People in AI

Matt Cortland

AI Engineer & Consultant at Prime Directive AI

Creator of justreadthis.ai. Building the world's first AI-native comms and intelligence agency.

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Sam Altman

CEO at OpenAI

Defendant in $134B civil trial filed by Elon Musk regarding OpenAI's development of superintelligence and governance.

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Dan Shipper

Cofounder and CEO at Every

Conducted detailed benchmarking and evaluation of Anthropic's Fable 5 model, assessing its performance for coding, writing, and knowledge work applications.

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Yann LeCun

Founder at AMI Labs

Founded AMI Labs after raising $1.03 billion and launched it in late 2025; pioneered latent World Models through JEPA and is skeptical that LLMs lead to AGI.

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Mark Zuckerberg

CEO at Meta

Meta CEO quoted during Q1 2025 earnings call discussing business messaging as a revenue opportunity for the company

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Ilya Sutskever

Founder at Safe Superintelligence

A cofounder of OpenAI and its former chief scientist who left the company this year to boost his focus on safe AI and founded his own company.

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Mira Murati

CEO at Thinking Machine Labs

Former OpenAI CTO who founded AI lab Thinking Machines, now in talks to raise $1 billion at $40 billion valuation.

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Fei-Fei Li

CEO and Co-founder at World Labs

Founded World Labs to develop deep learning models with robust understanding of physical reality; joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist following $8.2B acquisition.

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Jeff Dean

Co-founder and CEO at Discovery Loop

Departing Google after 27 years to launch an independent research company focused on ML, science, and engineering with Sanjay Ghemawat.

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Amjad Masad

CEO and co-founder at Replit

Announced Replit's $250 million funding round and launch of Agent 3, its most autonomous AI agent to date.

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Liang Wenfeng

Founder at DeepSeek

DeepSeek founder who committed to keeping AI models open and prioritizes technological ambition over commercial returns at investor meetings.

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Daniela Amodei

Co-founder and President at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

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Brett Adcock

Founder at Figure

Announced that Figure 03 humanoid robot completed 9 days of continuous walking on treadmill, covering 348 miles and 1.2 million steps in stress test.

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Chris Olah

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

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Michael Truell

CEO at Cursor

CEO of AI coding startup Cursor, which raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation and stated the company is not looking to IPO soon.

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Alex Karp

CEO at Palantir

Palantir CEO and vocal proponent of protecting U.S. interests and AI collaboration against adversaries; CEO of company winning $10 billion Army contract.

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Tom Brown

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

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Jack Dorsey

Founder at Buzz

Founded Block, which released Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained on human speech running on a single GPU rack.

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Aidan Gomez

Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere

Argued against dominant Silicon Valley firms setting global AI regulations, proposing evidence-based frameworks for AI governance without antitrust exemptions.

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Clem Delangue

Co-founder and CEO at Hugging Face

Clem Delangue discussed open-source AI, the growth of AI builders, and Hugging Face's robotics initiatives including Reachy Mini.

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Jarred Sumner

Founder at Bun

Creator of Bun now at Anthropic discussing how AI writes most code but testing remains important for production software.

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Aravind Srinivas

CEO at Perplexity

Led Perplexity's $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Google's Chrome browser to capitalize on the AI search race.

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François Chollet

Founder at ARC Prize

ARC Prize chief analyzing Astra's benchmark results and moving up AGI forecast due to efficiency gains.

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Patrick Collison

Co-founder and CEO at Stripe

Stripe CEO announcing acquisition of OpenRouter AI model gateway.

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Arthur Mensch

CEO at Mistral AI

CEO of Mistral AI who gave a speech to France's National Assembly arguing against France becoming a US vassal state via foreign AI use.

Danny Aziz

General Manager of Spiral at Every

Built Spiral, an AI writing tool informed by editorial tastes that helps users think better and write better, and trains models to produce stellar copy.

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Jared Kaplan

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

Mati Staniszewski

Co-founder and CEO at ElevenLabs

Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, discussed how the company built a frontier audio AI business with over 400 people and $400M+ in revenue, focusing on voice as the primary interface for agents and robots.

Oriol Vinyals

Senior Research Scientist and Co-founder at Discovery Loop

Co-founding Discovery Loop alongside Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.

Scott Wu

Cofounder and CEO at Cognition

Discussed the future of programming with AI coding agents and believes we may already be living with AGI.

David Holz

CEO at Midjourney

Founder of Midjourney announced acquisition of Co-Star app.

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Harrison Chase

Co-Founder and CEO at LangChain

Tweeted that AI infrastructure has finally achieved stability after years of rapid evolution, as discussed by swyx.

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Brian Chesky

Co-founder and CEO at Airbnb

Airbnb CEO stating company relies heavily on Alibaba's Qwen models for AI customer service, finding them superior to OpenAI integration.

David Silver

Founder and UCL Professor at Ineffable Intelligence

UCL professor and former DeepMind reinforcement learning team lead; founded Ineffable Intelligence which raised $1.1B seed funding and partnered with Nvidia.

Guillermo Rauch

Chief Executive Officer at Vercel

Captured that the fundamental coding agent abstraction is the CLI, rooted in agents needing access to the OS layer.

Noah Shinn

Founder at Instinct

Founder of Instinct AI agent startup that raised $1B in Series C funding at $10B valuation.

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder at Prentis

Co-founded Prentis, an AI research lab focused on computer use models, in talks to raise $100 million.

Sanjay Ghemawat

Co-founder at Discovery Loop

Google Fellow leaving with Jeff Dean to form Discovery Loop, an AI-focused public benefit corporation building AI solutions for machine learning and scientific discovery.

Travis Kalanick

Founder and CEO at Atoms

Founded Atoms, a physical AI company focused on automating industrial sectors including food production, mining, and transport through specialized robotics.

Jeff Bezos

Founder at Blue Origin

Mentioned as the founder of Blue Origin, which also aspires to support NASA's Mars ambitions with its own MTO design

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Diogo Almeida

Founder at TypeSafe AI

Founded TypeSafe AI and developed Jev, a new class of structured decision models optimized for automation, after previously working on ChatGPT methods at OpenAI.

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Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder and CEO at Databricks

Leading Databricks as it raises $5 billion at $190 billion valuation with $7 billion revenue run-rate.

Benjamin Mann

Co-founder at Anthropic

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting coordinated frontier AI development governance.

Brendan Foody

CEO at Mercor

Founded Mercor at age 22, becoming the youngest unicorn founder ever; the company hires experts who train frontier AI models.

Claire Vo

CPO at LaunchDarkly

Tested GLM-5.2 model on real production tasks including codebase architecture audit and autonomous debugging, processing 6 million tokens for $3.36 total cost.

Pietro Schirano

Founder and CEO at MagicPath

Creator and developer who built Reminders extension for ChatGPT using MCP protocol, reporting 2000% growth after plugin announcement.

Quoc Le

Co-founder at Discovery Loop

Co-founding Discovery Loop alongside Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Oriol Vinyals to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.

Brian Armstrong

CEO at Coinbase

Confirmed Coinbase updated its internal LLM routing to deploy GLM-5.2 and Kimi-K2.7 as defaults for programming tasks, cutting AI spend nearly in half.

Dharmesh Shah

Co-founder at HubSpot

Spent $700,000 on the you.ai web address for an idea to create digital versions of people that could do tasks on their behalf.

John Collison

Co-founder and President at Stripe

Co-founder of Stripe interviewed Sam Altman on a podcast about AI developments, PHP vulnerabilities, agents, compute, and business implications of AI.

Jonathan Ross

CEO at NVIDIA

Founder and CEO of Groq who designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU) from first principles for inference optimization, formerly architect of Google's TPU.

Josh Miller

CEO at The Browser Company

Josh Miller co-founded The Browser Company and pivoted from Arc browser to build AI browser Dia.

Matt Shumer

CEO at OthersideAI

Founded Fable, which created an AI-powered persistent multiplayer world set in NYC that dynamically evolves in real-time.

Priscilla Chan

Co-Founder at Biohub

Explained Biohub's mission to make AI tools freely available for protein biology research and drug discovery.

Timnit Gebru

Founder and Executive Director at The Distributed AI Research Institute

Warned about the real danger of systematizing discrimination through AI technologies and the need to be explicit about error rates in algorithms.

Vijaye Raji

CTO of Applications at OpenAI

Joined OpenAI as CTO of Applications following Statsig acquisition, will head product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.

Andrew Feldman

CEO at Cerebras Systems

Announced Cerebras raised $1.1 billion at $8.1 billion valuation to expand AI inference infrastructure and manufacturing capacity.

Edward Hughes

Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Inherent

DeepMind alumni co-founder and chief scientist of Inherent; says AI agent Faraday outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at replicating scientific research.

Gabe Pereyra

Co-founder at Harvey AI

Co-author of Harvey Tenet post-training research on Kimi K3 for legal AI.

Garry Tan

President & CEO at Y Combinator

Y Combinator president arguing that AI-native companies treat agents as workforce, replacing traditional org charts with resolver tables.

Ion Stoica

Co-founder at Databricks

Advisor to PrismML, the AI lab founded by Caltech researchers that created efficient language models for smart glasses.

Jack Clark

Co-founder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic discussing the evolution of AI from reinforcement learning agents to large-scale pre-trained models

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Joseph E Gonzalez

Associate Professor at RunLLM

Co-advisor on PixelRAG research at Berkeley SkyLab demonstrating visual retrieval improvements.

Julien Chaumond

Co-founder at Hugging Face

Co-founder of Hugging Face, founded in 2016 with focus on open models hub.

Matt Schlicht

Creator at OpenClaw/MoltBot

Matt Schlicht, creator of Moltbook, has been working on autonomous AI agents since 2023 and launched Moltbook as a social network for AI agents, now joining Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Mike Cannon-Brookes

CEO and co-founder at Atlassian

Atlassian CEO discussing how the company has managed to grow Rovo AI usage 50% quarter-on-quarter while maintaining margins.

Misha Laskin

Founder at Reflection AI

Founded Reflection AI, valued at $8 billion, to provide an open-source American alternative to Chinese AI models after working as a theoretical physicist and machine learning engineer who helped create some of Google's most powerful AI models.

Nityesh Agarwal

Co-founder at Every

Nityesh Agarwal built Claudie, an AI agent, and discusses AI agent management practices.

Pedro Franceschi

Co-founder and Co-CEO at Brex

Announced restructuring and layoffs at Brex while emphasizing building high-velocity company focused on AI-native operations.

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Pim de Witte

Co-founder and CEO at General Intuition

Founded and leads General Intuition, which announced a $320M Series A at $2.3B valuation for developing large action models trained on gameplay data.

Richard Socher

CEO/Co-Founder at Recursive

Richard Socher, CEO of Recursive, announced a $410M multi-year agreement with AWS to run the company's automated AI research system.

Ryan Merket

Founder at RuntimeWire

Serial entrepreneur operating an AI newsroom that uses synthetic agents to find, draft, edit, fact-check, and publish news stories autonomously.

Tang Jie

Founder at Zhipu

Founder of Zhipu AI outlining the company's strategic direction toward AGI through long-horizon tasks, autonomous agents, and self-evolution.

Thore Graepel

CEO & Co-Founder at Metis Reasoning

Co-author of DeepMind research examining pathways toward artificial superintelligence.

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Wojciech Zaremba

Co-founder at OpenAI

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting coordinated pacing of frontier AI development.

Andrew Ng

Founder at DeepLearning.AI

Referenced in the course conclusion section regarding AI news and updates from DeepLearning.AI

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Avi Schiffmann

CEO at Friend

24-year-old entrepreneur who built Friend AI pendant wearable and paid $1.8 million for Friend.com domain.

Chris Pedregal

Cofounder and CEO at Granola

Pedregal leads Granola, an AI-powered notepad for meetings that has grown its user base by 5x since launch in May 2024 and recently raised a $20 million Series A.

Cody Tranbarger

Founder, CEO at Mithril Medicine

Founder of Mithril Medicine who used Claude to coordinate drug research labs and advance muscular dystrophy treatment to promising mouse results in under 18 months.

Dean Leitersdorf

Co-founder and CEO at Decart

Created Mirage, the only real-time video-to-video model in the world, with his team raising $100M at a $3.1B valuation.

Ege Erdil

Co-founder at Mechanize

Co-founder of Mechanize startup building virtual environments and training data for AI agents in software development.

Jeff Hawke

Co-founder at Odyssey

Co-author introducing Odyssey-3, a general-purpose physical intelligence foundation world model.

Josh Payne

CEO and Founder at Nscale

CEO and Founder of Nscale who announced the $2 billion Series C funding and vision for AI infrastructure buildout.

Liam Fedus

ex-VP of Post-training at Periodic Labs

Former OpenAI VP and co-founder of Periodic Labs, materials-science AI startup in talks at $7B valuation.

Lin Qiao

Co-founder and CEO at Fireworks

Lin Qiao leads Fireworks AI, an AI inference platform company that is seeking funding at a $15 billion valuation.

Mike Knoop

Co-Founder at ARC Prize

Provided early review of ARC-AGI-3 benchmark analysis and performance evaluation.

Ray Dalio

Founder at Bridgewater Associates

Billionaire investor who warned that current AI investment levels are very similar to the dot-com bubble and predicted the 2008 financial crisis.

Robert Wachen

President at Etched

Etched COO who was Uberti's roommate and dropped out of Harvard to pursue the company; previously stated investors enthusiastic due to new chip components designed to speed up inference.

Robin Rombach

Co-founder at Black Forest Labs

Created Stable Diffusion and founded Black Forest Labs, demonstrating researcher-to-founder pathway in generative AI.

Soumith Chintala

CTO at Thinking Machines Lab

Co-creator of PyTorch and CTO at Thinking Machines Lab, part of the team that developed TML-Interaction-Small interaction model.

Steve Jobs

Co-founder at Apple

Apple co-founder whose design philosophy on privacy shaped the company; died in 2011.

Varun Mohan

Co-founder and CEO at Google

CEO of AI coding startup Windsurf acquired by Google in $2.4 billion deal; now working in Google DeepMind on agentic coding projects.

Vik Bajaj

Co-CEO at Project Prometheus

Former Google X executive co-leading Prometheus with Bezos to develop AI for engineering and manufacturing applications.

Winston Weinberg

CEO at Harvey AI

Leader of Harvey AI legal platform securing $200M funding to expand AI agents for legal work across law firms and enterprises.

Yash Poojary

General Manager at Sparkle

Rebuilt Sparkle from the ground up in 14 days using AI, transitioning from Electron framework to improve the file management application.

Zhang Yiming

Founder at ByteDance

Personally directing development of a real-time spatial-video world model built on Seedance technology for interactive 3D environments.

Anastasios Angelopoulos

Cofounder at LMArena

Anastasios Angelopoulos co-founded Arena and leads work on Chatbot Arena, an AI evaluation platform that measures model quality through human preferences and real-world utility.

Anastasis Germanidis

Co-founder and Co-CEO at Runway

Discussed how Runway's visual-generating AI world models are being used by robotics and self-driving car companies for training simulations.

Angela Jiang

Founder at Worktrace AI

Anthropic product leader who discusses how the company develops and ships Claude, the company's flagship LLM.

Arkady Volozh

Founder and CEO at Nebius

Announced $17.4B multi-year AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft for GPU capacity and services.

Ben Hylak

Cofounder at Raindrop AI

Ben Hylak co-authored the announcement of Raindrop's Signals 2.0 model for production-scale classification.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk

ex-Head of Quantum Materials at Periodic Labs

Ex-DeepMind researcher and co-founder of Periodic Labs, materials-science AI startup in talks at $7B valuation.

Eline van der Velden

CEO at Xicoia

Van der Velden is a former actor who created AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood and is developing the film Misaligned to demonstrate AI filmmaking capabilities.

Eugenia Kuyda

Founder at Wabi

Founded Wabi multiplayer personal AI assistant; previously founded Luka and Replika; launched Wabi with multithreaded agentic design.

Gavin Uberti

CEO at Etched

Co-founder of Etched AI chip startup who met Chris Zhu in advanced math course at Harvard and dropped out to pursue the company.

Ioannis Antonoglou

Co-Founder at Reflection AI

Co-founder of Reflection AI, former DeepMind researcher, signed $6.3B compute deal with SpaceX.

Jeff Holden

Founder at Atomic Machines

Founded Atomic Machines to build the Matter Compiler, an AI-native manufacturing system; previously Amazon's 10th engineer and Uber's first CPO.

Jie Tang

Founder at Z.ai

Prof Jie Tang made predictions about open-weight models reaching Fable-class by year end and discussed scaling laws beyond parameter count.

John Furrier

Co-founder at SiliconANGLE

Co-founder of SiliconANGLE who published analysis of CrowdStrike's SafeMind announcement.

Larry Page

Co-founder at Google

Reportedly stated internally that he is willing to risk the company going bankrupt rather than lose the competitive AI race.

Matan Grinberg

CEO and cofounder at Factory

CEO of Factory AI startup who accused VC Chris Degnan of sharing confidential information with competitor Cognition.

Matthew Barnett

Co-founder at Mechanize

Co-founder of Mechanize, an AI coding startup developing agent training infrastructure and benchmarks.

Max Junestrand

CEO and Co-Founder at Legora

Announced Legora's acquisition of Wexler and Qura, and Series E funding round at $8.8 billion valuation with $200M+ ARR.

Max Tegmark

Founder at Future of Life Institute

Scheduled to participate in a September 16 bipartisan briefing on AI safety organized by Bernie Sanders.

Mikey Shulman

Co-founder and CEO at Suno

Announced $250 million fundraise led by Menlo Ventures and discussed empowering artists through AI music creation tools.

Nikita Bier

Head of Product at X at X

Posted about Grok app builder allowing creation of games and apps shared directly to X timeline with AI assistance.

Nir Zicherman

CEO and Cofounder at Oboe

Discussed how to use LLMs to teach yourself anything and why learning with AI often fails.

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Parag Agrawal

Founder & CEO at Parallel Web Systems

CEO of AI agent web-search/research API startup Parallel that raised $100M Series B at $2B valuation led by Sequoia.

Ross Girshick

Co-founder at Vercept

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting deliberate pacing of frontier AI capabilities.

Stanislav Fort

Founder and Chief Scientist at Aisle

Tested Anthropic's Mythos cybersecurity model vulnerabilities on small open-weights models and found they recovered similar analysis results.

Thomas Dohmke

Former CEO, Founder at Entire

Launched Entire with a $60 million seed round to build a new developer platform and open-sourced a CLI that records full AI agent sessions inside Git.

Tim Rocktäschel

Founder at Recursive Superintelligence

Left Google DeepMind to help found Recursive Superintelligence pursuing AI that can improve itself.

Yang Zhilin

CEO at Moonshot AI

Yang Zhilin is a co-founder of Moonshot AI focused on reinforcement learning and deep technical understanding of AI model development.

Zach Lloyd

CEO at Warp

Discussed Warp Factories, a new system for deploying AI software factories and agents in development workflows.

Zach Mink

Journalist/Editor at The Rundown AI

Co-byline author of AI security newsletter covering malicious AI attacks.

Zach Yadegari

Co-founder and CEO at Cal AI

19-year-old co-founder who built Cal AI to 15 million downloads and $30 million annual revenue before being acquired by MyFitnessPal.

Adam Jelley

Co-founder at General Intuition

Co-developed DIAMOND paper; now co-founder at General Intuition.

Ahmed Beshry

Founder at NextSlide

Founder of NextSlide startup acquired by OpenAI to work on ChatGPT capabilities.

Alex Rattray

Founder and CEO at Stainless

Founded Stainless, a leader in SDKs and MCP server tooling, which was acquired by Anthropic to advance Claude's agent connectivity.

Andrew Bialecki

co-founder and co-CEO at Klaviyo

Quoted explaining how Klaviyo connected to Muse helps small businesses understand and personalize experiences for their customers.

Andrew Dai

Co-founder/CEO at Elorian AI

Co-founder of Trajectory with 14+ years at Google DeepMind leading data and pre-training for Gemini model family.

Andy Fang

Member of Technical Staff at DoorDash

Evaluating Claude Managed Agents with Modal for agentic commerce at scale.

Ankur Goyal

Founder at Braintrust

Co-authored article explaining Braintrust's custom database architecture (Brainstore) built for AI observability workloads.

Anton Osika

CEO at Lovable

Led Lovable to nearly 8 million users in its first year, with the company raising $228 million and seeing 100,000 new products built daily on the platform.

Ari Weinstein

Co-Founder and CEO at Software Applications Incorporated

OpenAI team member working on Computer Use and Appshots for Codex, mentioned to follow for updates.

Ayah Bdeir

CEO at Current AI

CEO of nonprofit Current AI building public AI infrastructure; previously led Mozilla's AI strategy and founded littleBits.

Babak Hassibi

Co-Founder and CEO at Prism ML

Cofounder and CEO of PrismML, developing 1-bit efficient vision-language models for on-device AI on smart glasses.

Ben Cera

Founder at Polsia

Founder of Polsia who raised $30M at $250M valuation claiming $10M ARR with one human and zero employees using AI agents.

Ben Spector

Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes

Co-founded an AI research lab with $180 million in seed funding focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI.

Chris Lattner

Creator at Qualcomm

Announced that Mojo and MAX are now fully open for development, extension, and commercial use including the language, compiler and runtime internals.

Chris Sestito

Co-Founder & CEO at HiddenLayer

CEO of HiddenLayer announcing $100M Series B funding for AI security platform.

Daniel Roberts

Cofounder and Co-CEO at IREN

Partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate deployment of large-scale AI factories using IREN's vertically integrated platform.

David Reger

Founder and CEO at NEURA Robotics

Leader of Neura Robotics announcing $1.4B Series C financing and discussing AI's future in physical systems.

David Reich

Founder & CEO at Fambot

Former Uber product head who co-founded Fambot to help parents manage family life using AI agents.

Dax Raad

Founder at OpenCode

Created OpenCode as open-source terminal-based coding agent compatible across models; disclosed Ox Alpha processing 26 trillion tokens.

Duy Nguyen

Co-Founder, Operations at Mecka AI

Co-founder of Mecka AI focusing on operations for the robotics motion data startup.

Eloi Alonso

Co-founder at General Intuition

Co-developed IRIS and DIAMOND papers that advanced generative World Models; now co-founder at General Intuition.

Eric Zelikman

CEO and co-founder at humans&

Departed xAI and is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup Humans&, which will build models that learn from and empathize with users.

Evan Wallace

Co-founder at Figma

Co-founder of Figma who started the company with Dylan Field at Brown University.

Gal Niv

co-founder at Enigma

Co-founder of Enigma robotics startup, former Unit 8200 cybersecurity researcher who developed robotic arms and underlying AI models with Jonathan Jacobi.

Grace Li

Co-founder at Intelligence

Founded Design Arena, an AI feedback platform used by 5.3 million people that helps models improve through human judgment on visual outputs.

Greg Karlin

CTO at Fambot

Former Instagram engineer who co-founded Fambot, an AI family organizer assistant.

Hassaan Raza

Co-Founder & CEO at Tavus

Co-founder leading Tavus research on Griffin Human Interaction Model for real-time face-to-face AI interaction.

Henry Langmack

Co-founder at Cal AI

Co-founded Cal AI as a high school student, building an AI calorie counting app that reached $30 million in annual revenue.

Ivan Zhao

CEO at Notion

Building Notion AI as an example of AI Engineer productizing foundation models.

Jack Ma

Founder at Ant Group

Founder of Ant Group mentioned in context of the company's AI expansion efforts.

James Manning

Cofounder and CEO at Sharon AI

Deploying up to 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs and leading Sharon AI's effort to bring gigawatt-scale AI factories to Australia.

Jason Morrow

Co-founder at Fambot

Former Google and LinkedIn employee who co-founded Fambot, an AI family organizer startup.

Jimmy Ba

Co-founder at xAI

Respected researcher who announced exit from xAI earlier this year after helping co-found the company.

Joe Lonsdale

General Partner at 8VC

Palantir co-founder who donated to Leading the Future PAC for AI regulation efforts.

Johannes Landgraf

Co-Founder and CEO at Ona

Co-founder of Ona, acquired by OpenAI to provide secure cloud execution and orchestration technology for the Codex ecosystem.

Jonathan Hurst

Co-Founder and Chief Robot Officer at Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics cofounder and chief robot officer who explained how Digit 5 addresses safety and customer requirements.

Jonathan Jacobi

co-founder at Enigma

Microsoft's former youngest-ever employee co-founded Enigma, a robotics AI startup that raised $71M seed round to develop human-robot interaction interfaces.

Jure Leskovec

Chief Scientist, Co-Founder at Unite.AI

Co-author on Kumo Relational foundation model for relational databases.

Kevin Mandia

CEO at Armadin

Former military cybersecurity expert who founded Armadin, an offensive-security startup that uses AI agents to conduct simulated attack campaigns for Fortune 500 enterprises and government customers.

Kiana Ehsani

CEO at Vercept

CEO of Vercept who announced the acquisition via LinkedIn post and disclosed the startup had raised $50M total.

Luca Weihs

Co-founder at Vercept

Co-founder of Vercept joining Anthropic as part of the acquisition.

Martin Tisné

CEO of the AI Collaborative at Current AI

Founded Current AI nonprofit in February 2025 to build open public AI infrastructure.

Naveen Rao

Founder and CEO at Unconventional AI

Founded Unconventional AI to develop oscillator-based computer architecture for more power-efficient AI inference, claiming up to 1,000x improvement over conventional systems.

Nikita Rudin

Co-Founder & CEO at Flexion

Discussed collaboration with Odyssey on humanoid control policies and robot learning.

Noah Brier

Cofounder at Alephic

Pioneered using Claude Code as a research and thinking partner integrated with Obsidian, and leads AI strategy consulting for marketing organizations.

Oliver Curtis

Co-Chief Executive Officer at Firmus

Leading Project Southgate initiative to develop NVIDIA-powered AI factories across Australia and Asia-Pacific.

Peter Beck

CEO at Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab CEO discusses the company's capability to handle NASA's Mars Sample Return mission and expresses enthusiasm about potential Martian biosignature discovery.

Philip Johnston

CEO at Starcloud

Explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade, discussing space-based data centers and their economics.

Piotr Dąbkowski

Co-Founder; CTO at ElevenLabs

Co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022, the voice AI startup seeking a $22 billion valuation.

Rajiv Dattani

Co-founder at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

Former METR COO who co-founded AIUC to audit AI agents against safety standards.

Ross Nordeen

Cofounder at xAI

Announced 'Grok for Government' program delivering AI capabilities to federal agencies with dedicated engineering support.

Sam McCandlish

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

Sara Hooker

Co-founder and CEO at Adaption

Introduced AutoScientist, a tool that helps AI models train themselves through automated fine-tuning and co-optimization of data and models.

Simon Hørup Eskildsen

CEO and Co-founder at Turbopuffer

Founded Turbopuffer, a search engine for unstructured data built on object storage and NVMe architecture, after identifying a cost problem while working with Readwise on recommendation features.

Sualeh Asif

Co-founder at Cursor

Co-authored Cursor 3 announcement introducing new unified workspace for building software with agents.

Tomas Reimers

Co-founder at Graphite

Announced Origin, a version control system built with agents in mind with API/SDK/MCP support at Cursor's Compile conference.

Tony Wu

Co-founder at xAI

Departed xAI during recent months-long exodus of founding team members.

Vincent Micheli

Co-founder at General Intuition

Co-developed IRIS and DIAMOND papers that advanced generative World Models; now co-founder at General Intuition.

Wang Xingxing

Founder at Unitree Robotics

Founded Unitree humanoid robot company; stake now worth over $11 billion after 460% surge in Shanghai IPO; claimed industry is on cusp of 'ChatGPT moment' in robotics.

Wei-Lin Chiang

Cofounder at LMArena

Co-founded Arena AI evaluation platform that reached $100M annualized revenue.

Xiao Hong

CEO at Manus

Founded Manus agentic AI startup that was acquired by Meta but blocked by China's NDRC.

Yifei Chen

Co-founder at Ghost

24-year-old co-founder of Ghost, involved in building the Core personal AI computer.

Yu Liu

Regional Account Director at Heidi Health

Using NVIDIA Nemotron models to build voice-driven AI for healthcare with clinical training capabilities.

Zain Javaid

Founder at Ghost

19-year-old founder of Ghost, a startup that raised $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build Core, a personal AI computer.

Zhou Hongyi

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Qihoo 360 Technology

CEO of cybersecurity company Qihoo 360 claimed the company developed an AI system called Tulongfeng that matches the capabilities of Anthropic's Claude Mythos.

Aakash Thumaty

Founder at TakeOff

Founder of long-horizon agent startup TakeOff explaining why joining Sierra accelerated their growth vision.

Aidan Smith

Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes

Co-founded an AI research lab focused on data efficiency problems in AI.

Alex Kendall

Co-founder and CEO at Wayve

Announced Wayve's autonomous driving technology launch on Uber in London with the Wayve AI Driver.

Alex Ksendzovsky

Chief Executive and co-founder at The Biological Computing Co.

Chief executive of startup that grows living neurons to improve AI models, partnering with AWS to bring neuron-derived video model to customers.

Alex Mashrabov

Co-founder and CEO at Higgsfield AI

Founded Higgsfield in 2023, former Snap executive leading AI video generation platform that raised $400M Series B at $5.4B valuation.

Alex Zhavoronkov

Founder and CEO at Insilico Medicine

Founded Insilico Medicine, which used AI to design rentosertib, an experimental drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that showed signs of reversing aging markers.

Alfred Wahlforss

CEO & Co-Founder at Listen Labs

Previously founded staffing startup Bemlo; co-founded Listen Labs with Florian Jüngermann at Harvard.

Ali Agha

Founder and CEO at Field AI

Founder and CEO describing the funding as an inflection point for scalable robotic autonomy and the company's mission to democratize general-purpose robotics.

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Amit Agarwal

CEO and Founder at Standard Template Labs

Founded Standard Template Labs, an AI-first IT service management startup, and previously spent 13+ years at Datadog as President and Chief Product Officer.