Key People in AI
31 researchers, founders, and leaders shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
Aidan Gomez
CEO at Cohere
Co-founder and CEO of Cohere. Co-author of the Transformer paper.
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Amit Jain
CEO at Luma AI
Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI. Pioneer in 3D and video AI.
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Andrej Karpathy
Founder at Eureka Labs
Former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI researcher. Leading AI educator.
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Aravind Srinivas
CEO at Perplexity
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI. Former AI researcher at OpenAI and Google.
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Arthur Mensch
CEO at Mistral
Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI. Former DeepMind researcher.
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Chris Olah
Co-founder at Anthropic
Renowned for work on neural network interpretability.
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Cristobal Valenzuela
CEO at Runway
Co-founder and CEO of Runway. Pioneer in AI-assisted creative tools.
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Daniela Amodei
President at Anthropic
Co-founder and President of Anthropic.
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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Former VP of Research at OpenAI.
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David Holz
CEO at Midjourney
Founder of Midjourney. Previously co-founded Leap Motion.
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Demi Guo
CEO at Pika
Co-founder and CEO of Pika. Former Stanford AI researcher.
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Demis Hassabis
CEO at Google DeepMind
CEO of Google DeepMind. Nobel Prize laureate for AlphaFold.
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Dylan Fox
CEO at AssemblyAI
Founder and CEO of AssemblyAI. Built leading speech-to-text platform.
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Elon Musk
CEO at xAI
Founder of xAI. Also leads Tesla, SpaceX, and X.
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Emad Mostaque
Founder at Stability AI
Founder of Stability AI. Led the development and open-sourcing of Stable Diffusion.
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Fei-Fei Li
Professor at Stanford University
Creator of ImageNet. Co-director of Stanford HAI.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto
Godfather of deep learning. Nobel Prize laureate 2024. Former Google researcher.
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Greg Brockman
President at OpenAI
Co-founder and President of OpenAI.
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Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder at SSI
Co-founder of OpenAI, now leading Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI).
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Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind. Built foundational Google infrastructure.
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Jinze Bai
Lead Researcher at Alibaba
Lead researcher of the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) model series at Alibaba Cloud.
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Liang Wenfeng
CEO at DeepSeek
Founder of DeepSeek and High-Flyer quant fund.
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Mark Zuckerberg
CEO at Meta
CEO of Meta. Champion of open-source AI with Llama models.
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Mati Staniszewski
CEO at ElevenLabs
Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs. Leading voice AI company.
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Mikey Shulman
CEO at Suno
CEO and co-founder of Suno. Building AI music generation.
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Mira Murati
Former CTO at OpenAI
Former CTO of OpenAI who led ChatGPT and GPT-4 launches.
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Robin Rombach
CEO at Black Forest Labs
Co-founder of Black Forest Labs. Lead researcher behind Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion.
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Former president of Y Combinator.
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Scott Stephenson
CEO at Deepgram
Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram. Enterprise speech AI pioneer.
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Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist at Meta
Turing Award winner. Pioneer of convolutional neural networks.
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Yoshua Bengio
Professor at Mila / Université de Montréal
Turing Award winner. Pioneer of deep learning and AI safety research.
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