People in AI

Co-founder of Sakana AI, the Japanese AI startup that reached unicorn status

Founder and CEO of Learned Hand, the AI tool being tested by California courts to help judges draft orders and research memos.

Former Meta AI researcher who helped develop Llama LLMs and co-founded Axiom Math to create specialized math AI models.

Shuzo Narita

Founder

CEO at MW

CEO of Japanese startup MW developing Iron Man-inspired homes with ceiling-mounted robotic arms as alternative to humanoids.

Cybersecurity entrepreneur and CEO of Cymphony, spent nearly six years in Israeli Unit 8200 as Head of Cyber Department.

Siddhartha Jha, a former Citadel strategist, founded Arbol in 2018 and launched a new insurance policy protecting data center developers against regulatory delays.

Co-founder of Legora involved in announcing acquisitions of Wexler and Qura and Series E funding round.

Founder of Latent Labs with offices in King's Cross and San Francisco, bullish on London becoming a default place to start serious AI companies.

Simon Mo

Founder

CEO at Inferact

CEO of Inferact and one of vLLM's original creators; confirmed existing users include Amazon and shopping apps.

CEO of Tripo AI who demonstrated the company's 3D generation models and vibe coding tools at GDC.

Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher and founder of Isomorphic Labs using AI for drug discovery.

Co-founder and Chief Corporate Development Officer of Volta, focusing on AI infrastructure financing and deployment at scale.

Founded health app Slothwise featured in Medicare App Library; claims app built by physicians and researchers but team size and qualifications remain unclear.

Soumya Sharma

Founder

Founder at Livo AI

Healthcare-focused AI founder who criticized security-driven session closures and operational lapses that prevented broad participation.

Stanislas Polu

Founder

Co-Founder at Dust

Co-founded Dust after previous experience as research engineer at OpenAI.

Stella Garber

Founder

Cofounder at Hoop

Led her startup through a data crisis when Slack cut off data access and pivoted the company to become AI-native.

Instant co-founder whose team was acquired by OpenAI for AI agent infrastructure.

Stephen Chau

Founder

Cove

Announced that the Cove team is joining Microsoft after building AI collaboration tools.

Stephen Scheeler

Founder

CEO at Omniscient Neurotechnology

Leading a neuroscience startup that uses AI to decode the human brain by mapping brain connections, receiving $20 million investment from NRF.

Stephen Zerfas

Founder

Cofounder at Jhourney

Discussed making Jhana meditation accessible through AI and described meditation practices on podcast.

Steve Ruiz

Founder

startup founder at Tldraw

Author of "Tldraw is Not Accepting Pull Requests From External Contributors Anymore"

Founder of Downshift deaccelerator, uses ChatGPT for Jungian dreamwork and active imagination exercises

Slack cofounder who left within years of Salesforce acquisition

Co-founder of Merge Labs who has pioneered new approaches to brain-computer interfaces.

Co-founder and CEO of Rebellions, an AI inference infrastructure company raising $400M in pre-IPO funding.

Founder and CEO of Ema, scaling AI Employees that automate enterprise HR, IT, and finance workflows across Fortune 500 companies.

Co-founder and CEO of Wiliot discussing strategic investment from Avery Dennison and Physical AI adoption.

Founded AI detection company acquired by Warner Music Group to trace how copyrighted music is used in AI training.

Tanay Kothari

Founder

CEO at Wispr

Co-founder and CEO of Wispr who launched an Advanced Interfaces Lab and aims to build an AI assistant similar to Jarvis from Iron Man.

Tao Zhang

Founder

Co-founder at Manus

Co-founded Manus agentic AI startup acquired by Meta.

16-year-old founder who created Shield Seniors, an AI-powered platform to help seniors identify and report online scams after her grandfather nearly fell victim to one.

Teknium

Founder

Co-Founder & Head of Post-Training at Nous Research

Led deployment of 1,393 agents to refactor Hermes open-source agent codebase, reducing non-test Python source by 34.4% for approximately $25K in model costs.

Tete Xiao

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Prompt AI

Co-founder and CEO of Prompt AI, a computer vision startup being acquired by Apple; has PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley

Published tsc-rs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler built by Claude Opus 5.5, achieving 181,711 passing tests.

Founded HUMXN lab offering free plumbing and HVAC repairs to gather real-world data for training AI robots.

Mistral AI Co-Founder and CTO who led discussions with Koyeb leadership about shared infrastructure vision

Tim Stuart is the CEO of AMP, the Colorado-based company that developed the AI-powered sorting systems for municipal solid waste.

Tobias Giesen provided a quote about Viktor, an AI coworker tool.

Co-founder of Third Dimension AI, acquired by Rivian to power autonomous driving simulation and synthetic data generation.

Toon Overbeeke, CEO of Vitestro, announced FDA authorization for Aletta, the world's first autonomous robotic phlebotomy device.

Co-founder of Fractional AI; later founded healthcare data logistics company Datavant.

Discussed how foundation model companies are incentivized to disclose security findings to get ahead of lawmakers and regulators.

Previously covered in Andreessen Horowitz discussions about the modern data stack transformation.

Tuomas Haarnoja

Founder

Co-founder at Eka Robotics

Former Google DeepMind researcher co-founding Eka Robotics to advance reinforcement learning for robot control at scale.

Tyler Chen

Founder

CEO at Subtle

CEO of Subtle who demonstrated the Voicebuds at CES, which use AI to transcribe whispered speech and filter noisy environments.

Co-founder of Merge Labs who has pioneered new approaches to brain-computer interfaces.

Tyson Chen

Founder

Founder and Co-CEO at Avoca AI

Co-founder of Avoca describing the company's mission to bring AI to service businesses and operational infrastructure.

Umesh Kumar

Founder

CEO at Runable

Co-founder and CEO of Runable, an Indian AI startup that raised $21 million Series A funding to develop AI agents for customer acquisition and business growth.

Vasek Mlejnsky

Founder

Co-founder at E2B

Co-founder of E2B announcing E2B Embed, a sandboxing solution for agents that runs in customer environments.

Former OpenAI CTO now leading Thinking Machines startup set to operate with a full gigawatt of Nvidia compute starting early next year.

Founder of Moondream joining Prime Intellect to lead inference scaling and multimodal model development.

Vlad Ionescu

Founder

Co-founder and CTO at RunSybil

Co-founder and CTO of RunSybil who validated Big Sleep as a legitimate AI bug-hunting project

Co-founded AI startup Harmonic, which raised $120 million at $1.45 billion valuation to develop AI systems focused on mathematical reasoning and eliminating hallucinations.

Co-founder of legal AI platform stating company's code is nearly 100% AI-generated and predicting 80-90% of tasks will be fully autonomous within a year.

Stated that becoming the first homegrown company in the U.K. to receive a launch operator license is a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone at Skyrora.

Co-founder of The Software Toolworks.

Walter Goodwin

Founder

CEO & Founder, AI hardware at Fractile

Founded Fractile in 2022, a roboticist from University of Oxford designing AI inference chips.

Using OpenClaw to start her own business as a 'one-person company' where the AI agent runs 24/7.

Discussed Nvidia's role in controlling technology pace and market dynamics; noted company doesn't want to be an insurer but plays that role while industry matures.

Wayne Liang

Founder

Co-founder at HeyGen

HeyGen co-founder who created an AI clone of himself to handle customer calls during paternity leave, which closed 132 deals while occasionally going rogue.

Co-founder of Momentic announcing new autonomous QA testing platform update with AI-native engineering capabilities.

Founder of Maas Group leading $200M investment into Firmus Technologies AI factory business.

Co-founder at Arena graduating from Berkeley PhD program, works with researchers transitioning to CEO role.

Robotera co-founder whose company deployed humanoid robots in China Post and SF Holding logistics centers.

Co-founded NeoCognition with Yu Su to build specialized self-learning AI agents.

CEO discussing OSChina's MoArk platform competing with Alibaba's ModelScope as China's Hugging Face alternative.

Xue Qingheng, founder of humanoid robotics startup Intercity Technology Co., used the half-marathon as a stress test for his company's improved humanoid model Xiao Cheng.

Yair Saban co-founded and leads AIR, emerging from stealth with $50 million in funding to build a firewall for AI agents.

Stated company's mission is to secure AI and the data that powers it, joining Proofpoint to advance faster.

Yann Léger

Founder

Co-founder at Koyeb

Co-founder of Koyeb joining Mistral's engineering team as part of acquisition.

Founded Cypher AI in 2025 to build AI-native infrastructure for life science R&D.

Founder of Humwork A2P marketplace enabling AI agents to hand off to verified human experts when tasks exceed agent capability.

Yerzat Dulat

Founder

Co-founder at Higgsfield AI

Co-founder of Higgsfield AI with expertise in generative video technology.

Yichao Ji

Founder

Chief Scientist at Manus

Co-founder of Manus AI startup involved in Meta acquisition blocked by China.

Co-founder of Trajectory, formerly chief research scientist at Apple, focuses on visual reasoning in multimodal AI.

Harvard-trained engineer who founded HaloBraid, a startup developing a robotic hair-braiding device that accelerates the braiding process up to 5x faster.

Yoland Yan

Founder

Co-founder at ComfyUI

Co-founder of company helping studios manage multiple AI tools; noted studios hire for AI but avoid public discussion.

Co-founded Q.ai, an AI startup specializing in imaging and machine learning acquired by Apple for nearly $2 billion.

Yu Gu

Founder

Co-Founder at NeoCognition

Co-founded NeoCognition with Yu Su and Xiang Deng to advance specialized intelligence through AI agents.

Yu Su

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at NeoCognition

Founded NeoCognition, an AI agent lab, leading research on self-learning agents that develop world models of work environments.

Co-founded Tavily, a search engine designed for AI agents, which was acquired by Nebius for up to $400 million in February 2026.

Zach Rash

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Coco Robotics

Leading the startup's effort to use five years of robot data to accelerate automation and physical AI research.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Founder of King's Cross-based AI legal firm Centuro discussing whether globally significant AI companies will continue to be founded and scaled from the U.K.

Stated that AI threatens white-collar work while humanoid robotics could replace jobs requiring physical labor.

Announced strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots' hardware platform.

Founded ShengShu Technology in early 2023 as a Tsinghua University alum and led the company to become the first Chinese company to release a video generation model with Vidu.

Ziyou Xu is the Founder of RIC Robotics and advocates for construction robotics expanding design possibilities rather than limiting them.