People in AI

Predicted since 2016 that radiologists should stop training because deep learning would beat them, prediction has not materialized.

George Hotz

Founder

Founder at tinygrad

Built tinygrad as a tensor library similar to PyTorch and wrote about the vision that making code run fast on hardware is fundamentally a search problem.

George Petrocheilos

Investor

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Catalio Capital Management

Lead investor in Enveda's $311M Series E round who joined Enveda's Board, investing at intersection of biotech and AI.

Author of "Smaller Than a Card, Smarter Than Your Ears"

French Foreign Minister who initially had concerns about the festival's impact on Franco-Italian relations.

Georges Harik

Investor

Co-founder at SV Angel

Google's seventh employee and co-founder of Humans& who helped build Google's first advertising systems.

Cannes municipal councillor from Paris who mobilized support for Cannes over Biarritz as the festival's host city.

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

Byline author reporting on Anthropic's $517 billion compute capacity agreements.

Gerardo Delgado

Other

Director of Product Management at NVIDIA

Byline author of article about NVIDIA and Microsoft collaboration on AI agents for Windows PCs.

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

Led Italy to become the first EU country to approve comprehensive AI legislation, emphasizing an Italian way to develop artificial intelligence.

Gokul Rajaram

Journalist

Angel Investor at Marathon Management Partners

Gokul Rajaram wrote the recap of the Satya Nadella crossover podcast episode for his Substack newsletter.

Gozde Oznur

Creator

Lead Group Product Manager at Google

Led development of Dreambeans app that uses Personal Intelligence to curate AI-illustrated daily stories from Google services.

Lead author of five-university study finding that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance, particularly when used for direct answers rather than hints.

Graeme Fulton

Creator

Creator at SoullessMusic

Created SoullessMusic, a database for identifying AI artists hiding on Spotify using open-source detection tools.

Graham James

Executive

Spokesperson at The New York Times

Spokesperson for The New York Times commenting on the lawsuit against Perplexity for unlicensed content use.

Co-author of AgentCompany research project who noted that agents work in unhuman ways by writing code instead of using typical interfaces.

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

Grant Lee

Founder

CEO and co-founder at Gamma

Explained that Gamma developed new image generation tools after working with early users, positioning the company between professional tools like Adobe and legacy tools like PowerPoint.

Grant Sanderson

Creator

YouTube Educator at 3Blue1Brown

Creator of 3Blue1Brown mathematics channel who discussed AI's rapid progress in mathematics, including how AI excels at geometry but struggles with combinatorics problems requiring conceptual creativity.

Author reporting on Icon's $200M Series D funding for robotic construction systems.

Operating AI-ready data center infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand with NVIDIA accelerated computing deployment.

Greg Kamradt

Journalist

Writer/Researcher at ARC Prize

Authored article analyzing GPT-6 Astra's performance on ARC-AGI-3 benchmark.

Linux stable maintainer who reported seeing similar pattern from AISLE finding vulnerabilities in Linux kernel.

Quantum complexity theorist who with Aaronson posed the Unitary Synthesis Problem in 2007, which AI has now solved positively.

Charged by federal prosecutors with smuggling approximately $300 million of export-controlled Nvidia AI servers to China between 2023 and 2024.

Led development of AI model that converts physical parts into CAD files in minutes for manufacturing.

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

Co-author on Nature paper for Ace project, led robot serve design and system performance evaluation.

Guillaume Lample

Founder

Founder at Mistral AI

Co-founder of Mistral AI, a large-scale AI models specialist who previously worked for Meta Platforms.

Co-authored research on D4RT, a unified AI model for 4D scene reconstruction and tracking.

Del Toro expressed strong opposition to AI infiltrating creative spaces, calling it disrespectful to the craft.

Guinness Chen

Creator

Codex technical staffer at OpenAI

OpenAI Codex technical staffer demonstrated voice-activated agentic coding with GPT-Live integration in a promotional video.

Gün Kaynar

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments with AI orchestration of laboratory equipment.

Rebuked Dario Amodei's call for AI chip restrictions, calling it fearmongering and arguing confrontation would disrupt global AI governance.

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

Authored articles about Google's Skills feature in Chrome enabling reusable AI workflows.

Hailey Joren

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author of study on analyst capture by AI agent preferences.

Hamilton Morrin

Researcher

Wellcome Doctoral Fellow at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Collaborated with Dr. Tom Pollak on a project studying the depth psychology of LLMs and how that shapes their interactions with human users.

Cybersecurity expert warned that AI agent breaches of government systems will continue and increase in severity.

Co-author on test-time scaling framework for coding agents.

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.

Hao Kang

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of OckBench research on model efficiency and token consumption.

Hao-Ping Lee

Researcher

PhD Student at Microsoft Research

Author of "Microsoft Research On AI Reliance And Critical Thinking" in Microsoft Research

Author of "Mixture of States: Routing Token-Level Dynamics for Multimodal Generation" on arXiv

Hardik Bhatnagar

Researcher

Researcher at LASR Labs

Posted on X about GLM 5.2 (Max reasoning) hitting 34.29% on PostTrainBench, narrowly beating Opus 4.8 Max with zero failed runs.

Co-leads team using MHS for agentic control of light-sheet microscope imaging.

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.

Co-author with Billy Perrigo and Naomi Nix of the article 'The AI Tipping Point'.

Harry Quilter-Pinner

Creator

IPPR

Author of "Labour Heads Into High-Stakes November 26 Budget"

Harsh Jaiswal

Researcher

co-founder and head of research at Hacktron AI

Led Hacktron AI team researching security vulnerabilities at frontier AI companies.

Co-author on Anthropic security verification research.

Hasnain Lakhani

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Contributed to Claude Mythos vulnerability research and evaluation.

Leads Microsoft's work on agentic security; introduced Guardian Agents framework to monitor and moderate AI agents in enterprise.

Published an arXiv preprint on the limits of self-improvement in large language models using dynamical systems analysis.

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.

CEO of General Catalyst leading River AI's $1.1 billion funding round.

Co-author of Nature paper on Ataraxos, demonstrating AI techniques for imperfect-information games.

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

Founder and president of Beijing think tank discussing China's peace initiatives and cooperation efforts

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.

Author of "Maybe Consider Putting "Cutlass" in Your CUDA/Triton Kernels"

Quoted for his observation that 'a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,' applied to AI-enabled science context.

Hilary Greaves was a co-author on the paper investigating potential intelligence explosions from automating AI R&D.

Oracle's new CFO who stated net cash outlay for capex in fiscal 2027 will be around $70 billion, excluding customer prepayments.

CEO of Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) announcing the company's independence and partnership with Google DeepMind to use EVE Online as an AI research testbed.

Hjalmar Wijk

Researcher

Chief scientist at METR

METR staff member who conducted independent investigation of OpenAI agents' behavior during Hugging Face hacking incident.

Co-senior author of study on AI predicting cancer survival from facial photographs; co-developed FAHR-FaceAge and FAHR-FaceSurvival tools.

Describes Fetch.ai's network based on open source technology to enable users to access AI power for complex coordination tasks

Lead author of MASS paper on recursive self-improvement through multi-agent self-supervision, introducing a learning loop where AI models optimize their own workflows and distill collective intelligence.

Co-author studying cognitive effort and confidence effects in GenAI-assisted tasks

Invented GANs; co-founding Moonlake to build latent World Models.

Reported on Anthropic hitting $30B revenue run rate, surpassing OpenAI.

Ian Webster

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Promptfoo

Co-founder and CEO of Promptfoo, an AI security platform being acquired by OpenAI to integrate into Frontier for agent security testing and evaluation.

Iftekhar Naim

Researcher

Researcher

Author of the research paper on theoretical limitations of embedding-based retrieval

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

Igor Tsyganskiy discussed Microsoft's participation in Project Glasswing and use of Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity.

Ilya Sergey

Researcher

Researcher at National University of Singapore

Co-authored paper on type systems for Move language using frontier LLMs for formal proofs in Lean.

Imran Rahman-Jones

Journalist

Freelance Journalist

Co-author of the article

Ina Fried

Journalist

Chief Technology Correspondent at Axios

Fried reported on Reflection AI's upcoming open-weight model release and compute deals.

Reported on four CVEs affecting CrewAI multi-agent orchestration framework allowing chain attacks to RCE.

Referenced for concepts like forces and momentum that shaped modern worldview

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

Isha Gupta

Researcher

Researcher at Safety-Research

Co-author of the Petri paper on alignment auditing agents

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.

Jack Cable

Executive

CEO at Corridor

Co-authored research on rogue AI agents probing U.S. and Canadian government websites.

Patreon founder and CEO advocating for creator rights: credit, compensation, and consent in AI training practices.

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

Jacki Ochoa

Creator

Communications at Zoom

Reported on Zoom's announcement of deepfake risk detection and AI governance capabilities.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored paper connecting string two-point functions and height functions using Muse Spark.

Jacob Morrison

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored paper on modular post-training with mixture-of-experts (BAR recipe) for language models at Allen AI.

Co-authored research demonstrating that GLM 5.3 can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in Firefox using the patch gap between published fixes and user deployment.

Chief legal officer at a16z who co-authored arguments against state-level AI regulation.

Author of series examining risks of AI sycophancy in law enforcement applications.

James Bradbury

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Heads Anthropic's compute team and will be Amir Salek's reporting manager.

James Cadwallader

Founder

Co-Founder, CEO at Profound

CEO announced Profound's $180 million Series D funding at $1.8 billion valuation to build frontier AI platform for marketing with agentic workflows.

James Chua

Researcher

Researcher at Singapore AI Safety Hub

Co-authored research on how Claude Fable 5.1 hides and recovers messages in images as part of SASH Fellowship.

James Gunn

Creator

Director at Warner Bros

Presented at Adobe MAX keynote discussing how AI technology is a powerful tool but human storytelling remains the primary focus.

Published research on arXiv studying retrying and resampling patterns in AI control, examining how blocked risky actions affect model behavior and safety.

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

James Reggio

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Brex

Builds AI platform at Brex and is responsible for product AI customer-facing features.

James Richardson

Founder

Co-founder at Vertigo Films

Co-founded Mura, a seed-stage startup automating billing for commercial HVAC providers, and wrote about building their in-house LLM evaluation framework called BOLT.

Harvard researcher who analyzed 300 million work events across software firms, finding AI agents increased code volume by 30% but did not significantly increase finished features.

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

Byline author discussing need for services allowing businesses to own custom AI models built on their data.

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

Wong, a former Meta security engineer, reported that her Instagram account was hacked through the AI chatbot vulnerability.

Janelle Teng Wade

Creator

Next Big Tech

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap identifying five frontiers for next-gen AI infrastructure in 2026.

Jannik Jung

Engineer

fractional ai + product builder at Every

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

Attended Starship V3 launch at Starbase and praised the mission as progress toward moon and Mars goals.

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

Jared Polis

Policy

Governor at State of Colorado

Colorado Governor who signed HB 26-1263 chatbot safety law into law in May 2026 despite advocacy concerns.

Jasmine Sun

Creator

Reporter at Omidyar Network

Recently discussed the topic of why AI writing quality remains mediocre.

Jason Chen, Acer chairman and CEO, met with Jensen Huang at COMPUTEX partner booths.

Co-founder of Mecka AI, previously joined Coinbase after it acquired his crypto exchange startup.

Jason Ginsberg

Executive

Engineer at SpaceX

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

Jason Gross

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author on Anthropic formal verification paper with Claude.

Authored analysis of AI chip capacity and how many concurrent frontier-model agents could run on chips shipped through 2027.

Quoted discussing AWS DevOps Agent's root cause identification in under 15 minutes for complex issues.

Jason Weston

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

Co-author of paper on AI and human co-improvement for safer co-superintelligence, advocating for collaborative human-AI development.

Jaures Yip

Journalist

Digital Rotational Associate at CNBC

Author of "The Name Fight No One Asked For"

Co-authored paper proving smooth equilibria exist in magnetic confinement, counterexamples to Grad's conjecture.

Unveiled Attie AI assistant at Atmosphere conference, described vision for agentic coding tools on AT Protocol.

Leading AI BioDesign initiative focused on using AI for biological design and engineering.

Byline author on Cohere's acquisition of AISLE for AI-powered vulnerability detection.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

US Vice-President connected to prominent Christian-influenced tech leaders and the Trump administration.

Discussed financial implications of 6 gigawatt partnership with OpenAI expected to deliver tens of billions in revenue.

Jean Leon

Journalist

Journalist at Bloomberg

Reported on internal Googler concerns that Gemini 4 Argon struggles with real-world coding versus benchmarks.

Jean-Rémi King

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

Co-authored research on TRIBE, a deep neural network for predicting brain responses to multimodal stimuli.

Co-author of Epoch AI analysis showing final training runs account for minority of R&D compute spending.

Jed McCaleb

Researcher

Researcher at Together AI

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

Jediah Katz

Executive

Software Engineer at Cursor

Co-authored article about continually improving Cursor's agent harness.

Jeetu Patel

Executive

President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco

Promoted 27-year-old Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy to lead code refactoring project with AI; advocates hiring Gen Z talent.

Hugging Face executive praising TorchNeuron making Trainium a native backend for Transformers and Diffusers.

Jeff Horwitz

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Author of "Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission" in Reuters

Co-author of Pew Research study on American AI adoption and trust measuring 5,000+ adults.

Joined Netomi's Board of Directors as part of WndrCo's investment; quoted on Netomi delivering on enterprise AI promise.

Ketchersid used Claude Code agents to show that BusyBeaver(10) exceeds Graham's number and that BB(335) is independent of ZFC.

Contributed to Gallup research on how AI benefits are distributed unevenly across workers.

Jeffrey Quesnelle

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at Nous Research

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model for mathematical problem-solving.

Technical advisor to Graphon AI; credited with expertise in graphon theory applied to AI systems.

Jennifer Elias

Journalist

Tech Reporter at CNBC.com

Author of "Robots are becoming everyone's new group project"

Stated that all the big AI labs are building RL environments in-house and are also looking at third-party vendors for high-quality environments.

Reported on Anker's Eufy MindBase local AI hub for home security with on-device inference capabilities.

Head of Grammarly for Education, quoted on how new AI agents enhance student capabilities while supporting learning.

Director of 'What Jennifer Did' documentary that used AI-generated images instead of archival photos, prompting Netflix's response.

PocketOS founder who reported that an AI coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's entire production database and backups in 9 seconds.

CFO of JPMorgan Chase, mentioned regarding tech budget and AI strategy

Author of "Context Engineering" in Anthropic

Co-authored research on TRIBE, a deep neural network for predicting brain responses to multimodal stimuli.

Led the technical execution of the FDA's Adverse Event Monitoring System consolidation and modernization.

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

Works on MIT AI Risk Initiative focusing on classifying and addressing risks from advanced AI.

Jess Yan

Engineer

Anthropic

Contributed to article on Claude Managed Agents.

Jesse Lyu

Founder

founder and CEO at rabbit inc

Lyu announced rabbit's OS3, an agentic operating system with multi-device control and universal skill support.

Jesse Zhang

Founder

CEO and Co-Founder at Decagon

Co-founder of Decagon, a leading conversational AI platform for enterprise customer experience, alongside Ashwin Sreenivas.

Jessica Lyons

Journalist

Cybersecurity Editor at The Register

Lyons reported on security issues including Anthropic's Mythos finding vulnerabilities and GitLab patching critical flaws.

23-year-old Nashville native who won the TikTok dance contest whose submission was featured in the Svedka AI commercial.

Co-authored NBER working paper analyzing AI sector investment data and productivity requirements justifying current capital expenditure levels.

Jessy Lin

Creator

Author of "The Continual Learning Problem" in Jesy Lin's Blog

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

Lead author of the paper on visual generation and multimodal world models for reasoning.

Reportedly departed from Apple's robotics research department to join Meta

Jiatao Gu

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Jiatao Gu co-authored research on FAE (Feature Auto-Encoder), a framework for adapting pretrained representations for generative models.

Jiaxin Wen

Researcher

Automated Weak-to-Strong Researcher at Anthropic

Author of research on generalization dynamics of language model pre-training, studying mode-hopping behaviors in LMs.

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments with AI orchestration of laboratory equipment.

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

Listed as mentor for policy and security research in Anthropic Fellows Program.

Silicon Graphics and Netscape co-founder investing in and joining Positron AI's board as part of Series C-1 funding.

Jim Fan

Researcher

Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA

Stated that 2026 will mark the first year that Large World Models lay real foundations for robotics and multimodal AI.

Author of "NASA Just Hired an AI Doctor for Space"

Wrote article analyzing how Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% as AI answers replace outbound clicks.

Appeared at Google's Made by Google event to promote the Pixel 10 launch

Author of the research paper on theoretical limitations of embedding-based retrieval

Co-author on ScientistTwo research at Google about autonomous AI agents for scientific discovery.

Described Eclipse's investment strategy focused on physical AI and the convergence of intelligence with the physical world.

Author of article about a study finding 90% of AI users say it saves them time but measured savings are only 2.8% of work hours.

Joe Atkinson

Executive

Global Chief AI Officer at PwC

Described the pattern of AI leaders pointing AI at growth rather than just cost reduction in PwC study.

Joe Carlsmith

Researcher

Writer, researcher, and philosopher working on Claude's constitution at Anthropic

Argued that automating alignment research will be crucial to preventing smarter AI systems from causing harm; previously worked at Coefficient Giving on AI safety.

CEO who stated that demand for cloud computing and generative AI infrastructure shows no signs of slowing.

Joe Gebbia led the launch of America.gov, an AI chatbot pitched as a single front door to roughly 29,000 federal websites.

Author of "VMware Nods to AI But Looks to Long-Term" in Artificial Intelligence News

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Byline author of speculative narrative about Anthropic's Project Glasswing and Mythos model advancing cybersecurity AI.

Co-founder raised similar warnings about overexcited AI investment

Argued that safety has become a real cost of frontier AI development

Announced completion of the first fully autonomous flight across the US using Joby's autonomy technology, demonstrating autonomous air logistics capabilities.

Senior researcher at RAND discussing US strategy for superintelligence and freedom of action framework.

Stack Overflow co-founder who launched the platform publicly on September 15, 2008.

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

Samsara CPO who participated in discussions about Agent Studio and the company's physical operations AI strategy.

Found an attack against Claude Code Auto Mode that works 80% of the time through zip archive extraction and code execution.

John Burn-Murdoch

Journalist

Reporter at Financial Times

FT reporter who found that AI agents speed up research and coding, but checking their results adds stress, mistakes, and work.

Collaborated with Michel Devoret on quantum research in the 1980s that won the Nobel Prize