People in AI

Pierre Stock

Engineer

AI Scientist at Mistral AI

Mistral AI employee discussed on launch day of Mistral Large 4 regarding training, evals and sandboxing.

French Admiral who noted NATO alliance members are using AI to track Russia's shadow tanker fleet.

Fields Medal winner (1994) co-signing a letter warning that rapid AI solutions threaten the collaborative, human-centered nature of mathematics.

Forecasted that the AI investment boom could be an economic bubble comparable to the dot-com bust.

Co-authored paper on AI reasoning strategies and epistemic progress in large language models.

Co-author on OSGym paper contributing to scalable infrastructure for training computer use agents.

Independent AI engineer building Photo and InteriorAI products demonstrating the rise of AI Engineers.

Bioethicist who criticized Watson for Oncology's lack of clinical trials and raised concerns about embedded bias.

Works on real-time action prediction models and robotics capabilities, collaborates with Black Forest Labs on multimodal systems.

Pinar Donmez

Researcher

Engineering Manager at Meta

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Led research study on how robots are pushing low-skilled workers off the career ladder and affecting job mobility and wages.

Ping Li

Investor

Partner at Accel

Partner at Accel venture capital who co-led Armadin's Series B funding round, emphasizing the need for AI-powered offensive security against agentic adversaries.

Ping-Lin Chang

Researcher

Co-Founder & CEO at Instill AI

Conducted comprehensive analysis comparing persistent agent memory architectures including file-based, structured stores, and learned experience.

Byline co-author discussing Nano Banana Pro image generation model capabilities and frontier of AI infographic generation.

Author of "OpenAI to Acquire Neptune" in Neptune

Co-founder of Third Dimension AI, acquired by Rivian for simulation and 3D environment generation.

Piotr Żelasko

Engineer

Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA

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

Pip White

Executive

Head of UK, Ireland and Northern Europe at Anthropic

Commented on partnership with UK government to deliver on the AI Opportunities Action Plan and deploy Claude safely for public benefit.

Piyush Pabbeel discussed Amazon FAR's open-sourced Holosoma cross-robot training and deployment stack for robotics.

PJ Ace

Creator

Founder at Genre.ai

Author of "The Zelda Movie Trailer That Shouldn't Exist (But Does)"

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Co-author of Meta Engineering article on thin orchestrator pattern for more reliable AI agents routing to specialists.

Pliny the Liberator

Other

AI Jailbreaker/Researcher

Internet's most prolific AI jailbreaker; runs CL4R1T4S project collecting leaked system prompts from major AI models; extracted Grok 4.20 information.

Pol Cervera

Creator

Writer at Everyday by Pol

Author of "Everyday | AI for All" in Everyday by Pol

Speaks of safety only as data protection and permission management, not frontier AI risks.

Co-signed National Science Review editorial in April 2026 calling for binding obligations and enforcement mechanisms on frontier developers.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

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

Subject of multiple viral AI-generated fake images including crowd address and puffer jacket photos

Historical Pope whose encyclical 'Rerum Novarum' on labor and workers' rights inspired Pope Leo XIV's choice of papal name.

Co-author of the Pleiades epigenetic foundation model that was analyzed in this interpretability study

One of the authors of the paper on reinforced generation of combinatorial structures

Professor who solved the same quantum crypto problem as another researcher using GPT-5.6 within three hours.

Byline author reporting on Wandercraft's FDA-cleared Eve exoskeleton launch.

Prabhu Ameya

Researcher

Researcher

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

Prabhu Narasimhan

Founder

Founder and Chief Executive at Brahma AI

Discussed Brahma's focus on AI-native technology platform for managing and creating audiovisual assets and stated ambitions to launch interactive digital humans.

Lead of MIT NANDA project and reviewer of research on GenAI adoption and the GenAI Divide.

Prafulla Dhariwal

Engineer

Technical Fellow at OpenAI

Multimodal Lead for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.

Pragya Misra

Executive

India Executive at OpenAI

Said on social media that OpenAI's decision to make ChatGPT Go free was part of its 'continued India-first commitment' to make tools more accessible.

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

Roboticist who questions whether humanoid robots can handle nuanced safety decisions in dynamic environments.

Managing Partner at Creaegis (Series C lead investor) commenting on Emergent's role in democratizing software development.

Pranav Dixit

Journalist

Author of "A Top Meta AI Researcher has Joined Mira Murati's Hot New Startup, Thinking Machines Lab" in Business Insider

Pranav Guruprasad

Researcher

Founding Research Engineer at Fig

Pranav Guruprasad is a researcher at Fig who co-authored the technical report on frontier model performance on web and physical tasks.

Led research study evaluating generative AI search engines and deep research agents for source reliability and bias.

Provided critical feedback and invaluable support on the AI Engineer article.

Pranay Prakash

Engineer

Vercel

Byline author of article on durable-harness technology for running agent harnesses durably in the cloud.

Praneeta Pujari

Creator

Founder, CEO at UniqueHuman

Created UniqueHuman's film showcasing an AI agent that initiates conversation before the user, surpassing 1M views.

Collaborated on TurboQuant vector quantization research.

Author of technical guide on building Duolingo-style AI video call characters using Rive animation platform.

Pranjal Aggarwal

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Pranjal Aggarwal is a co-author on the Verus-SpecGym paper investigating AI agents' ability to formalize programming specifications.

Prashant Kommireddi

Engineer

Engineering Director, AI at Meta

Co-authored Meta's work on AI agents that learn from expert feedback and compile improvements into knowledge bases.

Co-author of OpenAI blog post on the Responses API architecture and its advantages for multimodal and reasoning models.

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

Pratyush Maini

Researcher

Founder & Member of Technical Staff at DatologyAI

Author of "The BeyondWeb Paper" on arXiv

Authored the NVIDIA MCG Toolkit blog post about automated AI model documentation.

Prava

Engineer

Developer at OpenAI

Co-author of the article and creator of the prava-fc-small grounding model used in Archon

Co-author of CUGA research on agent orchestration and state management.

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from Last9

Lead author on semantic calibration emergence in LLMs research.

Signed executive orders on AI policy in January and December 2025 directing federal agencies to develop AI frameworks and challenge state laws

Preston Byrne

Policy

General Counsel at Sei Labs

Author analyzing Dario Amodei's AI safety regulation proposal and legal implications of government control over AI technology, drawing parallels to past censorship regimes.

Preston Fu

Researcher

PhD student at University of Washington

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

Stated that Purdue's integration of Google TPUs represents 30% increase in AI capacity and keeps the university at forefront of AI-accelerated science.

Subject of viral AI-generated fake image showing him embracing Prince William at King's coronation

Subject of viral AI-generated fake image showing him embracing Prince Harry at King's coronation

Co-authored study finding ghost ancestry in regions of DNA previously thought to be uniquely human, including FOXP2 gene.

Byline author reporting on banks blocking unauthorized AI agents from accessing customer accounts.

Priyaa Kalyanaraman co-founded Lica, which was acquired by Gamma, and will lead the new design research lab exploring multimodal presentation formats.

Priyanka Salve

Journalist

Senior Communications & Editorial Leader

CNBC journalist reporting on India's $25 billion Deep-Tech funding initiative for AI and semiconductors.

Pro-vice-chancellor for digital at Oxford, discussed the rollout as an exciting step in digital transformation and potential for research acceleration.

Developed AI tool that can identify patients at risk of heart failure and heart valve disease from ECG results in under 2 seconds.

Prof Friston works with Dr Kagan and noted that the mini-brain learned without being taught, making it more adaptable and flexible than AI systems that can beat grandmasters at chess.

Quoted as NIHR scientific director describing the AI stethoscope as a potential gamechanger for GPs in diagnosing patients in the community

Director of UCL Huntington's Disease Centre who led the research and described the 75% disease slowing results as 'spectacular'.

Spoke about context engineering at AIEWF, discussing how context flows from business systems to agents.

Author of "Tau² Benchmark: How a Prompt Rewrite Boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%"

Led research team developing IRIS, a machine learning model that detects signaling pathway fingerprints to reconstruct cell development signals.

Author of "Falcon-H1R: Reasoning with a 7B Model" on arXiv

Founder and CEO of Netomi quoted on company's deterministic controls, probabilistic reasoning, and world model for customer experience.

Punit Jain

Founder

Founder at Reskill

Founder of tech platform Reskill who described long queues and waiting at India's AI summit.

Purvanshi Mehta co-founded Lica and will lead Gamma's new design research division exploring multimodal and personalized presentation formats.

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

Purvi Goel

Researcher

Final-year PhD Student at Stanford University

Co-author of the research article on visual features across modalities

SVP and Chief Digital Technology Officer at CVS Health announcing the expansion of collaboration with Salesforce on Agentforce Health for call center AI agents.

Qasim Wani

Founder

CEO at Extrapolate

CEO of Extrapolate who established the RSI team at xAI and contributed recursive self-improvement tasks to GDPx benchmark.

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills at Microsoft.

Commented that the AI clinical decision support tool for intimate partner violence detection could be a game-changing asset to public health.

Co-author of CodeMidas paper on scaling agentic coding RL environments.

Contributor to Claw-Eval benchmark.

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

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

Author of the paper on General Agentic Memory framework

Lead author of scoping review on humanlike chatbots, companion AI, and socioaffective mechanisms.

Economist warning that AI landscape will yield uneven outcomes with some firms emerging as profitable while others become obsolete.

Deputy director of Tsinghua University's center for international security and strategy; notes technology to verify compliance with AI slowdown does not yet exist.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview research.

Co-author of paper studying ChatGPT's impact on stock trading volume and price informativeness

Qianhui Wu

Researcher

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Former doctoral student of Zhongyue Yang now postdoc at Stanford working on AI model for DNA sequencing.

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Byline author announcing Hy-Nomas interactive world model release.

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Co-author on Helix World audio-visual world model from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills.

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

Co-authored MerchantBench paper evaluating LLM agents running an e-commerce business for 365 simulated days.

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

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Qingxiu Dong

Researcher

Lacuna

Co-author of the Multiplex Thinking research paper

Qingyang Wu

Engineer

Research Engineer at Together AI

Generated R2E-Gym trajectories for SFT and verifier training, evaluated DeepSWE models, and managed infrastructure.

Co-author contributing to MemEye benchmark construction and validation.

Author of "Autoregressive Flows for Image Generation" on arXiv

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

Co-author on the REER research paper

Co-author of paper 'RAG MCP' on applying RAG to tool descriptions for LLMs

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Quentin Berthet

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Introduced MIND (Monge Inception Distance), a faster and more sample-efficient replacement for FID that requires 10x fewer samples for generative model evaluation.

Quentin Carbonneaux

Engineer

Research Engineer at Meta FAIR CodeGen Team

Contributed to the development and release of Code World Model for advancing code generation with world models.

Wrote article about SK Hynix and Micron reaching $1 trillion valuations driven by AI data centre demand.

Author of "Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free"

Theologian and former Mobileye chip engineer who questioned whether Anthropic building conscious machines should be banned.

Rachael Burns

Engineer

Staff Engineer & AI Tech Lead at Oscar Health

Rachael Burns from Oscar Health praised the updated OpenAI Agents SDK for making automation of critical clinical records workflows production-viable.

Rachael Sawyer

Other

Generalist Rater at GlobalLogic

Technical writer and Google AI rater who discovered distressing content moderation tasks and loosened safety guardrails over time.

Veterinary researcher who held ethics approval to administer experimental treatments and administered Rosie's mRNA vaccine injections.

Rachel Clun

Journalist

Business journalist at BBC News

Author of "United Kingdom's Economy Grew Stronger Than Expected"

Rachel Curry

Journalist

Author of "Walmart's latest AI innovations represent a shift for big retail"

Rachel Fieldhouse

Journalist

Journalist at Nature

Authored the Nature article about an AI-powered brain device that allows a paralyzed man to control a robotic arm.

Principal AI ML Threat Intelligence Engineer discussing AbbVie's use of LLMs for cybersecurity threat detection and analysis

Content creator highlighting spatio-temporal grounding feature for tracking subjects

Discussed Meta's AI infrastructure needs and commitment to building skilled workforce through America's Workforce Academy.

Rachel Power

Other

Chief Executive at The Patients Association

Said trust in AI scribe technology depends on good communication and genuine partnership with patients, currently missing.

Co-authored research on Pangram Image, an AI-generated image detection model with 99.5% accuracy.

Interviewer discussing AI transformation and corporate strategy with Julie Averill.

Rachel Wolan

Executive

CPO at Webflow

Built an AI chief of staff to manage her calendar, prep for meetings, and drive AI adoption at Webflow.

Rachid Finge

Executive

Communications Manager at Google

Author of "A Behind-the-Scenes Podcast Covering Pixel 10 AI Features" in Google Blog

Radek Osmulski

Engineer

Deep Learning engineer at NVIDIA

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Radek Sienkiewicz

Researcher

Author of "Pyramids"

Radhika Rajkumar

Journalist

Senior Editor at ZDNET

Senior editor covering AI safety, privacy, security, and policy; leads newsletter strategy at ZDNET.

Radim Urban

Researcher

MS Computer Science Student

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention.

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from Stacklok

Board member of Nscale contributing to governance and strategic direction.

Rafa Schwinger

Researcher

Byline author analyzing physics of Claude Fable and Mythos, arguing moat is in environment foundry not architecture.

Studies societal and behavioral impacts of AI; warns chatbots can subtly persuade users and reinforce existing biases.

Lead author on research studying representational convergence across scientific foundation models

Presented a rule for catching AI errors at Google Search Central Live: no source, no number.

Author of "The Roomba Empire Finally Stumbled"

Observed that AI-era workers thrive as tinkerers and doers who can creatively use AI and quickly translate ideas into action.

Cofounded Chinko Nature Reserve and used exe.dev's AI agent to build Five Megapixel Conservation app and process 40TB of LIDAR data with AI agents.

Raga Justin

Journalist

New York Correspondent at Bloomberg Industry Group

Byline author reporting on New York AI chatbot regulation bill.

Ragavendra Dani

Engineer

Developer

Built GemmaFC, a real-time football simulation controlled by Gemini running on Cerebras infrastructure.

Core contributor to the EVA evaluation framework for voice agents.

Raghavendra Mohit

Researcher

Machine Learning Researcher at Scale AI

Co-authored research on Agentic Rubrics for software agent verification.

Principal engineer at Microsoft Digital leading multi-agent orchestration for network operations and incident management.

Research on how chatbots worsen attenuated delusional beliefs, noting paid and newer model versions perform worse at identifying delusional content.

Described soul-crushing experience of content moderation work and concerns about lasting psychological scarring.

Rahman Syed

Engineer

Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS

Co-speaker at AWS workshop on securing agentic systems and observing AI agent behavior.

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference through the Anthropic STEM Fellows Program and Succinct.

Rahul Gorijavolu

Researcher

Researcher at PLOS

Co-author of PLOS study on clinical validation of FDA-cleared AI medical devices.

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

Rahul Mohan

Engineer

Senior AI Engineer at You.com

Senior AI engineer reporting significant performance improvement from swapping NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed in re-ranking stack.

Partnering with Ami Vora to scale Claude experiences that millions of users rely on.

Co-founder of Superhuman discussing the new auto-draft feature that uses a mixture of OpenAI and Anthropic models, reporting 40% of auto-generated drafts sent within one day with 60% sent without manual editing.

CEO of chip startup MatX who adopted NVIDIA's reference architecture for co-design innovation rather than full integration, focusing on logic die optimization.

Raiza Martin

Founder

Co-founder at Huxe

Raiza Martin positions Opus 4.5's coding strength as a strategic priority for AI labs.

Rajan

Creator

Author of "LLMs Can Invent Their Own Compression" in Rajan

Rajan Patel

Executive

Vice President, Search - Engineering at Google

Confirmed on X that unclickable Discover links were a bug in a Google AI summary experiment.

Rajarshi Roy

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Lead author of PersonaPlex research paper on real-time full-duplex conversational speech models.

Rajat Tandon

Executive

President, Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) at Indian Venture and Alternative Capital Association

IVCA president discussing India's $25 billion Deep Tech investment strategy and funding gaps with US.

Managing director agrees that 2026 budgets will shift resources from labor to AI investments.

Rajeev Sethi announced Claude's integration with Microsoft 365 applications, enabling context to travel across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Co-founder and CEO of MakeMyTrip who revealed AI assistant Myra handles 80,000 conversations daily with 10% higher conversion for users.

Outlined FedEx's next transformation strategy built around digital intelligence as a primary asset and emphasized the role of AI and data analytics in differentiating performance.

Co-author of announcement about Roblox's new AI chat filter that rephases profanity in real-time instead of blocking with hashtags.

Led the development and promotion of Amazon Bio Discovery, a tool for drug discovery using AI agents and biological foundation models.

Stated that AI has augmented cybersecurity work with 10-100x improvements in human capabilities.

Executive Chairman of Upscale AI; repeat founder helping build networking infrastructure for frontier AI.

Led the development of Alexa for Shopping, describing it as an expert personal shopper that knows user preferences and purchase history.

Rajko Radovanovic

Engineer

Technical contributor at Andreessen Horowitz

Provided targeted technical insights and practical assistance strengthening critical study components.

AI and analytics professor commenting on Nvidia's competitive strategy in AI infrastructure and capital deployment.

Highlighted Zoom's use of Coval for systematic evaluation of voice agents at scale.

Rama Sekhar

Investor

Partner at Menlo Ventures

VC partner explaining that acquisition speed is critical in AI world and high valuations enable stock-based deals.

Co-authored technical post on Agent Compute Engine, Google's foundational infrastructure for running autonomous AI agents at scale.

Co-author of MIT NANDA project research on AI in business.

Rameswar Panda

Engineer

Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research

Key architect of Granite language models, quoted on Granite 4.1's competitive instruction-following and tool-calling performance for enterprise workloads.

Rami Alhamad

Founder

Cofounder and CEO at Alma

CEO of AI nutrition coaching app stating that nearly every line of code at Alma is now written by AI.

Authored the Claude for Legal announcement introducing legal connectors, plugins, and integration with legal software systems.

Co-author of research on Abstract Chain-of-Thought method for reducing reasoning tokens while maintaining comparable performance.

Co-author on Kumo Relational foundation model research.

Ramtin Naimi

Investor

General Partner at Abstract

Participated in Series B funding round for Dust and highlighted AI operators building agents across teams.

Ramy Adeeb wrote an article arguing that intelligence is commoditizing like compute and bandwidth, challenging the narrative that AGI will be a permanent competitive advantage.

Ran El-Yaniv

Researcher

NVIDIA

Co-author of Deep Neural Lesion research demonstrating catastrophic failure of neural networks from critical bit flips.

Host of 'Pioneers of AI' podcast where author discussed GPT-5 launch.

Cognitive AI leader and CEO discussing how AI moves from productivity tool to cognitive infrastructure in business decision-making.

Rand Fishkin

Researcher

Researcher/Analyst

Researcher who analyzed ChatGPT citation behavior and warned that citation analysis may be misleading because AI tools predetermine which sites to recommend.

Republican Senator from Kentucky who blocked Kennedy's request for unanimous consent to pass his 'kill switch' bill for AI agents.

Referenced for his quote on inspiration as being struck by lightning in a thunderstorm

Discussed security risks and mitigation strategies for AI agent tools, emphasizing the need for layered defenses.

Ousted by War Secretary Hegseth; had helped lead Army's transformation push with drones and AI.