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Akshat Bubna 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Modal, a serverless cloud platform for running AI and data workloads. 
Modal Albert Pai 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded StackBlitz, the in-browser IDE and WebContainers company that later built the AI app builder Bolt.new. StackBlitz Alec Hartman 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider whose GPU and platform services power AI/ML workloads for developers. 
DigitalOcean 
Alexandr Wang 🇺🇸 Software Scale AI founder, data labeling and ML infrastructure 
Scale AI Aman Sanger 🇺🇸 Software Cursor AI co-founder 
Anysphere Amir Haghighat 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Baseten, a platform for deploying and serving machine learning models in production. 
Baseten Anant Vijay Singh 🇮🇳 Software Proton AI lead Anatoliy Zenkov 🇺🇦 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere Andreas Blattmann 🇩🇪 Software Co-author of Stable Diffusion and co-founder of Black Forest Labs, creators of the FLUX image models. 
Black Forest Labs Andreas Jansson Software Co-founded Replicate, a platform for running and deploying open-source machine learning models via an API. 
Replicate Andrew Mason 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Descript, an AI-powered audio and video editing tool, and earlier founder of Groupon. 
Descript 
Andy Konwinski 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Databricks and early investor in Perplexity; co-created Apache Spark's ecosystem work. 
Databricks Anish Athalye 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter van Cleanlab, een platform voor het automatisch detecteren en corrigeren van fouten in trainingsdata. 
Cleanlab Ankur Goyal 🇺🇸 Software Founded Braintrust, an evaluation and observability platform for building AI products, after founding Impira. 
Braintrust Ankush Gola 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of LangChain, one of the most widely used frameworks for building LLM-powered applications. 
LangChain Anton Troynikov 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Chroma, an open-source embedding database used to build retrieval and memory for AI applications. 
Chroma Aparna Dhinakaran 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Arize AI, a machine learning observability and model monitoring platform. Arize AI 
Aravind Srinivas 🇺🇸 Software Perplexity AI CEO 
Perplexity 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 Arvid Lunnemark 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor. Anysphere Atindriyo Sanyal 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Galileo, een platform voor het evalueren en monitoren van AI- en LLM-modellen. 
Galileo Aurélien Géron 🇫🇷 Software Hands-On Machine Learning author, former Google YouTube ML lead Ben Firshman 🇬🇧 Software Co-founded Replicate, a platform for running and sharing machine learning models via API. Replicate Ben Uretsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and served as CEO of DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting platform for developers. DigitalOcean Benoit Dageville 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Snowflake, the cloud data platform widely used for analytics and AI workloads. 
Snowflake Beyang Liu 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, maker of the Cody code-AI assistant and code intelligence platform. 
Sourcegraph 
Bob van Luijt 🇳🇱 Software Co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, an open-source vector database widely used for AI/RAG applications. 
Weaviate Brad Dwyer 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Roboflow, a platform that helps developers build and deploy computer vision models. 
Roboflow Brannin McBee 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of CoreWeave, a leading GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. 
CoreWeave Brian Raymond 🇺🇸 Software Founded Unstructured, providing tools to transform unstructured documents into data ready for LLMs and RAG pipelines. 
Unstructured Brian Rieger 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a data labeling and training-data platform for AI development. 
Labelbox Brian Venturo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of CoreWeave, a large GPU cloud provider specialized in AI and machine-learning workloads. CoreWeave Burkay Gur Software Co-founded fal, an inference platform optimized for running generative media (image, video, audio) AI models. 
fal Ce Zhang 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Together AI, dat cloudinfrastructuur en open modellen voor generatieve AI aanbiedt. 
Together AI 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 Chip Huyen 🇺🇸 Software ML systems design, production ML infrastructure 
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 Van Pelt 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Weights & Biases, a widely used platform for ML experiment tracking and model management. 
Weights & Biases Christian Horne Software Co-founded Vast.ai, a marketplace for renting GPU compute used to train and run AI models. 
Vast.ai Christopher Gillis 🇦🇺 Software Co-founded Leonardo.Ai, a generative AI platform for producing game and creative visual assets. 
Leonardo.Ai 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 Clement Delangue 🇺🇸 Software Hugging Face CEO 
Hugging Face Connor Leahy 🇬🇧 Software Conjecture founder 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 Cully Cavness 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Crusoe, which builds energy-optimized data center infrastructure for AI compute. Crusoe Curtis Northcutt 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cleanlab and pioneered confident learning methods for detecting and fixing errors in training data. Cleanlab Dai Guohao 🇨🇳 Software Co-founded Infinigence AI (Infini-AI), a Chinese startup providing large-model compute and inference-optimization infrastructure. Infinigence AI (InfiniAI) Dan Rasmuson 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a training-data platform for labeling and managing datasets for machine learning. Labelbox 
Daniel Gross 🇺🇸 Software Cue AI founder Safe Superintelligence Inc. Dave Rogenmoser 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a generative-AI marketing and copywriting platform. 
Jasper 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 Diego Rodriguez Software Co-founded Krea, an AI platform for real-time image and video generation for creatives. 
Krea 
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 Dror Weiss Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Tabnine, een AI-assistent voor codeaanvulling. 
Tabnine Dwight Churchill Software Co-founded Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing application. 
Captions Edo Liberty 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Pinecone, a leading managed vector database for AI and retrieval-augmented generation. 
Pinecone Edwin Chen 🇺🇸 Software Founded Surge AI, a data-labeling and RLHF platform providing human-annotated data for training large language models. 
Surge AI Eliot Andres 🇫🇷 Software Co-founded Photoroom, an AI-powered photo-editing and background-removal app. 
Photoroom 
Emad Mostaque 🇬🇧 Software Stability AI founder 
Stability AI Eran Yahav 🇮🇱 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Tabnine, een AI-assistent voor codeaanvulling en softwareontwikkeling. Tabnine Eric Simons 🇺🇸 Software CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz, maker of Bolt.new, a prominent AI-powered web development platform. StackBlitz Erik Bernhardsson 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Modal, creator of the Annoy nearest-neighbor library and former ML leader at Spotify. Modal Etienne Dilocker Software Co-founded Weaviate and serves as its CTO, building the open-source vector database used for AI search and retrieval. Weaviate Fabian Hedin 🇸🇪 Software Medeoprichter van Lovable, een platform om via natuurlijke taal web-apps te genereren. 
Lovable Faris Masad Software Co-founded Replit, a browser-based coding platform that added AI-assisted software development tools. 
Replit 
François Chollet 🇺🇸 Software Keras Creator, Deep Learning Frameworks Ndea Gaurav Misra 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Captions, dat AI-gedreven video- en avatarcreatie aanbiedt. Captions Gorkem Yurtseven 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded fal, an inference platform optimized for running generative image, video and audio models. fal 
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 Guy Gur-Ari Software Medeoprichter van Augment Code en voormalig onderzoeker bij Google op het gebied van machine learning. 
Augment Code Harrison Chase 🇺🇸 Software LangChain creator LangChain Haya Odeh Software Co-founded Replit, a browser-based collaborative coding and app-building platform. Replit Igor Ostrovsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Augment Code, an AI-powered coding assistant for software development teams. Augment Code 
Ion Stoica 🇺🇸 Software UC Berkeley professor who co-created Apache Spark and co-founded Databricks and Anyscale. Databricks Jake Cannell Software Co-founded Vast.ai, a marketplace for renting distributed GPU compute for AI and machine-learning workloads. Vast.ai Jason Lopatecki 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Arize AI, een platform voor het monitoren en observeren van machine-learningmodellen in productie. Arize AI Jeff Carr 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider for developers. DigitalOcean 
Jeff Huber 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Chroma, the open-source embedding database used to build retrieval-augmented AI applications. Chroma Jeffrey Quesnelle 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Nous Research, een collectief dat open-source taalmodellen ontwikkelt. 
Nous Research 
Jerry Liu 🇺🇸 Software LlamaIndex creator 
LlamaIndex 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 Joao Moura 🇺🇸 Software CrewAI creator CrewAI John Philip Morgan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Jasper, an AI content-generation and copywriting platform for marketing teams. Jasper Jonas Mueller 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en chief scientist van Cleanlab, dat tools bouwt om labelfouten en datakwaliteitsproblemen in ML-datasets te vinden. Cleanlab Joseph Nelson 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, a widely used platform for building computer-vision applications. Roboflow 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 Julien Chaumond 🇫🇷 Software Hugging Face co-founder Hugging Face Karan Malhotra 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Nous Research, a collective releasing open-source large language models and fine-tuning tools. Nous Research Lawrence Lek 🇬🇧 Software AI Artist Lee Holloway 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cloudflare and served as its principal software architect, building the core systems of the global network. 
Cloudflare Lin Qiao 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI who previously led the PyTorch team at Meta. Fireworks AI Logan Kilpatrick 🇺🇸 Software Google AI relations 
Google DeepMind 
Lukas Biewald 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, a leading MLOps platform for experiment tracking; previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight. Weights & Biases Manu Sharma 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a data labeling and training-data platform for machine learning. Labelbox Marcin Żukowski 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Snowflake and a database researcher known for the VectorWise columnar engine. Snowflake 
Matei Zaharia 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Databricks and original creator of Apache Spark, foundational to large-scale data and AI processing. Databricks Mati Staniszewski 🇬🇧 Software ElevenLabs co-founder 
ElevenLabs 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 Matthias Niessner 🇩🇪 Software Computer-vision professor at TU Munich and co-founder of Synthesia, an AI avatar/video-generation platform. 
Synthesia Micha Verhagen Software Associated with Weaviate, an open-source vector database for AI-native search and retrieval applications. Weaviate Michael Balaban 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Lambda, a GPU cloud and hardware provider for AI training and inference. 
Lambda Michael Intrator 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, a major GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. CoreWeave Michael Truell 🇺🇸 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere 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 
Mira Murati 🇺🇸 Software Former OpenAI CTO 
Thinking Machines Lab Mitch Wainer 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of DigitalOcean, a major cloud infrastructure provider for developers. DigitalOcean Moisey Uretsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a developer-focused cloud computing platform. DigitalOcean Nicolae Rusan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Clay, a data enrichment and go-to-market automation platform. 
Clay Noam Shazeer 🇺🇸 Software Character.AI co-founder 
Character.AI Pablo Blanes 🇪🇸 Software Co-founded Freepik, a platform for stock graphics and AI-generated visual content. 
Freepik Patrick Esser 🇩🇪 Software Co-author of Stable Diffusion and co-founder of Black Forest Labs, creators of the FLUX image models. Black Forest Labs Patrick Wendell 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks and an Apache Spark committer. Databricks Philip Howes Software Co-founded Baseten, a platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models in production. Baseten 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 Piotr Dabkowski 🇵🇱 Software ElevenLabs CTO ElevenLabs Quinn Slack 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Sourcegraph, a code search platform and maker of the Cody AI coding assistant. Sourcegraph Rajat Monga 🇺🇸 Software TensorFlow Co-creator, Google AI Reynold Xin 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks and a core developer of Apache Spark. Databricks 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 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 
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 Sharif Shameem 🇺🇸 Software Debuild founder Shawn Lewis 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, the widely used machine-learning experiment-tracking and MLOps platform. Weights & Biases Simon Suo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of LlamaIndex, a widely used framework for retrieval-augmented generation over private data. LlamaIndex Soumith Chintala 🇺🇸 Software PyTorch Co-creator, Meta AI Research Meta Superintelligence Labs Stephen Balaban 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Lambda, a large GPU cloud provider for AI training. Lambda Steven Hao Software Medeoprichter van Cognition AI, het bedrijf achter de AI-software-engineer Devin. Cognition AI Sualeh Asif 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor. Anysphere Sylvain Gugger 🇺🇸 Software Hugging Face researcher Teknium Software Co-founded Nous Research, a collective building open-source large language models such as the Hermes series. Nous Research Thierry Cruanes 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse platform underpinning many enterprise AI and analytics workloads. Snowflake Thomas Wolf 🇫🇷 Software Hugging Face CTO Hugging Face 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 Toran Bruce Richards 🇺🇸 Software AI Tool Development, Automation 
AutoGPT Tuhin Srivastava 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Baseten as CEO, providing infrastructure for deploying and serving machine-learning models. Baseten 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 Victor Perez Software Co-founded Krea, a generative AI platform for real-time image and video creation. Krea 
Victor Riparbelli 🇬🇧 Software Synthesia CEO Synthesia Vikram Chatterji 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Galileo, a platform for evaluating and monitoring generative AI applications. Galileo 
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 
William Falcon 🇺🇸 Software PyTorch Lightning Creator, ML Engineering 
Lightning AI Willonius Hatcher 🇺🇸 Software AI Storyteller Yash Sheth 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Galileo, a platform for evaluating, monitoring and improving generative AI and LLM applications. Galileo 
Yohei Nakajima 🇺🇸 Software AutoGPT Development, AI Automation
Modal Albert Pai 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded StackBlitz, the in-browser IDE and WebContainers company that later built the AI app builder Bolt.new. StackBlitz Alec Hartman 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider whose GPU and platform services power AI/ML workloads for developers. DigitalOcean Alexandr Wang 🇺🇸 Software Scale AI founder, data labeling and ML infrastructure Scale AI Aman Sanger 🇺🇸 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere Amir Haghighat 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Baseten, a platform for deploying and serving machine learning models in production. Baseten Anant Vijay Singh 🇮🇳 Software Proton AI lead Anatoliy Zenkov 🇺🇦 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere Andreas Blattmann 🇩🇪 Software Co-author of Stable Diffusion and co-founder of Black Forest Labs, creators of the FLUX image models. Black Forest Labs Andreas Jansson Software Co-founded Replicate, a platform for running and deploying open-source machine learning models via an API. Replicate Andrew Mason 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Descript, an AI-powered audio and video editing tool, and earlier founder of Groupon. Descript Andy Konwinski 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Databricks and early investor in Perplexity; co-created Apache Spark's ecosystem work. Databricks Anish Athalye 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter van Cleanlab, een platform voor het automatisch detecteren en corrigeren van fouten in trainingsdata. Cleanlab Ankur Goyal 🇺🇸 Software Founded Braintrust, an evaluation and observability platform for building AI products, after founding Impira. Braintrust Ankush Gola 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of LangChain, one of the most widely used frameworks for building LLM-powered applications. LangChain Anton Troynikov 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Chroma, an open-source embedding database used to build retrieval and memory for AI applications. Chroma Aparna Dhinakaran 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Arize AI, a machine learning observability and model monitoring platform. Arize AI Aravind Srinivas 🇺🇸 Software Perplexity AI CEO Perplexity 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 Arvid Lunnemark 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor. Anysphere Atindriyo Sanyal 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Galileo, een platform voor het evalueren en monitoren van AI- en LLM-modellen. Galileo Aurélien Géron 🇫🇷 Software Hands-On Machine Learning author, former Google YouTube ML lead Ben Firshman 🇬🇧 Software Co-founded Replicate, a platform for running and sharing machine learning models via API. Replicate Ben Uretsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and served as CEO of DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting platform for developers. DigitalOcean Benoit Dageville 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Snowflake, the cloud data platform widely used for analytics and AI workloads. Snowflake Beyang Liu 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, maker of the Cody code-AI assistant and code intelligence platform. Sourcegraph Bob van Luijt 🇳🇱 Software Co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, an open-source vector database widely used for AI/RAG applications. Weaviate Brad Dwyer 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Roboflow, a platform that helps developers build and deploy computer vision models. Roboflow Brannin McBee 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of CoreWeave, a leading GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. CoreWeave Brian Raymond 🇺🇸 Software Founded Unstructured, providing tools to transform unstructured documents into data ready for LLMs and RAG pipelines. Unstructured Brian Rieger 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a data labeling and training-data platform for AI development. Labelbox Brian Venturo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of CoreWeave, a large GPU cloud provider specialized in AI and machine-learning workloads. CoreWeave Burkay Gur Software Co-founded fal, an inference platform optimized for running generative media (image, video, audio) AI models. fal Ce Zhang 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Together AI, dat cloudinfrastructuur en open modellen voor generatieve AI aanbiedt. Together AI 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 Chip Huyen 🇺🇸 Software ML systems design, production ML infrastructure 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 Van Pelt 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Weights & Biases, a widely used platform for ML experiment tracking and model management. Weights & Biases Christian Horne Software Co-founded Vast.ai, a marketplace for renting GPU compute used to train and run AI models. Vast.ai Christopher Gillis 🇦🇺 Software Co-founded Leonardo.Ai, a generative AI platform for producing game and creative visual assets. Leonardo.Ai 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 Clement Delangue 🇺🇸 Software Hugging Face CEO Hugging Face Connor Leahy 🇬🇧 Software Conjecture founder 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 Cully Cavness 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Crusoe, which builds energy-optimized data center infrastructure for AI compute. Crusoe Curtis Northcutt 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cleanlab and pioneered confident learning methods for detecting and fixing errors in training data. Cleanlab Dai Guohao 🇨🇳 Software Co-founded Infinigence AI (Infini-AI), a Chinese startup providing large-model compute and inference-optimization infrastructure. Infinigence AI (InfiniAI) Dan Rasmuson 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a training-data platform for labeling and managing datasets for machine learning. Labelbox Daniel Gross 🇺🇸 Software Cue AI founder Safe Superintelligence Inc. Dave Rogenmoser 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a generative-AI marketing and copywriting platform. Jasper 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 Diego Rodriguez Software Co-founded Krea, an AI platform for real-time image and video generation for creatives. Krea 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 Dror Weiss Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Tabnine, een AI-assistent voor codeaanvulling. Tabnine Dwight Churchill Software Co-founded Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing application. Captions Edo Liberty 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Pinecone, a leading managed vector database for AI and retrieval-augmented generation. Pinecone Edwin Chen 🇺🇸 Software Founded Surge AI, a data-labeling and RLHF platform providing human-annotated data for training large language models. Surge AI Eliot Andres 🇫🇷 Software Co-founded Photoroom, an AI-powered photo-editing and background-removal app. Photoroom Emad Mostaque 🇬🇧 Software Stability AI founder Stability AI Eran Yahav 🇮🇱 Software Medeoprichter en CTO van Tabnine, een AI-assistent voor codeaanvulling en softwareontwikkeling. Tabnine Eric Simons 🇺🇸 Software CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz, maker of Bolt.new, a prominent AI-powered web development platform. StackBlitz Erik Bernhardsson 🇺🇸 Software Founder and CEO of Modal, creator of the Annoy nearest-neighbor library and former ML leader at Spotify. Modal Etienne Dilocker Software Co-founded Weaviate and serves as its CTO, building the open-source vector database used for AI search and retrieval. Weaviate Fabian Hedin 🇸🇪 Software Medeoprichter van Lovable, een platform om via natuurlijke taal web-apps te genereren. Lovable Faris Masad Software Co-founded Replit, a browser-based coding platform that added AI-assisted software development tools. Replit François Chollet 🇺🇸 Software Keras Creator, Deep Learning Frameworks Ndea Gaurav Misra 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Captions, dat AI-gedreven video- en avatarcreatie aanbiedt. Captions Gorkem Yurtseven 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded fal, an inference platform optimized for running generative image, video and audio models. fal 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 Guy Gur-Ari Software Medeoprichter van Augment Code en voormalig onderzoeker bij Google op het gebied van machine learning. Augment Code Harrison Chase 🇺🇸 Software LangChain creator LangChain Haya Odeh Software Co-founded Replit, a browser-based collaborative coding and app-building platform. Replit Igor Ostrovsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Augment Code, an AI-powered coding assistant for software development teams. Augment Code Ion Stoica 🇺🇸 Software UC Berkeley professor who co-created Apache Spark and co-founded Databricks and Anyscale. Databricks Jake Cannell Software Co-founded Vast.ai, a marketplace for renting distributed GPU compute for AI and machine-learning workloads. Vast.ai Jason Lopatecki 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Arize AI, een platform voor het monitoren en observeren van machine-learningmodellen in productie. Arize AI Jeff Carr 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider for developers. DigitalOcean Jeff Huber 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Chroma, the open-source embedding database used to build retrieval-augmented AI applications. Chroma Jeffrey Quesnelle 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en CEO van Nous Research, een collectief dat open-source taalmodellen ontwikkelt. Nous Research Jerry Liu 🇺🇸 Software LlamaIndex creator LlamaIndex 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 Joao Moura 🇺🇸 Software CrewAI creator CrewAI John Philip Morgan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Jasper, an AI content-generation and copywriting platform for marketing teams. Jasper Jonas Mueller 🇺🇸 Software Medeoprichter en chief scientist van Cleanlab, dat tools bouwt om labelfouten en datakwaliteitsproblemen in ML-datasets te vinden. Cleanlab Joseph Nelson 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, a widely used platform for building computer-vision applications. Roboflow 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 Julien Chaumond 🇫🇷 Software Hugging Face co-founder Hugging Face Karan Malhotra 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Nous Research, a collective releasing open-source large language models and fine-tuning tools. Nous Research Lawrence Lek 🇬🇧 Software AI Artist Lee Holloway 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Cloudflare and served as its principal software architect, building the core systems of the global network. Cloudflare Lin Qiao 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI who previously led the PyTorch team at Meta. Fireworks AI Logan Kilpatrick 🇺🇸 Software Google AI relations Google DeepMind Lukas Biewald 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, a leading MLOps platform for experiment tracking; previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight. Weights & Biases Manu Sharma 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Labelbox, a data labeling and training-data platform for machine learning. Labelbox Marcin Żukowski 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of Snowflake and a database researcher known for the VectorWise columnar engine. Snowflake Matei Zaharia 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Databricks and original creator of Apache Spark, foundational to large-scale data and AI processing. Databricks Mati Staniszewski 🇬🇧 Software ElevenLabs co-founder ElevenLabs 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 Matthias Niessner 🇩🇪 Software Computer-vision professor at TU Munich and co-founder of Synthesia, an AI avatar/video-generation platform. Synthesia Micha Verhagen Software Associated with Weaviate, an open-source vector database for AI-native search and retrieval applications. Weaviate Michael Balaban 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Lambda, a GPU cloud and hardware provider for AI training and inference. Lambda Michael Intrator 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, a major GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. CoreWeave Michael Truell 🇺🇸 Software Cursor AI co-founder Anysphere 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 Mira Murati 🇺🇸 Software Former OpenAI CTO Thinking Machines Lab Mitch Wainer 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder of DigitalOcean, a major cloud infrastructure provider for developers. DigitalOcean Moisey Uretsky 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded DigitalOcean, a developer-focused cloud computing platform. DigitalOcean Nicolae Rusan 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Clay, a data enrichment and go-to-market automation platform. Clay Noam Shazeer 🇺🇸 Software Character.AI co-founder Character.AI Pablo Blanes 🇪🇸 Software Co-founded Freepik, a platform for stock graphics and AI-generated visual content. Freepik Patrick Esser 🇩🇪 Software Co-author of Stable Diffusion and co-founder of Black Forest Labs, creators of the FLUX image models. Black Forest Labs Patrick Wendell 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks and an Apache Spark committer. Databricks Philip Howes Software Co-founded Baseten, a platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models in production. Baseten 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 Piotr Dabkowski 🇵🇱 Software ElevenLabs CTO ElevenLabs Quinn Slack 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Sourcegraph, a code search platform and maker of the Cody AI coding assistant. Sourcegraph Rajat Monga 🇺🇸 Software TensorFlow Co-creator, Google AI Reynold Xin 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks and a core developer of Apache Spark. Databricks 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 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 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 Sharif Shameem 🇺🇸 Software Debuild founder Shawn Lewis 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, the widely used machine-learning experiment-tracking and MLOps platform. Weights & Biases Simon Suo 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of LlamaIndex, a widely used framework for retrieval-augmented generation over private data. LlamaIndex Soumith Chintala 🇺🇸 Software PyTorch Co-creator, Meta AI Research Meta Superintelligence Labs Stephen Balaban 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CEO of Lambda, a large GPU cloud provider for AI training. Lambda Steven Hao Software Medeoprichter van Cognition AI, het bedrijf achter de AI-software-engineer Devin. Cognition AI Sualeh Asif 🇺🇸 Software Co-founder and CTO of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor. Anysphere Sylvain Gugger 🇺🇸 Software Hugging Face researcher Teknium Software Co-founded Nous Research, a collective building open-source large language models such as the Hermes series. Nous Research Thierry Cruanes 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse platform underpinning many enterprise AI and analytics workloads. Snowflake Thomas Wolf 🇫🇷 Software Hugging Face CTO Hugging Face 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 Toran Bruce Richards 🇺🇸 Software AI Tool Development, Automation AutoGPT Tuhin Srivastava 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Baseten as CEO, providing infrastructure for deploying and serving machine-learning models. Baseten 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 Victor Perez Software Co-founded Krea, a generative AI platform for real-time image and video creation. Krea Victor Riparbelli 🇬🇧 Software Synthesia CEO Synthesia Vikram Chatterji 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded and leads Galileo, a platform for evaluating and monitoring generative AI applications. Galileo 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 William Falcon 🇺🇸 Software PyTorch Lightning Creator, ML Engineering Lightning AI Willonius Hatcher 🇺🇸 Software AI Storyteller Yash Sheth 🇺🇸 Software Co-founded Galileo, a platform for evaluating, monitoring and improving generative AI and LLM applications. Galileo Yohei Nakajima 🇺🇸 Software AutoGPT Development, AI Automation