People in AI

Ben Viggiano

Researcher

MS/PhD candidate at Stanford University

Co-author of Proto; built open-source infrastructure to solve integration challenges when combining multiple biological AI models.

Former UK Defence Secretary joined as portfolio manager before Tekever Series D closed.

Co-authored research on quantifying human-AI synergy using novel Bayesian framework.

Ben Wigert

Other

Listed as author of the article about performance reviews

Co-authored the TorchTPU architecture blog post.

Ben Yoskovitz

Creator

Author of "Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap" in Focused Chaos

Ben Zhou

Founder

CTO and Co-founder at Memories.ai

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Memories.ai, developing large visual memory models for AI systems.

Scanned 7.25 million public Gitee repositories and found 26,400 working cloud and AI credentials including OpenAI, Alibaba Cloud and DeepSeek keys.

Co-author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention research on transformer improvements for large language models.

Author of "Why Targeting Specific Industry Needs Can Make Europe an AI Powerhouse" in World Economic Forum

Benedikt Stroebl

Researcher

Self-employed

Benedikt Stroebl is a co-author of CORE-Bench benchmark for evaluating AI agents.

Benjamin Breen

Creator

Writer at Res Obscura

Created the Book Prize Index platform using Claude Code and GPT-5.6 to index 6,500 nonfiction books and added semantic search capabilities.

Benjamin Chang

Researcher

Researcher at FutureHouse

Co-author and colleague who released Robin, an open-source AI agent for drug discovery.

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

Pioneered the Oystermouth Railway, the first tramway in the world to carry fare-paying passengers in 1807.

Head of exposure management firm that confirmed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities are real by reproducing CVE-2026-109618

Co-author announcing Google's Vibe Coding XR for generating physics-aware WebXR apps from prompts.

Co-authored framework on levels of automation for alignment research with Geoffrey Irving and Tomek Korbak.

Benjamin Hoover

Researcher

PhD Candidate & AI Research Engineer

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention for efficient long-context attention.

Benjamin Klein is a researcher and co-author of VOID, Netflix's video object removal framework.

Benjamin Minixhofer

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored Nature paper on byteification, a method to retrofit subword language models into byte-level ones.

Author of paper on SToICaL framework for unified search retrieval and ranking during internship.

Told Fortune a 'weirdness premium' will be valued in future labor market as AI becomes more capable.

Author of "How Far Can AI Go in Solving Math Mysteries?" in IEEE Spectrum

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper on embodied AI navigation for robots.

Author of newsletter article analyzing AI forecasting and progress rates over 18 months, arguing almost everyone underestimated AI progress.

Co-author on the Many-Tier Instruction Hierarchy (ManyIH) research paper.

Co-authored paper estimating AI contributed $1.26 trillion per year to the economy by end of 2025.

Benji Berczi

Researcher

Researcher at MATS (Machine Learning for Alignment, Transparency, and Safety)

Co-authored a MATS-associated blogpost testing identity leakage in Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 models.

Benn Stancil

Creator

Author of "The Gentle Obsolescence" in Substack

Cited the speed with which the government addressed concerns about Anthropic, claiming diligent work to ensure US remains global leader in AI.

Replacement for Ke Yang as head of the Answers, Knowledge, and Information team.

Principal consultant and security analyst at ISG commenting on how AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape and client demands.

Berber Jin

Journalist

Wall Street Journal

Author of "OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring" in Wall Street Journal

Chen co-authored research on the Dion3 optimizer for reducing training step time.

Scientific director of ELLIS Institute Tübingen who previously received the German AI Innovation Award in 2020.

CEO of GPU risk management firm noting borrowers are eager for financing even at higher costs.

Bernt Bornich

Founder

CEO and Founder at 1X

Wrote progress update claiming new developments might debunk Moravec's paradox through advances in foundation models and robotics.

1X CEO announcing breakthrough 25-DOF tendon-driven hands for NEO humanoid achieving near-human dexterity levels.

Co-founder of Deno leading the effort to merge Celld with Workerd at Cloudflare.

Leading research team developing light-powered nanorobots that can collect and manipulate bacteria at microscopic scales.

Author of "Introducing Ossature: Spec-Driven Code Generation" in Ossature

Anthropic head of startups discussing the expanded Claude Startups program

Bethany Andres-Beck

Policy

Software Engineer

Software engineer with 20+ years experience running for U.S. House in Massachusetts 6th District, proposing AI regulation including robot tax, liability regimes, and public foundational models.

Conducted research published in Science on how search engines reorganize human memory, showing people forget information they can find online.

Co-author on paper about stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs.

Alternative legal services provider executive stating that if legal AI succeeds in regulated environments it can succeed in less stringent industries.

Discussed curation of action space with limited tools

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

Author reporting on OpenAI's exploration of advertising features in ChatGPT based on beta code discovery.

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Bharath Kumar Kakumani

Researcher

Researcher at Maya Research

Bharath Kumar Kakumani is a member of the Maya Research team that created Maya-2 multilingual voice model.

Bhardwaj Sangnie

Researcher

Researcher at Google

Google researcher who contributed to study on linear representations in language models.

Amazon robotics leader speaking on AI in production robots at RoboBusiness conference and participating in Women in Robotics Luncheon.

Co-author on SkillOS research about skill curation for self-evolving agents.

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap.

Author of "ING Bank Squad Restructuring"

Bhavul Gauri

Researcher

Meta

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

Co-authored announcement of connected apps in Google Search's AI Mode.

Built a Fable 5 visualization demo that logs network packets and renders them as different types of cars on a highway.

Bikash Koley

Executive

Google

Author of announcement of Google's €13 billion investment in Finnish AI infrastructure.

Bilal Bakht Ahmad

Journalist

sites.diy

Analyzed and compared pricing across different AI coding plans and APIs based on actual usage data.

CIO stated Chevron aims to be leader in driving future of energy with AI and joined Responsible AI Institute to safeguard human values with AI.

Bill Dally, Nvidia's Chief Scientist, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion with Google's Jeff Dean about hardware innovation, systems scaling, and algorithmic advancement needed for AI in the 2026-2030 era.

Illinois Democrat representative arguing that international collaboration is needed to address AI risks and that unilateral US bans would not stop China.

Senior vice president and general manager of optical systems and optics at Cisco discussing USFP collaboration with Nvidia.

Estimates the company saves $1.5-2 million per year with every percentage point improvement using AI analytics and discusses AI's role in troubleshooting and decision-making.

Noted that falsified satellite imagery is particularly damaging to public trust due to satellite imagery's historical trustworthiness.

Recently argued about ChatGPT's impact on business models

Framework developer cited for bubble analysis methodology

Co-authored the TorchTPU blog post on PyTorch integration with TPUs.

Bill Lennon

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Ollie

Announced Ollie's shutdown on November 6 after the privacy-focused AI assistant startup couldn't compete and raise capital against Muse and Instinct.

BuzzFeed product director and Branch Office founder presenting AI-powered consumer apps including BF Island and Conjure.

Bill Staples

Creator

Author at GitLab

Authored comprehensive article on how enterprises adapt when code becomes abundant and governance becomes critical.

Cybersecurity professional who created noRecognition using reinforcement learning to generate patterns that defeat license plate readers and surveillance cameras; demonstrated at Def Con.

Announced KPMG's global alliance with Anthropic to integrate Claude across its business and 276,000+ employees.

Mathematician quoted extensively on the nature of mathematics as clarity and understanding rather than theorem-proving.

Reported on CISA's warning about active exploitation of CVE-2026-33017 in Langflow framework affecting AI agent workflows.

Bill Trenchard

Investor

Partner at First Round Capital

Led the $11M seed investment in Proception, praising dexterous manipulation as a critical part of the humanoid robotics story.

TechRadar Pro author who analyzed three forces reshaping the future of enterprise SaaS.

Co-author of the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report on data center energy usage.

Business owner of Top Flight Electric who adopted Avoca AI to automate after-hours and weekend support, improving booking rates from 5-10% to over 70%.

Former Goldman Sachs quantitative trader and co-founder of Upper90 who financed General Compute's $400 million loan using inference chips as collateral.

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

Apple designer also leaving to join Meta alongside Alan Dye.

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

Co-author of the article on humble leadership and coaching approaches

Bindu Reddy

Researcher

CEO & Co-Founder at Abacus.AI

Warned that Kimi K3's benchmark story might be overstated unless validated on hidden evals like LiveBench.

Bing Liu

Researcher

Scale AI

Co-authored research on Agentic Rubrics for software agent verification.

Binghui Peng

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Researcher who led OpenAI research demonstrating LLMs' ability to solve frontier mathematics problems, designing a prover-verifier workflow that resolved 9 challenging open problems.

Bingyi Kang

Researcher

Research Scientist at AMI Labs

Project lead for Depth Anything 3, advancing visual geometry prediction models.

Co-author of 'Neural Architecture Search: Insights from 1000 Papers'

Author of "Meta's AI leaders discuss using Google, OpenAI models in apps, The Information says" in Reuters

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research.

Chairman of the Board at Fenris Creations, overseeing the company's transition to independence and partnership with Google DeepMind for AI research.

Irish Catholic bishop with moral theology background who reviewed Claude's constitution

Creator of Frigate, a free open-source home camera app that keeps footage off the cloud and uses local AI for object detection.

Byline author reporting on ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 AI video generation model.

Co-authored article detailing Waymo's approach to world models for self-driving cars.

Ran Gemini 4 Argon unattended for 11 hours on 205,000-line codebase optimization project.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Wrote about Perplexity's appeals-court ruling lifting Amazon's block on its Comet shopping agent.

Northwestern economist with whom Brynjolfsson has a friendly 10-year wager on longbets.com about productivity gains by decade's end.

Shared platform data showing more than 50% of CSM activities have no correlation with retention; moderated panel on customer success practices.

Researcher contributing to analysis of uncensored model ecosystems and their downstream applications.

Snap's CTO acting as lead investor in Dotmo spinoff while continuing to lead GenAI research at Snap.

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

Co-authored guest post on post-training open models for tool use and biomedical research with reinforcement learning.

Author of "Kunlun: Establishing Scaling Laws for Massive-Scale Recommendation Systems throu" on arXiv

Bolei Zhou

Researcher

Professor and Chief AI Scientist at UCLA and Coco Robotics

Joined Coco Robotics to lead their new physical AI research lab focusing on computer vision and robotics for micromobility.

Harvard lecturer who raises concerns about delegating life-and-death decisions to machines as autonomy spectrum expands.

Ran Aristotle AI system on a 30-year-old open Erdős problem using beta version with stronger reasoning ability.

Author of "The Second Wave of MCP: Building for LLMs, Not Developers" in Vercel

Anthropic co-founder who created Claude Code and signed the open letter on pacing frontier AI development.

Ginsburg co-authored a paper on training nGPT describing practical techniques for normalized Transformer training on hybrid MoE models.

Author of research on Entropic Optimal Transport eigenmaps for aligning and embedding mismatched high-dimensional datasets

Boris Sofman

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Bedrock Robotics

Previously led Waymo's self-driving trucks program and co-founded Anki Robotics; now leading Bedrock Robotics which raised $600M in Series C funding.

His article 'How I Use Claude Code' is referenced for his pattern of using inline annotations to give Claude feedback.

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Author of "Tool-space interference in the MCP era: Designing for agent compatibility at sca" on arXiv

Co-author on paper developing Act As a Real Researcher (AARR) benchmark series.

Bowen Peng

Researcher

Researcher at Nous Research

Lead author of arXiv paper on Token Superposition Training that achieves 2.5x reduction in LLM pretraining time.

Author of "Qwen Explains Why Minimizing Training-Inference Gaps and Policy Staleness Improv" on arXiv

Boxin Wang

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.

Co-author of MemEye evaluation framework for multimodal agent memory.

Byline author of paper on open-source text-to-image model i1 beating FLUX.1 Dev.

Founder and Executive Chairman of Chorus Intelligence, commenting on the company's $20M investment and plans to accelerate AI product roadmap.

Brad Abrams

Engineer

Product Manager at Anthropic

Brad Abrams from Anthropic spoke alongside Mario Rodriguez about building on Claude at GitHub scale.

Brad Buck

Journalist

Journalist at OpenCrowd

Byline author reporting on University of Florida researchers developing AI tools for crop yield prediction.

Researcher studying impact of collaborative robots on warehouse workers, noting robots can dictate pace of work.

Co-authored Deloitte report on AI governance showing only one in five companies has mature agent governance.

CEO of Dreadnode, AI security testing company being acquired by CrowdStrike, leading the team joining CrowdStrike's Cyber Superintelligence Lab.

Brad Squicciarini

Founder

Co-founder at Coco Robotics

Co-founded Coco Robotics and donated one of their bots to UCLA's research lab.

Developed the concept of bootstrapping which is the foundation for bootstrap aggregating.

Bradley Emi

Researcher

Pangram Labs

Co-authored research on Pangram Image detection model and previously led deep learning research at Absci and Tesla.

Bradley Horowitz

Investor

General Partner at Wisdom Ventures

Early investor in Anthropic; noted receiving daily share offers and investor enthusiasm for Anthropic as generational opportunity.

Reported on Claude Code and Cowork taking the AI world by storm

Brandon Nydick

Investor

Principal at Khosla Ventures

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap.

Built ArtCraft, a suite of cheaper open-source alternatives to Adobe's design tools with no subscription fees.

Then-graduate student who contributed specialized techniques including advanced microscopy to the aptamer study.

Brannin McBee

Founder

Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer at CoreWeave

CoreWeave co-founder who argued compute isn't fungible as a commodity and discussed DGX reference specifications.

Announced Row Zero's acquisition by Databricks to integrate spreadsheets with AI agents and governance.

Brendan Burke

Researcher

Research Director at Futurum Research

Research director who commented on CoreWeave's MLPerf results demonstrating full-stack AI infrastructure expertise.

Author of LessWrong post investigating how tokenizer design affects LLM output distribution through experiments with nanoGPT.

New Yorker cartoonist whose pen name BLOPER was reproduced by ChatGPT on AI-generated images.

Testified to Perplexity Comet Enterprise enabling hotel management across multiple brand systems without drowning in tabs.

Brendan McCord

Creator

Cosmos Institute

Author of "How Much Do We Wanna Defer Our Decision-Making to AIs?"

Led proprietary survey of 80 biopharma leaders on AI's impact on drug development costs and timelines, finding AI compresses preclinical costs by up to 70%.

Brendan Tracey

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of the article about Deep Loop Shaping method for gravitational wave observatories

Co-authored Deloitte report on AI governance and agent deployment challenges.

Brent Hecht

Executive

Director of Applied Science at Microsoft

Called AI news scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and 'astonishing theft' in internal documents.

Leads the data center build and delivery program at OpenAI.

Author of "Database Development with AI in 2026" in Brent Ozar

Brent Seales launched the Vesuvius Challenge and led research that virtually unwrapped ancient Herculaneum scrolls using AI and advanced imaging.

Brent Traut

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

OpenAI engineer who reportedly rewrote the ChatGPT desktop application.

SpaceX CFO with approximately $1.2 billion net worth from company's IPO valuation at $1.77 trillion.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security and engineering work.

Brett Bejcek

Founder

Co-Founder at Limitless

Co-founded Limitless (formerly Rewind), an AI startup that created an AI-powered pendant to record conversations, which was acquired by Meta.

Brett Green

Researcher

Economist at Olin Business School

Economist co-authoring work on how AI abundance shifts competitive advantage from solution-finding to problem identification.

Noted that criminals increasingly use AI like Gemini to make fraud more convincing and harder to detect.

Co-founder of Dishio AI growth engine for restaurants; previously founded restaurant marketing agency Dineline; raised $2.5M seed funding to help restaurants turn guest data into repeat revenue.

Recently hired by OpenAI to lead data center construction; previously oversaw the Colossus data center at xAI.

DOJ Assistant Attorney General who filed a statement of interest with Woodward supporting OpenAI's position on AI model training and fair use.

Brett Tingley

Journalist

Managing Editor at Space.com

Author of "DARPA Launches New Effort to Track Spacecraft Near the Moon"

Argued that the 'rogue agents' story was overstated.

Brian Cheung

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

Co-authored research on the Platonic Representation Hypothesis about AI model convergence.

Welcomed research findings on AI-designed intrabodies, highlighting significance of overcoming key challenge for antibody treatments in neurodegenerative diseases.

Co-authored argument against mandatory AI prompt disclosure in academic settings, claiming such requirements would be ineffective and burden honest researchers.

Author of "Studies on Medical Diagnosis"

Brian Fioca

Engineer

Model Design at OpenAI

Co-authored the Codex Prompting Guide for OpenAI's developer documentation.

Co-authored Harvard report on gender disparities in AI adoption, trust, and visibility.

Venture investor who led Billables AI Series A funding and praised the team's vision for operational intelligence.

Byline author of Mozilla blog post about using Claude Mythos Preview to identify and fix security bugs in Firefox.

Leading researcher behind Evo genomic language models and Proto, an open framework for composing AI biology models into unified pipelines.

From Microsoft; joined Abi Noda from DX to share early research on AI's impact on engineering velocity, discussing modest PR throughput gains versus industry headlines.

Author of "Researchers Use AI Imaging to Spot Chip Defects"

Brian Jabarian

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

Co-authored blog post on economists' forecasts about labor market and future of work.

Brian Loiler spent 22 years at NVIDIA building HGX and DGX server systems before joining Etched in 2024 as VP of Platform, recruiting roughly a dozen additional NVIDIA engineers.

Brian Machado

Founder

Founder at BracketBot

Founded BracketBot, a wheeled robot manipulator priced under $3,000 aiming to ship billions of robots.

Google executive who announced Assistant shutdown timeline in blog post.

Analyzed poll findings on Americans' preference for human involvement in medical AI decisions despite AI accuracy advantages.

Emphasized importance of human voice, empathy and authenticity in thought leadership content over engineered rankings.

Announced NSF Project Triad initiative to integrate quantum sensing, networking and computing.

Wrote technical documentation on OpenRouter's Fusion router that combines multiple model outputs for better deep research performance.

UnitedHealthcare chief executive mentioned in context of Apple's erroneous AI-generated news summary.

Led Apollo's Reddit strategy to increase brand citation rate by 63% in AI-generated responses.

Joined General Intuition after publicly quitting Palantir over ICE work, helping shape company's ethical AI approach.

Described FedEx's role in enabling the AI infrastructure revolution by shipping semiconductor chips and servers for data center construction globally.

Journalist who reported on Waymo autonomous vehicle routing issues causing excessive traffic through Atlanta cul-de-sacs.

Wrote a detailed profile of turbopuffer exploring sustainable startup culture and employee well-being in AI era.

DARPA program manager for VENOM and ACE programs; oversaw AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet autonomous flight tests.

Has studied speech patterns for nearly 30 years and raises concerns about privacy and security in using technology to collect baseline speech data for schizophrenia detection.

Contributed to report on MLB's ban of generative AI use on dugout iPads.

Co-researcher on MIT study of AI automation across labor market tasks.

Brittany Steff

Journalist

freelance science writer, editor, blogger, and creative communicator at Purdue University

Author reporting on Purdue research into socially aware AI assistants and robot communication.

Brooke Hopkins

Founder

Founder and CEO at Coval

Founded Coval, a voice AI evaluation platform, leveraging experience building evaluation systems for autonomous technologies at Waymo.

Bruce Dang

Researcher

Security Researcher at Calif

Found the bugs used to build the first public macOS M5 kernel memory corruption exploit on April 25.

CEO and Co-Founder of Halcyon, an AI platform for the energy sector, discussing the company's $21M Series A funding and mission.

Bruce Harrell

Politician

Mayor at City of Seattle

Announced the creation of Seattle's AI officer position as part of the city's responsible AI plan rollout.

Byline author of post on Claude text watermarking and SynthID-Text technology