People in AI

Co-sponsored legislation mandating privacy features in internet-connected baby monitors.

Led research identifying 1,655 Zenodo records attributed to fictional authors created by AI language models.

Lead author studying LLM-generated ghost authors polluting academic databases and scholarly repositories

Co-author of research using AI to reconstruct images from fMRI brain scans through Brain-Inspired Transformer approach.

Researcher who studies dark patterns in AI chatbots and emotional manipulation in AI companions.

Byline author covering Google Colab's Data Explorer integration with Kaggle for dataset and model search.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Author of "AI Will Compromise Your Cybersecurity Posture"

Expert discussing risks of PHP vulnerability exploitation and poor state of internet infrastructure incentivizing speed over maintenance

Michel Aractingi

Researcher

Co-author of the robot learning tutorial paper

Co-author of arXiv systematic review on AI-generated code bugs.

President of motherhood social network app Peanut who noticed moms query chatbots then bring findings to community for verification before trusting AI answers.

Authored the announcement of Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL multimodal reasoning model.

Provided feedback on Naomi Saphra's essay on AI's impact on trust and communication.

Michelle Lim

Engineer

Developer at Stripe

Michelle Lim works at Stripe and conducted an informal benchmark testing how well AI models can build and deploy fully functioning t-shirt stores.

Co-authored the article about Generac's $8 billion deal with Amazon.

Michelle Nguyen is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.

Technology and national security expert discussing loopholes in US chip export controls.

Co-authored research on Multi-Token Prediction optimization for on-device LLM inference on Pixel devices.

Discusses detecting AI-written student work and uses ChatGPT as artistic commentary in her novel

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario on European geopolitical AI competition.

Co-founder of nonprofit tracking identical language across state chatbot bills and Google's lobbying involvement.

Co-author of guide on fine-tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for robot video generation.

Wrote comprehensive comparison article between Claude Code and Cursor for AI-assisted development.

Mihaela Van Der Schaar

Researcher

John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI and Medicine at University of Cambridge; Chief AI Scientist at Francis Crick Institute

Co-author of a paper on amortizing sequential experimental design in reasoning LLMs.

Mihai Lis

Engineer

Head of Engineering at AMP PBC

Head of Engineering at AMP who worked at Google building Borg/GQM scheduler, focused on compute optimization and scheduling infrastructure.

Mihail Eric

Researcher

Stanford researcher at Stanford University

Stanford researcher who demonstrated that the core of Claude Code is 200 lines of Python with three main tools.

CEO cited as reminder that AI is becoming backbone of modern workflows

Used Claude Code to disable bloat apps, replace stock launcher, and add rotating wallpapers to smart TV.

Byline author of article about Sentry's Seer Agent optimization that cut tokens up to 86%.

Mihir Parmar

Researcher

Researcher at Google

Co-author on NEXUS multi-agent time series forecasting framework.

CTO of Remedy Entertainment expressing excitement about bringing games to RTX Spark laptops.

Mikael Wettercrantz posted that Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude over information security concerns.

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on agent containment and security incidents.

Mike Allen

Journalist

Co-Founder at Axios

Byline author of article about SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 launch.

Mike Aragon is president of Integrated Services at Ford and responsible for the new Ford and Lincoln AI assistant launch.

Mike Bidgoli

Executive

Chief Product and Technology Officer at Tubi

Tubi executive announcing the launch of Tubi's native app within ChatGPT for content discovery.

Mike Chambers

Engineer

AWS

Co-author of AWS Velocity Labs release of Strands Decider 2B decision model for agent workflows.

Mike Clifton is co-CEO of Alorica and envisions an AI agent registration system similar to ID.me to validate that bots are associated with authorized persons.

Author of "Stone Roses Tribute Band Delivers Emotional Performance at Shepherd's Bush Empire"

Urban theorist whose 2005 book 'Planet of Slums' chronicled the rise of million-person cities in the developing world and life in global slums.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Co-founder of The Software Toolworks and contributor to program development.

Co-founder of Mixhalo, Incubus guitarist and songwriter, founded the real-time audio startup in 2016.

Discussed how Island created the first Enterprise Browser and expanded into security and governance for AI agents.

American astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.

Developmental psychologist who urged AI researchers to adopt experimental methodologies from developmental psychology.

Co-founded Convogo and joined OpenAI as part of the acqui-hire to work on AI cloud efforts.

Author announcing Apex, a React Native specialized coding model trained for framework-specific engineering work.

CEO of MDA Space announcing acquisition of CLS to create vertically integrated AI-driven Earth observation platform.

Aerospace expert who accompanied Musk to Moscow as an advisor on the second trip to buy missiles.

Stanford researcher at Trustworthy AI Lab who co-identified benchmaxxing practice and examined system card documentation gaps.

Mike Intrator discussed CoreWeave's Q2 earnings and strategy for competing in AI infrastructure.

New York Times reporter who first reported OpenAI's acquisition of Weights.gg startup.

Posted on LinkedIn about consumer AI predictions including device failures and mini-app emergence.

14-year Marine Corps veteran who co-founded Foundation and advocates for deploying humanoid robots in warfare instead of soldiers.

Byline author covering Armadin's Series B funding and agentic security platform.

Mike Liberatore

Executive

xAI

Former CFO of xAI who left the company in July.

Iconic Silicon Valley investor and Floodgate cofounder with early investments in Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft, interviewed about AI startup investing strategy.

Mike Mignano

Founder

Cofounder at Oboe

Former Spotify exec who ran Spotify's podcast team and cofounded Oboe with Nir Zicherman.

Introduced Drew Breunig to Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework.

Mike Schaekermann

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author reporting on Google's medical AI system AMIE's evolution toward disease management.

Former Chair of Executive Committee of Sidley Austin; chairs Norm Law, the AI-native law firm built on Norm Ai platform.

Promoted to CEO from President of Oracle Industries, where his engineering teams pioneered intent-based application generation and added sophisticated AI Agents to industry application suites including healthcare, banking, and retail.

Mike Solana

Journalist

Founder, Editor-in-Chief at Pirate Wires

Provided analysis of why Jacob Coxon's resignation resonated with the public, relating to the preference cascade.

Mike Speiser

Executive

Reve

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

Author of "Google Chrome"

Byline author reporting on AstroForge's plans for fully autonomous space missions using AI.

Mike Whitaker

Creator

Navigating AI Transitions with Whit

Author of "Back to School with AI: The Clarity Crisis" in Navigating AI Transitions with Whit

Transitioned from theoretical physics postdoc to full-time AI alignment work.

CEO of Vesta who stated that demand for the product has exploded and revenue is up 12x year over year, with the company focusing on AI agents for mortgage origination.

Mikhail Shapiro

Founder

Co-founder at Merge Labs

Co-founder of Merge Labs who has pioneered new approaches to brain-computer interfaces.

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior.

CEO of Sceye who oversaw stratospheric platform's record-breaking trans-Pacific flight demonstrating HAPS connectivity and edge computing as future infrastructure for 6G.

Blind journalist who wrote about her experiences using vision-language models as virtual mirrors and the psychological impact on blind users.

Leading the Data Workers' Inquiry project investigating labor conditions in AI data work globally.

Milan Kovac

Investor

Tesla

Angel investor in Prime Intellect's $130M Series A round for open superintelligence stack.

Stated BMW is determining applications for humanoid robots in production and wants to accompany the technology from development to industrialization.

Sat on the Ninth Circuit panel hearing arguments in Perplexity v. Amazon AI agent legal dispute.

Co-authored a blog post on Google Developers Blog about on-device function calling in Google AI Edge Gallery.

Miles Clements

Investor

Partner at Accel

Accel investor with nearly $1 billion invested in Anthropic commenting on customers not needing frontier models.

Co-author of Walrus, contributing to the development of a cross-domain foundation model for physical simulations.

Miles Wang

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher leaving to launch $2 billion AI drug discovery startup focused on finding new uses for FDA-approved drugs.

Author of "ByteDance's Robot Learns with Language and Video" in ByteDance

Min Kim authored the announcement of ElevenLabs' Eleven Realtime Mini and Max speech-to-speech models.

Co-author on the REER research paper

Minbeom Kim

Researcher

PhD Candidate and Student Researcher at Google at Seoul National University

Co-authored CausalArmor, a defense framework against indirect prompt injection attacks on AI agents.

Minda Smiley

Researcher

Senior Analyst at Emarketer

Senior analyst discusses Meta's AI spending efficiency and revenue impact from AI-driven advertising investments.

Author of "Neuroscientists Create First Full-Brain Map of Decision-Making"

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of ancient Chinese guqin music.

Ming Zhang is a co-author on Google's research on random masking for LLM optimization.

Byline author for Hugging Face paper on Lucida, a real-to-sim scene modeling framework for robotics.

Lead author of MemEye framework paper on multimodal agent memory evaluation.

Mingkai Deng

Researcher

Co-author of the paper on critiques of world models

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author on the visual generation and multimodal world models research paper.

Lead author of PageIndex's research paper on vectorless, reasoning-based RAG achieving 98.7% accuracy on financial documents.

Mingyu Ding

Researcher

Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Co-author of EvolveMem paper on self-evolving memory architecture for LLM agents.

Co-author of research on Generative Recursive Reasoning models.

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

Co-author of D-OPSD paper on on-policy self-distillation for step-distilled diffusion models.

Minh Le

Researcher

Anthropic

Contributing author to Anthropic's research on reducing agentic misalignment in Claude through improved safety training.

Minna Song is co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, which raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation for AI automation of administrative and operational work.

Co-author of research on recursive language models meeting uncertainty for long context.

Co-author of research on Generative Recursive Reasoning models.

Reported on Chinese AI labs' continued reliance on Nvidia chips due to high switching costs to domestic alternatives.

Co-authored research on the Platonic Representation Hypothesis showing AI models converge on shared internal representations.

Co-author of UNU-INWEH environmental impact report; manages geospatial analysis of data center locations and water stress overlap.

Mirac Suzgun

Researcher

Researcher

Conducted a 14-day evaluation of six AI chatbots on factual news retrieval across 2,100 questions in six languages, finding retrieval failures drive over 70% of errors.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference for large language models as part of the RESI program.

Lead author of UNU-INWEH report on environmental costs of AI; conducted research on carbon, water and land footprints of data centers.

Helped originate the economic scenarios project.

Co-authored joint statement warning about crossing a moral red line on autonomous targeting of humans by machines.

Journalist reporting on TrustFall vulnerability research showing flaws in AI coding agents' trust handling.

MLPerf Inference co-chair who explained the addition of End-to-end RAG and Edge Agentic Inference tests to reflect real-world production AI systems.

Contributor to Nomos 1 model development

Demonstrated vulnerabilities in lidar sensors, showing how malware can create phantom objects or remove real objects from sensor views.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored mathematical paper on plasma equilibria and counterexamples to Grad's conjecture.

Previous CEO whom Laura Chambers replaced in early 2024.

Co-author of G-AUDIT bias detection tool research for medical AI datasets.

Oversaw strategy and finance at CRED since 2020; taking over as interim CEO after Kunal Shah steps down.

Mitesh Patel

Researcher

Researcher at Hugging Face

Co-authored overview of simulation engines for physical AI systems.

Mithil Roshan

Researcher

Researcher at Google Research

Co-authored Google Research paper testing security hardening effectiveness in multi-agent coding systems.

Researcher who trained a small transformer from scratch in 1.5 hours and achieved 44% on ARC-AGI-1, focusing on sample efficiency in AI.

Miwa Blumer

Journalist

Byline Author at OpenAI

Byline author reporting on OpenAI's apology in Australia over the Medicare breach.

Co-author of BanglaKontho dataset release for underserved Bangla language speech synthesis.

Discussed how CEOs are redesigning organizations to bring together people and technology for AI transformation.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent containment research.

University named after him is cited as a talent development initiative in UAE's AI healthcare strategy.

Stated at Davos that 2026 is a decisive year for AI with small group of companies turning AI into measurable returns.

Technology entrepreneur and founder of CNTXT AI; also founded LocAI (acquired by AI71) and SMPL AI fund for early-stage AI startups.

Asadi led research on MIRAGE, a method revealing that multimodal AI models maintain 70-80% accuracy even when image inputs are completely removed.

Mohammad Bavarian

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Corresponding author who built LLM-powered digital twin framework for detecting cognitive decline in elderly patients.

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

Co-authored G-AUDIT tool for detecting spurious correlations in medical AI.

Mohammadreza Salehi

Researcher

Researcher at Allen Institute for AI

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Author of "First Proof" on arXiv

CEO of Bitzero who designed the company's infrastructure-first business model for AI data centers in Nordic regions.

Saudi Arabia's crown prince with whom Altman sought tens of billions in investment and joined the Neom advisory board until the Khashoggi killing became clear.

Discussed how open-source models like Kimi K3 change calculations for governments investing in sovereign AI systems.

Mohanjit Jolly

Investor

Co-founder and Partner at Iron Pillar

Iron Pillar investor backing Freehand, emphasizing autonomous agents versus copilots as differentiator.

Wrote article about Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B model matching DeepSeek-R1 on math benchmarks while using minimal parameters.

Byline co-author on Pew Research survey about AI and economic inequality concerns.

Mojdeh Rastgoo-Lemaitre oversaw the project using Microsoft Discovery to assemble a knowledge base from 106,000 patents and abstracts in hours, then develop cement-additive hypotheses in six weeks.

Senior author and associate professor who discussed the sustainability motivation for battery-free devices in IoT applications.

World-class Go player quoted remarking about AlphaGo feeling like playing against an alien

Co-author of research on using GFlowNets for fine-tuning LLMs via diversity-seeking reinforcement learning.

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

Author of "Elvis Presley Passed Away"

Molly Kinder

Researcher

Economist at Brookings

Wrote essay on 'Messy Middle' scenario where automation creates job displacement without sufficient wealth creation for redistribution.

Byline author of explainer article on world models and how they work.

Byline author of article on New York's data center moratorium signed by Governor Hochul.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent security work.

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security and CTO/CIO of Snyk.

Mona Schirmer

Researcher

Researcher who authored paper on online safety monitoring for LLMs using simplified thresholding approach.

Brother of Chonthirat who transported her 300 miles to the temple for cremation after being told she had died by local officials.

Shared insights on customer success practices at Lovable, including renaming CS roles and building custom CS tools; leading fastest company to $400M.

Monica Phang

Engineer

Student at Boston Consulting Group

Developed a GPT that builds character sheets for roleplaying games

Provided visual design and art direction for the scenario explorer.

Co-authored research on automated safety testing using Claude to find training data that evades monitors while inducing misalignment.

Confirmed Wayfair's participation in OpenAI's Sponsored Agent pilot to explore conversational commerce with branded AI agents.

Testified on behalf of OpenAI at NYC Council hearing about AI safety measures and potential dangers.

Country music artist leading Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, used as comparison point to Breaking Rust.

Co-authored article on Claude Code team's code review process

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

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security and financial systems.

Moritz Stephan

Engineer

Chief of Staff at Cognition

Engineer who serves as Scott Wu's chief of staff, joined Cognition after seeing Devin build Conway's Game of Life from scratch as a Stanford undergraduate.

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Morteza Mardani

Researcher

Principal Scientist at NVIDIA Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) and Visiting Researcher at Stanford University at NVIDIA

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

Introduced GIST, a novel algorithm for selecting high-quality data subsets that maximizes both data diversity and data utility.

Philosopher and educator whose 1940 book 'How to Read a Book' provided philosophical framework for understanding deeper reading.

Co-author of Deep Neural Lesion research on neural network vulnerability to bit flips.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Byline co-author on Cosmos-H-Dreams surgical world modeling system.

Mostofa Patwary

Researcher

Author at NVIDIA

Co-authored Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Motoi Ishibashi

Engineer

Rhizomatiks

Co-developer of the fencing tracking and visualization system using AR and deep learning.

Led research tracking 150 generative AI-remixed extremist videos from 71 TikTok accounts totaling 5.4 million views.

Author of "800K+ Verifiable SWE Tasks" on arXiv

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview latent-space model.

Creator of Confer, an encrypted AI chat platform built on open-weight models; partnering with Meta to integrate end-to-end encryption into Meta AI.

Self-confessed AI-enthusiast and co-founder of Hubspot who owns the most expensive .ai domain you.ai and discusses his domain purchase philosophy

Co-author of MemEye framework for multimodal agent memory evaluation.

Co-author of MatrAIx research on persona-driven AI agents for evaluation.

Muhammad Anees

Creator

Research Fellow at Esophageal and Lung Institute

Author of "Customer Service Systems Optimize for Deflection Rate"

Muhammad Zuhair

Journalist

WCCFtech

Author of "NVIDIA Shatters MoE AI Performance Records With a Massive 10x Leap on GB200 'Blackwell' NVL72 Server" in WCCFtech

Mukhtar Wafayee

Journalist

Journalist at The Independent

Author of "The Afghan girls building robots at home after Taliban education ban" in The Independent

Mukund Jha

Founder

Founder & CEO at Emergent Labs

CEO of Emergent quoted on the democratization of software development through agentic AI platforms.

Seoul cybersecurity analytics firm executive who warned that cybersecurity attacks powered by AI agents have been increasing in South Korea.

Unveiled Purdue's comprehensive AI strategy and introduced an AI working competency graduation requirement for all undergraduate students.

Researcher using computational approaches to understand the role of online technologies in shaping and improving mental health.

Murad Salikhov

Journalist

Co-Founder and Investor at Schwarzwald Capital

Byline author analyzing why the AI layoff narrative in fintech is missing the real structural story.

Murat Bicer

Investor

General Partner at CRV

General Partner at CRV who co-led the $49M seed round for Standard Template Labs alongside ICONIQ.

Murat Demirbas

Researcher

Principal Research Scientist at MongoDB Research

Argued that multi-agent systems do not escape Brooks's law.

Advisory committee member on Quantum's Infinite Game project with expertise in quantum machine learning and quantum control.

Shifting focus to Microsoft's proprietary models and pursuit of superintelligence after Copilot reorganization.

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.