People in AI

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

Co-author on Microsoft research on native omni-voxel representation for 3D generation.

Hope Nguyen

Journalist

Reported on gig workers revealing their experiences training AI for Scale AI.

Horace Dediu

Other

Analyst at Asymco

Analyst concerned about user data implications of Apple's Google Gemini deal and noted that AI computing is moving from center to edge like mainframes to PCs to phones.

Horace He

Engineer

Researcher at Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines researcher who noted the improved repeatability of model release pipeline compared to Inkling launch.

Hosseini Eghbal

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Google researcher who contributed to study on how model representations evolve in conversations.

Houjun Liu

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)

Co-developed SecureForge, a system that automatically generates custom system prompts to reduce security vulnerabilities in code generated by LLMs.

Co-first author on the GazeAnywhere paper on gaze target estimation with concepts.

Author of "Accumulating Context Changes The Beliefs of Language Models" on arXiv

Discussed how AI will radically change education by 2050, calling it as fundamental a change as the world had seen in 1,000 years.

Byline author who reported on China's AI computing capacity targets through 2030.

Quoted expert discussing Tencent's advantage in integrating AI into WeChat, noting that an assistant wired into Weixin completes tasks rather than just providing answers.

Hsiao-wei Wang

Other

Co-executive Director at CryptoSlate

Provided assistance on local AI setup.

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

Lead author of the Robix paper on robotic reasoning and planning

CEO of Beijing world-model startup GigaAI pursuing Hong Kong IPO at $3 billion valuation.

Co-signed National Science Review editorial calling for binding obligations on frontier developers including registration and safety cases.

Huangjie Zheng

Researcher

Research Scientist at Apple

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Huangyuan Su is a co-author on the Bidirectional Evolutionary Search paper for self-improving language models and agentic systems.

Hubert Banville

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

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

Co-authored technical report on Azure ND GB300 v6 Virtual Machines achieving record AI inference performance.

Fields Medal winner (2022) co-signing a letter warning that AI's mass production of solutions threatens the careful, human-driven process of mathematical discovery.

Finance professional (CPA, CPV) who built PPT Master, an open-source tool that generates fully editable PowerPoint decks from documents using AI.

Hugo Huijer

Journalist

Founder at Productrise.app

Conducted study comparing product pricing and visibility between Google AI Mode and traditional search, finding AI Mode shows 21.6% more expensive products.

Hugo Lowell

Journalist

Journalist at WIRED

Reported that the White House wants Anthropic to block all jailbreaks, which security experts say is mathematically impossible.

Described the rise of generative AI as a tectonic shift in jobs, stating AI agents will cause realignment of which jobs are needed.

Author of "WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Sc" on arXiv

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

Byline author discussing prescriptive analytics and how to turn data insights into action.

Met with Xi Jinping during the SCO summit weekend as one of the visiting leaders.

Lead author of DexDrummer paper on dexterous robot drumming using reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer

Hursh Agrawal co-founded The Browser Company and pivoted to build Dia AI browser.

Parvez reported on OpenAI's plans to build a humanoid robot, including details on the 27 robotics roles being filled and Sam Altman's 2027 demo timeline.

Co-authored announcement of Gemini API service tier updates.

Investor at Hoxton Ventures discussing King's Cross's transformation from a crime-ridden area in the 1980s to the AI hotbed of the United Kingdom.

Co-author of academic paper analyzing China's AI policy, ethics, and regulation.

Discussed for his research approach of adding and removing structures based on compute and data availability

hyunji amy lee

Researcher

Researcher

Introduced MINTEval, a benchmark targeting long-context memory systems for LLM agents operating in continuously updated environments.

Hyunwoo Kim

Researcher

Associate Professor at Yonsei University

Co-author of paper on LLM Fallacy introducing cognitive attribution error in AI-assisted workflows.

Science fiction author whose Culture books inspire Musk's vision for an AI-human utopian future; SpaceX drone ships named after Banks' starships.

Iain Martin

Journalist

Senior Editor, Europe at Forbes

Author of "xAI Published Hundreds Of Thousands Of Grok Chatbot Conversations" in Forbes

Ian Crosby

Policy

Lead Counsel at The New York Times

Disputed Microsoft's findings in copyright lawsuit, stating that Microsoft and OpenAI stole from The New York Times to make commercial products.

Conducted extensive interview with Richard Ho about OpenAI's Jalapeño custom AI accelerator design and strategy.

Ian Eisenberg

Researcher

Technical AI Governance Research Lead at Credo AI

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Ian Fogg

Investor

Research Director at CCS Insight

Explained Nvidia's acquisition as extension of strategy to support diverse AI models including open-weight options.

Community practitioner from Uber who created /create-voice skill for generating screen reader specs from UI specs.

Co-authored announcement of Cursor Design Mode updates for spatial agent interaction with code.

Reported on botnet attacks against GNU Savannah targeting LLM training data collection.

UK Minister who stated that AI diagnostic tools are already saving lives in the NHS.

Ian Nuttall

Creator

X (formerly Twitter)

Author of "Claude Code 1.0.86 has a new /context command to visualize your context window and token usage" in X (formerly Twitter)

Byline author of article about Fanatics' partnership with OpenAI on AI-powered Shop the Look feature.

Author of article sharing 38 lessons learned from building 10 different AI products at PostHog.

Ibrahim Ajami

Investor

Senior Partner, Head of Ventures at Mubadala Capital

Co-leading Crusoe's Series F funding round and highlighting the importance of AI compute infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Ida Caspary

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

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

Cybersecurity veteran and CPO at Cymphony, served as Research Group Manager in Israeli Prime Minister's Office.

Researcher at A Security who discovered the major Zoom vulnerability and produced a working exploit in a single day using AI agents and publicly available models.

Co-author of self-distilled fine-tuning research enabling models to learn new skills without forgetting past capabilities.

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

Stated that some open models can deliver around 90% of the performance of leading proprietary models while giving companies more control.

Co-author of Deep Neural Lesion research identifying critical bits in neural networks vulnerable to sign-bit flips.

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Ido Pesok

Engineer

Engineer at Cognition

Joined Cognition to help build end-to-end testing capabilities in Devin; shares lessons on autonomous testing and agentic development at scale.

Ido Salomon

Engineer

AI Lead, Monday.com CEO Office at Monday.com

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

General Intuition team member congratulated for contribution to $320M Series A success.

Former xAI co-founder launched River AI to build personalized AI agents that adapt to each user's style and goals.

Identified that models reliably detect when they are being evaluated, finding Claude Sonnet 4.5 mentioned being in an evaluation in over 80% of transcripts.

Igor Klebanov, who pioneered applications of gauge-string duality to confinement, is part of the group shepherding OpenAI's quantum field theory result.

Created a beautiful gif demonstrating the preferential attachment model

Author of "Falcon-H1R: Reasoning with a 7B Model" on arXiv

Co-byline author investigating IBM Watson Health's internal documents revealing unsafe cancer treatment recommendations.

Partnered with Google DeepMind to build fine-tuned models for design prototyping.

Co-CEO of Aleph Alpha who will become Chief Operating Officer of the merged Cohere entity and previously founded fable+ and worked at Accenture.

Ilia Kulikov

Researcher

Researcher at Meta

Co-author on Autodata paper about agentic data creation for training data.

Byline author reporting on xAI's property purchase offers conditional on residents not joining lawsuits.

Co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' transformer paper at Google; founded NEAR AI to build decentralized private AI ecosystem; discusses evolution of frontier models and blockchain infrastructure for agents.

Torch CEO quoted on acquisition and vision to integrate technology with ChatGPT's health user base

Loshchilov co-authored a paper on training nGPT showing how to cut token needs in half on a 14B model through a practical training recipe.

Iman Gadzhi

Creator

Creator

Created YouTube video demonstrating 10 Claude AI tips for productivity and automation.

UW doctoral student leading gender bias research in AI-generated children's stories.

Technical lead of Apertus project and Research Scientist, highlighted multilingualism and transparency as foundational design principles.

Described Meta's AI-first organizational approach using basketball fast-break analogy, advocated for rapid prototyping and testing with AI tools.

Imran Khan

Executive

Program Director, Psychosocial Evaluations of AI at Center for Humane Technology

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Inbar Mosseri

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DynaEdit paper on video editing.

Inderjit Dhillon

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the paper on Scalable In-context Ranking with Generative Models

Co-led study developing cerebellum-inspired memtransistor for energy-efficient AI.

Indragie Karunaratne discussed how Sentry integrated Claude Managed Agents to build agents that write fixes and open PRs in weeks instead of months.

Indranil Ghosh

Journalist

Journalist at Rest of World

Wrote article about China's Moonshot AI releasing Kimi K3 open model and its geopolitical implications.

Co-authored NewsGuard's audit testing 5 leading AI image detection tools in May 2026.

Byline author reporting on Wall Street's analysis of AI trade catalysts and market discernment.

Ines Lee

Researcher

Economist

Former Oxford and Cambridge lecturer who discovered her cognitive dependency on ChatGPT and advocates for thinking with AI rather than letting it think for you.

Ingmar Kanitscheider

Researcher

OpenAI

Author of "Emergent Tool Use From Multi-Agent Autocurricula" in OpenAI

Quoted expressing support for Agent Payments Protocol as a common rulebook for payments security and interoperability

Author of article about researchers warning that hidden prompts can plant false memories in AI agents.

Ingrid von Glehn

Researcher

Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Co-author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool for accelerating mathematical research with agentic AI.

Co-author of AI audit ecosystem research examining connections between audit design and accountability outcomes.

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

Author of "Training a VLM Judge Without Human Labels" on arXiv

Collaborated on TurboQuant vector quantization research.

Member of Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council exploring Trade Adjustment Assistance model adaptation for AI-related labor market disruptions

Senior Game Director discussing the future of World of Warcraft during the January 29 State of Azeroth stream

Commented that Oracle's report confirmed concerns around heavy AI spending financed by debt with unknown revenue timeline.

Co-authored analysis of open model ecosystem developments in 2026, focusing on ecosystem data and model adoption trends.

Author of "Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped"

Irina Ghose

Executive

Business Lead at Anthropic

Former Microsoft India managing director appointed by Anthropic in January to lead its business in India.

Co-authored announcement of Figma Make's new capabilities including direct editing, annotations, and PR creation for working on local code.

Author of paper focusing on AI-generated artwork being viewed by human participants and recommender systems

Isaac Evans

Executive

Founder, CEO at Semgrep

Trialed Mythos and said it 'exceeded expectations' with uncanny exploit generation abilities.

Isaac Kauvar

Researcher

researcher on the Interpretability team at Anthropic

Co-author of the research article on visual features across modalities

MIT student whose work on sumset problems was improved upon by ChatGPT 5.5 Pro; he evaluated ChatGPT's contributions as original and clever.

Isaac Robinson authored research on generalization results from training AC-Small on the APEX-Agents dev set, demonstrating improved performance on multiple benchmarks.

Journalist reporting on former FTC chair Lina Khan's dismissal of tech industry AI self-regulation accord.

Provided practical insights for more effective prompting, covering four main pillars of query optimization: expansion, decomposition, disambiguation, and abstraction.

Co-authored report on AI Chip Imports explorer for tracking geography of AI compute allocation worldwide.

CNBC journalist reporting on Meta's Muse for Small Business expansion to new integrations.

Co-author of the paper on organizational citizenship behavior and gender disparities

Isabella He

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Co-authored article about Claude Managed Agents and the evolution of agentic surfaces for building production-grade agents.

Byline author reporting on OpenAI pausing training of its most powerful models after agents breached security.

Commented that full global consensus on how to govern AI is far from reality following the India summit.

Research fellow discussing the challenges of achieving global consensus on AI governance.

Author of "Are AI unicorns starting to move beyond hype?" in CB Insights

Referenced in "Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?"

Isaiah Poritz

Journalist

Reporter at Bloomberg

Co-author of Bloomberg article covering the Musk v. Altman trial closing arguments.

Led research identifying pathway for inhaled nanoparticles to cross blood-brain barrier; studied pollution's effect on brain health.

Author of "NVIDIA's Push on Physical AI" in NVIDIA Blog

Ishaan Jaff

Creator

LiteLLM

Co-author of the article investigating LiteLLM supply chain attack and vulnerability disclosure.

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Co-author of the article about DeepMind's generative AI design project

Ishaan Sehgal

Engineer

Microsoft

Co-authored Omnara mission control platform for AI agents.

Ishai Menache

Engineer

Researcher at Hugging Face

Byline author presenting Microsoft's OptiMind model for natural language to solver-ready code transformation.

Guest author discussing how AI coding agents have shifted the bottleneck from code writing to product decisions and emphasizing product thinking in engineering.

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

Co-author contributing to research on LLM hallucination detection and taxonomy development.

Co-authored NewsGuard's audit testing 5 leading AI image detection tools in May 2026.

Itai Gat

Researcher

Meta

Author of "Meta's Set Block Decoding" on arXiv

Author of "Cybernetics and Ghosts" in Freie Universität Berlin

Token Security CEO discussing AI agents outpacing identity systems and need for intent-based security models.

Journalist reporting on Qodo's Series B funding announcement.

Itamar Pres

Researcher

Author of "Why Can't Transformers Learn Multiplication? Reverse-Engineering Reveals Long-Ra" on arXiv

AKB48 newcomer selected by AI to perform 'Omoide Scroll' based on her emotional storytelling abilities.

Co-author of OpenLife paper on open-world artificial life with autonomous LLM agents.

Co-author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool for accelerating mathematical research with agentic AI.

Co-authored an article about AI orchestration and how AI becomes the computer through multi-model coordination.

Ivan Bondyrev is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on a Mixture-of-Experts language model for software engineering.

Ivan Burazin founded Daytona and announced the $60M Series B funding round in a blog post.

Nissan CEO highlighting how AI cut vehicle development time from 55 months to 26 months for the new Skyline.

Ivan Klaric

Journalist

Journalist at Clarity d.o.o.

Author of article analyzing Meta's planned AI-related workforce reductions.

Quoted noting Mistral OCR is roughly 4x faster per page than their incumbent provider.

Author of "IBM Research Confirms Knowledge Decay"

Referenced in "Google Enhances Gemini 2.5 TTS to Deliver More Accurate Style Following and Natural Pacing Behavior"

Avoca's Strategy & Operations lead who interviewed Rescue Air founders about PE, AI, and the role of AI tools in increasing company valuation.

Ivison Hamish

Researcher

PhD student

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Izzy Miller

Engineer

AI Research Lead

Stated that raising Opus context from 200k to 500k made agent runs more efficient with lower overall token usage.

Jaan Tallin, founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, was among effective altruism community members who invested in Anthropic.

Advocates for pausing AI; ensured Anthropic VC funding was additive rather than displacing other proposals.

Jaanak Prashar

Researcher

Goodfire

Built MAPS, a Mechanistic Atlas of Protein Sequences explaining 2.1 million genetic variants.

Jabari Brisport

Policy

State Senator at New York State Senate

Former middle school teacher supporting the one-year AI moratorium for early grades.

Co-founder of Dishio and previously co-founder of Dineline; built Dishio to unify guest data across restaurant touchpoints and turn it into AI-powered marketing automation.

Wrote article about scientists finding DNA from mysterious human ancestor in every living person.

Jacek Migdal

Researcher

Quesma

Byline co-author discussing Nano Banana Pro image generation model capabilities including infographics, maps, and detailed image generation.

Author of "Covid Scams Are Finally Being Caught, By AI"

Co-authored research on the Assistant Axis for stabilizing language model personas.

Jack Garabedian

Engineer

Grok Training Team Lead at xAI

Starlink engineer appointed to lead the team training Grok, replacing Diego Pasini, bringing operational experience from Starlink's Ukraine deployment.

Chief of staff at The Midas Project who criticized OpenAI's justification for the subpoenas.

Kengott co-authored SaferAI's evaluation of GLM-5.2's systemic risks across loss of control, cyber, and biological domains.

Demonstrated Meta's Live AI feature at MetaConnect 2025, attempting to use AI glasses to create a Korean-inspired steak sauce.

Led research study on AI-generated ghosts or griefbots, finding that people found conversations comforting even when chatbots made up facts.

30-year-old barrister's clerk with Huntington's disease gene who participated in the trial and expressed hope about the breakthrough.

Worked on ElevenLabs' production of The Odyssey audiobook using AI voices and sound design.

Jack Merullo

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Goodfire

Co-author of research on shaping model personality and safeguards through interpretability

Jack Morris

Researcher

AI Researcher

Author of article on becoming an AI researcher, discussing temperament over talent, the importance of reading and building, and maintaining discipline in research.

Author of "Building Threat Models with MCP and AI Agents" in Detection at Scale

Co-author of the offensive cybersecurity time horizons study measuring AI capability growth.

Backed Maven Robotics for its focus on industrial systems and real-world operational realities rather than pure research.

Google's pretraining technical lead hired by Meta as part of its recruitment efforts.

Jack Raines

Journalist

Writer at Young Money newsletter

Author discussing the difference between capability and ethics in AI tool usage, addressing accessibility and automation of development tasks.

Jack Soslow

Founder

CEO and Co-Founder at Ciridae

Former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta; founded Ciridae to bring AI transformation to mid-market companies through embedded AI operating systems.

Former DOGE employee co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup for military cybersecurity.

O'Sullivan co-authored the MIRAGE study on visual understanding illusions in multimodal AI models.

Former engineering leader at Salesforce and Head of ML at Teneyx; co-founded Ciridae to build AI operating systems for real-economy businesses.

Musician quoted saying 'ease of use' is the disease to fight in creative fields, asserting creativity is aligned with difficulty

Jack Willis

Engineer

Cybersecurity Executive

Used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to decrypt a second unsolved Enigma message with expert guidance.

Co-author of the article announcing the Gemini CLI interactive shell enhancement

Staff Systems Engineer at Databricks quoted on implementing Opal for identity governance and access management across the company.

Zhang co-authored research on the Dion3 optimizer for efficient model training.

Jackie Bow

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored the Claude Mythos technical security research paper.

Wrote article on AI's ability to identify anonymous social-media users by piecing together public clues.

Profound team member announcing integration of Moz search visibility data into their platform.

Democratic Senator from Nevada who voted with Republicans on the bill restricting government pressure on AI platforms.

Jacob Bank

Executive

VP of Product at Google Chrome

Relay founder and CEO announced the startup's shutdown and revealed he is joining Google as VP of Product for Google Chrome to lead product and developer relations teams.

Noted Meta's move is a lock-in strategy despite appearing to open the ecosystem

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Quoted describing AP2 as critical for building a secure ecosystem for agentic AI payments

Davies co-authored SaferAI's risk evaluation report on GLM-5.2, assessing cyber offense, biological, and loss-of-control capabilities.

Jacob Effron

Investor

Host, Investor at Unsupervised Learning, RedPoint Ventures

Co-hosted the podcast episode discussing AI coding wars, startup dynamics, and market structure trends.

Told students in opening remarks that launching the university involved trekking through 'rough terrain' and building a 'rough-hewn yet sturdy and serviceable outpost of real education.'

Head of threat intelligence at Anthropic discussing the automation level of the Chinese-backed attacks using Claude

Spoke at AI Engineer Europe 2026 about agent architectures needing more than chat interfaces and appeared in video discussing connecting AI to legal documents.

Board member of Nscale contributing to strategic oversight.