpenAI, Gemini, and Meta with a scalable next-generation approach beyond LLMs.
At Blue Origin, Thomas took on leadership roles, spearheading payload development for Orbital Reef, the next-generation replacement for the ISS. As Technical Lead of the Advanced Concepts Team, he drove breakthroughs in spacecraft design, in-space power, and lunar technology, including the first generative AI implementation in commercial aerospace.
He contributed to large-scale experimental aerospace for a private technical research company under the co-founder of Google, leading projects in propulsion, avionics, structural metrology, power generation, RF communications hardware, and early-stage liquid hydrogen development.
He worked on the SpaceX Hyperloop initiative, designing and building novel magnetic levitation engines, and led multidisciplinary research teams tackling energy-efficient high-speed transit challenges.
Thomas began his career in the semiconductor industry, conducting R&D for Mil/Aero Satellites and Tier 4 & 5 Self-Driving Technology.
Raised in Silicon Valley, he developed a deep technical foundation early on. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Electromagnetics and RF from San Jose State University.
