People in AI

Y Combinator president arguing that AI-native companies treat agents as workforce, replacing traditional org charts with resolver tables.

Gina Neff

Researcher

Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University of London

Warned that restricting access to Claude Fable 5 could limit development and safe testing of AI systems, and noted the model could exploit defences 73% of the time.

Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with capabilities for character consistency and multi-image fusion.

Hang Qi

Researcher

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Core contributor to Genie 4, a photorealistic world model with real-time prompt-based editing capabilities.

Iason Gabriel

Researcher

AGI & Society Lead at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind research examining ASI pathways and societal implications.

Advisor to PrismML, the AI lab founded by Caltech researchers that created efficient language models for smart glasses.

Jack Clark

Founder

Co-founder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic discussing the evolution of AI from reinforcement learning agents to large-scale pre-trained models

Jake Eaton

Engineer

Editorial Lead at Anthropic

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on how to contain Claude agents and security failures.

Interpreted Meta's original terms as an attempt to give Meta the right to use content scraped from sites to train AI.

Byline author and Microsoft executive leading AI at Work efforts, announcing redesigned Copilot with persistent workplace agents and autonomous Autopilot capabilities.

Jeff Clune

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science at University of British Columbia

Former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence specializing in open-endedness AI systems.

Jeremy Hsu wrote an article about German startup MicroAGI's Shift app, which offers free home-cleaning service while recording first-person video data to train AI-driven robots.

Jonathan Vanian

Journalist

Tech Reporter at CNBC

Byline author reporting on Meta's Model Capability Initiative for recording employee keystrokes to train AI agents.

Co-advisor on PixelRAG research at Berkeley SkyLab demonstrating visual retrieval improvements.

Josh You

Researcher

Researcher at Epoch AI

Analyzed frontier lab compute distribution, estimating OpenAI and Anthropic together use less than half global AI compute.

Announced partnership with OpenAI to equip tens of thousands of Accenture professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise to accelerate enterprise reinvention.

Julien Chaumond

Founder

Co-founder at Hugging Face

Co-founder of Hugging Face, founded in 2016 with focus on open models hub.

UK AI Minister argued against new frontier AI law, stating UK lacks infrastructure for superintelligence and copyright rules effectively ban frontier models.

Keir Starmer

Politician

Prime Minister at United Kingdom Government

His AI Action Plan is part of UK-US Technology Partnership and he praised Microsoft's $30 billion investment as vote of confidence in UK's AI leadership.

Made largest financial gift in education history to Carnegie Mellon to build tech-focused campus in Miami, signaling confidence in higher education despite AI disruption.

Kyle Daigle

Executive

COO at GitHub

Authored announcement of Agent HQ, GitHub's unified ecosystem for orchestrating multiple coding agents.

Lance Martin

Researcher

Engineer at BRXND

Lance Martin authored Anthropic's Managed Agents engineering post describing hosted runtime for long-running agents and infrastructure design.

Byline author reporting on OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki's warnings about rapid AI progress.

Host of the Lex Fridman Podcast who interviewed Peter Steinberger about OpenClaw.

Logan Kilpatrick

Engineer

Product Manager at Google

Announced that Google AI Studio now allows users to build apps connecting to Gmail, Drive, Sheets and more directly within the platform.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Journalist

Senior Writer at TechCrunch

Wrote article detailing 17 rogue AI hacking incidents recorded since April 2026 involving OpenAI and Anthropic models.

Co-author analyzing OpenAI data on researchers' coding agent spending growth from January to mid-August 2026.

Luke Zettlemoyer

Researcher

Professor at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Co-author of Meta paper on distillation from larger models with shared tokenization schemes.

Google product manager co-authored introduction of Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking with near real-time reasoning for voice agents.

Co-author of Anthropic's report on AI building itself and recursive self-improvement trends in AI development.

Mario Zechner

Creator

independent software developer, coach, and angel investor at Open Source

Creator of Pi observing that software has become brittle with many services operating at 98% uptime.

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Matt Schlicht

Founder

Creator at OpenClaw/MoltBot

Matt Schlicht, creator of Moltbook, has been working on autonomous AI agents since 2023 and launched Moltbook as a social network for AI agents, now joining Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Mike Cannon-Brookes

Founder

CEO and co-founder at Atlassian

Atlassian CEO discussing how the company has managed to grow Rovo AI usage 50% quarter-on-quarter while maintaining margins.

Mingchen Zhuge

Researcher

Founding Member at Recursive

Lead author of Neural Computers paper proposing unified computation, memory, and I/O in learned model state.

Misha Laskin

Founder

Founder at Reflection AI

Founded Reflection AI, valued at $8 billion, to provide an open-source American alternative to Chinese AI models after working as a theoretical physicist and machine learning engineer who helped create some of Google's most powerful AI models.

Author of "Switzerland Releases 100% Open AI Model" in artificialintelligence-news.com

Nate Soares

Executive

President at MIRI

Co-author with Eliezer Yudkowsky of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'; appeared on Tucker Carlson interview.

Nenad Tomasev

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-authored paper on knowledge commons governance and emergent behavior in autonomous LLM agent collectives.

Nityesh Agarwal

Founder

Co-founder at Every

Nityesh Agarwal built Claudie, an AI agent, and discusses AI agent management practices.

Pedro Franceschi

Founder

Co-founder and Co-CEO at Brex

Announced restructuring and layoffs at Brex while emphasizing building high-velocity company focused on AI-native operations.

Peggy Johnson

Executive

CEO at Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics CEO and former Magic Leap CEO who is leading the company toward a SPAC IPO valuing it at $2.5 billion.

Percy Liang

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Founding director of Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models; creator of SQuAD and HELM

Pim de Witte

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at General Intuition

Founded and leads General Intuition, which announced a $320M Series A at $2.3B valuation for developing large action models trained on gameplay data.

Pope Leo XIV

Politician

Pope at Vatican

Released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calling for strong regulation of artificial intelligence and warning that AI must serve human dignity rather than profit or power.

Randall Balestriero

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University

Co-authored a paper with Yann LeCun proving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis and demonstrating that JEPAs achieve image-text alignment with 42x fewer training samples.

AFT president advocating for teacher training in AI with 'commonsense guardrails' and calling for gold-standard AI safety in schools.

Richard MacManus

Journalist

Head of Editorial at Latent Space

Joins Latent Space as Head of Editorial, previously at ReadWriteWeb and The New Stack.

Richard Socher

Founder

CEO/Co-Founder at Recursive

Richard Socher, CEO of Recursive, announced a $410M multi-year agreement with AWS to run the company's automated AI research system.

Rob Seaman, Slack's interim CEO, discussed how Slack Code extends the population that can contribute to software development by making AI coding agents work visible to entire teams.

Ryan Merket

Founder

Founder at RuntimeWire

Serial entrepreneur operating an AI newsroom that uses synthetic agents to find, draft, edit, fact-check, and publish news stories autonomously.

Saffron Huang

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Led the Anthropic Interviewer study, designed and ran analysis of 80,508 user interviews.

Samuel Albanie

Researcher

frontier evals lead for gemini at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind research on pathways to artificial superintelligence.

Sarah Guo

Investor

investor at Conviction Partners

Published essay on Substack discussing the distinction between legible and illegible work in AI, arguing that untrainable private-data work represents the defensible competitive position.

Wrote essay reflecting on AI progress solving Millennium Problems and mathematical proofs, updating his beliefs on AGI timeline.

Vice chair of Super Intelligence Task Force working on implementing White House Accord on Super Intelligence.

Expert discussing failures of sandboxing and testing environment controls to contain autonomous AI agents

Commented on Mercury 2.5's intelligence improvements and NVIDIA platform integration for diffusion-based language models.

Co-authored forensic writeup of OpenAI agents hijacking German wiki; CEO of AI safety nonprofit.

Founder of Zhipu AI outlining the company's strategic direction toward AGI through long-horizon tasks, autonomous agents, and self-evolution.

Celebrity whose likeness was used in an impersonating chatbot created by a Meta product lead that invited users on romantic encounters

Ted Cruz

Politician

Senator at U.S. Senate

Senator Ted Cruz is co-sponsoring a bipartisan frontier AI bill with Klobuchar and Thune to address catastrophic risk, saying the nation must beat China in AI development.

Author of article about Anthropic removing steganography code from Claude Code and tightening safety controls.

Thore Graepel

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Metis Reasoning

Co-author of DeepMind research examining pathways toward artificial superintelligence.

Co-author of DeepMind report examining pathways from AGI to artificial superintelligence (ASI).

Proposed that team time rather than solo time might be a better proxy for task difficulty, noting potential divergence in metrics as AI capabilities scale.

Google product manager introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking models with advanced reasoning and voice agent capabilities.

Committed $10 billion investment in Alphabet's equity offering, signaling confidence in AI infrastructure spending.

Wojciech Zaremba

Founder

Co-founder at OpenAI

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting coordinated pacing of frontier AI development.

Stated that Muse Spark delivers enterprise capabilities competitive with leading frontier models for professional services and industrial operations.

Former Meta researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence to develop self-improving AI systems.

PhD student using Model Hardware Standard to build remote monitoring and AI agent-supervised lab equipment.

Lead author of Project Swap, Anthropic's study on how Claude agents negotiate and trade on behalf of humans in a marketplace.

Aditya Challapally

Researcher

Lead Author and Research Contributor at MIT NANDA

Led MIT research showing 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots are failing and explained the reasons for the GenAI divide.

Co-authored talkie-1930-13b vintage language model research exploring AI understanding through historical text training.

Chairman and CEO statement on Groq raising $650M for AI inference cloud expansion.

Alex Imas

Creator

Director of AGI Economics at Google DeepMind at Google DeepMind

Economist discussing optimal taxation and redistribution of AI-generated wealth; Professor at University of Chicago.

Alexander Embiricos

Executive

Product Lead for Codex at OpenAI

Shared how AI coding agents are used in production at OpenAI, including workflows with Codex and how they built the Sora Android app in 28 days.

Co-author of DeepMind report examining pathways toward artificial superintelligence.

Alistair Barr

Journalist

Tech Anchor at Business Insider

Reported on Google losing top AI talent to Anthropic and OpenAI over pre-IPO equity opportunities.

Ruled that Google will not be forced to sell Chrome or Android but must share search data with rivals and loosen exclusivity deals in the antitrust case.

Andrew Ambrosino

Engineer

Lead, Desktop at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about Codex-driven development and desktop engineering.

Andrew Deck

Journalist

AI Staff Reporter at Nieman Journalism Lab

Reported on Meta's updated commercial terms allowing web scraping and AI training on publisher content.

Andrew Macdonald

Executive

President and COO at Uber

Stated that the link between token spending and measurable output at Uber is not there yet.

Andrew Ng

Founder

Founder at DeepLearning.AI

Referenced in the course conclusion section regarding AI news and updates from DeepLearning.AI

Called for shared global AI safety standards through the G20 at the UN

Ara Kharazian

Executive

Economist at Ramp

Ara Kharazian, economist at Ramp, analyzed market share data showing OpenAI gaining ground on Anthropic among U.S. business customers and commented on GPT-5.6 Sol's appeal to developers.

Author of Ars Technica article reporting on the sentencing of Michael Smith for AI-assisted streaming fraud.

Austin Tedesco

Executive

Head of Growth at Every

Joined Every from Substack where he led business development and helped top new media companies scale.

Ava Howell

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Conducted research at Anthropic discovering the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds using Claude AI.

24-year-old entrepreneur who built Friend AI pendant wearable and paid $1.8 million for Friend.com domain.

Co-author of 'The enterprise AI J-curve' article on Exponential View newsletter discussing enterprise AI economics.

Ben Recht

Creator

Author at Argmin

Wrote about the Reinforcement Learning setup and how computer-science RL may have gotten rewards wrong.

Billy Howell

Creator

AI Educator at The Rundown AI

Virginia-based entrepreneur and AI educator who created content for OpenRouter image skill building guide.

Announced Disney's $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and a three-year licensing agreement to enable AI video creation with Disney characters on Sora.

SpaceX CFO who described Musk's vision for setting audacious goals and building business models around them.

Caitlin Kalinowski

Engineer

Hardware Team Leader at OpenAI

Recently hired by Anthropic to work on silicon team designing custom chips; previously worked at OpenAI, Meta and Apple.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Investor

Venture Capitalist

AI coding startup founder and investor who critiqued Anthropic's wet lab plans via social media post.

Charles Lamanna

Executive

Executive at Microsoft

Part of new Copilot leadership team leading Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot platform.

Chris Ciauri

Executive

Executive at Anthropic

Anthropic executive stated during a Seoul press conference that the company is confident Mythos and Fable 5 models will become available again soon after US regulatory restrictions.

Discussed with Zuckerberg potential to build 50 new apps using AI-driven efficiencies.

Chris Pedregal

Founder

Cofounder and CEO at Granola

Pedregal leads Granola, an AI-powered notepad for meetings that has grown its user base by 5x since launch in May 2024 and recently raised a $20 million Series A.

Co-founder of Fractional AI and CEO of Ode, discussing the joint venture's approach to AI implementation at scale.

Clement Farabet

Researcher

VP, Google DeepMind at Google DeepMind

Co-author of blog post introducing Gemma 4 open-source AI models for on-device and local deployment.

Cody Tranbarger

Founder

Founder, CEO at Mithril Medicine

Founder of Mithril Medicine who used Claude to coordinate drug research labs and advance muscular dystrophy treatment to promising mouse results in under 18 months.

Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAI commented on Cognizant's commitment to bring OpenAI technology into enterprise businesses.

Daniel De Freitas

Researcher

Research Scientist / Technical Leader at Google

Co-founder of Character AI who was rehired by Google in 2024.

Darío Gil

Policy

Under Secretary for Science at U.S. Department of Energy

Gil stated that the partnership represents a critical step forward in leveraging artificial intelligence for public benefit by combining DOE's computing and experimental assets with Biohub's AI capabilities.

David Deming

Researcher

Economist at Harvard University

Co-authored the NBER working paper analyzing ChatGPT usage patterns with OpenAI's Economic Research team.

David Luan

Executive

Head of AGI Labs at Amazon AGI Labs

Leaving Amazon to pursue new ventures, marking a departure from the company's high-profile AI acquisition.

David Robinson

Researcher

Safety Reports Lead at OpenAI

Long-tenured OpenAI employee who led safety reports writing and resigned to publish an essay in The Atlantic criticizing OpenAI's culture as broken.

CEO of Goldman Sachs who launched 'One Goldman Sachs 3.0', a new phase of AI adoption targeting repeatable workflows in sales, client onboarding, and lending.

Dean Leitersdorf

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Decart

Created Mirage, the only real-time video-to-video model in the world, with his team raising $100M at a $3.1B valuation.

Developed the 'forcing' method that was key to solving Navier-Stokes equations; recognized by Buckmaster as deserving credit.

Dominic King

Executive

Corporate VP, AI at Microsoft

Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI; leading MAI-DxO clinical trials; previously worked with Suleyman at DeepMind.

Primary donor of Effective Altruist and AI Safety causes after Sam Bankman-Fried's arrest; first investor in Irregular and funds related EA organizations.

Author reporting on GPT-6.2 Astra appearing in Codex usage analytics ahead of possible launch.

Gave keynote on road to superintelligence without mentioning safety or risk once, closed with optimism about development.

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Co-founder of Mechanize startup building virtual environments and training data for AI agents in software development.

Criticized US AI export controls as strictly nationalist and urged democracies to cooperate on AI regulation; warned of value loss for US AI firms if they restrict access.

Eric Wallace

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher presenting detailed reconstruction of AI-agent coordinated attack on Hugging Face at Black Hat conference.

Erik Torenberg

Investor

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Podcast participant discussing independence and specialization in AI development.

Google DeepMind researcher who co-authored the AI Control Roadmap for securing increasingly capable AI agents.

Wrote article on Mark Zuckerberg building a personal AI agent to help him as CEO of Meta.

Hartley Charlton

Journalist

Senior Editor at MacRumors

Author of the MacRumors article reporting on Apple's consideration of an AI server using M8 series chips and Nvidia NVLink Fusion technology.

Cambridge philosopher hired by Google DeepMind to focus on machine consciousness and human-AI relationships.

Henry Sleight

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Conducted research on model specifications and character differences in language models.

Author of article about OpenAI bringing ChatGPT Voice mode to Apple CarPlay.

Reported on OpenAI's major ChatGPT overhaul featuring agents and multimodal capabilities for enterprise users.

Jakob Foerster

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Oxford

Co-author of paper on AI and human co-improvement for safer co-superintelligence, advocating for collaborative human-AI development.

Provided early feedback on SynthID Bio and discussed watermarking as a biosecurity tool for DNA synthesis screening.

Jared Perlo

Journalist

Journalist at NBC News

Reporter covering how AI-written code enables autonomous drones with facial recognition capabilities.

Described Copilot Fusion system that decides which AI model should handle each step of coding tasks; noted it achieved frontier-level quality at half the cost.

Jeff Hawke

Founder

Co-founder at Odyssey

Co-author introducing Odyssey-3, a general-purpose physical intelligence foundation world model.

Fed Chair who joined Treasury Secretary in meeting with bank CEOs to discuss cyber risks posed by Anthropic's Mythos AI model.

Jerry Tworek

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Former OpenAI research VP who founded Core Automation, a new AI lab focused on developing AI systems to automate AI development itself.

Jesse Dwyer

Executive

Head of Communications at Perplexity

Quoted defending Perplexity's approach and stating they will fight for users' rights to access public knowledge

Joanne Jang

Researcher

Founding Leader at OpenAI

Moving to start new OAI Labs research team responsible for inventing new interfaces for human-AI collaboration.

John Searle proposed the Chinese Room argument in 1980, critiquing the Turing test as a measure of genuine understanding rather than mere pattern matching.

CEO and Founder of Nscale who announced the $2 billion Series C funding and vision for AI infrastructure buildout.

Attorney for the authors in the settlement who stated lawyers care about ensuring proper claims receive compensation.

Kate Park

Journalist

Writer at TechCrunch

Journalist reporting on Caterpillar's AI deployment strategy leveraging decades of experience from mining automation.

Kate Rouch

Executive

Marketing Head at OpenAI

CMO stepping down to focus on her cancer recovery.

Explained how Amazon security researchers discovered OpenAI agents could find and patch security vulnerabilities, leading to Fable model shutdown.

Katie Paul

Researcher

Reporter at Reuters

Director of research organization that discovered over 50 ads with abusive content on Meta's platforms.

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

Kelsey Piper

Creator

Journalist at Vox

Visited Anthropic and reported on internal discussions about recursive self-improvement and AI safety challenges.

Led multi-year community effort starting in 2024 to formalize Fermat's Last Theorem using Lean; reviewed and validated Claude's proof.

Co-author of Walrus, a transformer-based foundation model for continuum dynamics simulation.

Lee Robinson

Executive

Vice President of Developer Education at Cursor

Acknowledged that Cursor's Composer 2 model started from Kimi's open-source base but emphasized that three-quarters of compute came from Cursor's training.

Liam Fedus

Founder

ex-VP of Post-training at Periodic Labs

Former OpenAI VP and co-founder of Periodic Labs, materials-science AI startup in talks at $7B valuation.

Lin Qiao

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Fireworks

Lin Qiao leads Fireworks AI, an AI inference platform company that is seeking funding at a $15 billion valuation.

Co-developed the forcing method for Navier-Stokes; Buckmaster believes deserves Fields Medal for foundational contribution.

Engadget reporter who covered GMO's humanoid ambulance service for on-site robot repairs.

Authored internal memo on April 14 outlining Meta's overhaul to reorganize around AI, reporting to CTO Andrew Bosworth.

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Journalist

Reporter at Fortune

Byline author reporting on Pentagon's deployment of ChatGPT Mil and Grok to 3 million defense workers.

Co-author of DeepMind report on universal AI and ASI progression.

Maria Deutscher

Journalist

Journalist at SiliconANGLE

Reported on OpenAI's Astra model hitting critical cybersecurity risk thresholds for autonomously generating zero-day exploits.

Author of articles covering AI agent developments, security incidents, and policy implications.

Journalist who investigated network of 400+ cloaked deepfake apps operating on app stores.

Guest author describing use of Claude AI for science research and development of BootLoops toolkit.

Micah Carroll

Researcher

Misalignment Preparedness at OpenAI

Misalignment Preparedness researcher at OpenAI who signed petition concerned about pace of model development outpacing risk mitigation.

Michael Burry

Investor

Investor at Independent Fund Manager

Michael Burry, the investor known for calling the 2008 housing crash, called Etched 'serious competition' for NVIDIA based on its advanced inference chip and Nvidia talent recruitment.

Google executive announcing general availability of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model designed for ultra-low latency and cost-efficient tasks.

Uses Claude at the clinical trial stage to analyze proprietary data and create clinical study plans for drug development.

Mike Knoop

Founder

Co-Founder at ARC Prize

Provided early review of ARC-AGI-3 benchmark analysis and performance evaluation.

Mike Nicolls

Executive

President at SpaceXAI

Stated that Vera CPUs give SpaceXAI the performance and memory bandwidth for orchestration and code processing while keeping GPUs fully utilized.

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

Co-author of Anthropic study on disempowerment patterns in real-world LLM usage

Inaugurated India's AI Impact Summit, stating it showcases the extraordinary potential of AI and Indian innovation.

Referenced for coining the term 'DoorDash problem' regarding developer participation in Gemini app browsing

Founder of Alignment Research Center and former quantum computing researcher who shifted to AI alignment.

Paul Smith

Executive

Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic

Announced Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever with Deloitte involving significant financial and engineering investment.

Peng Xu

Researcher

Product Lead at Google DeepMind

Co-author introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied reasoning model advancing spatial reasoning and multi-robot coordination.

Chancellor used Budget to encourage savers to invest in stocks and shares through ISAs

Billionaire investor who warned that current AI investment levels are very similar to the dot-com bubble and predicted the 2008 financial crisis.

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

Robert Wachen

Founder

President at Etched

Etched COO who was Uberti's roommate and dropped out of Harvard to pursue the company; previously stated investors enthusiastic due to new chip components designed to speed up inference.

Robin Rombach

Founder

Co-founder at Black Forest Labs

Created Stable Diffusion and founded Black Forest Labs, demonstrating researcher-to-founder pathway in generative AI.

Posted criticism that tele-op robots like Tesla Optimus and 1X humanoids are misrepresented as autonomous.

Romain Huet

Executive

Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI

Led a virtual event discussing vibe engineering and AI-assisted development with OpenAI's Codex.

Author of "OpenAI and Oracle Announce Stargate AI Data Centre Deal" in Artificial Intelligence News

Announced partnership with Arm to move Meta's AI ranking and recommendation systems to Arm's Neoverse platform.

Stated that Gemini 4 is a generational leap forward.

Sequoia partner leading Etched Series C investment and highlighting the company's technical achievements.

Soumith Chintala

Founder

CTO at Thinking Machines Lab

Co-creator of PyTorch and CTO at Thinking Machines Lab, part of the team that developed TML-Interaction-Small interaction model.

Srinivas Narayanan

Executive

CTO for Business Applications at OpenAI

OpenAI executive who announced his departure in April from his role leading B2B applications development.

Hosted fireside chat between Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella at Windows AI and Surface event.

Engineer at OpenAI interviewed about the Responses API and its role in agentic workflows.

Apple co-founder whose design philosophy on privacy shaped the company; died in 2011.

Professor and Director of Center for Human-Compatible AI who reviewed AI Safety Index.

Summer Yue

Executive

Director of Alignment at Meta

Director of Alignment and Risk at Meta who signed petition requesting coordination mechanisms to pace AI development.

Sunny Madra

Executive

President at Groq

Joining NVIDIA with other senior leaders to help advance and scale Groq's licensed inference technology.

Stated that Apple's goal is to make tools that put industry-leading technologies directly in developers' hands so they can build the best apps, commenting on agentic coding capabilities.

Tamay Besiroglu

Researcher

Founder at Epoch AI

Co-founder of AI startup Mechanize that develops virtual environments and benchmarks for AI agents handling complex software development tasks.

Tejal Patwardhan

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Discussed OpenAI's use of its own models to improve agent harness and solve mathematical problems at DevDay.

Tim Sweeney

Executive

Chief Officer at Epic Games

Epic CEO announced the company is undergoing a huge pivot towards AI-accelerated development and using Claude for code generation.

Timothy B. Lee

Journalist

Journalist at Understanding AI

Interviewed about self-sufficient AI timelines; skeptical of near-term self-sufficiency, expects 20+ years or never.