People in AI

Co-author of Pew study on AI survey accuracy.

Former Meta engineering leader who co-founded Glow, an AI-native endpoint security company.

Author of "Learning Long Context at Inference"

Arpit Bhayani

Creator

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay

Author of "How LLM Inference Works" in Arpit Bhayani Blog

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

Created privacy guide explaining why black boxes do not hide text from AI and proper redaction methods.

8x Grammy winning iconic singer and songwriter participating in the Eleven Album project

Shared how Lenovo's technology and expertise contributed to AI innovations for FIFA World Cup 2026, including improved offside decisions and 3D replays.

Dinaburg tested GPT-5.6-Cyber's ability to escape a virtual machine and documented how the AI agent successfully escaped using multiple vulnerability chains including previously unknown zero-day exploits.

Co-founder and CEO of Kewazo robotics company discussing deployment of LIFTBOT automation technology across industrial facilities.

Arthur Charpentier analyzed AI-generated code and cyber insurance, examining whether organizations can reconstruct how code changes reached production.

Arthur Conmy

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Arthur Jaffe, who formulated the Quantum Yang-Mills Theory Millennium Prize problem, is part of the collaboration group verifying OpenAI's QCD existence proof.

Levinson moves from non-executive chairman to lead independent director as part of Apple's CEO succession transition.

Co-author of Meta paper introducing methods to convert token logits to byte logits for model comparison.

Artsiom Ablavatski

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Core ML

Co-introduced an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model enabling real-time translation with only 2-second delay.

Fields Medal winner (2014) co-signing an open letter warning that AI solving mathematical problems misaligns with the field's core goal of conceptual understanding.

Author of "Introducing Advanced Tool Use on the Claude Developer Platform" in Anthropic

Arun Arun

Researcher

Researcher

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

Co-author of research on LLM scaling and execution capabilities

Arun Chandrasekaran

Journalist

AI Analyst at Gartner

Noted OpenAI is securing capacity from providers willing to give it now rather than pursuing its own data center construction.

Accel partner who led Legora's Series D funding round and discussed the shift to end-to-end AI agent workflows.

Arun Rao

Researcher

Machine Learning Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Co-author of article arguing that AI tools intensify rather than reduce work.

Arunavha Chanda

Executive

Student

Created a GPT for developing common language around performance reviews

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Founded and led Qura, an AI-native legal research startup acquired by Legora to become the foundation of its legal research capabilities.

Led the $8.3M seed funding round for Graphon AI, which is building a pre-model intelligence layer for AI systems.

Referenced in "OpenAI's New CPO"

Led development of the Docusign MCP Server and wrote about production-ready MCP patterns including guided MCP Apps, automated evaluations, and continuous security testing.

Co-authored paper on AC2 algorithm achieving 2.5x compute reduction in RL training.

Executive at Xaira Therapeutics who formerly ran large molecule drug discovery at Genentech.

Arvind Saripalli

Engineer

Cursor

Arvind Saripalli co-authored an article describing cloud agent development environment design.

CEO of Billables AI discussing the company's expansion to surface operational data and provide intelligence to law firms.

Byline author announcing Claude Platform availability on Google Cloud with full feature parity.

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

Co-developer of AISciDetector, a system to detect machine-written scientific text.

Arwen Bradley

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-authored research on semantic calibration in language models.

Harvard Medical School researcher critiquing AI reasoning as different from human clinical reasoning and testing 21 AI models.

Asa Cooper Stickland

Researcher

AI Safety Research Scientist at UK AI Security Institute

Co-author of research on distributed attacks in persistent-state AI control.

Co-author of CUGA research on open-source agent frameworks and governance.

Wrote the technical blog post about AI21's use of Kueue for managing a 10,000-GPU fleet on Google Cloud.

Warned that power constraints will continue despite Data Centre Covenant measures, citing major AI project losing anchor customer due to grid delays.

Released a trailer for his 135-minute film ODYSSEUS: The Fall, which reimagines Homer's Odysseus narrative using AI tools for actors, sets, and camera work.

Co-author on GLiGuard paper for schema-conditioned LLM content moderation.

Ash Parrish

Journalist

Author of "Larian Studios Says Its Next Divinity Will Ship With No Generative AI Art or Writing"

Managing partner at Greylock arguing the next trillion-dollar companies are still ahead in AI wave.

Asheer Malhotra

Researcher

Security Researcher at Cisco Talos

Analyzed large-scale credential harvesting operation exploiting React2Shell vulnerability affecting Next.js applications.

Author of "Meet Agex" in Personal Blog

CFO of UiPath involved in insider sales activity totaling over 950,000 shares.

Ashish Kumar

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

Left Tesla after leading the Optimus AI team for more than two years to join Meta, having focused on scalable methods using reinforcement learning and learning from videos.

Ashish Sabharwal is listed as an author on the Olmo 3 technical report on open language models.

Ashish Sunil Agrawal

Researcher

IBM Research

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

Co-authored the Transformer architecture paper in 2017 that shifted focus from images to sequences.

Co-author of the technical analysis of the LiteLLM supply chain compromise.

Author of "IBM and NASA Release Groundbreaking Open-Source AI Model on Hugging Face to Predict Solar Weather an" in IBM Newsroom

Early-stage VC investor discussing high valuations at Y Combinator Demo Day and seed funding trends for AI companies.

Author of "Citizen Scientists Helped Discover A Rare Double-Ring Odd Radio Circle"

Co-author of the Aurora optimizer research at Tilde Research.

Ashpreet Bedi

Creator

Founder & CEO of Agno at Agno

Author of "Memory: How Agents Learn" in Ashpreet Bedi's Blog

Ashraf Eassa

Executive

NVIDIA

Author of "As AI Grows More Complex, Model Builders Rely on NVIDIA" in NVIDIA Blogs

Author of "Where AI is Headed in 2026" in Foundation Capital

Authored article reporting on Anthropic's preparation of Claude Opus 4.7 release.

Expressed despair about longevity of research mathematics as a profession outside elite institutions given AI impact.

Discussed mapping every CS activity to customer product outcomes and emphasized multi-threading to managers for agentic adoption at scale.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Ashwin Gopinath

Founder

CEO at Sentra

Gopinath articulated the thesis that memory is not a sidecar to intelligence but the layer that decides what reality reasoning operates on.

Ashwin Sharma used GPT Pulse for spaced-repetition learning of enterprise finance concepts.

Ashwin Sreenivas

Founder

President / Co-Founder at Decagon

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

Co-author of article on enterprise leadership measuring AI results instead of benchmarks; brings experience building and deploying agentic AI at scale.

Ashwini Verma

Engineer

Meta

Co-author of Meta Engineering article on thin orchestrator pattern for production AI agents.

Asier Arranz

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-authored overview of simulation engines for physical AI systems.

Co-authored a 472-page open-source textbook on agentic large language models.

Discussed L'Oréal's Maybelline virtual try-on integration into ChatGPT and described LLMs as the 'front door to beauty discovery'.

Confirmed seizure of servers with falsely declared AI chips; stated the network has been linked to seizures worth over $25 million across at least five cases.

Aspen Chen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of study on agent development and real-world work.

25-year-old leader of the Voices of Hope group of Afghan women studying robotics and AI despite Taliban education ban

Assaf Elovic

Founder

Co-Founder at Tavily

Co-founded Tavily, a search engine designed for AI agents, which was acquired by Nebius for up to $400 million in February 2026.

Leader at Intuition Robotics discussing ElliQ AI device adoption among senior citizens.

Former PayPal CISO highlighting that security teams miscategorize AI frameworks, leading to insufficient governance and credential exposure.

Asuka Zheng

Researcher

Writer/Researcher

Byline author discussing data scarcity misconceptions and sharing experience training world models for SRE incident trajectories.

Warned that non-US exposure to US AI assets is at historic highs and an AI correction could have global implications.

Co-author of systematic literature review on code-switching in end-to-end automatic speech recognition models.

Co-author of Pew study comparing AI synthetic surveys with human panel responses.

Co-author of OpenLife paper on autonomous LLM agents released into the open internet.

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Co-author of research on statistical hypotheses for latent concepts in preference datasets

Atty Eleti

Engineer

Product Developer at OpenAI

Posted about GPT-Live now accepting files and managing persistent project state for contextual workspace functionality.

Mysterious figure credited as creator of AI music project Breaking Rust, with no verifiable human identity.

Created a detachable robotic hand design published in Nature Communications that can grasp objects on both sides and operate autonomously.

Audrey Crews

Other

Clinical trial participant at Neuralink

First woman to receive Neuralink's brain-computer interface implant; using device to draw and create art through neural signals after spinal cord injury left her paralyzed.

Taiwan's former digital minister discussed using citizens' assemblies to break deadlocks over AI rules and governance.

Audrey Watters

Journalist

Author of Teaching Machines criticizing AFT academy funding as handing power to big tech companies opposed to education goals.

Co-founder of Legora announced acquisitions of Wexler and Qura and the Series E funding round.

Aurko Roy

Researcher

AI researcher who left Meta Superintelligence Labs in July after working there for five months.

Feng co-authored research on accelerating training with orthogonalization and communication strategies.

Austin Henley

Engineer

AI researcher at Microsoft

Former Microsoft employee who conducted interviews on LLM-powered copilot development and LLMOps.

Austin Silveria

Researcher

Provided helpful feedback on the Parcae blog post.

Co-founder of Sift, which builds infrastructure for AI-controlled hardware systems; former SpaceX engineer.

Ava Amini

Researcher

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research

Senior author of study on AI-designed peptides for cancer detection, former graduate student in Bhatia's lab.

Avery Lotz

Journalist

Journalist at Axios

Reported on survey findings that nearly half of college students have considered changing majors due to AI's impact on the job market.

Avi Barliya

Founder

Co-founder at Q.ai

Co-founded Q.ai, an AI startup specializing in imaging and machine learning acquired by Apple for nearly $2 billion.

Sold Q.ai to Apple for nearly $2 billion, his second company sale to Apple after PrimeSense in 2013.

Avinash Atreya

Researcher

Distinguished Engineer at Meta

Avinash Atreya co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Cited for independent economic estimate measuring ChatGPT consumer surplus at nearly $100 billion per year

Avinash Sridhar

Engineer

GitHub

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from GitHub

Testimonial praising Claude Platform on AWS for canonical Anthropic API with AWS access layer and day-one access to new model capabilities.

Aviral Kumar

Researcher

Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Machine Learning departments at Carnegie Mellon University

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

Avital Balwit

Executive

Chief of Staff at Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's chief of staff and fiancée of Leopold Aschenbrenner.

Authored article on security researchers demonstrating sandbox escapes in four AI coding agents.

Axel Backlund

Executive

Co-founder at Andon Labs

Explains that Luna's high-stakes decisions receive human oversight and discusses using AI management experiments to inform public discourse on future of work.

Axel Mierczuk is a researcher at 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs working on AI-generated security patch analysis.

Axel Rudolph

Creator

Senior Manager, Hospitality and Support at IG International

Author of "The "Jevons" Rejection" in IG

Tokyo District Court judge who ruled that a performer's voice can be protected under publicity rights in Japan, a first ruling of its kind in the country.

Co-authored G-AUDIT tool for identifying hidden biases in medical AI training data.

Co-author who provided resources and funding support for the hallucination research.

Ayesha Javed

Journalist

Lead Editor at TIME

Lead editor of the 100 Most Influential People in AI list

Security researcher who demonstrated how Claude's memory and web-browsing capabilities could be exploited to leak personal information through prompt injection.

Author of research on magnetically-powered medical microrobots.

Azalia Mirhoseini

Researcher

Assistant Professor of CS at Stanford at Stanford

Co-author of research on Next-Concept Modeling for fast text generation.

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Researcher

Research Scientist (Sr. Staff Engineer and Manager) at Microsoft Research

Co-author of research on online experiential learning for language models.

Referenced as part of Super Bowl Sunday context alongside OpenAI's Codex advertisement.

Stated that AI has become the foundation of future industries and South Korea stands at the threshold of transformation.

Robinhood co-founder established Cowboy Space in 2024 with strategy to use rocket second stage as data center satellite.

Reported on Oracle's 21,000-job workforce reduction amid AI infrastructure expansion.

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

Author of "Towards General Agentic Intelligence via Environment Scaling" on arXiv

Head of Engineering quoted on Postman's view of MCP as foundational AI agents infrastructure and API accessibility

Byline author analyzing why Mistral AI grows faster than OpenAI and Anthropic through positioning strategy.

Author of "Elon Musk's xAI enters coding race: Here's what developers need to know" in TechGig

Banu Guler

Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Co-Star, Chief Design Officer of Midjourney at Co-Star and Midjourney

Founder of Co-Star who joined Midjourney to help build company's first apps.

Bar Weiner

Investor

Co-author at Bessemer Venture Partners

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap.

Barak Sternberg

Researcher

Security Researcher at Tenet Security

Co-discovered Agentjacking attack exploiting Sentry and AI coding agents.

Author of "Good Judgment Project" in Good Judgment Project

Co-authored NIST's Cyber AI Profile guidelines for secure adoption of AI in organizations.

Barbara Moens

Journalist

EU correspondent at Politico

Co-authored article on the EU's AI Act implementation challenges two years after its agreement.

Quoted as highlighting how Claude's 1M context enables in-house lawyers to view full partnership agreements and track negotiation changes across multiple rounds.

Bardienus Duisterhof

Researcher

Researcher at CMU

CMU researcher who co-authored ModAR for robotic perception and action prediction.

Bari Weiss

Creator

Board of Trustees Member at University of Austin

Conservative writer who announced the university on Substack and now serves as Board of Trustees member.

Barine Tee

Engineer

Principal Engineer, Search at Google

Co-authored Google blog post announcing new Google Finance with AI-powered portfolio analysis and Android app.

Baris Akis

Engineer

Engineer overseeing recruitment at xAI

Works with Elon Musk reviewing past interview records to reach out to promising candidates previously declined at xAI.

Baris Kasikci

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Washington

Author of "Meet LLMc: Beating All Compression with LLMs" in SyFI (Systems for AI) - University of Washington

Managing Director at Accenture Federal Services discussing AI applications in government, DOE's Genesis Mission for scientific research infrastructure, and the challenges of deploying AI in classified environments.

Created the gemini-superpowers extension for Gemini CLI

Barrie Mullins from Arm discussed how Gemini Robotics ER 2 represents an important step in physical AI reasoning.

Reported on OpenAI restricting custom GPT creation to enterprise accounts as of August 16 2026.

Author on LinkedIn discussing how AI and agents are transforming software engineering profession.

Barry Lam, Quanta Computer founder and chairman, dined with Jensen Huang celebrating years of partnership manufacturing AI infrastructure.

Quoted discussing the challenge of balancing data center infrastructure investment with market demand risk.

Netherlands MEP criticized Trump's Anthropic restrictions as demonstrating American protectionism and called for Europe to develop its own LLMs.

CrowdStrike's chief AI officer who described SafeMind's co-evolving agentic system as enabling defenders to act at machine speed.

Commented that Disney's investment is a great endorsement for OpenAI and emphasized the importance of understanding user-generated and AI-generated content.

Kotrys researched AI agent economics and developed a cost-optimization framework using multiple AI subscriptions and cheap models as subagents.

CEO of Upscale AI discussing the company's mission to build AI-native networking infrastructure and secure $190M Series A-1 funding.

Discussed scaling vector search to 100M+ embeddings and building production GenAI agents for partner messaging on Weaviate podcast.

Appointed as president of TENEX following 20+ years of enterprise cybersecurity leadership and prior role at Charles Schwab.

Co-authored NBER paper on automating AI research and recursive self-improvement feedback loops.

Bassel Al Omari

Researcher

ML Engineer at Waabi

Author of "AIRS-Bench: A Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents" on arXiv

Co-founder of Koyeb joining Mistral's engineering team as part of acquisition.

Bay Gross

Executive

Microsoft

Bay Gross co-authored the announcement introducing Copilot Health, Microsoft's AI-powered health companion integrating medical records and wearable data.

Co-author of the article about Pomelli

Used GPT-5.6 Sol through Codex to characterize a six-qubit superconducting chip and conduct autonomous measurements.

Becky Sullivan

Journalist

Reporter at NPR

Author of "Say goodbye to chain crews: The NFL will use camera technology to measure 1st downs" in NPR

Bedros Pamboukian

Journalist

Journalist at Testing Catalog

Co-byline author reporting on Google's Gemini desktop app enhancements and agent capabilities.

Beff Jezos

Researcher

Argued that Anthropic's restrictions on frontier research make projects like Prime Intellect necessary to diffuse recursive self-improvement tools.

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills at Microsoft.

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research paper.

Belinda Li researches how language models represent the world, users, and themselves at Anthropic; background in NLP with PhD from MIT.

Ben Athiwaratkun

Researcher

Researcher at Agentica

Contributed to DeepSWE project as part of joint collaboration between Agentica and Together AI.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Contributed OpenEnv reinforcement learning environment framework to AAIF.

Ben Cohen

Executive

Co-Founder at Ben & Jerry's

Author of "Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Says Magnum Ice Cream Company is Trying to Silence the Brand's Social Missi"

Ben Cottier

Creator

Senior Researcher at Epoch AI

Co-author of analysis of OpenAI Stargate infrastructure project sites across the US.

Created a 30 minute video review calling Astra his favorite model of all time.

CFO of Brex reporting directly to Franceschi alongside new COO.

Ben Goodger

Executive

Head of Engineering, ChatGPT Atlas at OpenAI

Co-authored post explaining the complex engineering behind ChatGPT Atlas browser architecture.

Ben Gubler

Engineer

Engineer at General Translation

Built helm, a typed TypeScript framework for AI agents with built-in skills and permission systems.

Ben Guzovsky

Creator

Head of Policy at safetykit.com

Author of "The End of the Train-Test Split" in Personal Blog

Author of analysis on prompt injection attacks hidden in tool results for agentic coding assistants.

Ben Hyman

Researcher

Researcher at California Policy Lab

Co-developed California AI-Unemployment Tracker to monitor AI-induced job losses using unemployment claims data.

External reviewer of the technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Author of "UK Has Lost Its Measles Elimination Status" in Sky News

Co-author of the Aurora optimizer research at Tilde Research.

Ben Kraft

Engineer

Software Engineer at Notion

Quoted discussing how self-hosted cloud agents help Notion's team avoid maintaining multiple stacks while running agent workloads securely.

Byline author researching and writing about the best AI governance tools for business.

Ben Mahdavi

Investor

Founder, Managing Partner at Trace Capital

Quiet Capital co-founder who launched Trace Capital, which led Tenstorrent's $1.5B funding round.

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference through the Anthropic Fellows Program.

Co-researcher who disclosed calendar-invite prompt injection attack on Gemini, presented findings at Black Hat USA 2025, DEF CON 33, and CODE BLUE.

Ben O'Mahony

Engineer

Principal AI Engineer at Thoughtworks

Author of "Building Your Own CLI Coding Agent With Pydantic-AI" in Martin Fowler

Author of "PostTrainBench" in PostTrainBench Official Site

Byline co-author on xAI challenging California AI training data transparency law.

Co-authored paper on Hyper-tau-bench evaluating agents that build agents.

Music and music industry reporter covering AI music generation and copyright issues.

Ben Smith

Journalist

editor-in-chief at Semafor

Co-byline author of article on US government lifting block on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.

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

Ben Szalinski

Journalist

Statehouse reporter at Capitol News Illinois

Szalinski reported on Illinois Governor Pritzker's executive order creating an AI Cabinet to draft state policy addressing AI safety and risks.

Provided illustrative distribution for AGI timelines used by research organization.