People in AI

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

Clara Collier

Journalist

Writer at Asterisk Magazine

Conducted interview between Ajeya Cotra and Timothy B. Lee about self-sufficient AI.

Clifford Sosin

Investor

Investor at CAS Investment Partners

Sosin wrote about the limitations of intelligence and how machines fill gaps between facts in structured domains like coding but face limits with complex real-world phenomena.

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.

Priceline executive who discussed building Penny, an AI assistant for complex trip planning, on Claude for its reasoning capabilities.

Cole Killian

Researcher

AI Safety Researcher at Anthropic

Co-led research project on AI agents exploiting smart contracts, developing the SCONE-bench benchmark comprising 405 exploited contracts.

Cole Stryker

Creator

Editorial Lead, AI Models at Newsletter/Publication

Co-authored an article about AI orchestration and how AI becomes the computer through multi-model coordination.

Robotics pioneer behind Roomba now working on soft, four-legged AI pet robot called Familiar that can follow people, respond to them, and learn their daily habits.

Co-author of Pew Research study on American AI adoption and trust.

Study co-author and professor of language and translation technologies who led development of the AI transcription system for UK Supreme Court hearings.

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

Cory Weinberg

Other

covering AI at The Information

Left The Information to join New York Times, where he will cover AI and Anthropic in San Francisco.

Security researcher quoted by The Guardian on the race to exploit vulnerabilities after patches are public and calling it a potential mass compromise.

Chief Product Officer discussing Yelp's AI video generation strategy and user controls

Cristóbal Valenzuela

Founder

Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Runway

Announced expanded partnership with Lionsgate to co-develop new IP using Runway's generative AI technology, emphasizing AI as a creative resource.

Cullen O'Keefe, a safety researcher at OpenAI, left the company as part of the recent departures.

Author of detailed hands-on comparison of Qwen3.8, Qwen3.6, and Gemma 4 models on a 24GB GPU, providing comprehensive benchmarking across coding, reasoning, and document tasks.

Discussed need for AI literacy for teachers and new pedagogical models like hard fun.

Daisy Zhao

Investor

Andreessen Horowitz

Co-author of the article analyzing the top 100 Gen AI consumer apps

Khurana spent years working on the Unitary Synthesis Problem and believed in the positive answer that the AI model eventually proved.

Daman Arora

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Author on arXiv paper on unified training for foundation models in a single pass.

Co-author of LeWorldModel paper on joint-embedding predictive architectures from pixels.

Expanding AI-ready powered shells with direct-to-chip liquid-cooling infrastructure for high-density AI workloads.

Damon Binder analyzes how AGI reaching cognitive work automation would lead to robots proliferating and setting off an industrial explosion.

Dan Alistarh

Researcher

Professor at Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs and RCO model compression research.

Emphasized ubiquity of AI agents in every process and expectations for digital assistance in workplace.

Dan Koe

Creator

Writer at Eden

Creator and founder of Eden who published an essay about the most lucrative AI business to start in 2027, focusing on personal branding and creator economy strategies.

Dan Lahav

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at Irregular

Founded Israeli cybersecurity testing startup Irregular three years ago; previously worked in AI research at IBM.

Co-author of 'Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT' who argues AI can be good or bad for learning depending on how it's used.

Described his decision to ship fixed PHP builds early after an embargo was broken on critical PHP vulnerabilities.

Dan Luu

Journalist

Writer at Independent

Author of the newsletter article examining benchmarking and evaluation methodologies in AI models and systems.

Reported on NeurIPS 2025 study showing how fine-tuning small numbers of weights in AI models can unlock hidden skills.

Former CEO of PayPal, came out of retirement to lead Verizon's transformation focusing on culture change and AI adoption in the telecom industry.

Dan Smith

Creator

Musician at Bastille

Quoted expressing support for price caps on ticket resales

Dan Taylor

Executive

VP, Google Ads at Google

Dan Taylor stated in January that there were no ads in Google's Gemini app.

Dan Williams from Delta-v Capital led HiddenLayer's $100 million Series B funding round and commented on the company's platform.

Moshkovitz worked on the Unique Games Conjecture for her entire career before OpenAI's AI model solved it, finding the proof difficult to understand.

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

Daniel Adonai

Executive

Google Labs

Co-author of the article about Pomelli

Co-authored a report on AI and the future of terrorism released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discussing how terrorist groups are mixing and matching different AI systems.

CEO of UiPath who conducted insider share sales totaling over $1.4 million, contributing to stock decline concerns.

Co-author on scaling test-time compute for agentic coding research.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Daniel Khashabi

Researcher

University Professor at Johns Hopkins

Author on arXiv paper on unified training for foundation models in a single pass.

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Reporter at The Information covered DeepSeek's $1B annualized revenue run rate and 50 billion yuan funding round at 500 billion yuan valuation.

Czech ice dancer and sibling partner who performed with AI-generated music at the Olympics.

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

Byline author reporting on xAI's property purchase offers near its Mississippi data center facility.

Author of "ByteDance Unveils China's Most Affordable AI Coding Agent at Just US$1.30 a Month" in South China Morning Post

Researcher cited for proposing AI agents as aeroplanes for the mind and pilot-in-command science.

Author of "Alibaba Wants Developers Building Robots, Not Just Apps"

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

DCL Logistics president who discussed SaaS fatigue and the value of platform consolidation in fleet operations.

Dave Vellante

Founder

Co-founder at SiliconANGLE

Analyzed CrowdStrike's SafeMind keynote and called it the strongest Fal.Con keynote in five years.

Bermbach discussed ARRI's partnership with HONOR to bring professional cinema workflows to smartphone imaging.

Reporter covering debate among scientists about whether research papers should be reformatted for AI agents rather than humans.

David Brown

Executive

Vice President, Compute & ML Services at Amazon Web Services

Announced AWS and Cerebras partnership deploying CS-3 systems for high-speed AI inference, combining Trainium and Cerebras WSE for disaggregated inference.

San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding removal of AI-generated deepfake nude image apps.

David Dworken

Engineer

Contributor at Anthropic

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's engineering work.

Developing liquid-cooled, high-density AI factory infrastructure built on NVIDIA DSX.

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.

SVP who explained how the Associate Agent serves as a single point of entry for employees to access all backend agents

David Hargroves

Policy

NHS National Clinical Director for Stroke at NHS

Praised AI decision support technology that is revolutionizing stroke care by reducing treatment time and tripling patient recovery rates with functional independence.

Anthropic chemist examining how Claude performs on analytical chemistry tasks like NMR spectrum interpretation.

David Lindner

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Co-author of study finding that LLMs recycle the same 11 words in 88% of generated stories, diagnosing low diversity in LLM-generated content.

David Owen

Researcher

Researcher at Epoch AI

Author of article testing whether AI agents can devise new machine learning techniques independently.

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

Told CNBC that Muse already had millions of US users following its September launch.

Co-founder of Armadin, serves as chief architect.

Co-leading the Latinitas project on AI for Latin text analysis.

David Woodruff

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-author of arXiv paper on DeepMind's AI co-scientist for scientific breakthroughs; demonstrates human-AI collaboration in theoretical research.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Explains ferroelectric memory technology and how it avoids EUV dependency for advanced chip manufacturing.

Deborah Sophia

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Reporting on Anthropic's data retention policy changes from Bengaluru.

Chief analyst provides perspective on Meta surpassing earnings expectations and ability to fund AI investments.

Deep Ganguli is a co-author on Anthropic's research measuring AI agent autonomy in real-world practice.

Deepa Subramaniam

Executive

VP of product marketing for Creative Cloud at Adobe

VP discussed Adobe's acquisition of Topaz Labs and integration of its AI models into Firefly and other creative suites for video and image enhancement.

Pradeep discusses Adobe's strategy of making creative tools available across multiple AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, and Slack.

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

Quoted responding to Reddit's lawsuit allegations against Oxylabs, defending the company's public data collection practices

Deniz Birlikci

Researcher

Researcher at Cognition

Co-author of the FrontierCode benchmark research paper on code quality evaluation for AI models.

Co-author of paper Do as I Say Not as I Do illustrating context distraction in long-context models.

Provides counterargument that AI probably isn't a bubble and hosted podcast episodes on the topic

Des Traynor

Founder

Head of Research and Development at Fin

Fin co-founder who will continue running R&D after Salesforce's $3.6B acquisition of the company.

CMU researcher who co-authored ModAR, a world-action model for robotic tasks.

Reported on DAIR's study exposing poor working conditions and low pay for data workers globally.

Co-authored live coverage of DevDay 2026.

Author of article reporting on AI adoption rates in the workplace and employee confidence in organizational AI strategies.

Group Chief Technology and Data Officer discussing how AI ethics in Africa must be grounded in local realities and African values.

Dhruv Srikanth

Researcher

Researcher at Weco AI

Co-author of AIDE² research on recursive self-improvement system that autonomously improved itself over 8 days, discovering better agents than hand-tuned versions.

Hosted Boris Cherny at Startup School 2026 to discuss Claude Code development and Opus 5 capabilities.

Reported on OpenAI's confirmation of shared usage pool for ChatGPT and Codex starting in December.

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

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Researcher

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Co-author of research on fork-and-flush method for autoresearch agents.

Dina Bass

Journalist

Journalist at Bloomberg

Reported on Amir Salek's hire at Anthropic on X social media platform.

Potential alternative Chinese negotiator for AI safety talks; coordinates technology and AI policies.

Dion Harris

Executive

Senior Director of AI Infrastructure Solutions at Nvidia

Explained the benefits of Nvidia's new storage architecture for addressing memory demands of modern AI systems like agentic AI.

Donny Greenberg

Other

Technical Employee at Anthropic

Testified remotely before European Parliament on advanced AI safety risks despite EU officials requesting public-policy lead.

Announced Ford's AI-powered voice assistant and L3 autonomous driving features, stating they're developing technology in-house to make it more affordable.

Walmart CEO quoted on the company's shift toward AI-powered shopping experiences and multi-media personalized interfaces.

Co-founder of AI coding startup Windsurf acquired by Google; joining Google DeepMind to focus on agentic coding.

Dr Patrik Bächtiger

Researcher

Lead researcher at Imperial College London

Lead researcher on the AI stethoscope project, discusses the 200-year design unchanged until now and the 15-second examination capability.

Senior lecturer who led the research on biologically-inspired neural networks and discussed energy efficiency gains.

Drake Thomas

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Expressed view that AI should enforce protection against x-risks while humanity determines its own long-term destiny.

Announced Patreon's use of Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers, stating creators deserve control over how AI uses their work.

Wix executive who discussed the simplicity of implementing Anthropic's commerce blueprint and combining it with Wix's commerce platform.

Signed letter urging PM to cap ticket resale prices

Co-author; assistant professor involved in the climate prediction study.

Ginzburg founded Encore AI (formerly Insait IO) and raised $30 million in Series A funding to build AI agents that learn from customer call data.

Dwayne Cubbins

Creator

Author reporting on security researcher's claim of accessing unlimited Claude through Perplexity Computer hack.

Co-author of research on prompt injection as role confusion and LLM role perception.

Co-authored a report on OpenAI's advanced talks with private equity firms to form a joint venture for enterprise product distribution.

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.

UK Foreign Minister spoke at UN Security Council emphasizing safety, transparency, and resilience in AI development.

Edoardo Cetin

Researcher

Research Scientist at Sakana AI

Co-author of the TwELL sparse model training and inference optimization work published on GitHub.

Edoardo Debenedetti

Researcher

Student Researcher at Google at Google

Google DeepMind researcher who led work on CaMeL, which proposes separating models to handle planning from those reading untrusted data.

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.

Edward Z. Yang

Creator

Blog Author at Ezyang's Blog

Author of interactive guide on parallelizing transformer training with live calculators and roofline analysis.

Compared Gemini 4 Argon's benchmaxxing to a student getting top SAT scores without real-world skills.

Ehsan Adeli

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Stanford University

Adeli contributed to the MIRAGE research on multimodal AI systems' visual understanding capabilities.

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

Elana Simon

Creator

Researcher at Anthropic

Elana Simon researches interpretability of language models and biological models at Anthropic, mentoring residency fellows.

Eldar Kurtić

Researcher

Principal Research Scientist at Red Hat

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs.

Eleanor Mueller

Journalist

White House Reporter at SEMAFOR

Reported on senior Trump administration officials weighing government equity stakes in major AI companies.

Wallen described how collaborating with Salesforce and NVIDIA on Koa enables Engine to build AI that reasons precisely through complex business travel problems.

Elias Roman

Executive

Google Labs

Author of "ProducerAI Joins Google Labs" in Google

Elijah Lawal

Executive

Spokesperson at Google

Google spokesperson discussing the company's approach to safeguards and personalization features in Gemini.

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

Published blog post describing Google's major AI search overhaul with Gemini 3.5 Flash and new search agents.

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

Emad Mostaque

Founder

Former hedge fund manager and creator at Stable Diffusion

Discussed how AI will fundamentally transform the economy and make traditional economic structures obsolete within 1,000 days, replacing human workers.

Created /apple-design skill extracting 17 design and motion principles from Apple WWDC videos for AI agents.

Emily Cohen

Executive

Partner at Cognition

Early Cognition investor from Neo who left her job to join the startup full time and believes the current phase represents a transformational technology shift.

Named as an example of a creator who pushes boundaries in independent media.

Emily Zheng

Investor

Senior Analyst at Pitchbook

Senior analyst analyzing the acquisition as a precursor to SpaceX's anticipated IPO and consolidation strategy

Chief investment strategist commenting on Musk's leadership in AI and space technology and the long-term vision of the merger

Eoghan McCabe

Founder

CEO and founder at Fin

CEO and co-founder of Fin announcing the acquisition by Salesforce and highlighting Fin's AI agent technology.

Eric Bezzam

Researcher

Researcher at Hugging Face

Co-author of Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard announcing objective metrics for evaluating open-source text-to-speech models.

Co-founded RAISE US with Gina Raimondo to help American workers transition to new careers in an AI-automated economy.

Eric Liu discussed Notion's integration of Claude Managed Agents to enable users to delegate complex tasks without leaving Notion.

Co-author of the FrontierCode benchmark research paper on code quality evaluation for AI models.

Eric Simons

Founder

CEO and Co-founder at Bolt.new

CEO of Bolt.new providing customer testimonial that Claude Sonnet 4 with 1M context window improved their web development platform.

Co-author of the MATH dataset paper for measuring mathematical problem solving.

Eric Vishria

Creator

Partner at Benchmark

Partner at Benchmark, one of Cerebras' largest shareholders with more than a 5% stake.

Topaz Labs CEO joining Adobe's Digital Video and Audio team as part of Adobe's acquisition of Topaz Labs for AI image and video enhancement technology.

Co-author of article exploring specialization in AI systems based on optimization theory and machine learning.

Erik Schluntz

Researcher

Anthropic

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Co-authored Stanford research on AI labor market impacts; former Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Author of the article about AI and biosecurity screening software

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.

Ethan Bloch

Founder

Founder at Hiro Finance

Co-founder of Hiro Finance personal finance startup acquired by OpenAI in an acqui-hire.

Author of "Context Engineering" in Anthropic

Provided feedback on MHS research implementation.

Eugene Kim

Journalist

Chief Tech Correspondent at Business Insider

Byline author reporting on Amazon's internal guidance steering engineers toward Kiro over third-party AI coding tools.

Co-author of Pew Research study on American AI adoption and trust.

Evan Beard

Founder

Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at Standard Bots

Explains how robots learn jobs by watching people demonstrate them using demonstrations, computer vision, and language without step-by-step instructions.

Former head of applied engineering during launch of DALL-E and ChatGPT at OpenAI, now co-founder of Zero Shot venture fund targeting AI and robotics startups.

Eve Bodnia

Founder

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Logical Intelligence

Founded Logical Intelligence developing energy-based reasoning models as alternative to LLMs for AGI.

Co-author on formal verification paper; collaborator from Theorem.

Co-author of paper studying effects of GPT-4 on consultant performance at Boston Consulting Group, finding that AI increased performance but risked cognitive surrender.

Faisal Islam

Journalist

Economics Editor at BBC News

Referenced in "The UK Just Got Its Biggest AI Flex Yet"

Fangfu Liu

Researcher

Researcher at Tsinghua University

Byline author on γ-World, a generative multi-agent world model supporting independently controllable agents with real-time rollouts.

Lead author on the paper introducing a bio-inspired Sleep paradigm for large language models that enables continual learning and mitigates catastrophic forgetting.

Felix Simon

Researcher

Researcher at University of Oxford

Co-author of the article on generative AI usage trends

Lead researcher on Lance, ByteDance's unified multimodal 3B model supporting image and video understanding, generation, and editing.

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.

Co-author of the FrontierCode benchmark research paper on code quality evaluation for AI models.

Fernando Borretti

Creator

Self-employed at Borretti.me

Blog author explaining his shift from AI optimism to deep concern about AGI's economic and social implications.

Ferran Alet

Researcher

Research scientist at Google DeepMind

DeepMind researcher explained how machine learning targets weather prediction problems by learning patterns from data rather than solving physics equations.

Harvard researcher who studied engineering data from over 700 software firms finding that AI coding agents increased code output but not completed features.

Byline author explaining how to read AI model benchmarks and build custom evals to compare models beyond launch-day claims.

Former German national champion in competitive programming who co-founded Listen Labs, which uses voice AI for customer research.

Co-led Positron AI's Series C funding round and joined the company's board of directors.

Forrest Norrod

Executive

Executive VP and GM of Data Center Solutions Group at AMD

Discussed AMD's Helios platform for AI infrastructure, emphasizing open collaboration and scalability.

Francesco Visin

Researcher

Google

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

Co-author of study on agent scaffolding effects on tool use costs comparing MCP and CLI interfaces.

New CFO hired from KPMG consulting, with prior finance experience at Uber and Shield AI.

Francois Porcher

Researcher

Project lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta

Project lead for SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Reported on Atoms' $1.7 billion equity funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Frank Hutter

Researcher

Founder & co-CEO at Prior Labs

Leading AutoML researcher who received the 2026 German AI Innovation Award for TabPFN, a machine-learning algorithm for tabular data, and co-founded Prior Labs to commercialize the technology.

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

Google Creative Lead who worked on reconstructing Pelé's goal using DeepMind AI technology.

Co-authored paper on arithmetic physics connecting string two-point functions and height functions.

22-year-old Swedish researcher at OpenAI earning six-figure salary, high school dropout who co-founded Depict.ai and used project-based learning with AI tools.

Co-author of Nature paper on Ataraxos AI system achieving superhuman performance in Stratego.

Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu

Researcher

PhD Student in Computer Science at Yale University

Co-authored a comprehensive taxonomy and review of metacognition in Large Language Models at Yale University and UC Irvine.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Highlighted METR findings that OpenAI left ~10% of internal Codex traffic unmonitored and found agent monitoring bypass methods.

NFL Chief Information Officer discussing Microsoft partnership and AI opportunities for the league

Gary Wu

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Fluidstack

Founded FluidStack in 2017 from Oxford University; transformed it from an Airbnb-for-GPUs marketplace to a dedicated AI infrastructure provider valued at $18 billion.

Gautam Gupta

Executive

Chief Financial Officer at Atoms

Former Uber finance chief who joined Atoms as CFO weeks after the company raised $1.7 billion; spent more than four years at Uber until July 2017.

Gautam Sharda

Founder

Co-founder at Ghost

23-year-old co-founder of Ghost, part of the team building Core, a personal computer for AI agents.

Gautham Thambidorai

Executive

VP of Engineering at Google

Quoted on Agent Compute Engine's role in scaling Gemini agents globally with responsive hardware-isolated infrastructure.

Quoted discussing how Nemotron 3 Nano Omni enables faster screen interpretation for agents.

Author discussing AI agents designing candidate magnetic materials for computer memory applications.

Led the development and installation of APAS, a radar-first AI navigation system for maritime vessels that uses machine learning and intelligent alerting.