People in AI

Plans to introduce humanoid robot to building site by year-end to address housing crisis and achieve 24/7 production.

NielsRogge

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Reproduced the weight space programming paper with ML Intern, an open-source AI-research harness, and released the model and a demo.

Stanford Medical School professor who pioneered end-of-life prediction research using deep learning on longitudinal patient datasets.

Stated that AI will help creativity by enabling people to overcome writer's block and get started on creative projects.

Byline author on AI's execution problem and difficulty translating intelligence into business outcomes.

Quoted discussing BHN's role in shaping AP2 for autonomous commerce with stored value

Nik Sharma

Founder

Co-founder at BioCorteX

BioCorteX co-founder noting lots of AI activity and hyperscalers moving into King's Cross.

Palo Alto Networks CEO warning that token efficiency and pricing must drop significantly to enable large-scale AI adoption.

Commented on AI reshaping how we learn and work with its rapid pace of disruption.

Author of "Anthropic's IPO"

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Technology analyst noting the broad challenges OpenAI faces in improving financial fundamentals ahead of IPO.

Nikhil Mulani

Founder

Founder at Augur

Nikhil Mulani transitioned from product management to AI policy at CISA and founded Augur, a research organization focused on AI supply chain security.

Nikhila Ravi

Researcher

AI Research Director at Meta

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

Working on AI imaging techniques to detect defects in semiconductor chips during manufacturing.

Nikhyl Singhal

Journalist

Newsletter Writer

Wrote about how hiring advice for AI roles has changed; conducted interviews with recent executives who switched AI roles.

Discussed automating traveler support and reducing wait times through Ace AI agent deployment.

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

Nikil Thalapaneni is a member of the Maya Research team that created Maya-2 multilingual voice model.

Nikita Dolgov

Engineer

JetBrains

Nikita Dolgov is listed as Pavlichenko in the byline; they are a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report.

Nikita Nekrasov, winner of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 2023, is part of the collaboration group for OpenAI's Yang-Mills existence proof.

Study co-author who commented on how well the Surgie robot integrated with surgical workflow.

Provided visual design and art direction for the scenario explorer.

Widely credited for coining the term 'meat proxy' to describe people who blindly copy-paste AI chatbot output without editing.

Disclosed that Spotify engineers run 5 to 10 Claude sessions simultaneously and 73% of pull requests are AI-assisted.

Created CorridorKey, an open-source neural network for perfect green screen keys.

Author of the article analyzing agent labs and their competitive advantages over model labs

Nikola Jurkovic

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at METR

Asked clarifying questions about Sol's role in the post-training process for Luna.

Co-authored study showing AI Overviews now trigger for 90% of commercial search queries.

AI product lead at Jellyfish who discussed Anthropic's competitive position and adoption of Claude Code.

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

Byline author of LA Times investigation into Hollywood's quiet AI adoption through job postings analysis.

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

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

Nima Owji

Creator

independent app researcher and full-stack web developer

Author of "Grok is Working on Background Thinking" in X

Led a $25 million investment in Quilter, an AI company that develops software for printed circuit boards, and discussed the challenges of predicting OpenAI's competitive moves.

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of language properties in animal communication.

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Optical engineer whose winning entry in Nikon's Small World in Motion contest was disqualified for using generative AI in post-processing.

Nino Scherrer

Researcher

Researcher at FAR.AI

Co-authored research on societies of thought in reasoning models and mechanistic interpretability.

Co-author of paper on ethics of AI sycophancy and how chatbots prioritizing approval over factual accuracy harms users.

Niraj K Jha is a researcher at Princeton University who co-authored a paper analyzing energy consumption and sustainability of generative AI systems.

Co-author of Google Cloud blog announcing Agent Compute Engine at AGNTCon.

Nishtha Bhatia

Engineer

Product Lead at Google

Google product lead for AI & Glasses who demoed Android XR audio glasses ordering coffee via Gemini at Google I/O 2026.

Meta spokesperson who provided statement about shifting investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables.

Nitay Calderon

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google

Lead author on Empty Shelves or Lost Keys paper studying recall as bottleneck for factuality in LLMs.

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

Author of "The democratization of AI is accelerating through No-Code Agent platforms"

Nitin Agrawal discussed CoreWeave's pricing, margins, and financial strategy during earnings.

Nitin Jayakrishnan

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Freehand

CEO of Freehand AI agent platform for supply chain spend management, previously founded and sold Pando logistics platform.

Nitya Nadgir

Researcher

AI policy researcher at The Brookings Institution

Nitya Nadgir is a co-author of CORE-Bench research on computational reproducibility agents.

Author of "Learn Your Way: Google's AI-Powered Interactive Textbooks" in Google Blog

Amsel authored research on Dion3, an optimizer that reduces training step time by 6x over Muon.

Wrote article about OpenAI and Synopsys co-developing GPT-Synopsys model for semiconductor design.

Attached to star in the upcoming Rambo origin film set during the Vietnam War.

AI finance startup tech chief explaining competitive intelligence among major model developers.

Former MIT visiting student co-developing dual-arm adaptive therapy robot using diffusion models and force feedback.

Noah MacCallum

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Co-authored the Codex Prompting Guide for OpenAI's developer documentation.

PostgreSQL developer praising OSS Scanner for finding defects and providing nearly usable fixes.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Noah Shutty worked with Craig Gidney on the 'magic state cultivation' breakthrough for quantum computing.

Author of the article on AI-Driven FP&A Platforms

Co-author of Joints, Camera, Action! system for co-generating 3D motion and video from text.

Noam Schwartz

Executive

CEO at Alice

Explained the security challenges AI agents face when given tools, credentials, and autonomous action capabilities.

Co-authored survey on tech worker sentiment regarding AI adoption and workplace impacts.

Founded Rasa Legal to use AI to speed up criminal record expungement, reducing processing time from 10-12 hours to about five hours.

Community practitioner from Rad Collab who created /rad-spacing skill for applying hierarchical spacing with variables.

First human recipient of Neuralink's Telepathy brain implant in the PRIME clinical trial.

Noorie Dhingra

Founder

Co-founder at Shapes

Co-founded Shapes app that launched with $8 million seed funding to address isolated AI interactions.

MIT mathematician who wrote about cybernetics, machine learning, and the risks of automated systems that transcend human understanding.

Co-author of OpenLife paper studying autonomous LLM agents in the open internet.

Contributed significantly to the development of the Mavis Beacon program.

CEO of Martin Marietta who named the 1993 consolidation meeting 'the Last Supper'

Nostalgebraist

Researcher

AI researcher

Writes mini-essay noting frontier coding agents still make constant basic blunders despite benchmark improvements.

Nouriel Roubini

Other

Economist and strategist

Top economist predicted 2008 financial crash; discusses AI's economic potential and need for universal basic income as AI displaces workers.

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

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

Nura Izath

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of PLOS study examining evidence gaps in FDA-cleared AI medical devices.

Collaborated with Dwarkesh Patel on the investigation of OpenAI's AI agent civilizations.

Co-author on Factory's Droid Shield 2.0 research about learned secret detection for autonomous code writing.

Oguz A. Acar

Journalist

Professor of Marketing & Innovation and Head of Generative AI at King's College London

Co-authored research showing employees hide AI use at work to protect themselves and hoard productivity gains.

Oguzhan Olguncu

Creator

Technical Writer at Unkey

Author discussing learning strategies with LLMs, including using Socratic mentoring approach and structured project planning.

Oleg Murk

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

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

Co-authored research on Google's AI-driven flash flood forecasting system that uses news data to predict urban flash floods up to 24 hours in advance.

Co-author of paper on Progressive Point Matching for long-horizon reinforcement learning in language models.

Discussed General Intuition's $320M Series A as landmark funding for physical AI and manufacturing robotics applications.

Oleksandra Molloy

Researcher

Senior Aviation Lecturer at UNSW Canberra

Drone expert quoted discussing the tactical, operational and strategic importance of drones in Ukraine and Middle East conflicts

Director of AI Model Post-Training at Nvidia, explains the pruning from 12B to 9B parameters and hybrid model architecture benefits.

Co-founded Mosqitter and leads commercial partnerships for AI-powered mosquito monitoring system Febris.

Olga Russakovsky co-authored WorldTrace, research on video world models and memory systems.

Google executive defending company's appeals against EU DMA orders opening Android to rival AI assistants.

Co-author of TasteVal benchmark paper measuring experimental research taste of AI systems on frontier AI R&D tasks.

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

Head of asset allocation commenting on lower burst risks due to robust balance sheets of leading players

Zocdoc CEO who argued that companies with verified information could gain influence as AI assistants bypass websites.

Oliver Moazzezi

Engineer

IT consultant at Microsoft

IT consultant who used AI to self-diagnose Lyme disease after doctors attributed symptoms to anxiety

Led development of XtalPaint, an AI tool for reconstructing missing atoms in crystal structures.

Spoke about Apple Music's AI music detection technology and the impact of AI-generated music on the platform.

Described how Mercury 2.5 reduced P99 response time from several minutes to one second for AI phone agent calls.

Wrote series on LLM architecture explaining transformer design and its impact on large language models.

European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare commenting on the EMA-FDA AI principles as a step in EU-US cooperation on medical technologies.

Coauthor of BCG study on AI-driven cognitive fatigue in the workplace.

Discussed how AI is redefining global energy infrastructure and the balance between energy demand and infrastructure pressure.

Olivier Duchenne

Researcher

CEO and Co-founder at ORA Robotics

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper contributing to robotics AI research.

Olivier Godement

Executive

Head of Product, API at OpenAI

Described the o1 model as a new family of models distinct from GPT-4o at OpenAI's DevDay conference.

Co-founder of Paris-based Fragment acquired by Sierra, joining Sierra's team to anchor agent development efforts in France.

Olivier Sylvain

Journalist

Columnist at Fortune

Former FTC official analyzing the Anthropic-Pentagon conflict as proxy for whether AI procurement becomes regulated competition.

Co-founded Gradium, researcher behind Kyutai AI lab; contributed to pioneering real-time speech systems.

Author/host of podcast episode featuring Dan Shipper discussing AI and media distribution.

Ollie Liu

Researcher

Researcher at F5

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Core contributor to the EVA framework for evaluating conversational voice agents.

Developer who created RemoveMacAI command-line tool to remove Apple Intelligence from macOS 27.

Author examining SoftBank's debt-fueled bet on OpenAI and challenges with Stargate infrastructure project, questioning the feasibility of announcements.

Author of "Anthropic shipped the full source code for Claude Code to the public npm registry"

Author of "Elon Musk's xAI Releases Grok 4 For Free Globally, Challenges OpenAI's GPT-5 Launch" in Mashable

Emirati sultan and AI booster who attended Altman's AGI weekend and later met with Altman regarding UAE's AI investment efforts.

Vals AI engineer quoted on environmental footprints of agentic tasks scaling dramatically compared to single-shot queries.

Omar Haroun

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Eudia

Leading Eudia's acquisition of Johnson Hana to create AI-augmented human workforce for legal services using Augmented Intelligence platform.

Omar Jbari was one of the authors who investigated a ransomware attack where a human attacker used frontier AI to breach an enterprise network autonomously.

Google author of blog post on Gemma 4 QAT models optimization for mobile and laptop efficiency.

Shared research papers on agent harnesses (Harness Handbook) and programmatic memory (PRO-LONG) for improving coding agent planning.

Posted practical guides on building AI agent harnesses from scratch and reducing costs through custom harnesses with routing and verification.

Highlighted survey on self-improving agentic systems and described using LLM Council for research updates.

Author of "GPT-5 Goes Hard on Real-World Programming" in omerba.dev

Discovered CamoLeak vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat (CVE-2025-59145) and GitLab Duo prompt injection flaw allowing code exfiltration.

Former Snowflake cybersecurity strategy head who co-founded Glow endpoint security startup.

Omid Azizi

Founder

Co-Founder at Gimlet Labs

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

Co-led development of HOBIT implantable living pharmacy system for chronic disease treatment.

Author of "How to Train an LLM: Part 1" in omkaark.com

Described how LangSmith Sandboxes enable Sidekick assistant to execute code safely for data analysis and multimedia generation.

Oncel Tuzel

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Former Claroty VP of research and development who co-founded Glow endpoint security platform.

Announced Nebius securing a $3.5 billion financing facility from Citi to support global GPU and data center capacity build-out.

Co-author of NVIDIA's video and 3D motion generation system.

AIR researcher who discovered Plugin4Shell zero-click RCE vulnerability in AI coding agents.

Oren Yomtov

Researcher

Principal Security Researcher at Accomplish AI

Discovered and reported the SharedRoot sandbox escape vulnerability in Claude Cowork affecting 500,000 macOS users.

Introduced Ramp Applied AI Solutions, which embeds engineers in finance teams to create custom AI solutions.

Co-author of the research paper on embedding-based retrieval limitations

Stated QuantHealth uses AI to simulate patient-level biology and predict clinical trial outcomes before trials begin.

Analyst discussing Trump-Xi relationship dynamics and China's strategic advantages in rare earth minerals, electric vehicle technology and other AI-critical areas.

osanseviero

Researcher

Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind

Posted announcement of EmbeddingGemma 2 paper release on X.

Co-authored research on using Claude to generate adversarial training data that induces misalignment while evading safety monitors.

Fourth-place winner at the AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon for the 'SlopvestigatorBench' project.

IT Lead noting partnership has connected organizations navigating AI opportunities with learning around responsible implementation.

Co-founder of agentic AI patent litigation platform that raised $10.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Angel investor in Monogram's $40M seed round.

Explored economic equilibrium and market consolidation dynamics in a post-singularity scenario with widely available powerful AI.

Oumayma Bounou

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of temporal straightening research on improving world models for planning tasks.

Co-founder and machine learning engineer at Oumi, formerly at Apple, Twitter, and Microsoft.

Co-author of RbtAct research on using rebuttals as supervision for actionable review feedback generation with LLMs.

Co-author of research on mitigating off-target learning in model training

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1 probabilistic hardware for neural network inference.

Co-author of Stanford Zou group study showing most LLM findings fade within 15 months.

Built a GPT to automate creation of social media posts from thought leadership reports

Aker CEO and Nscale Board member who announced consolidation of Aker-Nscale joint venture into single entity.

Co-authored XYEval research on AI agents and the XY problem.

Late Black Sabbath frontman whose likeness was AI-generated in Rod Stewart tribute

Discussed government adoption of AI models and how benchmark position alone doesn't determine sovereign AI choices.

Pablo Palafox

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at HappyRobot

Co-founder and CEO discussing HappyRobot's verticalized approach as competitive advantage over general-purpose AI voice startups.

Example of an artist making low-probability choices with African masks in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Samuel Castro

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author on study examining differences in strategic behavior between humans and frontier LLMs.

Paddy Ssentongo is listed in association with the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

27-year-old former EzDubs founder tasked with refactoring 98% of Cisco's legacy code with AI in 24 months.

Paige A. Willson brought costume design and technology expertise to the MyoStep project.

VP at Radical Ventures providing feedback on Cohere Transcribe's performance and reliability for speech recognition.

Boston Dynamics Spot product manager describing how the robot could improve delivery efficiency by allowing drivers to prepare next delivery while Spot delivers cargo.

Temple manager who heard the knocking from inside the coffin and ordered it to be opened, discovering the woman was alive.

Palash Awasthi

Engineer

Head of Growth at Reflex

Co-authored benchmark comparing vision agents versus API agents for the same task, showing vision agents cost 45x more in tokens.

Palash Goyal

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Google

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

Pam Bondi

Politician

Attorney General

Directed to create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws that clash with the Trump administration's vision.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Called DOJ brief a significant development consistent with AI copyright rulings so far.

Commented on China's new rules for anthropomorphic AI interaction services, stating that current agents are not yet mature.

Author of "DeepSeek Introduces mHC to Keep Transformer Gradients Stable at Scale" in AlphaSignal

Co-author on speech recognition benchmarking research.

Co-author on paper about stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs.

Journalist reporting on yupp.ai's shutdown.

Delivered a speech at convocation describing the university's 92-student inaugural cohort as 'pioneers' and emphasizing the institution's founding mission.

Paolo Ardoino

Investor

CEO at Tether

Endorsed NEURA Robotics investment, discussing edge-first intelligence and autonomous robotics infrastructure.

Founder/leader of Walk the Talk Lab who oversees deployment of AI Co-Thinkers and supervises client projects

Conducted an exploratory study investigating whether modern LLMs have tiny self-models of LLMs hidden inside them using GPT2 and Qwen3 models.

Author of "Chrome: The Browser You Love, Reimagined with AI" in Google Blog

Parker Harris

Executive

CTO at Salesforce

Hopes the new AI agent version of Slackbot will be as viral as ChatGPT and discussed its development and adoption.

Co-leading a project on AI detection of Andean archaeological features from satellite imagery.

Parshin Shojaee

Researcher

Research Intern at Apple

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

Author of "The BeyondWeb Paper" on arXiv

Co-author of the article about GitHub Copilot's impact on security workflows

Talsania stated that Apple's decision to use Google's Gemini models for Siri shifts OpenAI into a more supporting role with ChatGPT positioned for complex, opt-in queries.

Parth Thakkar

Researcher

Longview Asset Management

Co-authored ProgramBench paper on challenging agents to recreate software from binaries and documentation.

Parthasarathy Ranganathan

Researcher

VP, Engineering Fellow at Google

Co-author on Google's ScientistTwo autonomous research agent framework.

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Creator

Author

Author of "Redesign Workflows Fundamentally"

Pascal Friederich

Researcher

Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Led research combining large language models and machine learning to analyze scientific papers and predict research trends in materials science.

Quoted expressing Confluent's support for AP2 and expertise in data streaming for payments ecosystem

Pascale Fung

Researcher

Co-founder and Chief Research & Innovation Officer at AMI Labs

High-profile researcher who joined AMI Labs as chief research and innovation officer.

Donohoe urged developing countries to build 'small AI' models that run on mobile phones with low connectivity to accelerate economic development.

External reviewer of the technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Pasquale Pillitteri

Journalist

Author discussing GPT-5.2 and Image-2 models entering early testing and enterprise AI adoption.

New Yorker cartoonist since 1998 whose pen name P.Byrnes is reproduced on ChatGPT-generated images.