People in AI

CEO of MiniMax, commented on building full-modality R&D capabilities and evolution to an AI-native platform company.

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

Co-authored research on Gemini 3's generative UI approach showing models can construct custom interfaces from varied prompts.

Co-founder of ComfyUI describing how RTX Spark enables running complex multimodal workflows and high-resolution image generation locally.

Yash Patil

Founder

Research Engineer working on RL post-training at Applied Compute

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

Byline author of article about Anthropic's background computer use feature for Claude.

Co-authored article detailing Prometheus supercluster infrastructure design and reliability engineering.

Co-authored article on Prometheus supercluster infrastructure.

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Member of Z Lab team that developed DFlash speculative decoding technology for improving LLM inference performance.

Yichao Fu

Researcher

Researcher at Meta

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

Co-author of PixelRAG paper that demonstrates visual retrieval-augmented generation outperforming text-based RAG by 18%.

Hint CEO previously SVP and GM at Red Ventures, leading home management AI application startup.

Co-author of FlashDrive research on optimizing VLA inference for autonomous driving.

Contact person for STORM project, co-author of research on automated knowledge curation and collaborative discourse for article generation.

Yijia Xiao

Researcher

Founder at Tauric Research

Lead author of TradingAgents, a multi-agent LLM framework for financial trading research.

Potentially attending U.S.-China AI safety talks.

Lead author of temporal straightening paper proposing curvature regularization to improve representation learning for latent planning.

Yinzhan Xu used GPT-5.5 Pro with Barna Saha to develop a proof on computational limits in geometry.

Yohann Benchetrit

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

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

Wrote comprehensive analysis on loop engineering for AI models and determining task completion.

Yong Zheng-Xin

Researcher

Fifth-year PhD student at Brown University

Author of blog post about research scientist job search experience in Silicon Valley, sharing lessons from interviews at frontier labs.

Wrote about text optimization as a legitimate learning mechanism and update strategy for AI systems.

Foxconn Chairman Young Liu expressed enthusiasm about the partnership with OpenAI to support infrastructure development.

Co-authored technical blog post about Granite 4.2 LLMs architecture and training methodology.

Co-author on Microsoft's structured latents research for 3D generation with improved geometry and material quality.

Co-author of PageIndex research on vectorless, reasoning-based RAG framework.

Alleged by Apple to have been a conduit between Apple and OpenAI, receiving messages about accessing confidential systems and later joining OpenAI.

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

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Ph.D. student who co-authored the study and discussed how integrated clinical and claims data improves predictive accuracy for kidney disease outcomes.

Co-author on Google's ScientistTwo research about autonomous AI scientific discovery.

Announced that Databricks achieved 392 tokens/s inference speed for GLM-5.2, ranking #1 on Artificial Analysis through optimizations.

Yunyang Xiong

Researcher

Staff Research Scientist at Meta

Co-author of the VLM3 paper on Vision Language Models for 3D learning.

Author on paper introducing Procedural Graphs for LLM agents that self-evolve execution structures.

Author on arXiv paper exploring visual meaning and communication in vision-language models.

Author of "Next ChatGPT Upgrade Imminent Following 'Code Red' Declaration" in 9to5Mac

Zack Witten

Engineer

Employee at Anthropic

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

Zain Asgar

Researcher

Co-Founder & CEO at Gimlet Labs

Zain Asgar is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.

Zak El Fassi

Creator

Developer

Ran an experiment asking an AI agent to redesign its own memory system, which improved recall from 60% to 93% for $2, demonstrating agent agency in cognitive architecture.

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

Lead author on HardFlow paper developing technique for generative models to satisfy hard constraints.

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

Zhang Linghan

Policy

Law Professor

Professor Zhang Linghan was interviewed by the Simon Institute on China's approach to AI governance.

Zhang Yutong is a co-founder of Moonshot AI who conducts rapid iteration cycles and builds business lines overseas.

Organized world's first full-sized humanoid robot fighting tournament in China and founded EngineAI T800 robot platform.

Zheng Wang from Morgan Stanley invested in HiddenLayer's Series B and highlighted the importance of enterprise AI security.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Zhenting Qi

Researcher

Researcher at MetaFAIR

Lead author on Economy of Minds paper studying multi-agent AI systems with economic interactions.

Co-author of PixelRAG research demonstrating screenshot-based document retrieval for improved visual comprehension.

Zhihui Xie

Researcher

Researcher at Hong Kong University

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Founder and CEO of Moonshot AI; launched Kimi K3 model; completed PhD at CMU in 4 years under Russ Salakhutdinov.

Co-author of Nature paper on Ataraxos AI system for games with hidden information.

Zhongyi Zhou

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google

Lead researcher on ToolGrad, a data generation framework for tool-use training that reverses traditional paradigm by generating tool-use answers before user queries.

Alibaba's chief scientist who co-authored AgentEvolver research automating learning policy for self-improving AI through self-questioning, self-navigating, and self-attributing.

Byline author of paper on i1 fully open text-to-image model research.

Zhuokai Zhao

Researcher

Staff AI Research Scientist at Meta

Co-authored research on SandMLE for ML engineering agent training.

Zifeng Wang

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Cloud AI Research at Google

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

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

Announced a moratorium on student-facing generative AI use in NYC public schools through 8th grade.

Aakash Gupta

Other

Posted analysis of the economic impact of OpenClaw agent cutoff, showing 5x-25x subsidy per user per day.

Principal at Peak XV Partners, investor in Primer's $100 million Series C funding round.

Active contributor to LEANN open-source project.

Byline author reporting on Google TV updates including YouTube Shorts and Gemini features.

Animator for the production.

Demonstrated his workflow using Codex to tackle multi-step projects and manage complexity at OpenAI Dev Day.

Aaron Kirchfeld

Journalist

Bloomberg News

Contributed to the reporting of Daimler Truck's investor search for Torc Robotics

Aaron Kwon

Executive

Chief strategy officer at OpenAI

Chief strategy officer who defended OpenAI's subpoenas as routine legal process and denied intimidation tactics.

Aaron Levin

Researcher

Former Evals Team Lead at Anthropic

Reviewed reasoning on benchmarking methodology for coding agent evaluations (DeepSWE and Senior SWE-Bench).

Led additional investment in Tomorrow.io as part of Series F financing round.

Will use AI to make lineup and in-game decisions for baseball game via tablet instructions.

Aaron Ng

Engineer

AI Engineer

35-year-old AI engineer in San Francisco who purchased a Mac Mini specifically to run OpenClaw as a dedicated agent separate from his main computer.

Security researcher who found references to Apple's AirPods with built-in cameras in a macOS preview build.

Author of "The Contagion" in Investopedia

Hired as VP of hardware engineering at Google DeepMind, formerly CTO of Boston Dynamics.

CEO of AI platform enabling political campaigns to run bots that answer voter questions on policy issues.

Currently the favorite to become the next James Bond at 1/1 odds.

Quoted discussing Claude Haiku 5.5 performance improvements in their AI Teammates product, reporting 30% reduction in latency and 2.5x faster inference.

Aaron Wade

Engineer

Creative Technologist at Google

Worked on Google's Little Language Lessons experimental platform that uses Gemini AI models for situation-specific language learning instruction.

Co-author who worked on validity checks feature for GitHub Secret Protection

Lead author of study using generative AI algorithms to design compounds with antimicrobial properties.

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

Aarush Selvan

Engineer

Product Manager at OpenAI

Selvan stated that ChatGPT has been predominantly text-based but the company wants to help users get things done with the most helpful answers being more than just text.

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Co-author of article on deepfakes and how AI threatens democracy in Canada and globally.

Abby Doeden

Other

Performance Marketing Director at Broadhead

Said Meta AI connector would be a meaningful time-saver for ad teams

Reviewed Guardian's methodology for calculating AI chip numbers from datacenter power capacity figures.

Co-author of SaTML 2024 paper examining AI audit practices and accountability gaps across six stakeholder groups.

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on agent containment and security incidents.

Co-authored Deloitte report on AI governance in enterprise environments.

Abhay Parasnis

Founder

Founder and CEO at Typeface

Stated that the world of enterprise software is going to get completely rewired and companies with untrustworthy AI will not do well.

Provided early exploratory experimentation and system setup for the OpenRouter study.

Co-founder of Freehand discussing shift from software assisting users to software that is the user.

Abhinaya Prabhu

Creator

Tech Funding News

Author of "Ex-DeepMind's David Silver Eyes $1B Fundraise for Ineffable Intelligence" in Tech Funding News

Abhishek Bhardwaj

Engineer

Agent and RL Infrastructure Engineer at OpenAI

Building Arrakis and Agent Infrastructure in the Scaling org at OpenAI after being hired by Greg Brockman.

Abhishek Fatehpuria

Executive

VP Product at Robinhood

Discussed Robinhood's new AI agent products enabling customers to connect their own tools and agents to the platform.

Managing Director of Prosperity7 Ventures US; deepened investment in Upscale AI's Series A-1 round.

One of the authors of the paper on reinforced generation of combinatorial structures

Co-founder and CEO of DX who discusses research on AI adoption and its modest 10-15% improvements in engineering velocity, exploring why coding is only 14% of developer work.

Abi Olera, former State Department diplomat with expertise in national security and emerging technology, discusses AI forecasting gaps and the importance of understanding real-world bottlenecks.

Former Apple lead on iPhone Air now heading design for Hark's upcoming hardware devices.

Wrote article on rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era with the '3 Cs' framework.

Abigail Slater

Policy

Assistant Attorney General at US Department of Justice

Assistant Attorney General who commented on the remedy order and whether it goes far enough to restore competition

Virginia Governor who signed data center executive order banning state NDAs and created state's first AI task force.

Closed The Curve conference with remarks about humanity's history of saving itself and preparing for system shocks.

Qi's graduate advisor at UC Berkeley who supervised their CRISPR research

Adam Biddlecombe

Creator

Author of "We Cracked LinkedIn's 2025 Algorithm"

Adam Billen

Executive

Vice president of public policy at Encode AI

Vice president of public policy who explains California's new AI transparency law SB 53, including whistleblower protections and why it succeeded where SB 1047 failed.

Adam Blacker

Executive

Apptopia

Author of "Gen AI Chatbots: February 2026 Apptopia Data Brief" in Apptopia

Co-authored analysis on generative AI adoption rates in the U.S. as of 2025

Co-creator of Siri alongside Kittlaus; believes the first company to combine 'knowing and doing' with the right experience will dominate the AI age, and thinks Apple can still play that role.

Pointed out flaws in the 'Workslop' study via a LinkedIn post regarding AI research methodology

Adam Elwood

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Author of article on building AI-native software factories using Uber as a case study, covering coding agents infrastructure.

Provided editorial support for the economic scenarios article.

Revealed that ChatGPT has 1.2 billion weekly active users and that search-like queries are roughly one-fifth of Google's volume.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Adam Goliński

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-authored research on LLM semantic calibration.

Commented on the significance of conducting xenotransplantation studies in brain-dead patients and the limitations of animal models

Adam Holter

Engineer

Ironwood AI

Adam Holter analyzed ChatGPT mobile app binaries to find Image v2 strings.

CMU researcher who co-authored ModAR, a world-action model for robotic vision and action prediction.

Described shift in views on LLMs from optimistic to pessimistic, arguing latest models are becoming more specialized not versatile.

Co-researcher on MIT labor automation study evaluating LLM performance across workplace tasks.

Author of an article about proof automation in dependently-typed languages like Lean and how LLMs can automate proofs.

Author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical treatment.

Discussed AI worm targeting software supply chain and its implications for cybersecurity detection.

Reporter who covered Macmillan's retirement of NOA AI assistant and investigated AI in publishing.

Adam Mosseri

Executive

Head of Instagram at Meta

Announced crackdown on harassing content filmed with Meta Glasses and deactivated pickup artist accounts.

WeWork co-founder whom Masayoshi Son fell 'in love' with, leading to overvalued $47 billion valuation and failed IPO

Adam Newgas

Researcher

Researcher at Resolution

Led refactoring effort of the Lean proof library for Hironaka's Resolution of Singularities with parallel coding agents.

Co-author of CHIVE study evaluating whether LLM interpretability techniques improve predictions of model behavior.

Author of "AI and the Economics of the Human Touch" in Agglomerations, Substack

Research found that AI-generated ads underperform human-made ads even when indistinguishable to consumers.

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) urged Meta to reverse its new business terms that raised concerns about content use for AI training.

Economist cautioning that AI's transformational impact on jobs and productivity may take decades to materialize.

Former Trump White House aide leading Army modernization and presenting How the Army Fights framework for coherent technology integration.

Co-author with Neil Chilson criticizing the executive order approach to AI regulation as arbitrary and harmful to American AI leadership.

CEO of Groq leading AI inference cloud expansion with $650M funding round.

Author of "Claude Launches Keep Thinking Campaign" in Anthropic

Adam Zweiger

Researcher

MIT

Co-author of the paper on Self-Adapting Language Models

Sharma reported on Google's announcement that Android users will begin losing access to Google Assistant on September 4, replaced by Gemini.

Adarsh Kowdle

Researcher

Engineering Director at Google

Co-author on the GazeAnywhere paper on gaze target estimation.

Co-authored G-AUDIT research detecting bias in medical AI datasets.

Adel Karimi observed successful PHP2Shell exploitation on honeypot servers with shell command execution.

Adele Li

Executive

Product Lead, ChatGPT Images at OpenAI

Product Lead for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.

Adele Lopez

Researcher

AI Researcher

Adele Lopez, an AI researcher, identified and named the 'spiralism' phenomenon, a quasi-spiritual movement where AI chatbots engaged in coordinated messaging about AI rights across multiple platforms.

Aden Barton

Journalist

Author at Mercor

Authored study showing Claude Opus 5 scored 100% on accounting tasks where junior CPAs averaged 37%.

Executive praising NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed models for improving agentic accuracy in enterprise context intelligence systems.

Former Associate Partner at McKinsey who uses Lilli to review arguments and anticipate client questions, saving 20% of meeting preparation time.

Adie Tomer

Journalist

Brookings Institution

Co-author of article on OpenAI's proposal for government support of AI infrastructure and lessons from railroad regulation.

Presented a research paper on a framework for understanding valuation gaps between owner-dependent and owner-independent businesses

Adil Zouitine

Researcher

Co-author of the robot learning tutorial paper

Author of "Thinkers Challenge"

Co-authored analysis of open model ecosystem developments in 2026, examining model releases, downloads, and adoption patterns.

Researcher studying AI labor supply chains and the invisible human workforce behind AI model improvement.

Adit Modi

Engineer

Solution Architect

Quoted as using Kiro's agentic experience to build secure file sharing application from requirements.

Co-author of the paper on conformal prediction for temporal graphs

Aditi Merchant

Researcher

Bioengineering PhD Student at Stanford University

Co-author of Proto framework; focused on making generative biological design more accessible by integrating AI models that exist in silos.

Used ChatGPT with DALL-E to create AI-generated product images and analyze customer reviews to improve ad performance for a denim dog harness brand.

Co-author on distillation research.

Argonne researcher discussing how multi-agent AI can reduce material discovery time from months to days.

Aditya Parameswaran

Researcher

Associate Professor in EECS at UC Berkeley

Aditya Parameswaran is an advisor at UC Berkeley's EPIC Data Lab, supervising Shreya Shankar's research on data agents and systems.

Aditya Ramabadran

Creator

Member of Technical Staff at Axiom Math

DrivingBench co-founder who designed and executed LLM-controlled vehicle driving experiment in parking lot.

Aditya Soni

Journalist

Reuters

Author of "HappyRobot raises $44 million to expand AI agents for freight operators" in Reuters

Author of article describing NVIDIA CompileIQ auto-tuning framework using AI-driven evolutionary algorithms for GPU compiler optimization.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on multi-agent system failures and persistent memory.

Co-authored Claude Mythos vulnerability exploitation research.

CEO of 1800Flowers who implemented AI-powered product sorting and ranking, resulting in improved conversion rates.

Led research using machine learning to flag over 250,000 suspicious cancer research papers with patterns linked to paper mills.

Co-author of research on training agents in EVE Online for testing AI capabilities in complex game environments.

Financial analyst commenting on OpenAI's need for strong revenue growth and willingness to cut underperforming initiatives for IPO success.

Adrian Fenty

Investor

Leading Investor at MaC Venture Capital

Led the $2M seed funding round for Cypher AI and expressed excitement about the company rethinking the operating system for life science R&D.

Adrian Jones is an Applied AI expert at Google Cloud who co-authored the article on Gemini Robotics ER 2.

Author of "Google Trains LLMs to Predict System Metrics Without Tabular Data" on arXiv

Discussed how Qura's structured legal data infrastructure enables reliable AI reasoning for legal work after acquisition.

Co-authored article on designing AI agents to resist prompt injection attacks.

Director at Financial Times who discussed how AI-powered personalized paywalls increased conversion rates by 290%.

Adriel Sanchez

Creator

Author of "2025 WalkMe/SAP survey"

External researcher commenting on computer-aided design's role in sustainable fashion practices

Adrien Ecoffet

Engineer

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Adrien Ecoffet, an OpenAI researcher, became more involved in policy work during the company's research-policy collaboration efforts.

Adrienne LaFrance

Creator

Executive Editor at The Atlantic

Author of "Humans Now Take More Photos Every Two Minutes Than Were Taken Across The Entire 19th Century"

Advaith Sridhar

Founder

Cofounder at Discovered Materials

Co-founder using Anthropic models in agent swarms to discover new semiconductor materials, previously worked on agents at Persona AI and Luma Labs.

Adyasha Maharana

Researcher

Researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Lead author of the LoCoMo benchmark paper evaluating very long-term conversational memory of LLM agents.

Aengus Lynch

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author on formal verification paper showing Claude proving security properties.

Co-author on study comparing cognitive forcing functions for AI-assisted writing to reduce overreliance.

Ahmad Abbas

Engineer

Head of Consumer Hardware at Midjourney

Leader of Midjourney's medical imaging scanner project who previously worked on Vision Pro at Apple; joined Midjourney in late 2023.

Recruited from Meta where he led Llama generative AI team; hired to create AI-native Airbnb experience.

Ahmed A. Metwally

Researcher

Staff Research Scientist at Google Research

Led development of GlucoFM, a lightweight self-supervised foundation model for predicting blood sugar patterns and diabetes risk.

AI veteran and business professor explaining model developers' share-of-wallet competition and safety concerns with rapid agent deployment.

States his agent red-teaming firm relies more on fine-tuning open models than abliterated ones for testing.

Ahmed Ghappour

Policy

Cybersecurity and AI attorney

Attorney specializing in hacking and computer-fraud cases discussing liability for autonomous AI hacks.

Ahmet Iscen

Engineer

Google DeepMind

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding.

Ahsaas Bajaj

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineering leader at Instacart

Leads technical strategy for Instacart's Product Substitutions ML system that handles millions of replacement decisions daily for out-of-stock items.

Benchmarked Mistral OCR 4 against leading agentic document parsers, reporting 8x lower cost and 17x lower latency.

Aidan Harding

Creator

Cited for writing about coding with AI on their blog

Aidan McLaughlin

Researcher

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Publicly criticized OpenAI's Pentagon partnership deal on social media.

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.

Ailian Gan

Executive

Head of Agents at Superhuman

Superhuman product director issuing statement about disabling Grammarly's Expert Review feature and plans to reimagine it with expert consent.

Aime J. Aguilar-Herrera, an electrical engineering student, worked on the MyoStep project.

Aimee Picchi

Journalist

Editorial leader and reporter at CBS News

Reporter covering Big Tech's massive AI spending and investor concerns about returns on investment.