The Most Important People in AI

AG Abhinav Gupta 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder of Skild AI building a general-purpose robotics foundation model, and a Carnegie Mellon robotics professor known for self-supervised robot learning. Skild AI AB Adam Brotman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Former Starbucks CDO, AI First co-author, digital transformation expert → Aidan Gomez 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Cohere Cohere AA Ajay Agrawal 🇨🇦 Business & Investing AI economics research, Power and Prediction co-author Sanctuary AI AC Ajeya Cotra 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics OpenAI researcher → AS Akash Singh 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Observe.AI, a conversation intelligence platform for contact centers. Observe.AI AB Akshat Bubna 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Modal, a serverless cloud platform for running AI and data workloads. Modal Alan Turing 🇬🇧 Research & Academia Father of Computer Science and AI → Albert Gu 🇺🇸 Research & Academia CMU professor C Cartesia AP Albert Pai 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded StackBlitz, the in-browser IDE and WebContainers company that later built the AI app builder Bolt.new. S StackBlitz AT Alberto Taiuti Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter betrokken bij Luma AI, een bedrijf voor generatieve 3D- en video-AI. Luma AI AH Alec Hartman 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider whose GPU and platform services power AI/ML workloads for developers. DigitalOcean AM Alejandro Matamala 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Runway, a company pioneering generative AI tools for video and image creation. Runway AS Alejandro Sánchez Blanes 🇪🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Freepik, a large creative-assets platform building its own generative AI image tools. Freepik Alex Graves 🇬🇧 Research & Academia Neural Turing Machines, Attention Mechanisms Google DeepMind Alex Hanna 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI researcher, The AI Con co-author, algorithmic auditing expert DA Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Alex Karp 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, a major data-analytics and AI software company. Palantir Technologies Alex Kendall 🇬🇧 Research & Academia Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, pioneering an end-to-end deep learning ('AV2.0') approach to autonomous driving and embodied AI. Developed foundational end-to-end self-driving research at the University of Cambridge. Wayve AK Alex Krizhevsky 🇨🇦 Research & Academia AlexNet, ImageNet Challenge Winner → AM Alex Mashrabov 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of Higgsfield, an AI video-generation company; formerly head of AI (Generative AI) at Snap after it acquired his startup AI Factory. Higgsfield AR Alex Ratner 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI; created the Snorkel weak-supervision / programmatic data-labeling project at Stanford. Snorkel AI Alex Smola 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Kernel Methods, AutoGluon, Machine Learning Boson AI AY Alex Yu 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Luma AI, a lab building generative 3D and video models (Dream Machine), building on his NeRF research (PlenOctrees, Plenoxels). Luma AI Alex Zhavoronkov 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a leader in generative-AI-driven drug discovery and aging research. Insilico Medicine AA Alexander Amini 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators MIT researcher and co-founder/CEO of Liquid AI, commercializing liquid neural network foundation models. Liquid AI Alexandr Wang 🇺🇸 Software Scale AI founder, data labeling and ML infrastructure Scale AI AA Ali Agha 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Founded Field AI to build AI models enabling autonomous robots to operate in unstructured real-world environments, after leading autonomy research at NASA JPL. FA Field AI Ali Ghodsi 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and CEO of Databricks, a leading data and AI lakehouse platform. Databricks AK Allie K. Miller 🇺🇸 Business & Investing AI Business Development, Startup Advisor → AS Aman Sanger 🇺🇸 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere AA Amanda Askell 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic researcher Anthropic AS Amanpreet Singh 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Contextual AI, building enterprise RAG-based language model platforms, after AI research work at Meta. Contextual AI AS Amar Shah 🇬🇧 Research & Academia Co-founded Wayve, a London-based lab pioneering end-to-end learned self-driving AI. Wayve AH Amir Haghighat 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Baseten, a platform for deploying and serving machine learning models in production. Baseten AJ Amit Jain 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, maker of the Dream Machine generative video model and 3D capture technology. Luma AI AM Amjad Masad 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Replit CEO Replit Amnon Shashua 🇮🇱 Influencers & Commentators Mobileye Founder, Autonomous Driving Technology AI21 Labs Amy Webb 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Strategic Foresight, Tech Trend Analysis → AV Anant Vijay Singh 🇮🇳 Software Proton AI lead → AG Anastasis Germanidis 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CTO of Runway, a pioneer in generative video and creative AI tools. Runway AZ Anatoliy Zenkov 🇺🇦 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere AB Andreas Blattmann 🇩🇪 Software Co-author of Stable Diffusion and co-founder of Black Forest Labs, creators of the FLUX image models. Black Forest Labs AJ Andreas Jansson Software Co-founded Replicate, a platform for running and deploying open-source machine learning models via an API. Replicate Andrej Karpathy 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI educator - Tesla AI → Andrew Barto 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Professor Emeritus at UMass Amherst who, with Richard Sutton, developed the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Co-recipient of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award. → Andrew Carr 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Cartwheel Co-founder, Generative AI for Animation Cartwheel AF Andrew Feldman 🇺🇸 Hardware Cerebras CEO Cerebras Systems AI Andrew Imbrie 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown CSET researcher, The New Fire co-author → AM Andrew Mason 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Descript, an AI-powered audio and video editing tool, and earlier founder of Groupon. Descript Andrew Ng 🇺🇸 Research & Academia DeepLearning.ai founder LA Landing AI AS Andrew Sanchez Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Udio, an AI music generation startup built by former DeepMind researchers. Udio AT Andrew Tulloch 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs (TBD Labs). Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati in 2025 before rejoining Meta; earlier spent over a decade at Meta and worked at OpenAI. MS Meta Superintelligence Labs Andrew Yao 🇨🇳 Research & Academia Turing Award winner, foundational contributions to computational complexity and cryptography → Andy Konwinski 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Databricks and early investor in Perplexity; co-created Apache Spark's ecosystem work. Databricks AS Andy Sack 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Entrepreneur, AI First co-author, startup advisor → Anil Ananthaswamy 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Science writer, Why Machines Learn author → Anil Kapoor 🇮🇳 AI Safety & Ethics AI Deepfake Legal Precedent → Anima Anandkumar 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Neural Operators, AI for Science → AA Anish Athalye 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter van Cleanlab, een platform voor het automatisch detecteren en corrigeren van fouten in trainingsdata. Cleanlab AG Ankur Goyal 🇺🇸 Software Founded Braintrust, an evaluation and observability platform for building AI products, after founding Impira. Braintrust AG Ankush Gola 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of LangChain, one of the most widely used frameworks for building LLM-powered applications. LangChain AV Anna Veronika Dorogush Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Recraft, an AI image-generation platform, after creating the CatBoost gradient-boosting library at Yandex. Recraft Anton Osika 🇸🇪 Business & Investing Lovable CEO, AI-powered app development, $10M ARR in 60 days Lovable AT Anton Troynikov 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Chroma, an open-source embedding database used to build retrieval and memory for AI applications. Chroma AG Antonio Grasso 🇮🇹 Business & Investing Digital Business Innovation, AI Automation → AD Aparna Dhinakaran 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Arize AI, a machine learning observability and model monitoring platform. AA Arize AI Arati Prabhakar 🇺🇸 Business & Investing OSTP Director, Science Policy Leadership → Aravind Srinivas 🇺🇸 Software Perplexity AI CEO Perplexity Arkady Volozh 🇳🇱 Business & Investing Founder of Yandex who now leads Nebius Group, a full-stack AI cloud and GPU infrastructure provider. Nebius Group AT Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Databricks, the data and AI lakehouse platform that emerged from the Apache Spark project. Databricks Arthur Mensch 🇫🇷 Software Mistral AI CEO Mistral AI AL Arvid Lunnemark 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor. Anysphere AJ Arvind Jain 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Glean, an enterprise AI search and work-assistant platform that connects to company data systems. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Google and co-founder of Rubrik. Glean Arvind Narayanan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Princeton professor → AV Ashish Vaswani 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Transformer architecture creator Adept AI AE Ashok Elluswamy 🇺🇸 Research & Academia VP of AI Software at Tesla and the first Autopilot engineer, leading the vision-only, end-to-end neural network approach for Full Self-Driving and the Optimus humanoid robot program. Tesla Optimus AS Ashwin Sreenivas 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Decagon, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer support. Decagon AS Atindriyo Sanyal 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Galileo, een platform voor het evalueren en monitoren van AI- en LLM-modellen. Galileo AG Aurélien Géron 🇫🇷 Software Hands-On Machine Learning author, former Google YouTube ML lead → AG Avi Goldfarb 🇨🇦 Business & Investing University of Toronto economist, Power and Prediction co-author → BS Balaji Srinivasan 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Former a16z partner → BZ Barret Zoph 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab; former OpenAI VP of Research and pioneer of neural architecture search. Thinking Machines Lab BW Barrett Woodside 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI, a company building energy-efficient AI inference accelerators. PA Positron AI BB Ben Buchanan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown professor, The New Fire author, AI security expert → BF Ben Firshman 🇬🇧 Software Co-founded Replicate, a platform for running and sharing machine learning models via API. Replicate Ben Goertzel 🇺🇸 Research & Academia SingularityNET Founder, AGI Research SingularityNET Ben Horowitz 🇺🇸 Business & Investing a16z co-founder → BM Ben Mildenhall 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Lead author of the 2020 NeRF paper that introduced Neural Radiance Fields, transforming 3D scene reconstruction and neural rendering. Co-founder of World Labs. World Labs BU Ben Uretsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and served as CEO of DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting platform for developers. DigitalOcean BD Benoit Dageville 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Snowflake, the cloud data platform widely used for analytics and AI workloads. Snowflake Bernard Marr 🇬🇧 Business & Investing Business Intelligence, AI Strategy → BB Bernt Børnich 🇳🇴 Research & Academia Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies (originally Halodi Robotics, 2014), developing general-purpose humanoid robots including the home robot NEO. 1T 1X Technologies BØ Bernt Øyvind Børnich 🇳🇴 Research & Academia Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot company. 1T 1X Technologies BB Beth Barnes 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics METR founder METR BL Beyang Liu 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, maker of the Cody code-AI assistant and code intelligence platform. Sourcegraph BA Bhavish Aggarwal 🇮🇳 Influencers & Commentators Founder of Krutrim, India's first AI unicorn (2024), and founder of Ola Electric and co-founder/CEO of Ola. Krutrim developed Indian-language LLMs before pivoting toward AI cloud infrastructure in 2025-2026. Krutrim Bill Dally 🇺🇸 Hardware NVIDIA Chief Scientist NVIDIA Corporation BB Blake Borgeson 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter en voormalig CTO van Recursion Pharmaceuticals, dat machine learning inzet voor geneesmiddelenontdekking. Recursion Pharmaceuticals Bob van Luijt 🇳🇱 Software Co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, an open-source vector database widely used for AI/RAG applications. Weaviate BT Bojan Tunguz 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Kaggle Grandmaster, Machine Learning Competitions → BD Brad Dwyer 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Roboflow, a platform that helps developers build and deploy computer vision models. Roboflow BH Braden Hancock 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Snorkel AI, commercializing programmatic and weakly-supervised data labeling research from Stanford. Snorkel AI BP Branka Panic AI Safety & Ethics AI for Peace co-author, AI governance researcher → BM Brannin McBee 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of CoreWeave, a leading GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. CoreWeave Bret Taylor 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Sierra in 2023 with Clay Bavor to build enterprise conversational AI agents, and serves as chairman of OpenAI's board of directors since November 2023. Previously co-CEO of Salesforce, CTO of Facebook, and co-creator of Google Maps. Sierra Brett Adcock 🇺🇸 Hardware Figure founder Figure AI Brian Christian 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Alignment Research, Popular Science Writing → BI Brian Ichter 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder of Physical Intelligence, building general-purpose foundation models for robots; formerly a robotics researcher at Google DeepMind. Physical Intelligence BR Brian Raymond 🇺🇸 Software Founded Unstructured, providing tools to transform unstructured documents into data ready for LLMs and RAG pipelines. Unstructured BR Brian Rieger 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a data labeling and training-data platform for AI development. Labelbox BV Brian Venturo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of CoreWeave, a large GPU cloud provider specialized in AI and machine-learning workloads. CoreWeave BG Burkay Gur Software Co-founded fal, an inference platform optimized for running generative media (image, video, audio) AI models. fal CW C.C. Wei 🇹🇼 Hardware Chairman and CEO of TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker that manufactures the advanced-node silicon powering nearly all leading AI chips. Named among TIME's 100 most influential people in AI. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Cassie Kozyrkov 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Google's First Chief Decision Scientist, Decision Intelligence → Cathy O'Neil 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Author & consultant → CZ Ce Zhang 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Together AI, dat cloudinfrastructuur en open modellen voor generatieve AI aanbiedt. Together AI Chamath Palihapitiya 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Social Capital → CN Charlie Nash Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Udio and previously worked as a research scientist at DeepMind on generative models. Udio CL Chase Lochmiller 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Crusoe, a company building large-scale AI cloud infrastructure and data centers powered by clean and stranded energy. Crusoe Chelsea Finn 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Stanford professor Physical Intelligence CM Chenlin Meng 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded and serves as CTO of Pika; noted researcher on diffusion-based generative models. Pika CH Chip Huyen 🇺🇸 Software ML systems design, production ML infrastructure → CS Chitwan Saharia 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Ideogram, a leading text-to-image generation startup, after working on Google's Imagen diffusion model. Ideogram Chris Bailey 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators Bestselling productivity author (The Productivity Project, Hyperfocus, How to Calm Your Mind, Intentional) who co-hosts the Intentional AI podcast with David Sparks on using AI intentionally for more meaningful work. → CG Chris Gibson 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded company applying AI to drug discovery. Recursion Pharmaceuticals Chris Hull 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Jasper, a generative AI platform for marketing and copywriting. Jasper Chris Lattner 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Modular, creating the Mojo language and MAX platform as a CUDA alternative for AI. Creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift language and MLIR. Modular Chris Lehane 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Chief Global Affairs Officer (head of global policy) at OpenAI, leading the company's government engagement and AI policy strategy. Veteran political operative from the Clinton administration and former global policy head at Airbnb. OpenAI CM Chris Mansi 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Viz.ai co-founder Viz.ai CO Chris Olah 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Anthropic co-founder Anthropic Chris Ré 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Stanford professor and MacArthur Fellow who co-founded Snorkel AI, pioneering weak supervision and programmatic labeling of training data. Together AI Chris Urmson 🇺🇸 Research & Academia CEO and co-founder of Aurora Innovation who previously led Google's self-driving car project. Aurora Innovation CV Chris Van Pelt 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Weights & Biases, a widely used platform for ML experiment tracking and model management. Weights & Biases CZ Chris Zhu Hardware Medeoprichter van Etched, dat een ASIC (Sohu) bouwt die specifiek voor transformer-modellen is geoptimaliseerd. Etched.ai, Inc. CH Christian Horne Software Co-founded Vast.ai, a marketplace for renting GPU compute used to train and run AI models. Vast.ai CL Christoph Lassner Influencers & Commentators Co-founded World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup building 3D world models, bringing a background in computer-vision and neural rendering research. World Labs Christopher Bishop 🇬🇧 Research & Academia Microsoft Research AI4Science Director, Deep Learning textbook author MA Microsoft AI CG Christopher Gillis 🇦🇺 Software Co-founded Leonardo.Ai, a generative AI platform for producing game and creative visual assets. Leonardo.Ai Christopher Manning 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Stanford NLP Group, Natural Language Processing → Christopher Ré 🇺🇸 Hardware Stanford professor and MacArthur Fellow, co-founder of SambaNova Systems building reconfigurable dataflow AI hardware. SambaNova Systems CB Clay Bavor 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Sierra (with Bret Taylor), a conversational AI agent platform for enterprises founded in 2023. Spent 18 years at Google leading Google Labs, Workspace, and projects like Starline and Google Lens. Sierra CD Clement Delangue 🇺🇸 Software Hugging Face CEO Hugging Face CL Connor Leahy 🇬🇧 Software Conjecture founder → CD Conor Durkan Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Udio, an AI music-generation platform, after working as a researcher at Google DeepMind. Udio CP Gurnani 🇮🇳 Business & Investing Tech Mahindra CEO, Digital Transformation AIonOS CW Crag Wolfe 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Medeoprichter/CTO van Unstructured, dat ongestructureerde documenten omzet naar LLM-klare data. Unstructured CL Craig Le Clair 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Forrester Research on Automation and AI → Craig Mundie 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Former Microsoft CTO, Genesis AI book co-author → CV Cristóbal Valenzuela 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Runway in 2018 in New York with Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala, pioneering generative AI video tools such as the Gen model series. Runway CC Cully Cavness 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Crusoe, which builds energy-optimized data center infrastructure for AI compute. Crusoe CN Curtis Northcutt 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cleanlab and pioneered confident learning methods for detecting and fixing errors in training data. Cleanlab Cynthia Breazeal 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Pioneer of Social Robotics, Creator of Kismet → Cynthia Dwork 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Harvard professor → CD Cyprien de Masson d'Autume Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Reka AI en voormalig onderzoeker bij DeepMind. Reka AI CH Cyrus Hodes Influencers & Commentators An early co-founder of Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion image-generation model. Stability AI DG Dai Guohao 🇨🇳 Software Co-founded Infinigence AI (Infini-AI), a Chinese startup providing large-model compute and inference-optimization infrastructure. IA Infinigence AI (InfiniAI) DS Damion Shelton 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and CEO of Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid robot. Agility Robotics Dan Martell 🇨🇦 Business & Investing Founder of SaaS Academy, author of Buy Back Your Time, angel investor → DM Dan McQuillan 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators Goldsmiths professor, Resisting AI author, AI activism → DN Dan Neely 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Vermillio co-founder V Vermillio DR Dan Rasmuson 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a training-data platform for labeling and managing datasets for machine learning. Labelbox DY Dani Yogatama Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Reka AI and is an NLP researcher formerly at DeepMind. Reka AI DD Daniel De Freitas 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Character.AI and lead of Google's LaMDA, a pioneer of conversational AI systems. Character.AI Daniel Dines 🇺🇸 Business & Investing UiPath CEO UiPath Daniel Gross 🇺🇸 Software Cue AI founder SS Safe Superintelligence Inc. DH Daniel Hulme 🇬🇧 Business & Investing WPP Chief AI Officer, Satalia Founder Satalia DH Daniel Huttenlocher 🇺🇸 Research & Academia MIT Schwarzman College Dean, The Age of AI co-author → DK Daniel Kan 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded self-driving vehicle company Cruise, later acquired by General Motors. Cruise DK Daniel Kokotajlo 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former OpenAI researcher → Daniel Levy Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and President of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), founded in 2024 with Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Gross. Formerly an AI researcher at OpenAI. SS Safe Superintelligence Inc. DN Daniel Nadler 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of OpenEvidence, a medical AI platform for clinicians, and earlier founder of financial analytics firm Kensho. OpenEvidence DA Daniela Amodei 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic Co-founder, AI Safety Anthropic Daniela Rus 🇺🇸 Research & Academia MIT CSAIL Director, Robotics Research Liquid AI Daphne Koller 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Insitro founder I Insitro Dario Amodei 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Anthropic - Claude AI Anthropic Dario Gil 🇺🇸 Research & Academia IBM Research Director, Quantum Computing → DF Dave Ferguson 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded autonomous delivery vehicle company Nuro after leading self-driving research at Google/Waymo. Nuro DM Dave Moellenhoff 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and first CTO of Salesforce, helping pioneer the cloud software-as-a-service model. SA Salesforce Agentforce DR Dave Rogenmoser 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a generative-AI marketing and copywriting platform. Jasper David Baker 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington and pioneer of computational and AI-driven protein design. Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for building entirely new proteins that do not exist in nature. → DD David Ding 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Udio and former DeepMind researcher, building AI models that generate music from text prompts. Udio David Friedberg 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Production Board → DG David Glick 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → David Ha 🇯🇵 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; known for World Models and nature-inspired / evolutionary approaches to AI; former head of Google Brain research in Japan. Sakana AI DH David Holz 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Midjourney Founder, AI Art Generation Midjourney DL David Luan 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and CEO of Adept AI and former VP of Engineering at OpenAI, now leading AGI work at Amazon. Adept AI David Patterson 🇺🇸 Hardware Google researcher Google DeepMind David Sacks 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Craft Ventures → David Silver 🇬🇧 Research & Academia DeepMind VP Reinforcement Learning, AlphaGo/AlphaZero Google DeepMind DS David Singleton 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of /dev/agents, building an operating system for AI agents; formerly CTO of Stripe. / /dev/agents David Sparks 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators MacSparky, productivity and automation educator and podcaster → DL Dean Li 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Recursion Pharmaceuticals, dat machine learning inzet voor geneesmiddelenontdekking. Recursion Pharmaceuticals DP Deepak Pathak 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI, developing a general-purpose robotics foundation model, and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Known for research on self-supervised learning and sim2real robot learning. Skild AI DG Demi Guo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Pika, a generative AI video platform launched in 2023. She left a Stanford AI PhD to build one of the earliest consumer text-to-video products. Pika Demis Hassabis 🇬🇧 Business & Investing DeepMind - AlphaFold & AlphaGo Google DeepMind DY Denis Yarats 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Former FAIR research scientist who co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 and serves as CTO, leading development of its source-backed AI answer engine. Perplexity DS Dharmesh Shah 🇺🇸 Business & Investing HubSpot Co-founder, Inbound Marketing Agent.ai DP Diederik P. Kingma 🇳🇱 Research & Academia Variational Autoencoders, Generative Models Anthropic DR Diego Rodriguez Software Co-founded Krea, an AI platform for real-time image and video generation for creatives. Krea DG Dileep George 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Vicarious AI Co-founder, Neuroscience-inspired AI Numenta Dmitri Dolgov 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-CEO of Waymo and a founder of the Google self-driving car project (2009). Leads the technology behind the Waymo Driver, one of the first commercial robotaxi services. Waymo Douglas Chen 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Windsurf/Codeium, maker of AI agentic coding tools. Joined Google DeepMind in July 2025 via a $2.4B licensing deal to help build next-gen coding agents behind Google Antigravity. Windsurf DW Douglas Wightman 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Groq, the company building LPU inference accelerators for large language models. Groq, Inc. Douwe Kiela 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Contextual AI and co-inventor of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Contextual AI DB Drew Bagnell 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and chief scientist of Aurora Innovation and CMU robotics professor specializing in machine learning for self-driving technology. Aurora Innovation DW Dror Weiss Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Tabnine, een AI-assistent voor codeaanvulling. Tabnine Dwarkesh Patel 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI podcast host → DC Dwight Churchill Software Co-founded Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing application. Captions EL Edo Liberty 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Pinecone, a leading managed vector database for AI and retrieval-augmented generation. Pinecone Edward Feigenbaum 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Expert Systems Pioneer, Stanford AI Lab → EK Edward Kmett 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI to build specialized AI inference hardware; widely known as a prolific contributor to the Haskell functional-programming ecosystem. PA Positron AI EC Edwin Chen 🇺🇸 Software Founded Surge AI, a data-labeling and RLHF platform providing human-annotated data for training large language models. Surge AI EK Eiso Kant 🇵🇹 Influencers & Commentators Software entrepreneur who co-founded Poolside in 2023 with former GitHub CTO Jason Warner, building foundation models for software engineering via reinforcement learning from code execution feedback. Serves as CTO. Poolside Eliezer Yudkowsky 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics MIRI founder → EA Eliot Andres 🇫🇷 Software Co-founded Photoroom, an AI-powered photo-editing and background-removal app. Photoroom Elizabeth Kelly 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Elon Musk 🇺🇸 Business & Investing xAI - Grok & Neuralink OpenAI Emad Mostaque 🇬🇧 Software Stability AI founder Stability AI Emily Bender 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics UW professor, AI ethics researcher, "stochastic parrots" concept → EB Emma Brunskill 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Stanford Reinforcement Learning Research → EA Endang Aminudin Aziz Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → EY Eran Yahav 🇮🇱 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Tabnine, een AI-assistent voor codeaanvulling en softwareontwikkeling. Tabnine Eric Horvitz 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Microsoft Research Chief Scientific Officer MA Microsoft AI EJ Eric Jing 🇨🇳 Business & Investing Genspark CEO, former Baidu executive, AI search innovation Genspark Eric Lefkofsky 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Founder and CEO of Tempus AI, applying AI to precision medicine; also co-founded Groupon. Tempus AI Eric Schmidt 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Former Google CEO, AI Governance → ES Eric Simons 🇺🇸 Software CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz, maker of Bolt.new, a prominent AI-powered web development platform. S StackBlitz ES Eric Steinberger Influencers & Commentators Co-founded and leads Magic, building AI models for software engineering and code generation. Magic Eric Topol 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Digital Medicine Pioneer, AI in Healthcare → EB Erik Bernhardsson 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Modal, creator of the Annoy nearest-neighbor library and former ML leader at Spotify. Modal Ernest Davis 🇺🇸 Research & Academia NYU professor, AI commonsense reasoning expert, Rebooting AI co-author → EM Ethan Mollick 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Practical AI researcher → ES Ethan Smith Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Leonardo.Ai, a generative AI platform for creating images and visual assets. Leonardo.Ai ED Etienne Dilocker Software Co-founded Weaviate and serves as its CTO, building the open-source vector database used for AI search and retrieval. Weaviate FH Fabian Hedin 🇸🇪 Software Medeoprichter van Lovable, een platform om via natuurlijke taal web-apps te genereren. Lovable FM Fabio Moioli 🇮🇹 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → FM Faris Masad Software Co-founded Replit, a browser-based coding platform that added AI-assisted software development tools. Replit FV Federico Viticci 🇮🇹 Influencers & Commentators Founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories (est. 2009), the independent Apple publication known for its in-depth iOS and iPadOS reviews and Shortcuts automation guides; co-hosts the weekly AppStories podcast with John Voorhees, covering apps, automation, and AI tools on Apple platforms. → FF Fei Fang 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Game Theory and AI Security Research → Fei-Fei Li 🇺🇸 Research & Academia ImageNet creator World Labs FK Ficus Kirkpatrick 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded /dev/agents, a startup building an operating-system layer for AI agents, after engineering leadership roles at Android and Meta. / /dev/agents Fidji Simo 🇺🇸 Business & Investing OpenAI's first CEO of Applications (now CEO of AGI Deployment), overseeing product and business teams. Formerly CEO of Instacart and a top Facebook executive. OpenAI Finale Doshi-Velez 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Harvard professor → FM Florian Metze Business & Investing Speech-recognition researcher associated with Abridge, which builds AI for clinical documentation. A Abridge Francesca Bria 🇮🇹 AI Safety & Ethics Digital Rights, Tech Policy → FR Francesca Rossi 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics IBM AI Ethics, Constraint Programming → François Chollet 🇺🇸 Software Keras Creator, Deep Learning Frameworks N Ndea FF François Fleuret 🇨🇭 Research & Academia Meta FAIR researcher, University of Geneva professor, Little Book of Deep Learning author → FD Frank Dominguez Business & Investing Involved in building Salesforce's Agentforce autonomous AI agent platform. SA Salesforce Agentforce FL Fred Luddy 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Founder of ServiceNow, one of the largest enterprise workflow and cloud software companies, now a major platform for enterprise AI. ServiceNow GP Gabriel Pereyra 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and president of Harvey, a legal AI platform; previously worked at DeepMind and Meta. Harvey GL Gary Lauterbach 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras Systems, chip architect behind the wafer-scale AI processor, with earlier work at SeaMicro, AMD and DEC. Cerebras Systems Gary Marcus 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Criticism, Cognitive Science R Robust.AI GM Gaurav Misra 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Captions, dat AI-gedreven video- en avatarcreatie aanbiedt. Captions GU Gavin Uberti 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CEO of Etched, building specialized ASICs designed to run transformer models faster and cheaper than general-purpose GPUs. Etched.ai, Inc. GW Geoff Woods 🇺🇸 Business & Investing The AI-Driven Leader author, leadership consultant → Geoffrey Hinton 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Godfather of Deep Learning → GR Geordie Rose 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Co-founded Sanctuary AI (general-purpose humanoid robots) after founding quantum computing pioneer D-Wave and AI firm Kindred. Sanctuary AI GK Georg Kucsko 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Suno, developer of a leading generative AI model for music creation. Suno George Hotz 🇺🇸 Business & Investing comma.ai Founder, Autonomous Driving C comma.ai Gina Raimondo 🇺🇸 Business & Investing US Commerce Secretary, AI Policy → GC Ginevra Castellano 🇸🇪 Research & Academia Human-Robot Interaction Research → GW Gordon Wilson 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Rain AI, developing energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware for AI compute. Rain AI GY Gorkem Yurtseven 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded fal, an inference platform optimized for running generative image, video and audio models. fal Greg Brockman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing OpenAI Co-founder and President OpenAI GY Greg Yang 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Creator of the Tensor Programs framework and Maximal Update Parameterization (muP/muTransfer), which enables hyperparameter transfer from small to very large neural networks. Founding member of xAI (stepped back to informal advisor in early 2026). X xAI GL Guillaume Lample 🇫🇷 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mistral AI. Previously a research scientist at Meta AI (FAIR), where he was a senior author on the original LLaMA large language model paper. Mistral AI Guillermo Rauch 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Vercel and creator of the Next.js React framework, central to the modern AI-assisted web development stack. Vercel GG Guy Gur-Ari Software Medeoprichter van Augment Code en voormalig onderzoeker bij Google op het gebied van machine learning. Augment Code HM Hans Moravec 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Robotics Pioneer, AI Futurism → HC Harrison Chase 🇺🇸 Software LangChain creator LangChain HO Haya Odeh Software Co-founded Replit, a browser-based collaborative coding and app-building platform. Replit HT Helen Toner 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Georgetown CSET → HY Helen Yu 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Henna Virkkunen 🇫🇮 AI Safety & Ethics Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy and Commissioner for Digital and Frontier Technologies since December 2024. Former MEP (2014-2024) and Finnish government minister. → HE Henry Ehrenberg 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Snorkel AI, a data-centric AI platform based on the Snorkel programmatic data-labeling research from Stanford. Snorkel AI Henry Kissinger 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former US Secretary of State, Genesis AI book co-author → Herbert A. Simon 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Pioneer, Nobel Prize Winner, Cognitive Science → HS Hilke Schellmann 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators NYU journalism professor, The Algorithm author, AI hiring bias expert → Hiroshi Ishiguro 🇯🇵 Research & Academia Android Robotics, Humanoid Robots → Hock Tan 🇺🇸 Hardware President and CEO of Broadcom since 2006, growing it into a semiconductor and infrastructure-software giant central to AI networking and custom AI accelerator (XPU) silicon for hyperscalers. Broadcom Inc. Holden Karnofsky 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Open Philanthropy Anthropic HF Holly Foxcroft 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Hugo Barra 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of /dev/agents, an AI agent startup, after senior roles as VP of Android at Google, global VP at Xiaomi, and head of VR at Oculus/Facebook. / /dev/agents HL Hugo Larochelle 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Google Brain Research, Deep Learning → IG Ian Goodfellow 🇺🇸 Research & Academia GAN inventor Google DeepMind IH Ian Hogarth 🇬🇧 Business & Investing Chair of the UK AI Security Institute (formerly AI Safety Institute), appointed in June 2023, overseeing government evaluation of frontier-model risks. Tech investor, entrepreneur and co-author of the annual State of AI Report. → IG Iason Gabriel 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics DeepMind researcher Google DeepMind IB Igor Babuschkin 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and former engineering lead of xAI, previously at Google DeepMind and OpenAI. Left xAI in 2025 to found Babuschkin Ventures, an AI-safety-focused venture firm. → IO Igor Ostrovsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Augment Code, an AI-powered coding assistant for software development teams. Augment Code IS Ilya Sutskever 🇺🇸 Research & Academia OpenAI co-founder - GPT architect OpenAI IA Ioannis Antonoglou 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Reflection AI and a core DeepMind engineer on AlphaGo and AlphaZero. Reflection AI Ion Stoica 🇺🇸 Software UC Berkeley professor who co-created Apache Spark and co-founded Databricks and Anyscale. Databricks IL Irene Lyakovetsky 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → IH Ivan Hamer Hardware Medeoprichter van Tenstorrent, een ontwikkelaar van AI-processors en RISC-V hardware. Tenstorrent Inc. IZ Ivan Zhang 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded enterprise AI company Cohere in 2019 with Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst, serving as CTO. Previously founded the research collective FOR.AI (now Cohere Labs). Cohere JB Jachin Bhasme 🇦🇺 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Leonardo.Ai, an Australian generative-AI platform for creating game and design art assets. Leonardo.Ai Jack Clark 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Co-founder and Head of Policy of Anthropic. Writes the widely-read Import AI newsletter and was a founding member of Stanford's AI Index and the US National AI Advisory Committee. Anthropic JK Jack Kendall 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Rain AI (Rain Neuromorphics), developing brain-inspired AI compute hardware. Rain AI Jacob Ward 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators NBC journalist, The Loop author, AI societal impact analyst → Jade Leung 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics AI Governance Research OpenAI JC Jake Cannell Software Co-founded Vast.ai, a marketplace for renting distributed GPU compute for AI and machine-learning workloads. Vast.ai Jakub Pachocki 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Chief Scientist of OpenAI, succeeding Ilya Sutskever in 2024. Led development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, and directs OpenAI's frontier research toward an automated AI researcher. OpenAI James Manyika 🇺🇸 Business & Investing McKinsey Global Institute, Google AI Strategy → JL Jan Leike 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Anthropic alignment lead Anthropic Jared Kaplan 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Anthropic. Co-authored the influential 2020 paper 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models' and helped pioneer Constitutional AI. Anthropic Jason Calacanis 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Launch founder → JL Jason Lopatecki 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Arize AI, een platform voor het monitoren en observeren van machine-learningmodellen in productie. AA Arize AI JW Jason Warner 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Poolside, an AI-for-software-development startup; previously CTO of GitHub. Poolside JF Jean-Philippe Fricker Hardware Co-founded Cerebras Systems and serves as its Chief System Architect, building wafer-scale AI processors. Cerebras Systems Jeff Bezos 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Amazon Founder, Blue Origin, Space Exploration → JC Jeff Cardenas 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Apptronik, developer of the Apollo general-purpose humanoid robot. Apptronik JC Jeff Carr 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider for developers. DigitalOcean JC Jeff Clune 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Research, Evolutionary Algorithms Google DeepMind Jeff Dean 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Google Chief Scientist, TensorFlow, MapReduce Google DeepMind Jeff Hawkins 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Numenta Founder, Brain-Inspired AI Numenta Jeff Huber 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Chroma, the open-source embedding database used to build retrieval-augmented AI applications. Chroma JQ Jeffrey Quesnelle 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Nous Research, een collectief dat open-source taalmodellen ontwikkelt. Nous Research Jensen Huang 🇺🇸 Hardware AI hardware acceleration NVIDIA Corporation Jeremy Howard 🇦🇺 Influencers & Commentators fast.ai Founder, Practical Deep Learning Education Answer.AI Jerry Liu 🇺🇸 Software LlamaIndex creator LlamaIndex JL Jesse Levinson 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and CTO of Zoox, Amazon's autonomous robotaxi company; earlier led self-driving research at Stanford. Zoox Jesse Lyu 🇺🇸 Hardware Rabbit R1 creator Rabbit Inc. JZ Jesse Zhang 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Decagon in 2023 with Ashwin Sreenivas to build AI agents for customer service, used by companies such as Notion, Duolingo and Rippling. Previously founded Lowkey, which was acquired by Niantic. Decagon JY Ji Yichao 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CTO of Manus AI (Butterfly Effect), a general-purpose autonomous AI agent; known as a prominent young Chinese entrepreneur (Peak Ji). Manus (Butterfly Effect) JZ Jiajun Zhu 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Nuro, an autonomous driving company focused on self-driving delivery vehicles, after working as an early engineer at Waymo (Google self-driving car). Nuro JD Jiang Daxin 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of StepFun, developer of the Step foundation-model series; former global VP and chief scientist at Microsoft Software Technology Center Asia. StepFun Jim Keller 🇺🇸 Hardware CEO of Tenstorrent, building RISC-V based AI processors. Legendary microprocessor architect behind AMD's Zen and K8, Apple's A4/A5 mobile chips, and Tesla's first self-driving chip. Tenstorrent Inc. Jimmy Ba 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Associate professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of the Adam optimizer, one of the most widely used and cited methods in deep learning. Co-founded xAI in 2023 (departed early 2026). → Jitendra Malik 🇺🇸 Research & Academia UC Berkeley Computer Vision, Object Recognition MS Meta Superintelligence Labs JF JJ Fiasson 🇦🇺 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded and led Leonardo.Ai, a generative AI image platform later acquired by Canva. Leonardo.Ai Joanna Bryson 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Ethics Research, AI Governance → JM Joao Moura 🇺🇸 Software CrewAI creator C CrewAI JC Joaquín Cuenca Abela 🇪🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded and leads Freepik, integrating generative AI into its stock-imagery and design-asset platform; previously co-founded Panoramio (acquired by Google). Freepik Joe Lonsdale 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder of Palantir Technologies and founder of venture firm 8VC. Palantir Technologies Joelle Pineau 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Meta AI Research, Reinforcement Learning Cohere John Carmack 🇺🇸 Research & Academia id Software Co-founder, Game Engine Development Keen Technologies John Giannandrea 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Apple AI Chief, Former Google AI Apple Machine Learning Research (AIML) JH John Ha 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Founded Bear Robotics, maker of autonomous serving and delivery robots for hospitality. Bear Robotics John Hennessy 🇺🇸 Hardware Stanford president → John Jumper 🇺🇸 Research & Academia DeepMind AlphaFold lead Google DeepMind John McCarthy 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Pioneer, Coined 'Artificial Intelligence', LISP Creator → JP John Paul Mueller 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Technical author, Machine Learning for Dummies co-author → JP John Philip Morgan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Jasper, an AI content-generation and copywriting platform for marketing teams. Jasper JS John Schulman 🇺🇸 Research & Academia OpenAI Research, PPO Algorithm, RLHF OpenAI JH Johnny Ho 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Perplexity AI, a prominent conversational AI answer engine. Perplexity JA Jonas Andrulis 🇩🇪 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of Aleph Alpha, one of Europe's leading large language model labs focused on sovereign and enterprise AI. Aleph Alpha JM Jonas Mueller 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en chief scientist van Cleanlab, dat tools bouwt om labelfouten en datakwaliteitsproblemen in ML-datasets te vinden. Cleanlab JH Jonathan Ho 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Ideogram; authored the seminal Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) paper. Ideogram JH Jonathan Hurst 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founded Agility Robotics, maker of the bipedal humanoid robot Digit. Agility Robotics Jonathan Ross 🇺🇸 Hardware Groq CEO Groq, Inc. JN Joseph Nelson 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, a widely used platform for building computer-vision applications. Roboflow JA Josh Albrecht 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded and is CTO of Imbue, building AI agents that can reason and code. Imbue JT Josh Tenenbaum 🇺🇸 Research & Academia MIT professor → Joshua Gans 🇨🇦 Business & Investing University of Toronto economist, Power and Prediction co-author → JX Joshua Xu 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of HeyGen, an AI avatar and video generation platform founded in 2020. Previously an early monetization/ads-ranking engineer at Snapchat. HeyGen Joy Buolamwini 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Algorithmic Justice League → JC Juan Claudio Nino Hardware Co-founded Rain AI, contributing materials-science expertise to neuromorphic AI hardware. Rain AI Judea Pearl 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Causal Inference, Bayesian Networks, Turing Award Winner → JJ Julia Jaekel 🇩🇪 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → JC Julien Chaumond 🇫🇷 Software Hugging Face co-founder Hugging Face JP June Paik 🇰🇷 Hardware Founder and CEO of FuriosaAI, a South Korean designer of AI inference chips positioned as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs. FuriosaAI Jürgen Schmidhuber 🇨🇭 Research & Academia LSTM Co-inventor, Neural Network Pioneer → JJ Justin Johnson 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Computer vision researcher who co-created Stanford's CS231n deep learning course in 2015 with Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy. Co-founded spatial-intelligence company World Labs. World Labs Kai-Fu Lee 🇨🇳 Business & Investing AI Superpowers Author, Sinovation Ventures 01.AI (Yi) KH Kaiming He 🇺🇸 Research & Academia ResNet Creator, Computer Vision Research → Kanjun Qiu 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Imbue, a research lab building AI agents that can reason and code. Imbue KM Karan Malhotra 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Nous Research, a collective releasing open-source large language models and fine-tuning tools. Nous Research KA Kareem Amin Business & Investing Medeoprichter en CEO van Clay, een platform voor data-verrijking en go-to-market automatisering. Clay Karen Hao 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators MIT Technology Review AI journalist, Empire of AI author → KS Karén Simonyan 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Inflection AI as chief scientist; earlier DeepMind researcher behind the VGG networks and AlphaZero. Inflection AI KH Karol Hausman 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence, building general-purpose foundation models for robots. Previously a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind/Google Brain focused on robot learning. Physical Intelligence KZ Károly Zsolnai-Fehér 🇦🇹 Influencers & Commentators Two Minute Papers creator, computer graphics researcher, AI education → Kate Crawford 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Ethics Research, Atlas of AI → Kate Devlin 🇬🇧 Research & Academia Human-Robot Interaction, AI Ethics → KM Kauna Malgwi 🇳🇬 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → KF Keenan Freyberg 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Suno, an AI platform that generates songs and music from text prompts. Suno Kevin Scott 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Microsoft CTO, AI Strategy MA Microsoft AI KH Kim Hyo-eun 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded Rebellions Inc., a South Korean startup designing AI inference accelerator chips (NPUs). Rebellions Inc. KB Kirk Borne 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Data Science Education, AI Advocacy DI DataPrime, Inc. KK Koray Kavukcuoglu 🇬🇧 Research & Academia CTO of Google DeepMind and, since June 2025, Google's first Chief AI Architect, leading development of Gemini and generative AI across Google's products. Co-author of the landmark DQN Atari, AlphaGo and WaveNet papers. Google DeepMind KD Kristen DiCerbo 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Educational AI, Learning Analytics → Kunle Olukotun 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and Chief Technologist of SambaNova Systems, Stanford professor and pioneer of the multicore processor. SambaNova Systems KV Kuruva Venkataramana Murthy 🇮🇳 Business & Investing AI-Driven Leadership author, dharma-based leadership expert → Kyle Vogt 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and former CEO of self-driving company Cruise, and co-founder of Twitch. Cruise KL Kyogu Lee 🇰🇷 Research & Academia Audio AI Research, Music Technology Supertone LG Lachy Groom Research & Academia Co-founded Physical Intelligence, a company building general-purpose foundation models for robotics. Physical Intelligence LL Lawrence Lek 🇬🇧 Software AI Artist → LB Lee Bogner 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → LH Lee Holloway 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cloudflare and served as its principal software architect, building the core systems of the global network. Cloudflare Leslie Valiant 🇺🇸 Research & Academia PAC Learning Theory, Turing Award Winner → Lex Fridman 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Podcast host → LJ Li Juanzi 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Zhipu AI (Z.ai), het Chinese lab achter de GLM-taalmodellen, en hoogleraar aan Tsinghua University. Zhipu AI (Z.ai, GLM) LR Liang Rubo 🇨🇳 Business & Investing ByteDance CEO ByteDance Seed LW Liang Wenfeng 🇨🇳 Business & Investing Founder and CEO of DeepSeek and co-founder of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer. DeepSeek's efficient open-weight reasoning models (e.g. DeepSeek-R1) drew global attention for matching frontier performance at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek LW Lilian Weng 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Former VP of Research and Safety at OpenAI, where she led the Safety Systems team, and author of the widely read AI research blog Lil'Log. Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025. Thinking Machines Lab LQ Lin Qiao 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI who previously led the PyTorch team at Meta. FA Fireworks AI Lina Khan 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics FTC Chair → LP Lisa Palmer 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Lisa Su 🇺🇸 Hardware Chair and CEO of AMD since 2014, engineering AMD's turnaround into a leading AI and high-performance computing chipmaker with the Zen CPU and Instinct GPU lines. TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. AMD Liu Qingfeng 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Founder and chairman of iFlytek, China's largest speech-recognition and AI company, developer of the Spark (Xinghuo) LLM. iFlytek (Spark) LB Ljubisa Bajic 🇨🇦 Hardware Founder and former CEO of Tenstorrent, designing RISC-V-based AI accelerator processors. Tenstorrent Inc. Llion Jones 🇯🇵 Influencers & Commentators Co-author of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" that introduced the Transformer architecture, a name he is credited with coining. Co-founded and is CTO of Tokyo-based Sakana AI. Sakana AI LK Logan Kilpatrick 🇺🇸 Software Google AI relations Google DeepMind Lotfi Zadeh 🇮🇷 Research & Academia Fuzzy logic pioneer, fuzzy set theory creator → LA Lourdes Agapito 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Synthesia and is a professor of computer vision at UCL specializing in 3D reconstruction of the human body. Synthesia LM Luca Massaron 🇮🇹 Influencers & Commentators Data scientist, Machine Learning for Dummies co-author, Google Developer Expert → LS Lucilla Sioli 🇧🇪 Business & Investing Director of the European AI Office within DG CNECT of the European Commission, responsible for coordinating the EU AI strategy and implementing the AI Act. Holds PhDs in economics and has been an EU civil servant since 1997. → Lucy Guo 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Scale AI, a leading data-labeling platform for AI training; later a self-made billionaire. Scale AI Lukas Biewald 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, a leading MLOps platform for experiment tracking; previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight. Weights & Biases MS Manu Sharma 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a data labeling and training-data platform for machine learning. Labelbox Manuela Veloso 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Multi-agent systems, robot soccer, AI planning → Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 Business & Investing a16z co-founder → Marc Benioff 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Salesforce Founder, Cloud Computing Pioneer SA Salesforce Agentforce Marc Raibert 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Boston Dynamics founder, legged robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics MŻ Marcin Żukowski 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Snowflake and a database researcher known for the VectorWise columnar engine. Snowflake ML Maria Luciana 🇧🇷 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → MH Marius Hobbhahn 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Research, founded in 2023, specialising in AI model evaluations and deception/scheming research. Apollo partnered with OpenAI to evaluate the o1 model and published early evidence that frontier models can scheme. Apollo Research Mark Chen 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Chief Research Officer of OpenAI. Architect of DALL-E, Codex and the o1 reasoning models, co-leading OpenAI's research division alongside Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki. OpenAI MM Mark Minevich 🇺🇸 Business & Investing AI Strategy, Digital Transformation → Mark Zuckerberg 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Meta AI & Llama models MS Meta Superintelligence Labs Marques Brownlee 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Tech reviewer & AI communicator → MC Martin Camacho 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Suno, the generative AI platform that creates full songs from text prompts. Suno Martin Ford 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Futurist, Rule of the Robots author, AI automation expert → Marvin Minsky 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Pioneer, MIT AI Lab Co-founder, Cognitive Science → Matei Zaharia 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Databricks and original creator of Apache Spark, foundational to large-scale data and AI processing. Databricks ML Mathias Lechner Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Liquid AI, dat efficiënte 'liquid' foundation models bouwt voortkomend uit MIT-onderzoek. Liquid AI MS Mati Staniszewski 🇬🇧 Software ElevenLabs co-founder ElevenLabs MC Matt Clifford 🇬🇧 Business & Investing Entrepreneur First Co-founder, Startup Ecosystem → MR Matt Robinson Software Co-founded Unstructured, which builds tools to transform unstructured documents into data usable by LLMs. Unstructured Matt Welsh 🇺🇸 Software Fixie AI founder Ultravox Matthew Prince 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder, CEO and executive chairman of Cloudflare, the web-infrastructure and security company he co-founded in 2009 and took public in 2019. A prominent voice on how AI crawlers interact with web content and publisher rights. Cloudflare MN Matthias Niessner 🇩🇪 Software Computer-vision professor at TU Munich and co-founder of Synthesia, an AI avatar/video-generation platform. Synthesia MR Matthieu Rouif 🇫🇷 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded and leads Photoroom, an AI photo-editing app for automated background removal and image generation. Photoroom Max Bennett 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI entrepreneur, A Brief History of Intelligence author Alby Max Tegmark 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics MIT professor → MH May Habib 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Writer in 2020 with Waseem AlShikh, building a full-stack enterprise generative AI platform with proprietary LLMs. Previously co-founded the localization startup Qordoba. Writer MM Mei May Soo 🇸🇬 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Melanie Mitchell 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Research, Complexity Science, AI Criticism → Meredith Broussard 🇺🇸 Research & Academia AI Criticism, Algorithmic Accountability → Meredith Whittaker 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Signal President, Privacy Technology → MV Micha Verhagen Software Associated with Weaviate, an open-source vector database for AI-native search and retrieval applications. Weaviate MB Michael Balaban 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Lambda, a GPU cloud and hardware provider for AI training and inference. Lambda MB Michael Bhaskar 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators The Coming Wave co-author, AI technology analyst → MI Michael I. Jordan 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Machine Learning Pioneer, Statistical Learning → MI Michael Intrator 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, a major GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. CoreWeave MJ Michael James 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and chief architect of Cerebras Systems, maker of wafer-scale processors for AI workloads. Cerebras Systems Michael Kratsios 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (13th OSTP director, confirmed March 2025) and Assistant to the President, leading the Trump administration's AI, quantum and emerging-technology agenda. Principal architect of the White House AI Action Plan. → MN Michael Ng 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Ambience Healthcare, which builds AI scribe and documentation tools for clinicians. Ambience Healthcare MS Michael Stelzner 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of Social Media Examiner and founder of Social Media Marketing World; host of the AI Explored podcast, which helps marketers and creators put AI to work, and author of Launch and Writing White Papers. → MT Michael Truell 🇺🇸 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere MC Micheline Casey 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Michelle Zatlyn 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and President of Cloudflare, a major internet security and infrastructure company. Cloudflare MS Mike Schmitz 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Obsidian and personal-knowledge-management educator (Practical PKM) who co-hosts the Focused podcast with David Sparks, teaching AI-augmented note-taking and knowledge workflows. → Mikel Artetxe Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Reka AI, dat multimodale foundation-modellen ontwikkelt; eerder onderzoeker in meertalige NLP. Reka AI MS Mikey Shulman 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Suno, an AI platform that generates full songs from text prompts. Previously the first machine learning hire and head of machine learning at Kensho. Suno MJ Mikhail Jones 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founded Agility Robotics, maker of the bipedal humanoid robot Digit. Agility Robotics MT Milos Trajkovic Hardware Co-founded Tenstorrent, a company designing AI processors and accelerator hardware. Tenstorrent Inc. Mira Murati 🇺🇸 Software Former OpenAI CTO Thinking Machines Lab ML Misha Laskin 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI; previously a reinforcement learning researcher at Google DeepMind. Reflection AI MW Mitch Wainer 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of DigitalOcean, a major cloud infrastructure provider for developers. DigitalOcean MN Mohammad Norouzi 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Ideogram and former Google Brain researcher who worked on Imagen and SimCLR. Ideogram MU Moisey Uretsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a developer-focused cloud computing platform. DigitalOcean Munjal Shah 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, building safety-focused large language models for healthcare; serial entrepreneur (Health IQ, Like.com). Hippocratic AI Mustafa Suleyman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Microsoft AI CEO Google DeepMind Nandan Nilekani 🇮🇳 Business & Investing Infosys Co-founder, Aadhaar Architect → Nat Friedman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Former GitHub CEO, Developer Tools MS Meta Superintelligence Labs NH Nate Herk 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI automation educator, founder of Uppit AI → NG Nathan Gettings 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Palantir Technologies, a data-analytics company, and later co-founded fintech firm Affirm. Palantir Technologies Nathaniel Palmer 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Business Process Management, Workflow Technology → Naval Ravikant 🇺🇸 Business & Investing AngelList founder → NJ Nicholas Jitkoff 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded /dev/agents to build a platform for AI agents; previously created Quicksilver and was a VP of Design at Google and Dropbox. / /dev/agents Nick Bostrom 🇬🇧 AI Safety & Ethics Oxford professor → Nick Frosst 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators Former Google Brain researcher (mentored by Geoffrey Hinton) who co-founded enterprise AI company Cohere in 2019. Also the lead singer of the indie rock band Good Kid. Cohere NP Nick Paine 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founded Apptronik, developer of the Apollo humanoid robot, serving as its technical lead. Apptronik NS Nick Saraev 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators AI automation educator, founder of LeftClick → NR Nicolae Rusan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Clay, a data enrichment and go-to-market automation platform. Clay NW Nige Willson 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → NT Nigel Toon 🇬🇧 Business & Investing Graphcore CEO, How AI Thinks author, AI hardware expert Graphcore NB Nikhil Buduma 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Ambience Healthcare and authored the O'Reilly book 'Fundamentals of Deep Learning'. Ambience Healthcare NP Niki Parmar 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need' and co-founder of Essential AI, contributing to the foundational transformer architecture. Adept AI NB Noam Brown 🇺🇸 Research & Academia VP of Research at OpenAI and a foundational contributor to the o1/o3 reasoning models. Previously created the poker AIs Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy AI CICERO. OpenAI NS Noam Shazeer 🇺🇸 Software Character.AI co-founder Character.AI NR Noelle Russell 🇺🇸 Business & Investing AI Strategy, Enterprise AI Implementation → NJ Norman Jouppi 🇺🇸 Hardware Google TPU architect Google Cloud OJ Oh Jin-wook 🇰🇷 Hardware Medeoprichter en CTO van Rebellions Inc., een Zuid-Koreaanse ontwerper van AI-inferentiechips. Rebellions Inc. ON Olivia Norton 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Co-founded Sanctuary AI, which develops humanoid robots aimed at general-purpose physical labor. Sanctuary AI Oren Etzioni 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Allen Institute for AI CEO, AI Research Allen Institute for AI (AI2) OG Ori Goshen 🇮🇱 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and co-CEO of AI21 Labs, developer of the Jurassic and Jamba large language models. AI21 Labs OV Oriol Vinyals 🇬🇧 Research & Academia VP of Research at Google DeepMind and co-technical lead of Gemini. Pioneered sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learning and led AlphaStar, contributing to core work behind modern multimodal AI models. Google DeepMind PB Pablo Blanes 🇪🇸 Software Co-founded Freepik, a platform for stock graphics and AI-generated visual content. Freepik PA Paige Arthur 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI for Peace co-author, international relations expert → Palmer Luckey 🇺🇸 Hardware Anduril founder Anduril Industries PS Park Sung-hyun 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded and leads Rebellions, a South Korean startup designing AI accelerator chips for data centers. Rebellions Inc. Parker Conrad 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Rippling CEO → PH Parker Harris 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Salesforce and drives its technology, including the Agentforce AI agent platform. SA Salesforce Agentforce PO Parmy Olson 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators Bloomberg journalist, Supremacy author, AI industry analyst → PV Paroma Varma Business & Investing Medeoprichter van Snorkel AI, dat programmatisch labelen van trainingsdata mogelijk maakt. Snorkel AI PB Pascal Bornet 🇸🇬 Influencers & Commentators Intelligent Automation, Hyperautomation → PE Patrick Esser 🇩🇪 Software Co-author of Stable Diffusion and co-founder of Black Forest Labs, creators of the FLUX image models. Black Forest Labs PW Patrick Wendell 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks and an Apache Spark committer. Databricks Paul Allen 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Microsoft co-founder who founded the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a leading nonprofit AI research organization. Allen Institute for AI (AI2) PC Paul Christiano 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Alignment researcher → PL Percy Liang 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Stanford HAI director Together AI PC Peter Chen 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder and CEO of Covariant, building AI models for robotic manipulation; previously a researcher at OpenAI. C Covariant Peter Norvig 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Google Research Director → PR Peter Runham 🇦🇺 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Leonardo.Ai as its technical lead, building the generative AI image platform acquired by Canva. Leonardo.Ai Peter Thiel 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Founders Fund Palantir Technologies PH Philip Howes Software Co-founded Baseten, a platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models in production. Baseten PM Philipp Moritz 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Anyscale and co-creator of Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework widely used for scaling AI workloads. Anyscale Pieter Abbeel 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Covariant co-founder C Covariant PD Piotr Dabkowski 🇵🇱 Software ElevenLabs CTO ElevenLabs PK Pushmeet Kohli 🇬🇧 Research & Academia VP of Research at Google DeepMind, founding and leading the AI for Science unit behind Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold, plus AlphaProof, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and more. Also Chief Scientist of Google Cloud. Google DeepMind QL Qi Liu Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Reka AI, a company building multimodal frontier language models. Reka AI QS Quinn Slack 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Sourcegraph, a code search platform and maker of the Cody AI coding assistant. Sourcegraph Rachel Thomas 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators fast.ai Co-founder, AI Ethics Education → Raj Reddy 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Speech Recognition Pioneer, Turing Award Winner → RR Raja Rajamannar 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Mastercard CMO, Marketing Technology → RM Rajat Monga 🇺🇸 Software TensorFlow Co-creator, Google AI → RD Rami Deeb Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → RK Rami Karabibar Business & Investing Co-founded EvenUp, which uses AI to help personal-injury law firms prepare case documents and demand packages. EvenUp RH Ramin Hasani 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-inventor of liquid neural networks, a class of brain-inspired adaptive AI systems, developed during his research at MIT CSAIL. Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI. Liquid AI RN Ramnath Natarajan 🇮🇳 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → Rana el Kaliouby 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Affectiva Co-founder, Emotion AI Pioneer → Ray Kurzweil 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Google AI Visionary Google DeepMind RM Raymond Mieszaniec 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Medeoprichter van EvenUp, dat AI inzet om letselschadedossiers en juridische documenten te verwerken. EvenUp Refik Anadol 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI artist, data-driven installations and sculptures → RB Regina Barzilay 🇺🇸 Research & Academia NLP for healthcare, cancer treatment AI research → Reid Hoffman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing LinkedIn founder Inflection AI RI Ren Ito 🇯🇵 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based lab developing nature-inspired foundation model research. Sakana AI RX Reynold Xin 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks and a core developer of Apache Spark. Databricks RD Richard Dasselaar 🇳🇱 Business & Investing AI strategy consultant, digital transformation expert → Richard Socher 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Natural language processing, Salesforce AI research You.com Richard Sutton 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Reinforcement Learning Pioneer, Temporal Difference Learning Keen Technologies RN Robert Nishihara 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Anyscale and co-creator of Ray, the open-source framework for distributed computing widely used to scale AI and ML workloads. Anyscale RW Robert Wachen 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Etched, a startup building Sohu, an ASIC specialized for running transformer models. Etched.ai, Inc. Robin Li 🇨🇳 Business & Investing Baidu Founder, Chinese AI Development Baidu Ernie RR Robin Rombach 🇩🇪 Software Co-created the Stable Diffusion image models during his research at Heidelberg and Stability AI, then co-founded Black Forest Labs in 2024, which builds the FLUX image and video generation models. Black Forest Labs RD Rocky Duan Research & Academia Medeoprichter van Covariant, dat AI-modellen ontwikkelt voor robotmanipulatie in magazijnen. C Covariant Rodney Brooks 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Behavior-Based Robotics, iRobot Co-founder R Robust.AI RL Rodrigo Liang 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems, which builds AI chips and full-stack systems for training and running large models. SambaNova Systems RS Rohin Shah 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AGI Safety & Alignment team lead at Google DeepMind, AI alignment research Google DeepMind RP Rohit Prasad 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Amazon Alexa Head Scientist, Voice AI AA Amazon AGI Roman V. Yampolskiy 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics University of Louisville professor, AI safety researcher → RC Rowan Cheung 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators The Rundown AI newsletter, AI content creator → Ruha Benjamin 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Princeton professor → Ruslan Salakhutdinov 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Deep learning research, CMU professor, Apple AI director → SM Saam Mashhad Business & Investing Co-founded EvenUp, a company using AI to help personal-injury law firms build legal claims. EvenUp Safiya Noble 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Algorithmic Bias Research, Digital Discrimination → Sam Altman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing CEO of OpenAI - ChatGPT creator OpenAI SM Sam McCandlish 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder of Anthropic and former Head of Research Engineering. Theoretical physicist who worked on scaling laws for AI systems and drives the company's research direction. Anthropic SE Sami Ede Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Leonardo.Ai, a generative-AI platform for producing art and design assets. Leonardo.Ai SM Samir Menon 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Founded Dexterity, developing AI-powered robots for warehouse and logistics manipulation tasks. Dexterity SW Samuel Weinbach 🇩🇪 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Aleph Alpha, a German company building sovereign European large language models. Aleph Alpha SS Sandeep Swadia 🇺🇸 Business & Investing TheMITMonk, former CEO of HUMAN Security, tech investor and board member → SH Sara Hooker 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI safety research, Cohere for AI head, model interpretability Cohere Sarah Bird 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Microsoft AI ethics, responsible AI product lead MA Microsoft AI Sarah Guo 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Conviction VC → Satya Nadella 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Microsoft AI transformation MA Microsoft AI Scarlett Johansson 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators AI Voice Rights Advocacy, Technology in Entertainment → Scott Wu 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cognition and leads development of Devin, marketed as the first autonomous AI software engineer. Cognition acquired Windsurf in 2025. Cognition AI SG Sean Gardner 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Social Media Strategy, Digital Marketing → SL Sean Lie 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras Systems, creator of the wafer-scale engine, the largest chip built for AI workloads. Cerebras Systems SD Sebastian De Ro Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Magic, an AI company building frontier models with very large context windows for software engineering. Magic SR Sebastian Ruder 🇩🇪 Research & Academia NLP Research, Transfer Learning Cohere Sebastian Thrun 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Udacity founder Cresta Sepp Hochreiter 🇦🇹 Research & Academia LSTM Co-inventor, Deep Learning Pioneer NXAI Sergey Brin 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Google Co-founder, Search Technology Google DeepMind SL Sergey Levine 🇺🇸 Research & Academia UC Berkeley professor Physical Intelligence Shane Legg 🇬🇧 Business & Investing DeepMind Co-founder, AGI Research Google DeepMind SK Sharath Keshava Narayana 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Medeoprichter van Observe.AI, een platform voor spraak- en conversatie-AI in klantcontactcentra. Observe.AI SS Sharif Shameem 🇺🇸 Software Debuild founder → SL Shawn Lewis 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, the widely used machine-learning experiment-tracking and MLOps platform. Weights & Biases ST Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan 🇦🇪 Business & Investing UAE AI Strategy, Technology Investment G42 SZ Shengjia Zhao 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Chief Scientist and co-founder of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Previously at OpenAI, where he contributed to ChatGPT, GPT-4 and the o1 reasoning model. MS Meta Superintelligence Labs SS Shin Sung-ho 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded Rebellions, a South Korean startup designing AI inference semiconductors. Rebellions Inc. SM Shishir Mehrotra 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Coda CEO Superhuman SR Shiv Rao 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Abridge co-founder A Abridge SY Shunyu Yao 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Chief AI Scientist at Tencent (Hunyuan); creator of the ReAct and Tree of Thoughts agent paradigms and the SWE-bench coding benchmark; ex-OpenAI (Deep Research, Operator). Tencent Hunyuan SS Sid Sheth 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded d-Matrix, developing digital in-memory compute chips for AI inference. d-Matrix Corporation SS Silvio Savarese 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Salesforce Chief AI Scientist SA Salesforce Agentforce SK Simon Knowles 🇬🇧 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Graphcore, pioneer of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI workloads. Graphcore SS Simon Suo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of LlamaIndex, a widely used framework for retrieval-augmented generation over private data. LlamaIndex SZ Soenke Ziesche 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI safety researcher, Considerations on the AI Endgame co-author → SC Soumith Chintala 🇺🇸 Software PyTorch Co-creator, Meta AI Research MS Meta Superintelligence Labs ST Steffen Tjerrild 🇬🇧 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Synthesia and serves as its COO/CFO, building the AI avatar video generation platform. Synthesia SB Stephen Balaban 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Lambda, a large GPU cloud provider for AI training. Lambda SC Stephen Cohen 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Palantir Technologies, a major data integration and AI analytics company. Palantir Technologies SA Sterling Anderson 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company, having previously led the Tesla Autopilot program. Aurora Innovation Steve Huffman 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Reddit Co-founder and CEO → SH Steven Hao Software Medeoprichter van Cognition AI, het bedrijf achter de AI-software-engineer Devin. Cognition AI SM Steven M. Miller 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Working with AI co-author, business AI applications expert → Stuart J. Russell 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics AI Safety Research, Human Compatible AI → SA Sualeh Asif 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor. Anysphere SB Sudeep Bhoja 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded d-Matrix, a company designing in-memory-compute chips optimized for generative AI inference. d-Matrix Corporation Sundar Pichai 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Google AI strategy Google DeepMind Sung Kim 🇰🇷 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Upstage, the South Korean AI company founded in 2020 behind the Solar family of LLMs. Solar Pro 2 (2025) became South Korea's first LLM recognised as a frontier model. Former professor at HKUST and leader of Naver's Clova team. Upstage SG Suzanne Gildert 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Co-founded Sanctuary AI to build general-purpose humanoid robots; a physicist previously at D-Wave Systems and co-founder of Kindred. Sanctuary AI SJ Swapnil Jain 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded and leads Observe.AI, a conversational intelligence platform for contact centers. Observe.AI SG Sylvain Gugger 🇺🇸 Software Hugging Face researcher → TV T.R. Vishwanath 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Glean, an AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant platform. Glean TJ Tang Jiayu 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter en CEO van Shengshu Technology, het Chinese lab achter het video-generatiemodel Vidu. Shengshu Technology (Vidu) TJ Tang Jie 🇨🇳 Research & Academia Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Zhipu AI and Tsinghua professor; architect of the GLM / ChatGLM model family and creator of the AMiner academic network. Zhipu AI (Z.ai, GLM) TW Tang Wenbin 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CTO of Megvii (Face++), a leading Chinese computer vision company. Megvii TX Tang Xiao'ou 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Founder of SenseTime and CUHK professor, a deep-learning pioneer in computer vision and facial recognition. SenseTime TX Tang Xiao’ou 🇨🇳 Research & Academia SenseTime founder, computer vision research pioneer SenseTime Tekedra Mawakana 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Waymo co-CEO Waymo T Teknium Software Co-founded Nous Research, a collective building open-source large language models such as the Hermes series. Nous Research TM Terence Mills 🇺🇸 Business & Investing AI Strategy, Enterprise AI Implementation → TC Thierry Cruanes 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse platform underpinning many enterprise AI and analytics workloads. Snowflake Thomas H. Davenport 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Business analytics pioneer, AI in business applications → TS Thomas Sohmers 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI, building specialized hardware for accelerating AI inference. PA Positron AI TW Thomas Wolf 🇫🇷 Software Hugging Face CTO Hugging Face TZ Tianhao Zhang 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founded Covariant, a startup applying deep reinforcement learning to warehouse robot manipulation. C Covariant TD Tim Davis 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and President of Modular, maker of the Mojo language and MAX AI platform, after leading product for Google's TensorFlow and ML compiler stack. Modular TK Tim Kentley-Klay 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Co-founder of Zoox, the autonomous robotaxi company later acquired by Amazon. Zoox Tim O'Reilly 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators O'Reilly Media Founder, Technology Trends → TS Tim Shi Business & Investing Medeoprichter van Cresta, dat AI inzet voor real-time coaching in klantcontactcentra. Cresta Timnit Gebru 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics DAIR founder DA Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) TL Timothée Lacroix 🇫🇷 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI, leading the company's technical direction. Previously a researcher at Meta AI (FAIR), where he contributed to the LLaMA family of large language models. Mistral AI Tom Brown 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer of Anthropic. Previously led the engineering team for GPT-3 at OpenAI and was lead author of the foundational GPT-3 paper. Anthropic Tom M. Mitchell 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Machine Learning Pioneer, CMU AI Research → TT Tomasz Tunguz 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Redpoint Ventures partner, AI startup investor → TG Tony Gentilcore 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Glean, an AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant platform. Glean TB Toran Bruce Richards 🇺🇸 Software AI Tool Development, Automation AutoGPT TS Tuhin Srivastava 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Baseten as CEO, providing infrastructure for deploying and serving machine-learning models. Baseten VA Valentina Alto 🇦🇪 Influencers & Commentators Data & AI specialist at Microsoft (based in Dubai) and prolific author of practical generative-AI books including 'Practical Generative AI with ChatGPT' and 'Building LLM Powered Applications'. Microsoft Azure AI VM Varun Mohan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Codeium/Windsurf and built an AI-powered IDE that reached over a million developers. After joining Google DeepMind in 2025, he leads agentic coding including the Google Antigravity IDE. Windsurf VP Victor Perez Software Co-founded Krea, a generative AI platform for real-time image and video creation. Krea Victor Riparbelli 🇬🇧 Software Synthesia CEO Synthesia VC Vikram Chatterji 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Galileo, a platform for evaluating and monitoring generative AI applications. Galileo VG Vincent Granville 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Data Science Education, Machine Learning → Vinod Khosla 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Khosla Ventures founder → Vipul Ved Prakash 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Together AI, a cloud platform for open-source AI models; previously founded Cloudmark and Topsy. Together AI Virginia Dignum 🇸🇪 AI Safety & Ethics Umeå professor → VK Vishnu Konda 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Glean, an AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant platform. Glean VR Vivek Raghavan 🇮🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Sarvam AI, an Indian company building large language models and a full-stack sovereign AI platform focused on Indian languages, founded in 2023. Previously spent over a decade on Aadhaar's biometric systems at UIDAI. Sarvam AI VV Vladimir Vapnik 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Support Vector Machines, Statistical Learning Theory → WY Walden Yan 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Cognition AI, het bedrijf achter de autonome software-engineering-agent Devin. Cognition AI WX Wang Xiaochuan 🇨🇳 Business & Investing Baichuan founder Baichuan Intelligence Wang Xingxing 🇨🇳 Hardware Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, a leading Chinese maker of quadruped and humanoid robots. Unitree Robotics WY Wang Yu 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Infinigence AI, a Chinese startup optimizing large-model training and inference across heterogeneous chips. IA Infinigence AI (InfiniAI) WA Waseem Alshikh 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Writer, an enterprise generative AI platform, serving as its chief technology officer. Writer WL Wayne Liang 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded HeyGen, the platform that generates AI avatar and talking-head videos from text. HeyGen WC William Chan Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van Ideogram en voormalig onderzoeker bij Google Brain op het gebied van spraak- en beeldgeneratie. Ideogram William Falcon 🇺🇸 Software PyTorch Lightning Creator, ML Engineering Lightning AI WH Willonius Hatcher 🇺🇸 Software AI Storyteller → WW Winston Weinberg 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Harvey in 2022 with AI researcher Gabe Pereyra to build generative AI tools for lawyers and professional services. Previously a litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers. Harvey WZ Wojciech Zaremba 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of OpenAI who initially led its robotics work (including a robotic arm that solved a Rubik's Cube) and later teams behind Codex, GitHub Copilot and GPT models. OpenAI WY Wu Yuxin 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi long-context chatbot. MA Moonshot AI (Kimi) Xiao Hong 🇨🇳 Business & Investing Manus AI founder, AI agent platform, serial entrepreneur Manus (Butterfly Effect) XL Xu Li 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of SenseTime, one of China's largest AI companies specialized in computer vision and deep learning. SenseTime YJ Yan Junjie 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of MiniMax, developer of multimodal and large language models; former vice head of the SenseTime research institute. MiniMax YM Yang Mu 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators One of the three Tsinghua co-founders of Megvii (Face++), a Chinese AI company specializing in facial recognition and computer vision. Megvii YZ Yang Zhilin 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot; co-author of XLNet and Transformer-XL. MA Moonshot AI (Kimi) YD Yann Dauphin 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Meta AI Research, Deep Learning → Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 Research & Academia Convolutional Neural Networks MS Meta Superintelligence Labs YK Yannic Kilcher 🇨🇭 Influencers & Commentators AI research YouTuber, ML paper explanations, AI education influencer DeepJudge YG Yaroslav Ganin Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Udio, an AI music-generation platform; previously a research scientist at DeepMind and creator of domain-adversarial training methods. Udio YS Yash Sheth 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Galileo, a platform for evaluating, monitoring and improving generative AI and LLM applications. Galileo YD Yerzat Dulat Influencers & Commentators Co-founded Higgsfield AI, a generative AI platform focused on video and motion creation. Higgsfield YT Yi Tay 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and chief scientist of Reka AI, and a prominent LLM researcher formerly at Google. Reka AI YQ Yin Qi 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder and CEO of Megvii (Face++), one of China's largest computer-vision and facial-recognition AI companies. Megvii Yoav Shoham 🇮🇱 Research & Academia Stanford AI Research, AI Index AI21 Labs Yohei Nakajima 🇺🇸 Software AutoGPT Development, AI Automation → YW Yonghui Wu 🇺🇸 Research & Academia Head of foundational research at ByteDance Seed (Doubao); former VP at Google DeepMind on Gemini and Google Neural Machine Translation. ByteDance Seed Yoshua Bengio 🇨🇦 Research & Academia Deep Learning pioneer → Yuval Noah Harari 🇮🇱 Influencers & Commentators Historian, Nexus author, AI societal impact expert → Zachary Lipton 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Chief Scientist at Abridge (clinical documentation AI) and a Carnegie Mellon machine-learning professor, co-author of the open textbook Dive into Deep Learning. A Abridge ZD Zack Dvey-Aharon 🇮🇱 Influencers & Commentators AEYE Health co-founder AEYE Health ZE Zayd Enam 🇺🇸 Business & Investing Co-founded Cresta, which builds AI to assist and coach contact-center agents in real time. Cresta Zeynep Tufekci 🇺🇸 AI Safety & Ethics Columbia professor → ZL Zhang Linghan 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators AI Industry Professional → ZP Zhang Peng 🇨🇳 Business & Investing Co-founder and CEO of Zhipu AI (Z.ai), developer of the GLM / ChatGLM model family; first major AI model developer to IPO (HKEX, Jan 2026). Zhipu AI (Z.ai, GLM) ZJ Zhou Jingren 🇨🇳 Research & Academia CTO of Alibaba Cloud; leads the Tongyi Lab and the development of the Qwen large language model family. Alibaba Qwen ZX Zhou Xinyu 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Co-founder of Moonshot AI (maker of the Kimi chatbot); previously a co-founder of computer vision company Megvii. MA Moonshot AI (Kimi) ZY Zhou Yucong 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Medeoprichter van MiniMax, een Chinees AI-lab dat multimodale foundation-modellen en consumenten-apps ontwikkelt. MiniMax ZJ Zhu Jun 🇨🇳 Influencers & Commentators Tsinghua University professor and chief scientist/co-founder of Shengshu Technology, maker of the Vidu AI video-generation model. Shengshu Technology (Vidu)

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