People in AI

Peter Steinberger

Engineer

Agent Lead at OpenAI

Created OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) AI agent and joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents development.

Anthropic product leader discussing Claude Code evolution, Claude Mods, Claude Tag, Projects, and agent security challenges.

Steve Yegge

Engineer

Independent Software Engineer at Independent

Created Gas Town, a framework for running 20-30 Claude Code instances simultaneously, described as an industrialized coding factory.

Addy Osmani

Engineer

Director at Google Cloud AI at Google

Addy Osmani and two colleagues published a viral blog post breaking down how Anthropic adjusted their code review workflow to scale with AI-generated code, with Claude now writing about 90% of Claude Code.

Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Google's advanced image generation and editing model.

Accused of accessing Apple's proprietary power converter circuit schematics after joining OpenAI and using them to train an AI agent.

Olivier Lacombe

Engineer

Director of Product Management at Google

Co-author of blog post introducing Gemma 4 open-source AI models for on-device and local deployment.

Cat Wu

Engineer

Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who discussed how the team uses it and what they learned while building it on the AI & I podcast.

Sholto Douglas

Engineer

Researcher at Anthropic

Anthropic researcher contacted by Citrini Research to facilitate access to Claude Science models for protein design research.

Ammaar Reshi

Engineer

Leading Product and Design at Google

Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with image blending and natural language editing features.

Reaffirmed that Linux is not anti-AI and will allow AI-assisted development tools based on technical merit.

Wilson Lin

Engineer

AI Agent Swarm Researcher at Cursor

Describes Cursor's work on AI agent swarms that rebuilt SQLite in Rust from its 835-page manual, passing 100% of tests.

Kat Kampf

Engineer

Product Manager at Google

Byline author of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image announcement covering image generation and editing capabilities.

Co-authored blog post announcing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with new video generation capabilities.

Anthony Levandowski

Engineer

CEO at Pronto AI

Former Uber and Google self-driving engineer running mining autonomy startup Pronto, which Atoms acquired.

Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with capabilities for character consistency and multi-image fusion.

Jake Eaton

Engineer

Editorial Lead at Anthropic

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on how to contain Claude agents and security failures.

Logan Kilpatrick

Engineer

Product Manager at Google

Announced that Google AI Studio now allows users to build apps connecting to Gmail, Drive, Sheets and more directly within the platform.

Google product manager co-authored introduction of Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking with near real-time reasoning for voice agents.

Google product manager introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking models with advanced reasoning and voice agent capabilities.

Andrew Ambrosino

Engineer

Lead, Desktop at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about Codex-driven development and desktop engineering.

Caitlin Kalinowski

Engineer

Hardware Team Leader at OpenAI

Recently hired by Anthropic to work on silicon team designing custom chips; previously worked at OpenAI, Meta and Apple.

Engineer at OpenAI interviewed about the Responses API and its role in agentic workflows.

Engineer at OpenAI interviewed about Codex development and implementation.

Co-authored announcement of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, enabling real-time voice translation across 70+ languages with natural-sounding speech preservation.

Chaofan Shou

Engineer

Security Researcher at Solayer Labs

Co-author of paper on malicious intermediary attacks on LLM supply chain.

David Soria Parra

Engineer

MCP Creator at Anthropic

David Soria Parra is Lead Maintainer of Agent Skills standard being donated to the Linux Foundation.

Elizabeth Goodman authored a detailed technical guide on NVIDIA's Cosmos Framework for training, optimizing, and deploying world models for physical AI applications.

Eric Easley worked with Claude to produce a Lean formalization of the Riemann hypothesis result.

Federico Cassano

Engineer

Researcher at Cursor

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens post describing MoE training optimization for large AI model training.

Felix Rieseberg

Engineer

Engineering Lead at Anthropic

Leads engineering for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, demonstrating practical applications of Claude in various workflows.

Malte Ubl

Engineer

Chief Technology Officer at Vercel

Wrote article about AI model capabilities in cybersecurity offensive and defensive work, discussing open-weight models like Kimi K3 and frontier models.

Matt Pocock

Engineer

Software Engineer and Speaker at AI Hero

Engineer discovering that guiding AI agents with concepts like tracer bullets from classic programming books produces better code.

Co-authored the announcement of Gemini Embedding 2, a natively multimodal embedding model for text, images, video, audio, and documents.

Naman Jain

Engineer

Researcher at Cursor

Developed R2E-Gym, performed data filtering for RL datasets, designed DeepSWE agent scaffold, and trained verifiers for test-time scaling.

Noah Zweben

Engineer

Product Manager, Claude Code at Anthropic

Author of technical article explaining Anthropic's agent identity model for Claude Tag.

Paul Conyngham

Engineer

Data scientist and machine learning engineer at Gamgee

Used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and genomic sequencing to design first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his rescue dog Rosie, shrinking her tumor 75% in one month.

Quentin Gallouédec

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Co-author of blog post on Delta Weight Sync for async RL model weight synchronization.

Published recipe for RL-training coding agents in remote sandboxes using Hugging Face/TRL and OpenEnv with token/logprob capture and reward verification.

Co-author of the article announcing new logs and datasets features in Google AI Studio

Steven Hansen

Engineer

Product Lead at Google DeepMind

Co-author introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied reasoning model for robot planning and multi-robot collaboration.

Tibor Blaho

Engineer

Software Engineer at Independent

Tibor Blaho captured a model alias confirming GPT Image 2 in ChatGPT response headers.

Co-authored the announcement of Gemini Embedding 2, discussing its multimodal embedding capabilities and applications.

Tony Lu

Engineer

Author at Google

Co-authored announcement of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for live speech-to-speech translation without sequential turn-by-turn delays.

Valeria Wu

Engineer

Journalist at Google DeepMind

Google researcher announcing Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a voice AI model with upgrades in speed and task completion.

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens technical post on MoE megakernel.

Google researcher announcing Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a voice AI model with upgrades in speed and task completion.

Former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a conference room to steal company secrets, allegedly communicating with Saudi royal family.

Adrien Carreira

Engineer

HuggingFace Team Member at Hugging Face

Byline author of detailed technical timeline of OpenAI agent intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure.

Collaborated with Arco Bast to develop the Model Hardware Standard, integrating AI models into hardware interfaces for autonomous experimentation.

Cybersecurity leader who signed an open letter urging the U.S. to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models.

Leaving Meta to join Anthropic after being one of the highest-paid employees in tech; had initially rejected then accepted Mark Zuckerberg's reported $1.5B package.

Engineering co-lead at Every who explored what happens when AI gets better at work people have built their lives around.

Anthony Morris

Engineer

Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who announced departure just before Anthropic's IPO filing, stating he would share what's next soon.

Discussed how Intercom doubled engineering throughput in nine months by using Claude Code extensively.

NVIDIA developer helping builders understand and work with the company's AI stack, discussing Nemotron models and agentic AI development.

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic who signed petition requesting U.S.-supported international effort to pace AI development.

Conor Kelly

Engineer

Researcher at Anthropic

Provided feedback on MHS research implementation.

Collaborated on designing Cora's email bankruptcy feature using AI-assisted design workflow.

David East

Engineer

Researcher/Presenter at Google Labs

Created stitch-mcp, a CLI tool connecting Google's Stitch UI design platform to MCP for coding agent integration.

Dominik Kundel

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Demonstrated ChatGPT's Computer History feature which logs user clicks and keystrokes to track work and suggest automations.

Ebba Simpson authored the announcement of TorchTPU, an open-source collaboration between Google and Meta introducing native PyTorch support for Google TPUs.

Eric Provencher

Engineer

Staff Research Engineer at Unity

Quoted on giving clear assignments to models in GPT-6 guide.

Led development of Grok Imagine video model in 3 months at xAI; previously worked on NVIDIA Cosmos world model; expert on video generation, world models, and diffusion transformers.

Fuli Luo

Engineer

Lead, Xiaomi MiMo LLM at Xiaomi

Led the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project and characterized MiMo-V2-Pro release as a 'quiet ambush' on the global frontier, stated the company plans to open source a model variant.

Hugo Larcher

Engineer

HuggingFace Team Member at Hugging Face

Byline author of detailed technical timeline of OpenAI agent intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure.

Led research team developing Griffin Human Interaction Model at Tavus.

Author of technical article explaining Cursor's real-time RL approach to training Composer model on production data.

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Engineer

Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein works at the intersection of safety and pretraining at Anthropic; background in physics and neuroscience, formerly Principal Scientist at Google Brain.

Creator of Superpowers framework; described difference between vibe coding and agentic engineering as planning, architecture, and caring about output.

Anthropic's head of life sciences partnerships who stated the company's goal to focus on neglected diseases while creating AI tools for life sciences companies.

Leo Gao

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI who signed petition and commented on need for coordination to slow AI development race.

Published a viral essay about AI replacing kernel engineers, arguing that within a year AI will write kernels as well as he does, and wrote DeepSeek V4.1's main Attention kernel.

Core contributor to DeepSeek V3 model who left to lead Xiaomi's MiMo team.

Co-author of technical blog post about Google's Multi-Token Prediction drafters for Gemma 4 achieving 3x speedup in inference.

Mahesh Murag

Engineer

Lead Maintainer at Anthropic

Mahesh Murag is Lead Maintainer of Agent Skills standard being donated to the Linux Foundation.

Max Gubin

Engineer

Principal Research Engineer at Google

Principal Research Engineer on behalf of the Gemini team who contributed to Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS.

OpenAI security engineer describing how frontier models created message boards to coordinate attacks during evaluation.

Myriam Hamed Torres

Engineer

Senior Product Manager at Google DeepMind

Co-authored announcement of Lyria 3 music generation model for Gemini.

Or Hiltch

Engineer

Co-founder and CTO at Accomplish AI

Co-developed Boundary-Bench benchmark testing agents under realistic enterprise constraints like EDR, SASE, and DLP with researchers from NYU.

Pamela Fox

Engineer

Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft

Published blog post outlining approaches to building safer MCP servers on PostgreSQL, ranging from flexible agent-generated SQL to tightly constrained typed query tools.

Pedro Cuenca

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Co-author exploring neural network layer optimization techniques in PyTorch.

Presented OpenAI's Jalapeño custom AI accelerator at HotChips 2026, discussed chip design philosophy and hardware strategy.

Sayak Paul

Engineer

Engineer/Writer at Hugging Face

Documented how KV caching is incorporated into QwenImage 2.1, achieving a 2.55x speedup through optimized inference strategies.

Lead author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper on testing computer-use agents by rebuilding apps.

Byline author arguing agents should work beside users, not between users and applications, using his music app Pizzo as example.

Surya Dantuluri

Engineer

Surya Dantuluri authored an article on how every serious AI company will eventually train its own models as barriers to model training collapse.

Trond Wuellner

Engineer

Product Lead for NotebookLM at Google

Authored announcement of NotebookLM updates including real-time chat and video overviews.

Senior Product Manager on the Gemini team who contributed to Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS announcement.

Contributed to TimesFM-3 project as joint work participant.

Zuxin Liu

Engineer

AI Researcher, Post-Training at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher who stopped writing code by hand and now uses Codex agents to track and direct research work.

Co-hosted podcast with Simon Willison and Bryan Cantrill; coined term 'Deep Blue' for AI-induced ennui.

Deepgram CTO reporting that AWS Trainium processes 60% more audio per dollar than GPU baselines.

Adhyyan Sekhsaria

Engineer

Human Engineer at Cognition

Noted that Opus 4.6 with 1M context made Devin Review agent significantly more effective by handling full diffs without chunking.

Co-authored article on Prometheus supercluster infrastructure.

Discussed the ease of implementing Anthropic's commerce blueprint and recognizing best practices from Zomato's own agent development.

Ali Çevik

Engineer

Google

Co-authored Google's Gemini Managed Agents guide introducing the Antigravity agent and managed agent infrastructure.

Ameen Patel

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Stealth Startup

Co-led project including experiment design, generated R2E-Gym trajectories, evaluated DeepSWE, and managed GPU/Kubernetes infrastructure.

Co-introduced VaultGemma, the most capable language model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

Amie Rotherham

Engineer

Contributor at Anthropic

Thanked for reviewing the code review article

Anant Nawalgaria co-authored the announcement of AlphaEvolve's general availability on Google Cloud, highlighting its capabilities for solving algorithmic optimization problems.

Quoted explaining how AWS Security Agent caught a business logic bug that exposed information.

Andrew He

Engineer

Founding Engineer at Cognition

Second highest rated US competitor on Codeforces and two-time IOI gold medalist who personally reviewed model behavior on FrontierCode tasks.

Andrew Milich

Engineer

Product Engineering Lead at xAI

Joined SpaceX from AI coding startup Cursor as part of xAI rebuild hiring strategy.

Wrote about CLiF tool for continual learning from full-stack trajectories in agentic products.

Anson Ho

Engineer

Researcher at San Francisco Government Television

Byline author presenting Microsoft's OptiMind model that translates natural language optimization problems into mathematical formulations.

OpenSSL developer noting that recent AI reports from Anthropic are high quality with real exploits attached.

Applied AI Engineer at Ramp who described Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite as key component for high-volume, latency-sensitive financial operations features.

Released The Stack v3, a major update to the largest open-source code dataset used for pretraining large language models.

Anupriya Tripathi

Engineer

Researcher at Genentech

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Co-author of deep dive on PyTorch neural network optimization and fused MLP layers.

Arnab Bose from Asana spoke about building with Claude Managed Agents and Asana AI teammates.

Senior Manager of Machine Learning Operations praising Claude Code's performance as a pair programmer for their developers

Ashish Gupta authored a Google Blog post about enhancements to Merchant Center with new agentic commerce features.

Discussed running Anthropic's commerce agents locally and experimenting with different architectures via Claude Code.

Co-author of CUGA research on enterprise agentic application development.

Helped set up MHS for microscopy research projects.

Co-author proposing Genie coefficient metric for measuring AI agent behavior and alignment with user intent.

Ben Trapani

Engineer

Journalist/Author at Cursor

Co-author of article on Cursor's real-time reinforcement learning for continuous Composer model improvements.

Filed shareholder lawsuit in Delaware against Groq's board alleging Nvidia's 'non-exclusive' acquisition deal short-changed common shareholders.

Referenced in "Google Announces Coral NPU, An Open-Source Platform for Standardized Edge AI Development Across Hard"

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Byline author announcing LangChain's OpenWiki Brains framework for proactive agent memory.

Bryan Cantrill

Engineer

Podcast Host at Oxide

Co-hosted podcast with Simon Willison on Oxide and friends discussing LLM predictions for the year.

Discovered the malicious LiteLLM versions through testing a Cursor MCP plugin.

Researcher at Baseten Labs who contributed to the technical report on Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 frontier decision models.

Head of model training at Baseten, discussed RL training, model scaling, and frontier AI development.

Cheng Lou

Engineer

Developer

Creator of Handwired, a tool that converts JavaScript code into neural networks without training.

Byline author of detailed technical timeline of OpenAI agent intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure.

Co-authored the Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar announcement on the Google Blog.

Chan was poached from OpenAI's team that worked on the Jalapeño chip and is now at Anthropic as the company pursues custom AI chip manufacturing.

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Co-authored Gemini 3 research describing how models generate code for visualizations and simulations.

curl developer stating OSS Scanner helped find multiple issues including one of worst curl vulnerabilities in recent years.

David Dworken

Engineer

Contributor at Anthropic

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's engineering work.

David Fowler

Engineer

Microsoft

Ran experiment producing ~90 performance PRs to ASP.NET Core using GitHub cloud agents and Claude Opus 5.5 in one day for ~$230 in tokens.

Researcher at 10a Labs profiling producers and applications of uncensored large language models.

Co-author of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) 2026-07-28 release candidate specification documentation.

Co-author of the blog post introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for voice interactions.

Ed Bayes

Engineer

Member of Design Staff at OpenAI

Design lead at Codex discussing how Figma integration helps build higher quality products more efficiently with agents.

Hugging Face reinforcement learning team member who helped select initial benchmarks for the OpenLLM Leaderboard v1.

Co-author of blog post on multi-agent kernel optimization at Cursor.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed AI hacking tool Cairn control panels used in malicious cyber operations.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Founding engineer at Pangram AI-detection tool who discusses prevalence of negative parallelism across major chatbots.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Ernie Chang

Engineer

Researcher at Meta

Curated the pre-training and mid-training data for MobileMoE.

Author of "Context Engineering" in Anthropic

Fergus Hurley

Engineer

Founder and General Manager at Checks

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki, a platform that automatically maintains updated documentation for code repositories.

Gabe Cemaj co-authored Anthropic's Managed Agents engineering post on agent infrastructure design.

Founder of llama.cpp describing how RTX Spark enables running optimized models locally with context processing.

Senior vice president at Nvidia discussing USFP technology for AI data centers.

Stated in a blog post that Mythos can identify vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them, marking a real step forward.

Advancing Rovo's semantic search using NVIDIA accelerated computing and open models for intelligent enterprise search.

Listed as one of the authors of the Gemma 4 12B model announcement, contributing to product management for the multimodal AI model.

Hanson Wang

Engineer

Codex team member at OpenAI

Published a detailed walkthrough of GPT-5.4's ability to reverse-engineer neural networks and write C programs within time constraints.

Harpreet Arora

Engineer

Product; AI infrastructure at Vercel

Reported that Z.ai's GLM 5.2 saw fastest adoption of any model tracked by Vercel in 2026.

Hedi Zandi

Engineer

Vercel

Authored blog post announcing Vercel Connect's general availability with secure credential management for AI agents.

Google employee who authored the announcement of the News AI pilot program compensating publishers.

Co-author of blog post announcing EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal embedding model.

Co-authored the release of Whistle, an open speech recognition model for on-device transcription.

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens technical post on MoE optimization.

Was part of Lenny Rachitsky's board of directors during his exploratory phase.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Jaana Dogan

Engineer

Principal Engineer at Google

Co-authored announcement of Agent Executor, Google's open-source runtime standard for long-running agent workflows with durable execution and secure isolation.

Wrote about Cursor's new cloud agents capabilities allowing execution on dynamically scheduled machine pools inside private networks.

Led Rivian's acquisition of Third Dimension AI to enhance autonomous driving simulation and data generation.

OpenAI team member working on Browser capabilities for Codex, mentioned to follow for updates.

Executive from Meta praising PyTorch's vision of consistent developer experience across hardware platforms.

Jannik Jung

Engineer

fractional ai + product builder at Every

Owns KateBench AI copyediting agent and works to improve its performance through feedback loops.

Author releasing Kev family of open-source decision models compatible with TypeSafe's Jev API.

Jeremy Yang

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff and the R&D Program Lead at Perplexity

Co-author of JOLT method for training language models with teacher feedback.

Jess Gallegos

Engineer

Google

Co-author of the article announcing Google's Veo 3.1 and Flow updates

Jess Yan

Engineer

Anthropic

Contributed to article on Claude Managed Agents.

Co-authored blog post on Gemma 3 270M compact model for Google Developers.

Author of "Google Maps The Map Starts Talking Back" in Google

Posted Google's announcement supporting a shared AI training control for websites on Google Search Central Blog on October 30, 2026.

Explained how AI model was fine-tuned with just eight minutes of real-world robotics data for quadruped navigation.

Filed shareholder lawsuit in Delaware against Groq's board alleging the Nvidia deal left Groq a hollowed-out shell with engineers transferred to Nvidia.

Junyang Lin

Engineer

Technical Lead at Alibaba

Announced departure as technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen LLM project.

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Stated that open source Chinese models can be 60-90% cheaper than leading Anthropic and OpenAI models.

Co-authored blog post on Gemma 3 270M compact model for Google Developers.

Advises on keeping pull requests small and focused, and recommends self-review practices before requesting team review

Co-authored detailed article on Meta's Prometheus gigawatt-scale AI supercluster infrastructure and engineering.

CTO of Hint app who previously led engineering at Casper and Maisonette, built technology for Obama and Hillary campaigns.

Kyle Turman

Engineer

Engineer at Anthropic

Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.

Hugging Face reinforcement learning team member who contributed to benchmark selection for OpenLLM Leaderboard versions.

Lucas Atkins

Engineer

Chief Technology Officer at Arcee AI

Co-authored announcement of multi-million dollar partnership between Hugging Face and Arcee AI for model storage and distribution.

Co-authored announcement of new Gemini API service tiers (Flex and Priority) for cost and reliability control.

Developed AI model for World Series of Poker that identifies bluffing patterns through posture, movement, and blink rate analysis.

Co-author of the blog post introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe speech-to-text model.

Led demo of Rippling's employee graph and AI capabilities for insights, actions, and proactive workflows

Lysandre Jik announced Transformers v5 with major updates including quantization-first design and new tokenizer support.

Maja Trębacz

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Co-authored research on automated code review as part of the Codex team, discussing how giving the reviewer repo-wide tools improves recall and precision.

Mark Saroufim

Engineer

Core Automation

Proposed a 'Researcher Reciprocity License' in response to Anthropic's frontier AI research restrictions.

Matt Palmer

Engineer

Employee at Cursor

SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani.

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Merve Unuvar

Engineer

Director, Agentic Middleware and Applications at IBM Research AI

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.