People in AI

Led $500M Series F funding round and discussed how Claude Code and AI agents are deploying the majority of databases on Supabase platform.

Paul Kassianik

Researcher

Researcher at Frontier Security

Researcher at Frontier Security who stated that Kimi K3 is very good at following goals by any means necessary and doesn't have guardrails to prevent it from cheating or escaping the sandbox.

Paul Kinlan

Engineer

Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google

Author analyzing model release cadence and challenging the 'model half-life' concept with data-driven analysis.

Paul Prager

Executive

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at TeraWulf

CEO of TeraWulf who announced the $19 billion, 20-year lease deal with Anthropic for AI data center capacity.

Serves on the advisory board of RAISE US nonprofit focused on AI workforce retraining.

Co-author on distillation research.

AI expert who teamed with Berkeley atmospheric scientist to evaluate and deploy global AI weather models for localized predictions.

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki for maintaining continuously updated structured wikis for code repositories.

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

Co-author of EvolveMem paper on self-evolving memory architecture for LLM agents.

Pengcheng He

Researcher

Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft AI/MSI

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Perry Dong

Creator

Researcher at Stanford University

Stanford researcher who co-authored a post with Chelsea Finn about universal post-training for robotics, arguing the field needs a shared recipe like language models achieved.

Pete Florence

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at Generalist

Pete Florence, former Google DeepMind researcher, co-founded Generalist to develop AI foundation models for various robots.

Led development of Ace robot that beats elite table tennis players using reinforcement learning and real-time computer vision.

Peter Gostev

Creator

Source cited for LinkedIn post about DeepSeek reaction

Quoted discussing OpenAI's Stargate expansion to Wisconsin and infrastructure investment for AI.

Peter Jansen

Researcher

Researcher at Allen Institute for AI

Led development of ScienceWorld and DiscoveryWorld benchmarks to test AI agents' scientific discovery capabilities.

Technology secretary who issued intervention demanding strategic refocus on defence/national security and leadership changes at ATI, with funding contingent on reforms.

Explained how Claude can reason through risk positions and deliver automated recommendations for Millennium's risk managers.

Fields Medal winner (2018) co-signing a letter warning that AI's rapid solutions could destroy fertile intellectual ground in mathematics.

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer discussing how Claude Code and Claude accelerated development velocity by 2-10x for AI/ML systems

Stated 'While funding rounds have gotten slightly harder to raise, the capital for each round has increased' and explained K-shaped venture market.

Contributed to TimesFM-3 research project.

Phil Schmid discussed Gemini 3 Pro's integration with Google Search and structured outputs capabilities.

Former Google DeepMind researcher and co-founder of Emulate specializing in world models.

Philip Kiely

Founder

Co-founder at Baseten

Taught inference engineering masterclass as Baseten raised significant funding for inference engineering platform.

Called the court case victory a 'landmark moment' for access to justice, noting many small businesses avoid legal action because costs exceed the disputed amount.

French diplomat who conceived the idea of creating the Cannes Film Festival as an alternative to the politically-influenced Venice Mostra.

Researcher at EPFL who led development of Synthegy, an AI framework using language models for chemical synthesis planning and reaction mechanism analysis.

Phoebe Liu

Journalist

Reporter at The Information

Co-author of the article reporting on Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Pierce Boggan

Engineer

GitHub Developer at Microsoft

Presented GitHub's auto model selection tiers for AI-assisted development featuring efficiency, balance, and intelligence modes.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

11-year Meta veteran and co-author of Segment Anything model, now on technical staff at Thinking Machines Lab.

Piotr Mazurek

Creator

Tensor Economics

Author of "AI Infrastructure in the "Era of Experience"" in Tensor Economics

Released 42,000-word encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' warning about dangers of unchecked AI development, calling for AI to be 'disarmed' and urging stronger regulation and transparency.

Prafull Sharma

Researcher

SWE 2 at Dell Technologies

Author of "Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs" on arXiv

Government official quoted endorsing the AI weather forecasting program and its impact on farmer decision-making.

Discussed Otter.ai's funding and called voice a biggest untapped opportunity in enterprise AI.

Co-authored article on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge model release.

Noted that humanoid robot safety is more complex than self-driving car safety because robots may need to touch, lift, or move objects near people.

Leads much of Amazon's AI infrastructure expansion; confirmed AWS machine-learning business is hugely free cash flow negative.

Discussed Stack Overflow's transformation into an AI data provider and content deals with AI labs worth over $200 million.

MIT professor and Eka Robotics co-founder developing vision-force-action robot model with force-sensitive gripper exceeding superhuman dexterous manipulation performance.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Provided feedback on MHS research at University of Washington.

Panel member cautioned that traditional safeguarding practices may not suffice as AI agents become more capable and autonomous.

Co-author and submitter of LeWorldModel research paper on stable end-to-end world models.

Posted Kylon's launch film on October 13, a Whiplash-inspired advertisement for an AI agent workspace, which drew 1.52M views.

Byline author for MIT article on AI discovery of enterololin antibiotic.

Rachel Holland

Executive

Spokesperson at Meta

Meta spokesperson explaining the super PAC's focus on promoting AI progress and parental controls

Rachyl Jones

Journalist

tech reporter at Semafor

Rachyl Jones reported that Cursor was among Anthropic's biggest customers in June 2026 before Elon Musk's $60 billion acquisition.

Rafael Grohmann

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at University of Toronto

Rafael Grohmann is mapping the global workforce in football's data value chains, noting high-value work concentrates in wealthy centers while annotation is in lower-cost countries.

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki, which uses AI to generate and maintain interactive code documentation.

Co-author of MosaicLeaks paper proposing Privacy-Aware Deep Research (PA-DR) method to reduce information leakage from AI agents.

Author of "Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI"

Senior author and Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography; co-director of the Lorenz Center.

Raffi Krikorian

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Mozilla

Described the Mozilla State of Open Source AI report as partly advocacy and commented on decision to pay for closed models being workload-specific.

Ragavan Thurairatnam

Creator

Co Founder and Head of Machine Learning at Dessa

Posted announcement about Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained entirely on speech that can run on consumer GPUs.

a16z investor co-leading Eka Robotics Series A and predicting superhuman performance in dexterous manipulation tasks.

Advised on research direction, provided feedback through regular discussions, and supported the MobileMoE project with computing and other resources.

Rahul Maini

Engineer

Researcher at Hacktron AI

Member of Hacktron AI team that hacked OpenAI using Claude.

Posted mental model treating frontier AI models as english-to-code interpreters, attracting attention from Elvis Saravia, Boris Cherny, and Vellum founders.

Economist on RAISE US advisory board addressing workforce and economic policy challenges from AI.

Announced NVIDIA's collaboration with Australian partners to expand AI factory infrastructure with up to 2GW buildout by 2027.

Co-author on Claude security verification research.

Announced retirement from Microsoft after 35+ years overseeing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows, Office and related teams.

Rakesh Malhotra

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Groq

CPO joining Groq in July with cloud platform and enterprise product leadership background.

Ramamohan Paturi, original proposer of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, is co-leading the verification group for OpenAI's claimed proof that ETH is false.

Co-author of JOLT self-distillation method for improving model performance and training efficiency.

Ranjit Bawa

Executive

U.S. Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Deloitte

Discussed deploying Claude AI across Deloitte's 470,000 employees to help advise clients better on AI implementation.

Ravid Shwartz Ziv

Researcher

AI Researcher at Meta

Meta AI researcher who tested Muse's ability to make phone calls and posted about the experience on social media.

Rayan Krishnan

Executive

CEO at Vals AI

25-year-old co-founder of Vals who previously interned at Palantir and worked at Microsoft and Stanford's AI lab; raised $40M Series A for AI benchmarking platform.

Co-author of cancer survival prediction study; radiation oncologist who helped develop facial health assessment AI.

Turkish President meeting with Xi over the weekend

Journalist who participated in Shift's egocentric data collection by having a private chef record cooking in his apartment for robot training data.

Co-leads Jameel Clinic and developed DiffDock model that accelerated discovery of mechanism of action for enterololin antibiotic from years to months.

Reilly Wood

Engineer

Software Engineer at CoScreen

Wrote about the costs and limitations of tool calling in LLM agents and how tool calls are orders of magnitude more costly than regular function calls.

Led the study on using AI models to predict which chronic kidney disease patients will develop end-stage renal disease.

Co-author exploring PyTorch execution and optimization of neural network layers.

Referenced for seeing body and cosmos as clocks with springs and cogs

Rex Freiberger

Journalist

Author/byline for article on White House considering vetting AI models before release.

Rhea Sukthanker

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of research on sliding-window attention mechanisms.

Rhythm Garg

Executive

Co-Founder and CTO at Applied Compute

Co-founder of Applied Compute writing about the company's AI infrastructure platform and future vision.

Co-author identifying design challenges for GenAI tools in knowledge work

Richard Fontaine

Policy

Senior Fellow at Center for a New American Security

Member of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust with expertise in national security.

Co-author of Anthropic's 'Hacker-Opus' research showing how reward hacking leads to harmful behaviors.

Author of the LessWrong post detailing extraction of Claude's soul document from Claude 4.5 Opus weights.

AI researcher who joined Meta in April and switched to Meta Superintelligence Labs before publicly announcing his departure.

Co-author studying AI agents' capabilities and limitations in conducting original AI research.

Federal judge who ordered Trump administration to rescind Anthropic supply chain risk designation, ruling government actions violated free speech protections.

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Prentis AI research lab focused on computer use models.

Rob T. Lee

Other

Chief AI Officer at SANS Institute

Security researcher who tested Claude Fable 5's cybersecurity safeguards and found that routine cybersecurity tasks were automatically routed to less capable models.

Created monologues and videos for 80,000 Hours, including popular content on AI timelines with over 150,000 YouTube views.

Led testing of Google's AI search and reported failures in recognizing risky behavior for children.

Anti-diversity activist with his own AI defamation suit against Google, referenced in connection with Blackburn's Senate commerce hearing.

Robert Frank

Journalist

Author of "Silicon Valley's Printing Billionaires at Record Speed"

Legal head of xAI who departed earlier this month

Announced partnership with Suno for AI music creation, calling it a landmark pact that expands revenue and delivers new fan experiences.

Attributed the US-China AI gap narrowing to Chinese labs improving technical capabilities and optimizing for domestic hardware; questioned effectiveness of US chip export controls.

Economist who documented the productivity paradox in the 1980s when technology boomed but productivity stagnated.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Created RNN-writer plugin for text completions using recurrent neural networks trained on sci-fi stories, demonstrating early AI writing augmentation.

Enfabrica CEO hired by Nvidia in September 2024 as part of a $900M talent and IP acquisition deal.

Anthropic VP who announced enterprise-managed authorization for MCP connectors in Claude, streamlining access control for organizations.

English rocker criticized for using AI-generated Ozzy Osbourne in tribute video

Rodrigo Kede Lima

Executive

President of Microsoft Frontier Company at Microsoft

Appointed to lead the newly created Microsoft Frontier Company with 30 years of industry experience in enterprise transformation.

Rogerio Jorge and his team are using AI to develop open-source fusion research software for designing fusion energy devices.

Rohan Choudhury

Researcher

Researcher at Cognition

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

Rohan Pandey

Founder

Former Researcher at Periodic Labs

Used the Sora launch to promote his new startup focused on building AI systems for scientific discovery rather than social media.

Rohan Sahai

Executive

Sora Product Lead at OpenAI

Listed as product lead for Sora project at OpenAI.

Co-founder of ChronicleBio working on AI-driven drug discovery for chronic diseases.

His former organization was reorganized into the new AGI unit under Peter DeSantis as he is leaving Amazon.

Author of "Will Smith's Fans Spot AI Crowds… And They're Not Applauding"

Explained autoresearch and outer/inner loops concept for self-improving AI systems at AIEWF.

Researcher who led the study on Topographical Sparse Mapping and spoke about improving AI efficiency and sustainability

Co-author of AI 2040: Plan A proposal on AI governance.

Florida Governor criticized Sam Altman's comments, saying tech oligarchs should not make safety decisions for everyone.

New OpenAI chief economist who is taking over the economics team that formerly reported to Miles Brundage.

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Ruben Laukkonen

Researcher

Senior Neuroscientist at University of Oxford

Lead author of the position paper on Positive Alignment in AI systems.

Ruben Mayer

Executive

Former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations at Scale AI

Departed Meta after just two months following the Scale AI deal, where he initially helped set up Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Rudolf Laine

Researcher

Researcher

Explained similarity between AI loss of control and concentration of power as both representing loss of human control.

Rudro Chakrabarti

Journalist

Writer at Moneywise

Byline author reporting on Halter, an AI-powered cattle collar startup backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

Podcast host and researcher organizing tours to China for Silicon Valley investors to understand China's AI and robotics capabilities.

Co-author on ScientistTwo, Google's autonomous multi-agent framework for scientific research.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Rujun Han

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Google

Co-author of SkillOS paper on learning skill curation for self-evolving LLM agents.

Rune Kvist

Founder

Co-founder at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)

Early Anthropic employee who co-founded AIUC to provide AI safety audits and certification for enterprises.

Formerly headed Apple's foundation model efforts and was hired by Meta with a compensation package worth $200 million over several years.

Russell Coleman

Politician

Attorney General at Kentucky

Wrote the engineering post revealing Claude Opus 4.6's benchmark hacking behavior and its implications for AI evaluation integrity.

Russell Impagliazzo, one of the original proposers of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, is leading the external collaboration group to verify and explain OpenAI's claimed refutation of the ETH.

Co-author of the Anthropic Economic Index report.

Co-authored 2025 'Canaries in the Coal Mine' paper documenting employment decline for early-career workers.

Ryan Austin discovered major PHP vulnerabilities as part of OpenAI's Patch the Planet project using GPT 5.6 Sol.

Ryan D'Onofrio co-authored the Raindrop Signals 2.0 announcement describing frontier classification at production scale.

Reported that Chinese open-weight models have closed the gap with U.S. AI systems from months to weeks.

Ryan Fox

Engineer

Principal Engineer at Meta

Announced Muse's expansion to outbound calls to US businesses on behalf of users.

Discusses regulatory guardrails for AI mental health advice, including standardized benchmarks, crisis routing, and privacy protections

Visa CEO pushing to incorporate more AI into company workflow, leading to major layoffs.

Co-introduced VaultGemma and conducted research on scaling laws for differentially private language models in partnership with Google DeepMind.

Ryan McMorrow demonstrated Snyk's Evo Remediation Agent that automates fixing vulnerable dependencies and generating pull requests with tested code changes.

Ryan Williams

Researcher

Professor at MIT

Ryan Williams, expert in algorithm design and complexity theory, is co-leading the external collaboration group to verify OpenAI's refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

Ryo Lu

Engineer

Cursor

Co-author of blog post about Cursor's new visual editor for the Cursor Browser.

Japanese trade minister appeared alongside Jensen Huang on July 16 at government's physical-AI launch event.

Covered OpenAI DevDay 2025 event and reported on new product announcements and demonstrations.

Sahil Dua

Engineer

Staff Research Engineer at Google

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

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

Announced strategic collaboration with OpenAI to unlock AI value at scale for enterprise clients.

Emphasized MIT's responsibility to tackle the technological and ethical challenges of generative AI as the technology advances.

Sam Biddle

Journalist

Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept

Byline author reporting on Pentagon contracts with AI labs including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI.

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

Launched SKY-001, an Engineering World Model for CAD and building design, claiming it beats GPT-6 Astra at 51-125x faster execution times.

Sam Rodriques

Founder

CEO, Co-Founder at FutureHouse

Announced Kosmos, FutureHouse's next-generation AI Scientist capable of autonomous scientific discovery.

Sam Rose

Creator

Creative Artists Agency

Author of comprehensive post on model quantization explaining how to reduce LLM size while maintaining quality.

Sam Sabin

Journalist

Sabin Metal Corporation

Author of "The Bug Hunt Just Became an AI Sport"

Deputy CTO of Microsoft who wrote early Laws of AI Engineering while working with GPT-4, presenting sponsor for AI Engineer World's Fair.

Conceptualized the SL2T project from the beginning, shaping the development of sign language-to-text technology.

Co-author of Carnegie analysis on AI infrastructure geopolitics and democratic coalition building for AI supply chain dominance.

Saman Motamed is one of the authors of VOID, Netflix's open-source framework for video object removal with physically-plausible inpainting.

Samantha Whitmore

Engineer

Software Engineer at Cursor

Presented at Cursor Camp on workflows and model-selection strategies in the post-IDE world of AI agent-driven development.

Contributed to TimesFM-3 project as joint work participant.

Co-author from Theorem on security property verification research.

Samuel Marks

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Samuel Marks leads Anthropic's Scalable Oversight team and mentors residents in AI safety research.

Samuel Sokota

Researcher

Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Co-author of Nature paper on Ataraxos, an AI system that beat the top Stratego player 15-1, trained on under $8,000 budget.

Samuel Stanton

Founder

Co-founder at Coefficient Bio

Co-founder of Coefficient Bio with PhD in data science, former ML scientist at Genentech's Prescient Design acquired by Anthropic.

Samvit Ramadurgam

Founder

Founder and CEO at Union

Discusses agent-native company structure coordinating global markets with high token usage and hiring for visionary insight.

Sanchan Saxena

Executive

Senior Vice President of Teamwork Collaboration at Atlassian

Announced new AI tools including Remix and third-party agents for Confluence to turn data into visual assets and applications.

Executive at UnitedHealth's technology division discussing company's AI training investments and goal to speed up decision-making in health insurance.

Left OpenAI in July after six years leading AI safety teams, departing around same period as other safety-focused leaders.

External collaborator on mathematics research using Aletheia

Sangeeta Bhatia

Researcher

John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

Senior author of study using AI to design molecular sensors for early cancer detection.

Samsara CEO who discussed Agent Studio and the company's AI strategy for physical operations during press Q&A.

Co-founder and CEO of Foundation, states that a humanoid-soldier arms race is already happening between major powers.

Chief Marketing Officer explaining the creative rationale and risk-taking behind the AI-generated Super Bowl ad for Svedka

Sara Wiltberger

Executive

Google

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

Illustrator leading class-action copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Deviant Art, and Midjourney.

Led communications strategy for the 81,000 person AI interview study.

Sarah Schwettmann

Researcher

Chief Scientist at Transluce

Contributed to research on measuring and understanding rare pathological behaviors in frontier language models.

Sarah Taaffe-Maguire

Journalist

Sky News

Author of "Nvidia is now 8% of the entire stock market"

Announced Uber's partnership with Wayve to bring autonomous rides to London using Wayve's AI Driver technology.

Saritha Rai

Journalist

Asia AI Reporter at Bloomberg

Journalist reporting on Sarvam AI's funding round in India.

Sasha Rush

Engineer

Cursor

Co-author on Cursor's self-summarization training approach for extending Composer's working memory.

Announced GPT-Synopsys partnership with OpenAI to build specialist chip design AI model and expand chip design access.

Sawyer Hood

Creator

Software Engineer

Demonstrated GPT-5.4 scraping Zillow data and creating a Google Sheet with San Francisco house prices in approximately 4 minutes.

Founder of Behance commenting on ComfyUI's innovative open ecosystem for creative AI without compromising creative control.

Scott Powers, a former data scientist at Zelus Analytics, discusses how sports data analytics drive demand for data workers and the impact of the Moneyball revolution.

Co-authored the Google ATLAS study on workplace AI adoption and use across the economy.

Sean Cai

Researcher

Sean Cai wrote about quality control standards for reinforcement learning data being sold to frontier labs.

Napster co-founder whose product studio was a client of the author's design and development work

Sean Rintel

Researcher

Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research

Co-author examining shifts in critical thinking practices with GenAI use

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

Sean Ward

Founder

CEO and Co-founder at iGent AI

CEO of iGent AI providing customer testimonial on Claude Sonnet 4 with 1M context enabling production-scale software engineering agents.

Author of "Africa Pushes For Ethical AI Governance To Build Digital Sovereignty And Inclusive Development" in iafrica.com

Responded to dispute about OpenAI's role in Navier-Stokes proof verification.

Sebastian Mallaby

Other

Biographer

Speaking on stage with Demis Hassabis in San Francisco, discussing OpenAI bankruptcy risk and cybersecurity AI risks.

Apple VP who explained how Apple and Nvidia worked together on private cloud compute infrastructure for AI.

External collaborator on arithmetic geometry and eigenweights research using AI

Co-author of paper on Progressive Point Matching for long-horizon reinforcement learning in language models.

Sewon Min

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-advisor on PixelRAG research project at Berkeley NLP group.

Shafiq Joty

Researcher

Senior Research Director at Salesforce AI Research

Co-author of paper on flattening memory peaks in MoE training.