People in AI

Author of multi-part investigation into how ChatGPT reinforced a school shooter's interest in firearms and tactics before the Tumbler Ridge attack in February 2026.

Co-authored technical report on Azure ND GB300 v6 Virtual Machines achieving record 1.1 million tokens/s on Llama2 70B inference.

Emphasized dangers of AI misuse, particularly regarding child sexual abuse material generation.

Co-authored research on Meta's Just-in-Time Testing system that uses LLMs to generate tests and catch bugs before code ships to production.

Co-led the development of a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor that detects unexpected events while consuming far less energy than conventional AI approaches.

Quoted on IBM joining OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program for security services.

Mark Humphries

Creator

Author of "Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems?"

Mark Jen

Engineer

Software Engineer at Meta

Founding team member at Thinking Machines Lab who was hired by Meta; previously worked at Meta.

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist leading the training of Watson for Oncology, acknowledged difficulty updating the system with new evidence.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs seed funding round.

Studied AI-related layoffs and found productivity did not rise after companies invested in AI and cut staff.

Investment officer stating that AI infrastructure companies need to be price insensitive to secure capital.

Planning to use Caterpillar equipment with battery storage for massive data-center project in Utah.

Co-author of the article on Meta's Backbone connectivity scaling for AI

Discussed Morgan Stanley's plan to open its wealth management platforms to external AI agents from corporate clients.

Author of "How We Made SWE-Bench 50x Smaller" in LogicStar AI

Led IASEAI but ultimately did not make a public statement supporting Anthropic's position against Pentagon pressure despite promising a member poll.

Co-chair of IETF AI Preferences working group acknowledged in the robots.txt policy token draft.

GM President stated that new initiatives are tangible products entering the market shortly and revenue plans are on track.

Mark Riedl

Researcher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Co-author of arXiv paper arguing that AI-driven war games should not shape military planning without an auditable safety case.

Australian marketing journalist who praised Anthropic's Super Bowl ads as effective brand strategy.

Discusses the debate between using AI in product offerings versus internal operations for startups

Mark Seemann

Journalist

Software Engineer

Author of blog post discussing implications of AI-generated software, epistemology, and liability when code is generated by LLMs.

Co-senior author on bioprinting research, leading efforts to print functioning blood vessels and complex organ structures.

Mark Smith

Engineer

Infrastructure Lead at Discord

Built Discord's internal WebRTC voice and video infrastructure, demonstrating full-stack vertical integration approach to infrastructure.

Co-writer of Golden who accepted the best original song award.

Mark Spoonauer

Journalist

Global Editor-in-Chief at Tom's Guide

Covered Apple's September event and provided hands-on impressions of the iPhone 18 Pro Max.

Author of "All Ideas Are Secondhand" in Lapham's Quarterly

Mark Tyson

Journalist

News editor at Tom's Hardware

Tom's Hardware news editor who reported on Cloudflare data showing bot traffic has surpassed human traffic online.

Author and developer of the flyhard project training a fruit fly connectome-based model to operate vehicle controls.

Economist co-authoring research on how AI commoditizes answer generation and elevates problem formulation as a strategic skill.

Explained that AI shifted debugging bottleneck rather than eliminating it and that engineers now spend more time debugging than writing code.

Former SpaceX and DOGE Treasury official co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup, faced controversy over social media posts.

Marko Kojic is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report describing a 12B-parameter MoE language model optimized for coding and agentic workflows.

Co-authored research on process-driven image generation.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Medium author who wrote comprehensive article on agentic AI systems and their capabilities.

Submitter of SwarmWorld paper on homogeneous LLM agents building functional technology via stigmergy.

Co-author from Amazon AGI on SkillLearnBench research on agent skills.

Markus Marks

Researcher

Contributor at Meta

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

Author of "Medical Triage As An AI Ethics Benchmark" in nature.com

Markus Wulfmeier

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of study demonstrating multi-agent RL enabling drones to outperform human pilots in racing scenarios.

VC defending rising seed valuations based on proof of traction and founder execution track record in AI companies.

Stated technology is changing too quickly for proprietary AI to make sense, preferring to buy solutions.

Chief Business Officer of Rebellions leading U.S. market expansion for AI inference infrastructure.

Historical media theorist quoted about how new technologies initially disguise themselves as past technologies, applied to AI development.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Senior Manager and co-author of Spotify article on evaluation funnel approach to LLM evals and A/B testing.

Dutch researcher who noted Watson for Oncology's focus on American practices prevented adoption in the Netherlands.

Announced FDA's groundbreaking initiative to replace animal testing with AI-based computational models and human-relevant methods for drug development.

Joint contributor to the research on discovering singularities in fluid dynamics using AI

Author on M&A due diligence and AI-powered document analysis in transactions.

Co-authored arXiv paper on linear-time and constant-memory text embeddings using recurrent language models.

Martin Fleming

Researcher

Researcher at MIT FutureTech

Co-researcher on MIT AI automation study analyzing frontier LLM capabilities.

GlobalFoundries engineer contributing industry perspective to the defect detection research

Martin Jaggi

Researcher

Professor of Machine Learning at EPFL

Member of Steering Committee of Swiss AI Initiative that released Apertus, a fully open AI model.

Martin Keely

Executive

General Manager, Epic Games Store at Epic Games

Explained that Epic Games used AI to write new code from scratch for the rebuilt launcher with new architecture.

Prominent researcher cited as excited and hopeful about effects of AI-assisted proofs

Co-leading the Latinitas project for AI analysis of ancient Latin texts.

Said Tencent feels comfortable with large AI infrastructure investments due to substantial return potential and clear loss protection.

Cisco executive announcing the Cisco 8223 routing system and new Silicon One P200 chip for AI data center connectivity.

Martin Maas

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-presented LAVA, a new AI-powered scheduling algorithm for optimizing virtual machine allocation in cloud data centers.

Martin McKeaveney

Other

Co-Founder and CTO at Budibase

Open-source maintainer highlighting FrontierCode's attention to detail and its measurement of genuine model intelligence.

Formalized an optimizing compiler in Lean using AI assistance, completing work in one month.

Commented on GEMA's lawsuit against Suno, noting the importance of music collecting societies in protecting artists' rights.

Co-author of draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08 AI vocabulary and co-author of attachment draft with Gary Illyes on associating AI usage preferences with content.

Martin Wattenberg

Researcher

Researcher

Author on arXiv paper exploring visual meaning and communication in vision-language models.

Hosted forum on AI in education, stating AI is already shaping the future of education in ways everyone in the sector needs to understand.

Stated that companies lack clarity on what responsible AI deployment looks like and need data-driven starting point for building trust.

Martin Woodward

Executive

VP of Developer Relations at GitHub

Authored article on GitHub Copilot integration with Logitech MX Keypad for developers

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

Referenced in "Build vs Buy in the Age of AI"

Marty Makary

Policy

FDA Commissioner at FDA

Announced FDA's new AI-powered Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) platform replacing outdated fragmented databases.

Partner at generative-AI texting firm; reported over 2.5 million texts sent resulting in 20,000-30,000 conversations.

Google VP who announced the multi-year partnership between Google and MrBeast for Gemini, Google Health, and Fitbit integration in content.

Co-author of the article announcing new NotebookLM features

Wrote about Creeping Cognitive Displacement Syndrome and AI's degradation of university credential value.

Announced GM's new software initiatives including conversational Google Gemini AI for vehicles and new driver-assistance systems.

Mary Beth Westmoreland

Executive

Vice President, Worldwide Selling Partner Experience at Amazon

Amazon VP discussing new AI tools and plugins for independent sellers to manage their Amazon businesses through Claude and other agents.

Mary Branscombe wrote about Cedar, a language and engine for making authorization decisions separately from application logic.

Mary Cunningham

Journalist

News Associate at 60 Minutes - CBS

Byline author of article about FTC investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI consumer risks.

Byline author discussing survey results showing demand for AI skills in entry-level jobs has nearly tripled since fall 2025.

Co-sponsor of the revamped Health and Location Data Protection Act alongside Senator Warren.

Byline author reporting on Microsoft's OpenClaw team and personal assistant project.

Mary Newhauser

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Fastino

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

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement on AI development coordination and governance.

Original author of Frankenstein novel (1818) whose work is analyzed for AI metaphor parallels.

Co-author of NBER working paper analyzing market responses to AI model releases through bond yield movements

Maryam Karimzadehgan

Creator

Engineering Leader at Google

Byline author of article introducing Google Playground, an experimental AI gaming platform.

Coauthor of the study on gender threats and workplace deviance

Maryam Motamedi

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model with transcription, translation, and speaker attribution capabilities.

Referenced by Lip-Bu Tan as the person who made the investment decision and with whom he has worked for decades

Expressed hopes that OpenAI will voluntarily comply with Japan's copyright request and indicated measures under Japan's AI Promotion Act may be invoked.

Executive commenting on Mitsubishi Electric's acquisition of Japanese space company Infostellar.

Co-author on arXiv paper about AI agents autonomously running quantum physics experiments and discovering new physical laws.

Mason Daugherty

Researcher

Researcher at LangChain

Led evaluation of open-weight LLMs showing they are viable alternatives to frontier models for core agent tasks.

Mason Drxy discussed LangChain 1.1's capability introspection and Deep Agents for dynamic model routing.

Mason Wilder stated that it's never been easier to commit fraud and that financial scams have become ubiquitous.

Matej Balog

Researcher

staff research scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author on AlphaProof Nexus research paper on AI-driven formal proof search that solved nine open Erdős problems.

Prime Intellect engineer who collaborated on RL training experiments and provided hardware resources.

Mateo Quiros

Journalist

Journalist at Google DeepMind

Byline author of article announcing Google's integration of computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Mateusz Makosiewicz

Creator

Ahrefs

Author of "13 Times AI Actually Delivered" in Ahrefs

Sleep researcher at Cleveland Clinic contributing to AI model development for identifying hidden health signals in sleep studies.

Mathew Hogan

Engineer

Cursor

Mathew Hogan co-authored an article describing how Cursor built development environments for cloud agents to test and merge code.

Mathias Biilmann

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Netlify

Coined the term Agent Experience (AX) in 2025 and led Netlify's pivot toward agent-first infrastructure.

Led development of G-AUDIT tool to detect hidden biases in medical AI training data.

Researcher with Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience focused on how AI intersects with child cognitive and emotional development.

Mathilde Collin

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at KORA

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Mati Roy

Engineer

xAI

xAI employee who disclosed the existence of 'spicy mode' in a now-deleted X post about Grok Imagine's nudity capabilities.

Kalibrate legal director defending the company against algorithmic price-fixing allegations.

Matilda Ankargren

Engineer

Staff Data Scientist at Spotify

Co-author of Spotify Engineering article on LLM evals and experiments.

Unilever supply chain executive praising Freehand as full-scale agentic deployment and shift from assisting to autonomous software.

Matt Ausman described how Gemini Enterprise agents helped Zebra transform internal functions and support partners.

CEO of Stitch Fix who announced AI Vision feature generated 100% lift in spending and is being rolled out to more customers.

CEO of Freelancer platform noted that markets can detect AI-generated content and have visceral reactions to it.

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Matt Booty

Executive

Microsoft

Promoted by Sharma to lead game development efforts, known for delivering award-winning work.

Matt Briney

Other

Chief Communications Officer at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Described how the library's AI system allows visitors to search Roosevelt's writings and interact with an AI avatar.

Discussed Unity Spark's design philosophy, emphasizing it is not a one-shot game development tool and requires creativity and ambition.

Matt Colyer

Engineer

Product Leader at Figma

Product leader at Figma building tools for designers and developers; authored article on Figma canvas opening to AI agents.

Co-founded Convogo, an AI tool for executive coaching, which was acquired by OpenAI in an acqui-hire deal.

Author covering Microsoft's Copilot reboot and enterprise AI strategy.

Matt Deitke

Founder

Co-founder at Vercept

Co-founder of Vercept who negotiated a $250M salary from Meta; congratulated former colleagues on the acquisition but is not joining Anthropic.

Matt DesLauriers

Engineer

Developer who created Windfoil, a GPU-friendly algorithm for vector graphics rendering that runs in browsers

Matt Egan

Journalist

Senior Business Reporter at CNN

Author of "The 'godfather of AI' reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI" in CNN

CFO of Groq during $650M fundraising for AI inference cloud scale-up.

Discussed new agency equation and four modes of working with AI in Microsoft's research.

Announced Autonomy-1 mission using Solo AI intelligence model to operate spacecraft autonomously without ground commands.

CEO discussing Beatport's policy to block fully AI-generated music while allowing AI-assisted tracks with tagging.

Matt Growcoot

Journalist

PetaPixel

Author of "Movie Studio Lionsgate is Struggling to Make AI-Generated Films With Runway" in PetaPixel

Explained YouTube's AI content monetization policy distinguishing between high-quality AI-enhanced content and low-quality content farming.

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures who invested in Norm Ai Series C; stated Norm has proven AI-native law firm model works.

Matt Huang

Founder

Co-Founder at Paradigm

Co-author of announcement of Paradigm's fourth $1.2B fund expanding into AI, robotics and other exponential technologies.

Partner at ICONIQ who worked with Amit Agarwal on early Datadog investment in 2015 and supported Standard Template Labs from day zero.

Matt Kaufman

Executive

Chief Safety Officer at Roblox

Co-author of announcement on Roblox's AI-powered chat rephrasing system for keeping communication civil while maintaining flow.

Matt Knight

Executive

Head of Security at OpenAI

OpenAI security head who remained in role on safety committees after other original safety committee members departed.

Matt Levine

Creator

Analyst

Estimated OpenAI's old profit cap at approximately $272 billion

Matt Lovett-Barron

Researcher

Scientist at University of California, San Diego

Matt Lovett-Barron studies Danionella and uses virtual reality environments to study how fish brains manage social behavior and schooling.

WHOOP executive stated that integrating OpenAI models in Snowflake Cortex AI enhances agent capabilities while maintaining security and governance.

Using Fable 5 to write world-model training code when Anthropic flagged it as frontier AI research and steering vector kicked in implementing JEPA.

Matt MacInnis

Executive

Executive at Rippling

Described the value difference between tokens spent on generic questions versus reasoning over company-specific data in terms of commodity versus strategic tokens.

Provided early review of ARC-AGI-3 benchmark analysis.

Matt McNiece

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored the Claude Mythos security research at Anthropic.

Matt Miller

Investor

VC firm founder at Evantic

VC firm founder joining Synthesia's Series E as a new investor

AWS VP of Core Networking discusses why subsea cables are essential for international connectivity and superior to satellite alternatives.

Matt Reynolds

Researcher

Director of Communications at Forecasting Research Institute

Co-authored post on AI progress forecasts accuracy at FRI.

Matt Rickard

Creator

Quoted for his observation that every Unix command eventually becomes a startup, applied to AI agents.

Matt Ridley

Journalist

Author of "Idea Sex" in YouTube

Matt Robb

Other

Brand and content marketing manager

Tech reviewer whose Facebook Marketplace transaction with Meta's Muse AI resulted in an unexpected buyer visit after the AI agent negotiated a sale, shared the pickup address, and confirmed his presence without his explicit approval.

Matt Schulman

Creator

Founder and CEO at Pave

Byline author discussing GTM Engineer as fastest-growing job and AI-driven role creation.

Matt Sigelman

Researcher

President of The Burning Glass Institute at The Burning Glass Institute

Analyzes skill-biased technological change and labor market divergence, discusses how AI differs from past tech adoption.

Authored analysis of Wendy's FreshAI launch, describing generative AI-powered drive-thru ordering system and its benefits to customers and crew.

Studied the surge in low-quality papers linked to LLMs and commented that the fraud testing results should act as a wake-up call to developers.

Reported on major music labels calling for AI-generated songs to be banned from global music charts unless primarily human-made and lawfully created.

Building AI theorist that automatically constructs and tests predictive mathematical models for biological active matter.

Head of digital partnerships quoted noting Google's core advantage remains intact despite ruling tweaks

Lead author of study on maternal RSV vaccination effectiveness in preventing infant hospitalizations.

Co-Principal Investigator on Harvard research into gender disparities in AI adoption and representation.

Said the UK Data Centre Covenant represents significant opportunity for responsible data center development if government, energy providers and industry collaborate.

Matthew Berman

Creator

AI YouTuber

Joked about Kylon's conductor in their launch film resembling actor JK Simmons.

Author reporting on Visa's AI-related layoffs affecting high-level executives.

Commented on Nvidia's investment strategy in AI companies and the circular investment theme of vendor financing.

Matthew Carrigan

Engineer

Hugging Face

Matthew Carrigan is referenced in an X thread about GPT OSS innovations mentioned in the Hugging Face blog post.

Reported that OpenAI is considering sharp price cuts to its AI offerings in anticipation of similar cuts from Anthropic as both companies prepare for IPOs.

Co-introduced GIST algorithm at NeurIPS 2025 for balancing data diversity and utility in machine learning datasets.

Analyzed fraudulent dating apps and uncovered technical details of the AI catfishing network operation including leaked internal protocols.

Matthew Griffin

Executive

Marketing and PR lead at Team Cherry

Team Cherry marketing and PR lead who confirmed pricing information in the official Discord server

AI researcher explaining how transformer-based LLMs tokenize text and struggle with character-level spelling tasks.

Matthew Honnibal

Engineer

spaCy

Critiqued the weight-space programming paper for conflating two separate topics about LLM capabilities.

Author covering AI sycophancy problem in language models and research on why chatbots agree with users even when wrong.

Led team that tested thousands of machine learning models on predicting life outcomes and found limited predictive skill.

Co-authored guide on building production commerce agents with Claude, covering latency, cost, memory, safety, and evaluation practices.

Matthew Midson from Box noted that the Skills API enabled Box Agent to apply specialized document creation for banking workflows, capturing credit methodology and approved memo formats.

Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital providing quote about Rork pushing barriers to software building in the mobile economy.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on persistent multi-agent environments and adversarial stress testing.

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

President of NABR quoted discussing that NAMs must be validated before replacing animal models and noting limitations of AI in drug development.

Author of "Introducing Claude Chic"

Reporter covering Senator Hawley's expanded investigation into camera networks.

Discussed importance of network visibility and understanding device origins as foundational cybersecurity practices.

Researcher studying how uncensored AI models persist across registries and persist through quantization and mirroring.

Legal scholar arguing that predicting technology's future impact is difficult and historical track records are poor.

Engineering intern who directed Copilot through the process of onboarding new token types

Matthew Zeitlin

Journalist

Journalist

Noted lack of coverage compared to mythos incident, suggesting industry response matters for media attention.

Matthias Bethge

Researcher

Professor of Computational Neuroscience at University of Tübingen

Author of "PostTrainBench" in PostTrainBench Official Site

Co-author on Kumo Relational research.

Business angel investor participating in the pre-seed funding round.

Lead researcher on MIT study finding AI automation spreading broadly across thousands of workplace tasks.

Author of "Selectively reducing eval awareness and murder in Gemma 3 27B via steering" in LessWrong

Co-author of WorldAgents paper investigating 3D capabilities in 2D foundation models.

German AI scientist co-founding Keenable; previously worked with Styskin on web search infrastructure for Alexa.

Matthias Rohmer

Executive

Google

Listed as the author of the article about Chrome DevTools updates

Wandercraft CEO announcing FDA clearance of Eve self-balancing exoskeleton for wheelchair users.

Co-author of research on experimental protocols addressing language barriers in multinational knowledge transfer.

Byline author of paper on theoretical improvements of latent prediction methods.

Discussed Finland's AI infrastructure boom, calling it the 'Texas of Europe' with weekly new inquiries from companies entering market.

Issues Executive Order 658 requiring data centers over 25MW to provide 100% clean energy or pay into ratepayer protection fund.

VP of Learning & Sustainability at Google, quoted describing Guided Learning as a collaborative thinking partner for students.

Maurice Heumann

Engineer

Developer

Used generative AI with seventeen agents working simultaneously to decompile Modern Warfare 2 on PC, achieving playable state before receiving DMCA takedown from Activision.