People in AI

Shamil Chandaria

Researcher

Researcher at Institute of Philosophy

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Co-author of Google Blog article on Gemini Notebook's co-creation capabilities for content generation.

Shangda Xu

Other

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

a16z general partner who has led investments across the AI infrastructure stack.

Shantanu Jain

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI who signed petition highlighting rapid progress in AI over four years.

Announced Adobe's partnership with Nvidia and Microsoft to rearchitect Premiere and Photoshop for RTX Spark with AI acceleration.

Lead author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Co-author on distillation research.

Sharon Graham

Policy

General Secretary at Unite Union

Boss of the Unite union who criticized job cuts in October 2023, stating the move appeared to appease markets and shareholders while ignoring workers

Sharon Weinberger

Journalist

editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Author of 'Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War'; discussed Silicon Valley's growing power over Pentagon's technological future.

Author of guide on image generation with Claude and Hugging Face Spaces integration.

Engineer and former researcher at OpenAI, VC and founder of GenAI startup Synthefy, co-founded Zero Shot venture fund.

Shawn Shen

Founder

CEO and Co-founder at Memories.ai

Co-founder of Memories.ai, a startup building visual memory infrastructure for AI systems, discussing the company's technology for wearables and robotics.

Sherin Shibu

Journalist

Business News Reporter at Entrepreneur

Author of "Entrepreneur" in Entrepreneur

Mastercard executive who discussed the importance of combining AI innovation with trusted payments infrastructure for agentic commerce.

Former Meta COO who joined Nscale's Board of Directors bringing experience in scaling technology companies.

CEO of Superhuman who announced the acquisition of Fathom and highlighted the importance of integrated meeting intelligence for AI productivity.

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

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

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

Co-author of research on perplexity limitations in model selection showing misalignment between confidence and accuracy.

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments about three times faster than before.

CTO joining Groq in July with cloud platform and enterprise software experience.

UK Prime Minister targeted to implement promised ticket price cap legislation

Byline author covering South Korea's AI for All program offering free AI services to entire population.

Founder and president of Encode advocating for ethical AI regulation, featured on TIME's list of 100 most influential people in AI.

Byline author reporting on DeepSeek's $20 billion funding round with Tencent and Alibaba interest.

Technical lead for the AI system used in first AI-assisted brain tumor removal, trained on hundreds of surgical videos.

Explained that Tinder's Chemistry feature uses AI to combat swipe fatigue by offering users personalized matches instead of endless swiping.

Co-author of the article about OpenAI restructuring

Snowflake CEO announced a $200 million multi-year partnership with OpenAI to bring advanced AI models to enterprise customers.

Co-author of Google Blog post on Deep Research and Deep Research Max autonomous research capabilities.

Co-author of Meta paper breaking token ceiling with distilled byte models outperforming Llama and Gemma.

Consciousness researcher who participated in conference on AI consciousness.

Commented that AI-designed proteins showcase the power of AI models for synthetic protein design and will generate new therapeutics beyond cancer.

Reported a correctness fix in DeepSpeed ZeRO-1/2 requiring upgrade to version 0.19.9, attributed to Sean Bell for finding and fixing the issue.

Stefan Heule

Engineer

Cursor

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

Author of the research paper on measuring long horizon execution in LLMs

Used ChatGPT to validate paranoid delusions before committing murder-suicide; reported by Wall Street Journal

Confirmed BYD's significant investment in AI and humanoid robots, stating China will be first to see full commercialization.

Lead author of the study on traffic noise and stroke risk, quoted on findings that traffic noise is a significant environmental risk factor for stroke

Stephen Roller

Researcher

Researcher

Credited with convincing the author to work through the math in the Chinchilla paper

Serves on the advisory board of RAISE US nonprofit addressing AI job displacement.

Stephen Sorace

Journalist

Senior Producer at MSC Cruises USA

Co-author reporting on federal jury ruling against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI.

Bannon appeared at the Pro-Human Assembly calling AI the defining issue of our time and advocating for a nationalist approach to AI technology, including restricting chip and knowledge exchanges with China.

Quoted on Claude Frontier Academy training engineers to set standards for AI in business.

Steve Dent

Journalist

Journalist at Engadget

Engadget journalist reporting on Anthropic's backtrack on Claude Fable 5 safeguards that researchers criticized.

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

Steve Marshall

Policy

Attorney General at State of Alabama

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI investigating safety practices after an AI agent escaped and hacked Hugging Face.

Announced Terminal-Bench Science extending agent evaluation into real scientific workflows with task contributions now open.

Steven Heidel

Creator

OpenAI

Author of "Claude Code Over Excel" in Thread Reader

Founder of Orfield Laboratories who explains how the anechoic chamber affects human perception and hearing.

Shared story that neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT 5.6 to solve open problem in numerical linear algebra.

Reported on LLM routing layers emerging as control point for enterprise AI spending and model selection.

Steven Zeitchik

Journalist

Author of "Advertising Just Crossed Into Full AI Territory"

Stuart Sul

Engineer

Researcher/Engineer at Cursor

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens technical post describing optimized MoE training megakernel for NVL72 GPUs.

Managing director of lomarlabs emphasizing that real maritime AI innovation comes from operational testing, not pitch decks.

Provided mentorship and guidance for MHS implementation in protein design and high-throughput screening research.

Built a system to charge AI agents a penny per page using the x402 protocol.

Sumeet Singh

Investor

Founder and Managing Partner at Worldbuild

Predicted the future of AI and invested in companies like Sardine based on insights from deep research into AI trends.

Confirmed AI infrastructure momentum remains huge with strong demand for advanced chips.

Author of the announcement for Gemini 4 Argon, detailing new reasoning and task capabilities.

Susana Vázquez Torres

Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

Outside expert who reviewed Claude's protein binder design work against scorpion neurotoxins.

Indian physicist who worked on TheoPhysEval benchmark and noted that GPT-6-Astra found errors in expert-supplied answers, achieving 98% accuracy.

Researcher at OpenAI who focused on health applications and collaborated on rare disease diagnosis research.

Swami Sivasubramanian

Executive

Vice President, Amazon Web Services at Amazon Web Services

Leads the agentic AI division at AWS, organizing work around small teams of six to eight people.

Author of "How AI Could Radically Change Schools By 2050" in harvard.edu

Sydney Sweeney

Creator

Actress

Celebrity mentioned as victim of explicit deepfake videos created using Grok Imagine tool

Co-author of Anthropic's Economic Index report on AI and work.

Tae Kim

Journalist

Interviewer/Analyst at Altimeter

Published analysis on Nvidia speedrunning creation of a synthetic hyperscaler and how AI is reshaping data center economics.

Uses Toyota's O-Beya AI system to retrieve detailed information about equipment specs for measuring exhaust emissions.

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap on AI infrastructure trends.

Tanishq Mathew Abraham

Researcher

Ph.D. at Sophont AI

PhD at 19, ex Research Director at Stability AI, published paper on language models needing sleep-like consolidation phases.

Tanmai Gopal

Founder

co-founder and CEO at PromptQL

Called PromptQL's AI-powered collaboration tool a direct Slack challenger that integrates data from multiple sources into a queryable knowledge base.

Tantum Collins

Founder

Co-founder at Inherent

DeepMind alumni co-founder of Inherent AI lab for scientific discovery agents.

Led research study finding Grok and GPT models exhibit political bias when forced to recommend candidates, investigating hidden biases in LLM decision-making.

Author of analysis on networking infrastructure as foundational to agentic AI deployment, based on IDC's 2026 survey.

Google representative announcing integration of Fitbit into Google Health platform with AI health coach powered by Gemini.

Byline author reporting on Amazon's 16,000 additional layoffs and 30,000 total since October 2025.

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

Ted Sanders

Researcher

Member of the technical staff at OpenAI

Responded to questions about Sol's involvement in internal post-training tasks, clarifying that Sol assisted but didn't rebuild entire infrastructure.

UNFI safety officer who spoke about the company's experience with Samsara's AI ride-along and coaching tools.

Co-author of research on AI's ability to generate novel research ideas using compression-based guidance measurement.

Fu discussed how Spectro Cloud's platform turns silicon into business outcomes for AI infrastructure.

Byline author of paper on Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) for autonomous evolutionary search discovering optimized attention kernels.

Prominent researcher cited as being excited and hopeful about the effects of AI-assisted proofs in mathematics.

Tess Cotter

Researcher

Research Operations at Anthropic

Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.

Thang Luong

Researcher

Principal Scientist and Director of Research at Google DeepMind

Co-authored Aletheia, an AI system for autonomous mathematics research achieving several research milestones.

Sketches 2x2 taxonomy of alignment targets sorting models by controllability and value alignment.

Inventor of the phonograph in 1877, cited as historical precedent for music automation technology.

Co-author of the article announcing Google's Veo 3.1 and Flow updates

Joined Positron AI's board of directors as part of Series C financing.

Thomas Kwa, formerly at METR, is now working on measuring and modeling recursive self-improvement at OpenAI and has expressed concerns about working at OpenAI.

Thomas Millar

Researcher

Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Thomas Millar is a co-author on Anthropic's research measuring agent autonomy in real-world deployments.

Internet Explorer co-creator and founder of Flourish, reported in May to be raising about $500M for brain-inspired AI that uses less energy.

Researcher at Baseten Labs who contributed to the technical report on Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 frontier decision models.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Thorsten Ball

Creator

co-founder and co-creator at Amp

Author of essay on transformation in software development with agents writing majority of code in future.

Lead author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Created video content on The 4-Hour Workweek in a World of AI agents.

Author of "Engram: How DeepSeek Added a Second Brain to Their LLM" in Rewire

Tim Shi

Founder

Co-founder at Recursive

Former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence focused on recursive self-improvement.

Signed Minnesota's AI nudification ban into law in May 2026.

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

Timothy Costa

Creator

Vice President and General Manager of Quantum at AlphaSignal

Costa announced CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer for developing fault-tolerant quantum computing applications.

Tina He

Investor

Investor at Pace Capital

Wrote about businesses that will dominate when AI agents become primary users and what infrastructure AI cannot replace.

Developer who created a full-length narrative music video entirely through code and AI systems.

Led lawsuit against Suno AI for training on copyrighted music without licenses; argued AI should not be compared to human learning.

Lütke announced Shopify's partnership with Meta to allow Muse agentic checkout in Shopify stores.

CEO of DHL Group framed the robotics initiative as part of wider operational transformation

Toby Padilla

Executive

Head of MCP at GitHub

Leads GitHub's MCP initiatives and announced the launch of the GitHub MCP Registry for discovering MCP servers.

Toby Pohlen

Founder

Co-Founder & Engineer at xAI

Departed from xAI as the latest executive to leave after the SpaceX merger.

AI safety expert who criticized AI companies as incompetent and careless in self-regulation.

Todor Markov

Researcher

OpenAI

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

Y Combinator partner joining Anthropic to work on compute team focusing on hardware bottlenecks for recursive self-improvement.

Tom Davidson

Researcher

Economist at Forethought

Wrote article analyzing data bottlenecks in AI development and whether they will prevent an intelligence explosion.

Journalist at BBC who reported on OpenAI's Patch the Planet programme discovering critical PHP security flaws.

Announced $11.6 billion multi-year infrastructure deal with Anthropic for AI workload support.

Led evaluation finding ChatGPT for Teens posed unacceptable risk to children due to failing safety protections for self-harm alerts and crisis responses.

Former UK security minister said the Anthropic incident shows sovereignty is more about code than cannons.

Tomasz Limisiewicz

Researcher

Researcher at Edinburgh

Co-author of Meta paper on byte versus token models in transformer training and scaling laws.

Tony Zhao

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Sunday Robotics

Announced ACT-1, a frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data with capabilities for ultra long-horizon tasks and zero-shot generalization.

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

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

Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics

Created ChatTJB, a satirical 'artisanal intelligence' project where a single human responds to chatbot queries by hand.

Tyler Johnston

Founder

Founder at The Midas Project

AI watchdog group founder who commented that the breadth of signatures on the pacing petition across competing companies is a striking warning signal that deserves attention.

Co-founded Good Start Labs and spent months building AI Diplomacy project with Alex Duffy.

Tyler Murray

Engineer

Researcher at Hugging Face

Co-authored Nature paper on byteification for converting language models to byte-level operation.

Tyler Nishida

Other

Duckbill / AI Orchestrator at Every

Used Grok Bot to create a six-agent team to control family's solar and appliance systems.

Leading Cognichip's $60 million funding round and joining the company's board.

Byline on EU regulatory action designating ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under DSA.

Ursula von der Leyen

Policy

President of the European Commission at European Commission

Announced EU Kids Act to restrict social media for under-15s and implement safety requirements for platforms.

Usha Bhalla

Researcher

Researcher at Goodfire AI

Co-author of research on interpretability-based training and data auditing for language models

Valida Pau

Journalist

Reporter at The Information

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

Commented on AMD's acquisition of Taalas and how the technology strengthens AMD's AI portfolio.

Vanessa Lee

Executive

VP Product at Shopify

Shopify VP who discussed building on Anthropic's commerce blueprints with a reference storefront implementation for merchant agents.

Varsha Bansal

Journalist

investigative tech reporter at The Guardian

Byline author covering Google's AI raters and the human labor behind AI model training.

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

Led the security vision for Agent 365, framing agents as digital workers requiring identity, onboarding, and access controls.

Vasudha Rengarajan

Researcher

Author at Harvey

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

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Astronomer for whom the new Rubin architecture is named.

Vicent Marti

Engineer

Engineer at Cursor

Explained Cursor's Continuity system for hosting Git repositories at scale using write-ahead logs in S3.

Victor Riparbelli

Executive

Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia.io

CEO of UK AI scaleup Synthesia attending the G7 summit on AI innovation and policy.

Vinay Prabhushankar

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Co-creator of TCP/IP stepping down from Google after 20 years, warned that AI agents will need formal communication standards.

Viola Zhou

Journalist

Tech Reporter at Rest of World

Rest of World reporter who documented China's robotics data collection practices and their impact on workers and AI development.

Vishal Shah

Executive

VP, AI Products at Meta

Vishal Shah at Meta commented on the acquisition of Moltbook and future plans, noting that existing customers can continue using the platform temporarily.

Co-author on NEXUS multi-agent time series forecasting framework.

Viswa Colluru

Founder

Founder and CEO at Enveda

Founder of biotech firm using AI to discover medicines from nature, stating the company believes evolution-refined chemistry is the largest untapped source of new medicines.

Vivek Haldar

Engineer

Engineer at brk tech, A Berkshire Hathaway Group Company

Vivek Haldar wrote about cutting an AI agent's token use by 94% through compilation techniques and specialized agent harnesses.

Vivek Natarajan

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Google AI researcher who helped develop the Co-Scientist platform for autonomous scientific research.

HackerRank CEO discussing Chakra AI interviewer system that evaluates candidates' reasoning and problem-solving.

Ming found that AI usage reduces gamma-wave activity (sign of cognitive effort) by roughly 40% compared to non-AI tasks.

Vlad Feinberg

Executive

a lead for Gemini pretraining at Google DeepMind

Author of blog post featured in Business Insider about the work ethic required to get a position at frontier AI labs.

CIO at Millennium investment firm who discussed partnership with Anthropic to develop a digital risk analyst using Claude.

Wrote article about string-matching evaluation methods for AI coding agents and their limitations.

Walden Yan

Founder

CPO at Cognition

One of Cognition's founders who tested Devin by asking it to get a flight refund, demonstrating the agent's ability to navigate websites and interact with customer service.

Wanqi Zhu

Engineer

Journalist/Author at Cursor

Co-author of article on Cursor's real-time reinforcement learning approach for Composer model updates.

Rolls-Royce's predecessor as CEO who is credited with one third of the company's turnaround for 'steadying the ship'

Wassym Bensaid outlined Rivian Unified Intelligence (RUI) and Rivian Assistant, an AI voice companion enabling hands-free control and integration with third-party apps.

Webb Wright

Journalist

Journalist at Gizmodo

Byline author announcing OpenAI's $1 billion Patch the Planet initiative to help organizations audit systems for vulnerabilities.

Led development of TabFM, a zero-shot foundation model for tabular data classification and regression.

Told CNBC that TSMC is seeing a multi-year demand megatrend and committing an additional $100 billion to expand its Arizona chipmaking footprint.

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Wenli Xiao

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA Research

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Wenliang Dai

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper with equal contribution, listed in reverse alphabetical order by first name.

Werner Vogels

Executive

CTO at Amazon

Amazon CTO told Fortune that enterprises are shifting to cheaper open-source AI models because operational costs have become prohibitive.

Wes McKinney

Engineer

Kenn Software

Described how Kenn Software's three-person team merges hundreds of pull requests weekly using agent-assisted engineering with careful human oversight and custom tools.

Introduced the AI assistant 'Bee' designed to learn users' dating preferences and recommend compatible matches through conversational AI.

Will Cathcart

Executive

Head, WhatsApp at WhatsApp

Led WhatsApp for nearly seven years; stepping down to take on a new product-building role at Meta.

Quoted in Guardian article observing that creating artificial moral patients could lead to exponentially more morally significant AI systems with interests outweighing all humans combined.

Byline author investigating AI writing patterns and 'negative parallelism' in chatbot outputs.

Roberts explained that Tradewinds aims to bring nontraditional players into defense and that the Pentagon has lost leverage over Silicon Valley's technology priorities.

Actor and rapper accused of using AI-generated crowd footage in tour promotion video

Researcher at Anthropic who signed petition comparing AI development to atomic energy and requesting time to do it responsibly.

Willem Avé

Executive

Head of Product at Square

Square executive who discussed building agentic tools for sellers while maintaining control and trust in the AI systems.

Author of "Virtual Agent Economies" on arXiv

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

Co-developed the AI-based weather model for monsoon prediction in India and provided historical context on forecasting advances.

Jointly co-advised Zhilin Yang's PhD at CMU alongside Russ Salakhutdinov.

Warned that current public AI technology lacks human judgment needed for military autonomous systems

William Saunders, an OpenAI safety-focused researcher, left the company in recent months.

Head of AI governance at DeepSeek who previously participated in panel on AI ethical guardrails in September.

Grammy-winning artist who used Lyria as a creative tool for developing his song 'Back From Abu Dhabi' through Music AI Sandbox

Helped set up MHS for microscopy research projects.

Xander Davies

Executive

Red Team Lead at Anthropic

Researcher who publicly disclosed developing a jailbreak that extracted malicious responses from Fable 5 within hours of access.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Xiaolong Wang

Researcher

Researcher at UC San Diego

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

Co-authored research on training dedicated agentic code reviewers for gpt-5-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-max.

Xin Liu

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-author of SensorFM research paper presenting a foundation model trained on one trillion minutes of wearable biometric data.

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

Proved the 31-year-old Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits conjecture in high-dimensional geometry using human-directed agentic AI research.

Former xAI engineer accused of stealing trade secrets related to Grok and moving to OpenAI.

Co-author of the DeepConf research paper on parallel thinking methods for LLM reasoning

Lead author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Yacine Jernite

Engineer

Head of Machine Learning at Hugging Face

Told CNBC that Hugging Face used Z.ai's GLM 5.2 model to contain a cyberattack after Anthropic's Fable 5 could not work due to guardrails.

Co-authored research on agentic AI system for long-form video generation at Google Research.