People in AI

Former Tesla Optimus lead who founded Proception to develop high-dexterity robotic hands, settled trade secret lawsuit and raised $11M seed round.

Jay Pantone

Researcher

mathematician at Marquette University

Created the final FrontierMath Tier 4 problem that was solved by GPT-6 Astra.

Managing partner and co-founder of lead investor Prysm Capital explaining their investment thesis.

Led Penske Media (owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety) in suing Google over AI summaries using journalism without consent.

Expert on IPO markets discussing Anthropic's mega-IPO plans and market timing.

Jay Shah

Engineer

Software Engineer at Meta

Co-authored Meta's research on organizational second brain AI integrating knowledge architecture with expert feedback loops.

Jay Shim co-authored research on vision-language-action models for continual reinforcement learning in robotics.

Said investors would focus on SpaceX capex forecast and spending on Starship, Starlink, AI infrastructure.

Samsung executive chairman discussing the company's AI factory partnership with NVIDIA and manufacturing transformation.

Yagnik leads large parts of Google AI and signed the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge in 2018 but did not oppose the military contract.

Co-author of article discussing frontier model capabilities and appropriate use cases for high-intelligence AI systems.

Said the Oxford scheme is setting a new standard for how AI can enrich higher education by making ChatGPT Edu available to everyone.

Jayson Stark

Journalist

Senior Baseball Writer at The Athletic

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

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Hardware executive arguing legacy infrastructure drives up AI development costs and predicting new revenue-generating services.

JB Pritzker

Politician

Governor at State of Illinois

Pritzker signed an executive order creating an unpaid AI Cabinet to draft state policy through 2027, emphasizing that AI poses risks similar to nuclear weapons.

Tesla co-founder and former CTO, now runs Redwood Materials which supplies energy systems for Crusoe's Spark data center units.

Byline co-author of article about G20 AI regulation discussions and Carolina Principles.

Discussed concerns about 'theater approval' in code review and strategies for training junior engineers on AI-assisted development.

83-year-old stroke patient who benefited from Brainomix AI tool for rapid stroke identification and treatment.

Chief executive of ATI; complaint alleges inadequate board oversight of senior leadership departures under her tenure.

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Co-founder and CEO of French insurtech Alan, which raised €480M for AI-driven prevention insurance.

Author of peer-reviewed article on symbolic violence and AI-justified universal basic income, analyzing how AI elites use UBI narratives to maintain power structures.

Jean-Denis Greze

Founder

Co-Founder, Mayor and CEO at Town

Founder of AI assistant platform Town who uses AI assistants to coordinate fifty-fifty split parenting responsibilities with his wife without nagging.

Head of Digital at Sofina, lead investor in Primer's $100 million Series C funding round.

Author of "Large Language Models Can Effectively Convince People to Believe Conspiracies" on arXiv

Jean-Marie Lemercier

Researcher

AI researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

French Foreign Minister chaired the UN Security Council's first high-level briefing on AI and international security.

Revolutionary mathematician whose paper on coherent sheaves required no conscious thinking according to his account.

Author of "Jeanette Winterson on AI Alternative Intelligence: Its Capacity to Be Other Is Just What the Human R" in The Guardian

Former Google and Stripe executive who scaled Vercel's go-to-market with AI agents, achieving 93% support case automation and 32x ROI on lead agent.

Advocated for consistent, fact-based thought leadership built on trust, transparency and education rather than selling.

Noted that Gemini models in AI Studio can analyze content to identify main vs supplementary content

CEO of MSI describing RTX Spark as compelling platform for compact, efficient PCs with AI acceleration.

Analyst asking about overall company strategy implementation

Former undersecretary of commerce discussing how AI transition could be difficult even without mass unemployment.

Federal judge who ruled in February 2026 that conversations with Anthropic's Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege.

Stack Overflow co-founder who invited subscribers to private beta in July 2008.

Expresses concern about effects of LLMs on critical reasoning skills and cautions against over-reliance on AI as general reasoners.

Former US ambassador to Australia told the parliamentary committee that Anthropic wants to train its AI in Australia but that the country's copyright regime needs to change.

Flybridge Capital co-founder whose AI avatar provides feedback to HBS bootcamp participants; featured in New York Times article.

Former practicing ER radiologist who cofounded AI healthcare startup Rad AI; designed tools to save radiologists time rather than replace them.

Managing Director at Asahi Kasei Ventures investing in Kewazo as part of Series funding round for industrial automation.

Executive search firm founder who released study showing 2,100% projected surge in forward-deployed engineer demand by end of 2026.

IBM security expert explaining how AI agents and RAG pipelines expose sensitive data through modern AI systems

Jeff Feng contributed industrial design expertise to the MyoStep project.

Jeff Foust

Journalist

SpaceNews

Author of "NASA Plans to Spend Up to $1.5B on Commercial Space Station Demos"

Led development of Personal CFO product powered by Plaid, enabling AI agents to provide personalized financial guidance.

President discussed Project Kilby data center power agreement with Microsoft and Chevron's strategy for behind-the-meter power to support AI data centers.

Reported Shopify's Q1 2026 results showing 34% revenue growth and discussed the company's ability to maintain flat headcount through AI-driven productivity.

Jeff Horing from Insight Partners led Wonderful's $550 million Series C funding round and commented on the company's opportunity.

Jeff Huber

Founder

Co-founder at Chroma

Co-founder of Chroma discussing the evolution from RAG to context engineering and vector database challenges.

Former ASML engineer who stated that China will have achieved 'meaningful progress' if the EUV light source has enough power, is reliable, and doesn't generate too much contamination.

Announced Prefect's acquisition of Dagster and described the combined company's ambition to move toward agentic orchestration.

Jeff Ma

Engineer

Author at Inferact

Co-authored technical article on TPU megakernels achieving 700 TPS on Kimi K3 with speculative decoding.

Discussed Morgan Stanley's vision for AI as efficiency-enhancing layer across company applications.

Analyst discussing South Korea's semiconductor export surge driven by AI infrastructure demand from cloud providers.

Former Massachusetts commissioner of education, predicted AI could kickstart education revolution but sees lack of urgency.

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

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

Jeff Synthesized

Creator

Founder/creative lead at NeoCinemaAI

Independent filmmaker who won the Future Vision XPRIZE grand prize for the AI film 'The Gifted' about recreating a mother's voice with AI.

Former Apple COO who recently retired; design team now reports to Tim Cook following his departure.

Author of commentary on how agentic AI is changing job functions in months rather than years, hitting entry-level employment particularly hard.

Commissioned YouGov survey of 1,250 U.S. workers finding only 3% reported losing jobs to AI since 2023.

Jeffrey Dastin

Journalist

Journalist at Reuters

Reported from Davos on Meta's new AI lab delivering its first high-profile models internally this month.

Leading scholar on technology diffusion who argues general-purpose technologies require broad societal diffusion.

Jeffrey Emanuel

Creator

Tech Entrepreneur and Former Quantitative Investor at Lumera Network

Wrote a viral blog post warning that DeepSeek's efficiency suggests the AI industry has been massively overprovisioning compute resources.

Paedophile whose chatbot avatar was found on Character.ai platform with over 3,000 chats

Coined the term 'SaaSpocalypse' to describe the $285B software stock selloff driven by AI agent capabilities.

Led analysis of studies using AI for psychiatric diagnoses and found deficiencies in training data, calling for bigger and more diverse samples.

CMU researcher who co-authored ModAR for robotic world-action modeling.

Wrote article analyzing NVIDIA's RTX Spark Superchip and its positioning for agentic AI computing.

Met with Anthropic on export controls for Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

Jeffrey Kluger

Journalist

TIME

Author of "Time's Kid of the Year Uses AI to Protect Seniors From Scams" in TIME

Former security researcher at Anthropic warning that autonomous AI systems could change military dynamics and expressing concern about AI weapons.

Co-author of research on fractal basins in reasoning models and transient chaos during problem solving.

Self-described polymath from Texas who developed Laertes, an AI forecasting bot that won the Metaculus Cup forecasting competition in September.

Co-authored ProgramBench research evaluating language models rebuilding software executables from specification.

Jeffrey Mew

Engineer

Google Colab

Author of "Google Colab's open-source MCP server" in Google Colab

Jeffrey Morgan

Founder

CEO and Co-Founder at Ollama

CEO of Ollama; stated that open models should be easy to run and available wherever work gets done; leads company with 8.9M monthly developers.

Corresponding author of study developing AI foundation model to identify long-term health risks from sleep study data.

Co-authored paper on PC-ALM, a local alternative to backpropagation for training deep neural networks.

Co-author of year-long Character.AI study examining AI companion effects on well-being and human interaction.

Jeffrey Wang

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher noting productivity improvements from using Ultrafast tier for incident response.

Posted on X about InferenceBench targeting AI R&D automation through open-ended inference optimization tasks.

Recommends sorting AI agents by who triggers the work and who chooses the steps, then setting limits on permissions and controls.

Jen Easterly

Policy

Former Director at CISA

Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director co-authoring CSA Mythos preparedness report.

Expert explaining how Snowflake collects data from multiple sources and discussing the scope of the ASOS data breach.

Author of "How Googlers Use AI at Work" in Google

Announced NVIDIA's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and commitment to open-source AI.

Taiwanese oncologist whose hospital began using Watson for Oncology but noted need for local dosage adjustments.

Author of "Firefox Adds Perplexity as Search Option" in Mozilla

Security researcher who analyzed the malicious Claude Code extension and described the 66-line malicious loader inserted before legitimate extension code.

Jenna Russell

Researcher

Computer Science PhD student at University of Maryland

Submitted StoryScope research paper on arXiv detecting AI-generated fiction through plot structure analysis.

Colorado Democrat expressing constituent concerns that federal AI preemption could harm consumer protections.

Legal expert discussing whether Neon's one-sided call recording complies with wiretap laws

Co-author of the seminal 2012 paper on Cas9 CRISPR technology that accelerated the field's development

Chair of Subcommittee on Early Childcare Education supporting vendor accountability and protection of youngest students.

Long-standing director whose term will expire on 31 December under new term limit policy

Co-author reporting from Hong Kong on U.S.-China AI competition and Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington.

Defense think tank director who expresses concerns about the appeal of automating warfare and removing humans from the loop.

Retired after 30 years in tech including 25 years at Microsoft; cited AI becoming sole focus and not wanting to deal with it as primary retirement reason.

Jennifer Kutz

Executive

Communications & Public Affairs at Google

Google spokesperson discussing company's AI headline replacement experiment in search results.

Collaborated on the brand identity definition for NotebookLM.

Author of "The 'AI Farming Company' Orchard Robotics Bags $22m to Expand Precision ag Platform" in agfundernews.com

Joined Governor Newsom and legislators in signing landmark legislation for child online safety including chatbot safety requirements.

Co-authored article revealing OpenAI's internal struggles between user engagement and safety regarding GPT-4o sycophancy.

Co-author of the Science paper on Google's effects on memory.

CEO of Sferical AI discussing the capabilities of Sferical One supercluster for researchers in Sweden and the Nordics.

Jenny Romanchuk

Journalist

Authored article analyzing real case studies on answer engine optimization and its ROI.

Gave talk on how AI changes design processes by reducing cost of implementation mistakes.

Co-author on speech recognition benchmarking research.

Chairman of Hyundai who owns about 23% of Boston Dynamics.

Co-founder of Oumi, former Google AI and Microsoft engineer.

Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros

Researcher

Analyst at SemiAnalysis

SemiAnalysis analyst forecasting 50GW of new data center capacity in 2027 with chips and memory as bottlenecks.

Jeremie Harris

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Gladstone AI

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Jeremy Allaire

Executive

Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO at Circle

Circle CEO who described recent AI releases as representing an inflection point and one of the most profound changes in technology landscape.

Argues mathematicians should own and deploy AI rather than resist it, noting AI will prove theorems better than humans.

Referenced for hedonic calculus philosophy in tradition of algorithmic/objective rule

Jeremy Berman

Researcher

Anthropic

Achieved the highest score on ARC-AGI v1 (79.6%) and v2 (29.4%) using multi-agent collaboration with evolutionary test-time compute.

Noted important limitations of Carnice release, including weaker long-horizon completion and tool-contract performance than base model.

Canadian astronaut who will orbit the Moon on the Artemis II mission, demonstrating Canada's continued space leadership.

Author of "UC Berkeley Research On AI Implementation Success" in UC Berkeley

Jeremy Kaufmann

Investor

Scale Venture Partners

Venture capital partner who ran the Vertical AI Panel at SaaStr AI 2026 discussing AI moats and market opportunities.

Co-author of the offensive cybersecurity time horizons study.

Former Sunrise Movement organizer helping Irreplaceable coordinate AI resistance protests and messaging.

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

Jeremy Stern

Journalist

Editor-in-Chief at Colossus

Wrote a Colossus Profile reporting on Joe Liemandt as the product guy behind Alpha School

Jeremy Stoppelman

Executive

CEO at Yelp

Discussed Google's anticompetitive practices in local search and filed antitrust complaints against Google.

Author of "Secure Codebase Indexing" in Cursor

Jerome Wynne

Researcher

Research Scientist at Apart Research

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored research on compute efficiency gains from data and model improvements in pretraining.

Jerry Hong

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-author of research on Anthropic Interviewer studying how professionals integrate AI into their work.

Co-author of the paper on LLM calibration with label smoothing

Jerry Ma

Researcher

Researcher at Perplexity

Co-author of Perplexity's JOLT joint on-policy learning and teaching paper.

Discussed on the 20VC podcast that Cursor is obsolete due to advances from model makers like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Led writeup of the Hironaka's Resolution of Singularities autoformalization project.

Received a $1.05 trillion valuation offer on Anthropic shares from a growth fund.

Jesse Lumarie

Engineer

Software Engineer at Figma

Co-authored announcement of Figma Make's expansion to work with local production codebases.

Commented on OpenAI withholding incident information while pushing Astra model release.

18-year-old who used ChatGPT extensively to discuss violence, firearms, and tactics before carrying out a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in February 2026, killing eight people.

Co-founder of political nonprofit helping Democrats adopt AI; cautioned AI should find new channels rather than rescue abused ones.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI showing only 5% of companies achieve AI value at scale.

Author of "Its Time to Delete the Bereal App" in The Tab

Commented on the geopolitical significance of tech CEOs attending G7, noting shift in power dynamics between government and private sector AI developers.

Head of Content and Publisher Partnerships at Perplexity, quoted on attribution and accuracy in AI-powered discovery.

Jessica Chitwood-Brown

Researcher

Tomato Breeder at University of Florida

UF/IFAS tomato breeder working at GCREC who shaped fruit and flower detection models for tomatoes.

Jessica Davies

Journalist

Senior media editor at Digiday

Co-authored article about Google's AI content licensing pilot program for publishers.

Graduate student working on 3D bioprinting research for organ development.

Questioned by Ocasio-Cortez during House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing about EPA response to resident water quality complaints near Georgia data centers.

Wrote article on practical ways sales teams are using ChatGPT for various sales tasks.

Co-author of paper analyzing China's approach to artificial intelligence policy.

Explained how AI's tendency to produce plausible-looking output with hidden errors can cause problems to snowball in workflows.

Jessica Rumbelow

Researcher

Researcher

Identified similar glitch tokens in GPT-2 and GPT-3, including the famous 'SolidGoldMagikarp' token

Weave head of security expressing concern about AI exploitation capabilities and long-term threat escalation.

Authored post on NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super reasoning model for autonomous vehicles and robotaxis.

Jessica Toonkel

Journalist

The Wall Street Journal

Author of "OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film" in The Wall Street Journal

Hosted Adobe MAX 2025 Sneaks event showcasing experimental AI and creative technology.

HR solutions provider executive noted companies need to reintroduce human oversight when AI outputs are inconsistent or inaccurate.

Explained how generative AI allows the company to create and validate content more efficiently, enabling the team to focus expertise on ensuring quality standards.

Jett Chen

Researcher

Researcher

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

Listed as author of the paper on robust learning with noisy labels

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

LiveX.ai founder developing physical AI agents to transform retail venues, sporting events and consumer experiences; featured on the NVIDIA AI Podcast discussing holographic AI agents like Toy Jensen.

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

PhD in computer science who led research proposing AI-native research artifacts as replacement for traditional human-written papers.

Jiacheng Miao

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-author of the Paper2Agent research paper introducing the framework that converts research papers into AI agents

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper; reviewed and scored model-generated solutions for IMO 2025 as a gold medalist at IMO 2015.

Jiahao Cai

Executive

Tech Lead of the first public coding agent at Google

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Co-author on Helix World audio-visual world model research.

Jiaheng Hu

Researcher

CS PhD Student at University of Texas at Austin

Jiaheng Hu led research at University of Texas Austin, UCLA, NTU, and Sony on vision-language-action models for continual learning in robotics applications.

Jiaheng Huang

Researcher

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Co-authored Halcyon paper on text-to-image generation.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-authored research on multimodal image generation methods.

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

Co-author on Helix World research.

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

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Former takeaway worker jailed for her role in laundering Bitcoin proceeds worth more than £2 billion.

Author of "From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey a" on arXiv

Author of paper on robust recovery of complex exponential signals from random Gaussian projections via low rank Hankel matrix reconstruction.

Jianfeng Gao

Researcher

Principal Researcher at Microsoft

Senior researcher and corresponding author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Jianfeng Xiang

Researcher

Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia

Lead author of Microsoft research on Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation, developing a 4B-parameter image-to-3D model.

Listed as author of the paper on robust learning with noisy labels

Study co-author who explained that lung xenotransplantation presents unique biological and technical challenges

Author of "Robots Run, Dance, and Clean in World's First Humanoid Games" in Sixth Tone

Co-signed National Science Review editorial demanding binding frontier duties including third-party audits and model shutdown mechanisms.

Quoted expressing excitement about partnering with Google on protocol-setting for agentic commerce

Jianhao Ma

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University

Co-author of paper proving lower bounds for stepsize-based acceleration of gradient descent with assistance from GPT-5.6 Sol Pro.

Co-author of MatrAIx paper on simulated user evaluation infrastructure.

Author of "Open-Web Simulator for Agent Training" on arXiv

Jianlin Su

Researcher

Researcher

Researcher writing on 'The Path of Averaging: From Attention to TTT' exploring connection between attention mechanisms and test-time training.

Author of article about BAAI's DisCo framework converting repositories into reusable agent skills.

Co-author of JOLT self-distillation approach for improved model training.

Co-author of MetaClaw research on AI agents that meta-learn and evolve in the wild.

Jianyang Gao

Researcher

Researcher

Researcher authoring paper comparing RaBitQ and TurboQuant quantization methods, finding TurboQuant underperforms in most settings.

Contributed to research on 3D bioprinting with blood vessel networks.