Key People in AI

Co-founder and CEO of Cohere. Co-author of the Transformer paper.

Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI. Pioneer in 3D and video AI.

Former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI researcher. Leading AI educator.

Co-founder of Google Brain. Former VP and Chief Scientist at Baidu. Stanford professor and pioneer in online AI education.

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI. Former AI researcher at OpenAI and Google.

Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI. Former DeepMind researcher.

Co-author of the Transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need"). Co-founded Essential AI.

Renowned for work on neural network interpretability.

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face. Built the largest open-source AI community and model hub.

CEO of Conjecture. Former EleutherAI lead. Prominent AI safety advocate and policy commentator.

Co-founder and CEO of Runway. Pioneer in AI-assisted creative tools.

Co-founder and President of Anthropic.

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Former VP of Research at OpenAI.

Founder of Midjourney. Previously co-founded Leap Motion.

Co-founder and CEO of Pika. Former Stanford AI researcher.

CEO of Google DeepMind. Nobel Prize laureate for AlphaFold.

Founder and CEO of AssemblyAI. Built leading speech-to-text platform.

Founder of xAI. Also leads Tesla, SpaceX, and X.

Founder of Stability AI. Led the development and open-sourcing of Stable Diffusion.

Creator of ImageNet. Co-director of Stanford HAI.

Godfather of deep learning. Nobel Prize laureate 2024. Former Google researcher.

Created llama.cpp, enabling LLMs on consumer hardware.

Co-founder and President of OpenAI.

Created LangChain, the most popular LLM application framework.

Co-founder of OpenAI, now leading Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI).

Import AI newsletter. Former OpenAI Policy Director.

Co-author of the Transformer paper. Founded Inceptive, applying AI to RNA drug design.

Co-leads Alignment Science at Anthropic. Former leader of OpenAI superalignment team. Focuses on scalable oversight and interpretability.

Co-founded Anthropic. Neural scaling laws.

AI researcher known for discovering chain-of-thought prompting and scaling laws for emergent abilities in LLMs.

Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind. Built foundational Google infrastructure.

Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. Built the dominant AI hardware platform. NVIDIA GPUs power most AI training.

Lead researcher of the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) model series at Alibaba Cloud.

Co-founder of OpenAI, later joined Anthropic. Creator of PPO.

Former Microsoft and Google executive. Founded 01.AI and Sinovation Ventures. Leading voice on AI in China.

Founder of DeepSeek and High-Flyer quant fund.

CEO of Meta. Champion of open-source AI with Llama models.

Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs. Leading voice AI company.

CEO and co-founder of Suno. Building AI music generation.

Former CTO of OpenAI who led ChatGPT and GPT-4 launches.

CEO of Microsoft AI. Co-founder of DeepMind. Previously founded Inflection AI.

Co-author of the Transformer paper. Co-founded Essential AI with Ashish Vaswani.

AI researcher at OpenAI. Creator of Libratus (poker AI) and Cicero (Diplomacy AI). Pioneer in strategic reasoning AI.

Co-author of the Transformer paper. Co-founded Character.AI, which was acquired by Google. Key contributor to PaLM and Gemini.

DSPy framework for programmatic LLM optimization.

Associate professor at Stanford. Director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models. Creator of HELM benchmarks.

Co-founder of Black Forest Labs. Lead researcher behind Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion.

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Former president of Y Combinator.

Leading researcher on the environmental impact of AI at Hugging Face. National Geographic Explorer. Advocates for sustainable AI development.

CEO of Microsoft. Led major AI investments including OpenAI partnership and Copilot integration across Microsoft products.

Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram. Enterprise speech AI pioneer.

Latent Space podcast and AI engineering community.

Django co-creator. Builds open-source AI tools.

Computer science professor at UC Berkeley. Co-author of the definitive AI textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach." Leading voice on AI existential risk.

CEO of Alphabet and Google. Oversees Google DeepMind and the Gemini model family.

Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute. Former Google AI ethics researcher. Pioneer in AI fairness and accountability.

Created Flash Attention. Co-founded Together AI.

Turing Award winner. Pioneer of convolutional neural networks.

Turing Award winner. Pioneer of deep learning and AI safety research.