People in AI

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Minerva Humanoids robotics company.

Discussed Waymo Driver's superior safety performance compared to human drivers in insurance claims study.

Stated that Eve defaults to 1M context for plaintiff attorney work, enabling cross-referencing of long documents and case files.

Author of Stop the Machines book on anti-technology extremism, whose lecture is circulating in fusion centers.

Researcher who contributed to Flow Reasoning Models paper on structured reasoning for AI.

Lead vocalist whose name inspired the fictional character Mavis Beacon.

Author of "Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI's top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say"

Max Brodeur-Urbas

Founder

CEO at Gumloop

CEO and founder of Gumloop who announced the company's $50 million Series B funding for AI automation platform.

Using Gemini Embedding 2 to help legal professionals find critical information during litigation discovery, improving precision and recall across millions of records.

Max Friar

Creator

Managing Partner at Calder Capital

Author of "Owner Dependency Doesn't Just Reduce Your Multiple"

Max Harley

Researcher

Aiken County Public School District

Author of "LOLMIL: Living Off the Land Models and Inference Libraries"

Former Neuralink co-founder and current Science Corporation CEO announced the company's implantation of vision-restoring chip PRIMA in first patient with Stargardt disease.

Max Kleiman-Weiner

Researcher

Prof at University of Washington at University of Washington

Co-author of MIT research on AI sycophancy and delusional spiraling.

Max Leiter

Creator

Claude Code @ Anthropic at Anthropic

Author of "You Should Be Rewriting Your Prompts" in Max Leiter's Blog

Argued that AI is effectively raising humanity's average IQ and boosting brainpower for anyone online.

Researcher at ElevenLabs who worked on Cue, the forced alignment model for audio alignment.

Said 'I probably spend more than my salary on Claude' demonstrating tokenmaxxing behavior among AI-obsessed workers.

Co-author of research on interpretability protocols for language model post-training

Lead author of Anthropic's engineering article on containing Claude agents and security failures during evaluations.

German robotics team member discussing the value of competition for testing new approaches in robot development.

Max Schwendner is co-CEO of Alorica and discussed challenges in managing AI agent calls and potential solutions like agent registration systems.

Co-authored a 472-page open-source textbook on agentic large language models.

Co-author of Google blog post on AI-powered contrail avoidance trials in Asia-Pacific.

Max Woolf

Creator

Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed

Author of "Nano Banana Can Be Prompt Engineered For Extremely Nuanced AI Image Generation" in minimaxir.com

Maxence Faldor

Journalist

Journalist at Hugging Face

Byline reporting on Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon agents completing Minecraft survival challenge.

Fields Medal winner (1998) among prominent mathematicians warning about AI's destructive potential if misapplied to mathematical discovery.

Speaking on how financial institutions approach AI operations with emphasis on regulatory compliance and trust.

Maxime Doussin authored an article about Google's integration of Reddit and forum discussions into its AI search results.

Byline author covering Liquid AI's efficient long-context encoders for CPU deployment.

Author of "Claude Opus 4.6 Ships with Agent Teams"

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs.

Maximilian Schons

Creator

Self-employed

Author of "Building Brains on a Computer" in Asimov Press

Proposes pairing SKILL.md files with PITFALLS.md files to help AI coding tools avoid repeating mistakes across sessions.

Ruled in March that Amazon is likely to succeed in its Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim against Perplexity's Comet.

Author reporting on Agentic Resource Discovery protocol proposed by Google, Microsoft, Cisco and others.

Plastic surgeon whose 1960 observation about 21-day recovery became the origin of the popular habit formation myth.

CEO of Writer who launched the new flagship model Palmyra X6 aimed at reducing AI deployment costs for customers.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent containment research.

Noted that Claude's 1M context window allows production systems to maintain full visibility of complex incidents without compaction or loss of nuance.

Discussed Indian enterprises moving from AI experimentation to business outcomes and data architecture modernization.

Franklin reported on Martin Scorsese joining Black Forest Labs as advisor on FLUX technology.

McLaren Stanley

Engineer

Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Stores

Leads 70-person team modernizing 17 years of code for Amazon's mobile shopping app using AI agents.

McNair Shah

Researcher

Research Fellow at Anthropic

Co-author of Anthropic research on self-propagating ideas in multi-agent LLM systems and their spread factors.

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

Lead author of comprehensive review on AI in healthcare covering diagnostics, treatment personalization, and challenges.

Medha Singh

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Co-byline author of article about trillion-dollar IPO filings for SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Warned that the UK financial system is not prepared for a major AI-related incident and criticized regulators for taking a wait-and-see approach to AI risks.

Author of article analyzing GPU collateral valuation and AI infrastructure financing risks.

Co-author of the article announcing Kaggle Game Arena

Former product marketing lead at Brex who discusses interview questions for assessing AI curiosity in candidates

Author of "Microsoft's Power Problem: AI Chips Are Sitting in Inventory" in Data Centre Magazine

Megan Cassella

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Co-authored article about White House meeting with AI companies on cybersecurity framework.

Megan McArdle

Journalist

Columnist at Washington Post

Described using AI for research, transcription, brainstorming, fact-checking, and editing in her journalism workflow.

Megan Morrone

Journalist

Journalist at Axios

Reported on Sunfish's AI-powered egg-freezing program that predicts fertility treatment costs and outcomes.

Meghan Dorn

Policy

In-house Lobbyist at OpenAI

Former staffer for Senator Lindsey Graham who joined OpenAI in October to lead government lobbying efforts.

Mehdi Bennani

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

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

Mehmet yilmaz

Creator

Author of "The Barbell of Software Value"

Author of "By 2026, AI video models are expected to be production-grade"

Nariyawala discussed Matic's new voice-first approach and plans to run AI models locally on the robot's hardware.

Co-researcher on MIT study of AI task automation across workforce.

Co-introduced the Titans architecture and MIRAS framework for helping AI models have long-term memory.

Author of the paper 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Problems in Additive Number Theory' whose problems were tested by ChatGPT 5.5 Pro.

Opposition politician criticizing government's economic performance and growth claims

Defended McDonald's AI-generated Christmas advert that took seven weeks to produce using generative AI.

Quoted on why young people are skeptical of AI being pushed by adults and tech corporations.

CEO of Nairobi-based financing company who tested both American and Chinese AI models internally.

Proposes treating AI as alien intelligence and adapting methods from developmental psychology to evaluate AI cognition; outlines six principles for better AI assessment.

Conducted a hackathon study examining how different types of AI assistance affect team creativity.

Educator leader supporting Governor Hochul's efforts to protect kids from harmful AI technology.

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model project.

Melis Anahtar

Researcher

Former Postdoc at MIT

Lead author of study using generative AI to design novel antibiotics.

Author of "The New Ethical Implications of Gen AI" in tec.mx

Melissa Heikkilä

Journalist

MIT Technology Review

Author of "DeepMind's New Lab Changes The Game"

Co-authored article on the EU's AI Act implementation challenges two years after its agreement.

Melissa Keogh

Executive

Communications Officer at University of South Australia

Listed as media contact for the article

Byline author of article on rural NY school using humanoid robot Sally in classroom for teaching assistance.

Author of "GitHub's Tutorial on Using Copilot to Improve Code Reviews"

Melissa Repko

Journalist

CNBC

Author of "Walmart Teams Up With OpenAI to Allow Purchases Directly in ChatGPT" in CNBC

Melody Guan

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-authored OpenAI Alignment post on complementary metrics for monitorability and monitoring AI systems.

Created Grok Bot Activity Dashboard for tracking bot activities, progress, and status.

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

Mengting Gu

Researcher

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Author of 'Artificial Unintelligence' who commented on the growing AI backlash and negative attitudes toward generative AI.

Meredith Ringel Morris

Researcher

Author of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" on arXiv

Expert in DMCA law who commented on Google and Reddit's legal strategies against AI scraping.

Merlijn Vos

Other

Core Maintainer at uppy

Open-source maintainer who worked with FrontierCode team on evaluating code mergeability and quality standards.

Merlyn Thomas

Journalist

BBC Verify Correspondent at BBC

Co-author of BBC Verify report on risks of Google's Earth AI image generator and misinformation potential.

Quoted discussing Checkout.com's support for AP2 in reshaping agentic commerce

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Merrill Lutsky

Founder

Co-founder at Graphite

Co-founded Graphite, a startup using AI to review and debug code that was acquired by Cursor.

Former AWS deputy CISO warning that MCP and AI framework security failures will feel like traditional security failures rather than AI problems.

Reported huge uptick in interest from data centers for Spot quadruped robots in the last year, with pricing ranging from $175,000 to $300,000.

Journalist provided detailed analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 announcement, noting the lack of published benchmarks and comparing to predecessor Qwen3.7-Max.

Co-authored study on AI coding productivity gains and downstream bottlenecks in software development process.

Researcher on media, body image, and disabilities, discussing limitations of AI in understanding multidimensional body image.

Author of "AI Unity Lasted Minutes"

Stated that the government views non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights and announced blocking access to Grok.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Micah Janke

Other

User who quoted the OpenAI announcement and provided feedback requesting the branch conversations feature

Micah Zoltu

Researcher

Security Expert at Serv.eth Support

Provided assistance and advice on Vitalik's local AI security setup.

Appointed VP and CFO of The Timken Company with 25 years of experience at the organization

Co-authored paper on reasoning architecture for large language models inspired by AlphaGo.

Michael Acton

Journalist

Correspondent at Financial Times

Reported on OpenAI's hardware device project with Jony Ive facing technical challenges.

SCE senior engineer discussing the utility's grid monitoring platform using AI algorithms.

Presented AgentFlayer family of zero-click hijacks affecting agents from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Salesforce at Black Hat USA 2025.

Author of "Your Food Wasn't Late. It Was AI-Delivered"

Michael Birtwisle gave evidence at a UK parliamentary inquiry about facial recognition and discusses limitations of UK trial data for Australian deployment.

Discussed how developers and deployers of AI agents are only actors capable of holding responsibility for their actions.

Michael Blau

Founder

Founder at Dripstack

Built Dripstack, a micropayment system for AI agents to pay content creators using stablecoins.

Michael Bleigh

Other

engineering lead at Google

Author of "Context Engineering Is Sleeping on the Humble Hyperlink"

Partner at Quiet Capital leading the Series A round and joining Orchard's board; quoted on the company providing 'ground truth' for agriculture.

Author of the research paper on theoretical limitations of embedding-based retrieval

HP executive discussing the company's AI PC strategy, projection that AI PCs will reach 50% of shipments by year-end, and partnerships with Wubble AI.

Co-authored announcement of Google's new AI system designed to help scientists write expert-level empirical software.

Discussed Lionsgate's strategic collaboration with Runway to expand storytelling capabilities using AI technology.

92-year-old British actor joining ElevenLabs' Iconic Voice Marketplace, allowing companies to license his AI-generated voice for projects

Clinical development expert who joined Enveda from Madrigal Pharmaceuticals to lead development of AI-discovered drug candidates.

Co-founded Ollama; helped build largest developer network in open model ecosystem.

Michael Chui

Researcher

Senior Fellow at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey at McKinsey

Co-authored research on the state of AI showing how organizations are rewiring to capture value from gen AI through structural and process changes.

Clarified details about JadePuffer agentic ransomware attack, explaining human involvement in setup versus technical execution.

Confirmed Microsoft's continued partnership with OpenAI while the company diversifies its AI partnerships to include Anthropic.

Chairman and CEO of Dell describing RTX Spark-powered XPS 16 Creator Edition laptops.

Michael Douglas is part of the external collaboration group shepherding OpenAI's quantum field theory result on Yang-Mills existence.

Michael Dubakov

Creator

Founder at Fibery

Author of "Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World"

Leading Eyes-On project developing computer vision system to continuously detect tracheostomy tube displacement and distress in infants.

Michael Elabd

Founder

Co-Founder at Trajectory

Co-founder of Trajectory, a startup building continual learning platform for AI systems that improve from real-world experience.

Michael Feathers

Engineer

Software Developer at R7K Research & Conveyance

Coined the term 'characterization testing' in his book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code'

5x Grammy nominated singer and pianist known for Great American Songbook participating in the project

Michael Field

Other

Chief Equity Market Strategist EMEA at Morningstar

Field analyzed tech companies' shift to public markets, noting Anthropic and Alphabet's capital raises for AI competition.

Michael Fine

Executive

Head of Machine Learning at Exa

Head of machine learning at Exa; discusses using Chinese open models as cheaper and faster alternative to closed U.S. models like GPT-5 and Gemini.

Film and television effects specialist who created the film's visual effects and computer animation

Running ClawCons around the country organizing meetups for developers and non-technical users interested in OpenClaw agent technology.

Gerlich conducted a study finding a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities.

Michaël Gharbi

Engineer

Reve

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

COO expressing enthusiasm about partnership with Anthropic providing educators access to Claude and feedback opportunities.

Co-author of the BCG study on AI ROI and value generation

Author of "When Coca-Cola Used AI to Make Their Christmas Ad"

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Quoted discussing Unsloth's use of Transformers for fine-tuning and training models efficiently.

Author of comprehensive technical guide explaining how prompt caching works across different LLM providers and optimization strategies.

Blogger who documented Peter Scholze's quote on the importance of definitions in mathematics.

Michael Helcig

Researcher

PhD Student / Researcher

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs and RCO model compression research.

Co-founder of Rescue Air who built a business, ran a PE partnership process drawing 20+ offers, and was one of the first operators to deploy AI across their front office.

Co-authored Anthropic's Project Fetch report on Claude's performance with robotic tasks.

Michael Isaac, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, implemented Flex for DSPy during his internship at cmpnd and authored the guest post introducing the module.

Co-author of GPIC paper on a giant permissive image corpus for visual generation model training.

Co-author of article on AI benchmarks and benchmaxxing problems in model evaluation.

Michael Kirchhof

Researcher

Research Scientist at Apple

Co-authored research on semantic calibration emergence in LLMs.

CricViz managing director describing the partnership as providing NZC with advanced analytical tools and long-term value.

Founder of SPAC merging with Agility Robotics in $2.5 billion deal

Announced Criteo as the first advertising technology partner integrating with OpenAI's advertising pilot in ChatGPT.

Michael Krigsman

Creator

Host, CXOTalk at CXOTalk

Host of CXOTalk episode featuring Andy Baldwin on CIO AI agenda and enterprise AI governance.

Author of "KernelEvolve: Scaling Agentic Kernel Coding for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators at" on arXiv

Michael Larabel

Journalist

Phoronix

Author of "Intel Announces "Crescent Island" Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card With 160GB vRAM" in Phoronix

Authored ABI Research report on Toyota's O-Beya implementation, noting staff responsibility for validating AI responses.

Discussed somatic mutations as high-hanging fruit in geroscience and priorities for aging research interventions.

Michael Levan

Creator

Principal AI Architect at solo.io

Author of "Multiplexing MCP Servers For Agentic Specialization"

Michael Liedtke

Other

Author of "This Gmail Update Is Bigger Than It Looks"

Co-author of KronLSTM paper on memory-revision mechanisms for long-context linear attention architectures.

Author of "USC research warns" in USC

Author who reverse-engineered Claude's generative UI implementation and built terminal version using Glimpse.

Michael Luo

Engineer

ML Engineer at Together AI

Trained the DeepSWE RL model, developed Kubernetes wrapper for R2E-Gym, and implemented agent/environment abstractions for rLLM.

Lead author of Walrus, a transformer-based foundation model for simulating fluids, liquids, and gases across diverse physical systems.

Co-led negotiations resulting in agreement to ban nudification apps and AI-generated child sexual abuse material while simplifying AI Act compliance.

Called for media to present a united front against platforms and AI companies seeking content for free.

Announced National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for schools with Microsoft and AFT.

Michael Nicolls

Executive

President at xAI

xAI president who sent memo to staff about the company's model FLOPs Utilization being at 11% and aiming to reach 50%.

Michael Noukhovitch

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Author of paper on RL for LLMs introducing the Matthew Effect and Never Give Up method.

Michael Obradovitch, VP at Ecolab, commented on alternative water sources being used to cool AI data centers in response to environmental concerns.

Co-author of 2013 study measuring job susceptibility to computerization, methodology used by Forrester

Michael Poli

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-author of GPIC paper on a giant permissive image corpus for visual generation model training.

Lead technologist for EUV light sources, discusses the new 1,000-watt system capability and future potential to reach 1,500-2,000 watts.

High-profile researcher from Meta who joined AMI Labs as VP of world models.

Used Fable 5 to one-shot a clean interactive architecture diagram as pure SVG and HTML after the model read an OpenAPI spec.

Co-developed Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) for voice search that bypasses text transcription.

Michael Robbins

Executive

President & CEO at AUVSI

Noted that Hesai's firmware update in 2024 failed to account for leap year, causing all sensors to stop working.

Michael Santoli

Journalist

Commentator at CNBC

Commentator discussed software sector's 30% value loss due to AI spending concerns.

Michael Saylor

Executive

Founder and CEO at MicroStrategy

Billionaire entrepreneur who claims he used ChatGPT to help his company make $15 billion, advising people to use AI to solve new problems rather than automating existing tasks.

Thanked for reviewing the code review article

Byline author of article about Perplexity's Personal Computer AI agent running on Mac mini servers.

Nobel laureate from NYU who called for an all hands on deck approach to prepare for AI's economic transformation.

Co-author of the article on AI productivity advances

Byline author and host of podcast discussing portable AI workflows and platform-agnostic AI setup strategies.

Studied multi-turn jailbreaks of AI models, explaining how conversations can become attack surfaces for progressive manipulation.

Published letter advising engineers to learn AI and stay close to customers as part of Amazon's rethinking software development for the AI era.

Conservative policy analyst critiquing David Sacks's aggressive AI preemption policy approach as politically damaging.

Michael Tschannen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored research with Jon Barron on bugs in softmax and cross-entropy implementations.

Co-authored research on Cheminformatics Skills for agents to solve chemistry problems.

Co-authored the TorchTPU engineering blog post on TPU-PyTorch integration.

Identified five AI trade-offs for balancing predictions with interpretability in high-stakes applications.

Michael Wall

Creator

Founder, Solo Music Business at Solo Music Business

Author of detailed account of using ChatGPT Pro as a first hire in his solo music composition and licensing business.

Author of "General Motors Brings AI to Your Vehicle" in General Motors

Army's top enlisted advisor saying experimentation phase is over and service must make decisions on technology priorities.

Author of the research paper on theoretical limitations of embedding-based retrieval

CEO addressed TCO performance, pipeline issues, growth opportunities in Iraq, Venezuela, and the Permian, and discussed AI applications in exploration and operations.

Senior author of research on humanoid robots performing surgery; discussed potential for remotely operated robots to address healthcare shortages.

Founder of clinical-trials startup Lindus discussing TechBio disruption and patent analysis in drug discovery.

Michaela Hinks

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at FutureHouse

Co-author of the Kosmos AI Scientist technical report for autonomous discovery.

Anti-racism coordinator discusses normalisation of hatred and racism in Europe.