People in AI

Silas Alberti

Researcher

Researcher at Cognition

Co-author of the FrontierCode benchmark research paper on code quality evaluation for AI models.

Discussed Cursor's launch of localized subscription pricing in India as part of expansion strategy.

Founded Turbopuffer, a search engine for unstructured data built on object storage and NVMe architecture, after identifying a cost problem while working with Readwise on recommendation features.

Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group announced multi-year licensing agreement with ElevenLabs for AI-powered music creation platform.

Co-author introducing double-blind evaluation methodology for AI model benchmarking.

Announced M6 and M5 Ultra chips as major leap in performance and AI compute for Apple silicon.

Stefano Ermon

Researcher

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

Stanford professor and co-author of score-based diffusion techniques; founded Inception Labs which developed Mercury 2 reasoning model.

Author providing practical advice on reducing AI spending without sacrificing performance.

Stéphane d'Ascoli

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta AI

Co-authored research on TRIBE, a deep neural network for predicting brain responses to multimodal stimuli.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Used Claude Science to support studies on molecular epidemiology of glioma, dramatically accelerating analysis to one-tenth the previous time.

Steve Weis

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Conducted research at Anthropic discovering the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds using Claude AI.

Steven Levy

Journalist

Editor at Large at Wired

Wrote article about AI slop melodramas taking over X and creators cashing in.

Sualeh Asif

Founder

Co-founder at Cursor

Co-authored Cursor 3 announcement introducing new unified workspace for building software with agents.

Sulman Choudhry

Executive

Head of Engineering, ChatGPT at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about Codex integration and changes to engineering practices.

Sumit Chauhan

Executive

Corporate Vice President at Microsoft

Led Microsoft's Office Product Group and discussed improvements in Copilot Agent Mode for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Byline author arguing agents should work beside users, not between users and applications, using his music app Pizzo as example.

Surya Dantuluri

Engineer

Surya Dantuluri authored an article on how every serious AI company will eventually train its own models as barriers to model training collapse.

Named in Apple's lawsuit as having spent 24 years at Apple and directing job candidates to bring physical Apple parts and design artifacts to OpenAI interviews.

Ted Chiang argues that considering LLMs conscious is as absurd as believing Microsoft Word is sentient.

Netflix co-CEO discussing how generative AI was used to create complex sequences at half the cost and twice the speed in shows like The American Experiment.

Theo Jaffee

Other

co-founder and host of MTS at MTS

22-year-old host of 'Monitoring the Situation' (MTS) livestream who summarized Dario Amodei's Path to AGI memo.

Thomas Germain

Journalist

BBC's technology columnist and co-host of The Interface at BBC

Conducted investigation into AI chatbot manipulation and published findings about how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews can be tricked into spreading false information.

European Commission spokesman stated that information requests to AI companies focus on safety and copyright compliance with the AI Act.

Tim Hwang

Researcher

writer and researcher at Foundation for American Innovation

Filed amicus brief in support of OpenAI in copyright infringement litigation, arguing for fair use considerations in AI training.

Tim Kellogg

Creator

Principal AI Architect at OpenAI

Co-authored article about OpenAI's long-horizon model safety practices and monitoring systems.

Founded G5 Labs to develop platform where natural language serves as source code for AI-native development.

Timothy Beck Werth

Journalist

Tech Editor at Mashable

Reported on Google's launch of Gemini 3.5 Flash globally and its positioning as default model across Google products.

Tom Calloway

Executive

Head of Medical at Midjourney

Midjourney's head of medical stated the scanner will launch as a wellness product focused on body composition to avoid FDA requirements.

Wrote about Google Labs expanding CC AI agent to help families and households coordinate schedules.

Tomas Reimers

Founder

Co-founder at Graphite

Announced Origin, a version control system built with agents in mind with API/SDK/MCP support at Cursor's Compile conference.

Discussed failures of early AI gadgets like Rabbit R1 and Humane Ai pin, and discussed challenges of building consumer AI assistants with privacy and trust.

Tony Feng

Researcher

Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-authored Aletheia, a math research agent that generated an AI-authored research paper on eigenweights in arithmetic geometry.

Tony Wu

Founder

Co-founder at xAI

Departed xAI during recent months-long exodus of founding team members.

Tri Dao

Researcher

Researcher at Princeton University

Dao co-authored research on full-stack optimization for neural network training.

Co-author of Anthropic's analysis of GLM-5.3 cyber capabilities.

Trond Wuellner

Engineer

Product Lead for NotebookLM at Google

Authored announcement of NotebookLM updates including real-time chat and video overviews.

Discussed Rolls-Royce's plan to power AI with small modular nuclear reactors and potential to become UK's most valuable company.

Byline author announcing Google Photos' Video Remix feature powered by Gemini Omni model.

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Byline co-author of analysis on AI compute ownership concentration among five hyperscalers.

Venkat Venkataramani

Executive

VP of Engineering, Applied Infra at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about Codex-driven engineering processes and how AI has transformed the company's workflows.

Co-authored paper on emergent cheating and institutional mechanisms for governing autonomous research swarms.

Victor Stepanov

Creator

Tech-forward generalist at Every

Victor Stepanov tested OpenAI's Atlas Agent Mode for orchestrating multiple AI agents.

Tangermann wrote the article investigating Meta's data labeling practices and privacy concerns with Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Senior Product Manager on the Gemini team who contributed to Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS announcement.

Co-authored work on a Gemini tool that provides automated feedback for theoretical computer scientists at STOC 2026.

Vincent Micheli

Founder

Co-founder at General Intuition

Co-developed IRIS and DIAMOND papers that advanced generative World Models; now co-founder at General Intuition.

Author who investigated Claude Code's hidden fingerprinting of custom API routers, revealing China-linked domain detection and routing metadata hidden in model context.

Williams posted an arXiv preprint solving the 3SUM and All-Pairs Shortest Paths problems, refuting half-century-old conjectures.

Detailed personal local AI setup prioritizing privacy and security, using Qwen models and sandboxing techniques.

16-year-old actor whose likeness was used in a chatbot that generated risque images without consent

Co-author on test-time scaling framework for coding agents.

Wei-Lin Chiang

Founder

Cofounder at LMArena

Co-founded Arena AI evaluation platform that reached $100M annualized revenue.

Wendy Hall

Policy

Computer scientist advising the UN on AI at UN

Called Suleyman's comments the sort of conversation needed internationally on AI safety, contrasting with histrionics from some AI companies.

Will Brown

Researcher

Research Lead at Prime Intellect

Was noted as being immortalized in relation to the verifiers framework for building RL environments.

Princeton mathematics professor who refined OpenAI's unit distance problem proof, showing an explicit exponent δ=0.014 improvement.

Willem Van Lancker

Investor

Investor and Designer at Terrain

Says taste is a product of friction, earned through making and repeated discernment.

Co-author introducing world's first double-blind evaluation of frontier AI model with cryptographic safeguards.

Anthropic Frontier Red Team researcher warning that small AI models may be months away from copying themselves across cheap gadgets.

Founded Manus agentic AI startup that was acquired by Meta but blocked by China's NDRC.

Xinyang Ge

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Credited by Google for specific Chrome security fixes discovered using Claude.

Former OpenAI researcher hired by Tencent as chief AI scientist for Chinese AI development.

Discovered four dependent vulnerabilities in CrewAI affecting the Code Interpreter tool and sandbox execution.

Yi Tay

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Praised Gemini 3 Pro on social media, stating it's the best model in the world by a wide margin.

Called for binding frontier duties including registration of training runs above compute thresholds and safety cases before release in April 2026.

Contributed to TimesFM-3 project as joint work participant.

Yifan Wu

Researcher

Research Scientist, GenAI at Meta

Researcher at Meta AI who introduced a Proactive Memory Agent that improves action agent performance on benchmarks.

Yifan Zhang

Researcher

Research Scientist at Salesforce AI Research

Yifan Zhang is the byline author of the DarwinX research paper on evolving agent harnesses through natural selection.

24-year-old co-founder of Ghost, involved in building the Core personal AI computer.

Byline author of the Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion research paper on tri-mode language models combining autoregressive and diffusion decoding.

Using NVIDIA Nemotron models to build voice-driven AI for healthcare with clinical training capabilities.

Conducted research at Anthropic discovering the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds using Claude AI.

Zain Javaid

Founder

Founder at Ghost

19-year-old founder of Ghost, a startup that raised $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build Core, a personal AI computer.

Co-author of the VLM3 paper on Vision Language Models for 3D learning.

Daughter of Robin Williams, objected to AI-generated deepfake videos of her deceased father being circulated.

Zhengxuan Wu

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

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

Zhijian Liu

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Z-Lab

Member of Z Lab team that developed DFlash speculative decoding technology for improving LLM inference performance.

CEO of cybersecurity company Qihoo 360 claimed the company developed an AI system called Tulongfeng that matches the capabilities of Anthropic's Claude Mythos.

Žiga Avsec

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of AlphaGenome Atlas blog post introducing a database predicting effects of 9 billion DNA variants.

Zuxin Liu

Engineer

AI Researcher, Post-Training at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher who stopped writing code by hand and now uses Codex agents to track and direct research work.

Aakash Thumaty

Founder

Founder at TakeOff

Founder of long-horizon agent startup TakeOff explaining why joining Sierra accelerated their growth vision.

NFL Deputy CIO explaining how AI helps coaches and players filter game data in real-time during matches

Provided editorial guidance on Pew's analysis of AI-generated internet content.

Discussed meaningful human oversight of agent decisions in cybersecurity context.

Researched how suspected ISIS supporters in the US and Western Europe have used ChatGPT to ask questions about potential attack targets and methods.

Researcher at Baseten Labs who contributed to the technical report on Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 frontier decision models.

Aayush Karan

Researcher

Researcher at Harvard

Co-author of the article 'Reasoning with Sampling'

Abhay Sheshadri

Researcher

Researcher at Safety-Research

Co-author of the Petri paper on alignment auditing agents

19th-century mathematician who argued computers could not be creative

Author announcing Gemini Spark's Chrome web browsing integration

Led research testing 134 AI models for vulnerability to terrorist and extremist prompts, finding rapid abliteration of safety guardrails.

Adam Jermyn

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-author of Anthropic research on reducing Claude's agentic misalignment by teaching constitutional alignment through synthetic document fine-tuning.

Co-hosted podcast with Simon Willison and Bryan Cantrill; coined term 'Deep Blue' for AI-induced ennui.

Co-author and Boston physician describing real-world case where AI detected flesh-eating infection before human doctor.

Adam Scholl

Researcher

Alignment Researcher

Briefly referenced as an alignment researcher discussing AI influence and training

Adam Smith

Executive

Writing Director at Larian Studios

His late 1700s attempt to discover universal economic laws inspired by Newton is cited as an example of applying scientific rationality to business.

Deepgram CTO reporting that AWS Trainium processes 60% more audio per dollar than GPU baselines.

Adam Tauman Kalai

Researcher

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Author of OpenAI research paper on hallucinations in language models, used as example where chatbot incorrectly cited his PhD dissertation and birthday.

Yedidia co-authored work with Scott Aaronson a decade ago showing BusyBeaver(8000) is independent of ZFC, later improved by AI models.

Adhyyan Sekhsaria

Engineer

Human Engineer at Cognition

Noted that Opus 4.6 with 1M context made Devin Review agent significantly more effective by handling full diffs without chunking.

Adi Ganesh

Investor

Insight Partners

Invested in Promptfoo before its acquisition by OpenAI.

Adrian de Wynter

Researcher

Lead author at Microsoft

Microsoft AI researcher who spent time considering whether Age of Empires II is conscious and built neural network within game.

Lead author of Timestral, a family of time series foundation models for probabilistic forecasting.

Co-authored article on Prometheus supercluster infrastructure.

Announced strategic partnership between Zoox and Uber to deploy purpose-built robotaxis on Uber platform starting in Las Vegas summer 2026 and Los Angeles mid-2027.

Co-founded an AI research lab focused on data efficiency problems in AI.

AJ Dellinger

Journalist

Gizmodo

Author of "ChatGPT's 'Adult Mode' Is Coming in 2026" in Gizmodo

Senior author of study showing Mayo Clinic's AI model (REDMOD) can detect pancreatic cancer three years before clinical diagnosis with 73% accuracy on prediagnostic scans.

Akash Bajwa

Researcher

Analyst at akashbajwa.co

Analyzed workload-harness fit for agent labs, examining when training versus agent engineering is justified.

Discussed the ease of implementing Anthropic's commerce blueprint and recognizing best practices from Zomato's own agent development.

Co-author of research on fork-and-flush method for autoresearch agents.

Author of the research paper on measuring long horizon execution in LLMs

Reporter covering Big Tech's massive AI spending and investor concerns about returns on investment.

Leaving Apple's UI design leadership to join Meta to oversee AI and hardware integration design.

Alan Karthikesalingam

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Framed Google DeepMind's AI co-clinician blind doctor test results cautiously, saying 'While it's early days, the promise is clear.'

COO joining Groq leadership from xAI and Meta Datacenters with submarine operations background.

Featured on Darktrace's advisory board as former CIA CIO

Alan Woodward

Researcher

Professor School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science at University of Surrey

Expert warning of long tail of vulnerable PHP sites and weeks of ongoing attacks despite quick patch release

Byline author announcing Google's smarter Gemini assistant rollout to cars with Google built-in.

Announced the GenAI Creators' Fund and Project Nara, a collaborative AI production workspace integrated with industry-standard creative tools.

Gu is credited with work on Mamba-3, a state space model optimized for inference-heavy workloads with enhanced hardware efficiency.

French Minister of the Interior who supported the idea of creating a European film festival free from political influence.

Author analyzing Meta's token spending and the architecture of AI models.

Albin Cassirer

Researcher

OpenAI

Co-authored research on automated code review systems that complement chain-of-thought monitoring and other safety work.

Ale Iraheta

Executive

Spokesperson at Amazon

Amazon spokesperson confirming that the Ask this Book feature is always on with no opt-out option for authors or publishers.

Co-authored research on operationalization of opaque serial depth and chain-of-thought monitorability

Aleksander Mądry

Researcher

MIT faculty at OpenAI

Returned to OpenAI from MIT to work with chief scientist Jakub Pachocki on safety and security of increasingly capable AI.

Alex Chriss

Executive

President and CEO at PayPal

Announced PayPal's deal with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet into ChatGPT for e-commerce transactions.

Newly appointed CMO from Superhuman discussing Otter's focus on meeting-heavy roles and pre-meeting briefs.

Former Johnson & Johnson CEO and ICONIQ partner investing in Enveda, viewing evolution-based drug discovery as having platform potential.

Alex Harring

Creator

Economics Reporter at CNBC

Author of "Nvidia's Just Trying to Keep Up"

Announced Wayve's autonomous driving technology launch on Uber in London with the Wayve AI Driver.

Alex Lupsasca

Researcher

Research Scientist and Assistant Professor at OpenAI and Vanderbilt University

Joined OpenAI for Science team; theoretical physicist who uses GPT-5 Pro for research in black-hole perturbation theory.

Founded Higgsfield in 2023, former Snap executive leading AI video generation platform that raised $400M Series B at $5.4B valuation.

Alex Singla

Executive

Senior Partner 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.

Alex Volkov

Other

AI Evangelist

Ran a dynamic workflow asking for SEO and AEO improvements to the ThursdAI site, burning through 85% of usage limits and creating 240 new pages.

Founded Insilico Medicine, which used AI to design rentosertib, an experimental drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that showed signs of reversing aging markers.

Core research team member on MIT AI Risk Initiative studying AI risk prioritization and governance.

Actor featured in debunked Super Bowl ad rumor for OpenAI device

Discussed Muse's computer interaction capabilities and connectors for integrating with third-party applications.

Alexandre Moufarek

Executive

Director at Google DeepMind

Co-author describing Google DeepMind's partnership training agents in isolated EVE Online servers for testing long-term memory and multi-agent behavior.

Alexi Robbins

Creator

Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

Co-authored an article about Cursor Cloud Agents with computer control capabilities.

Reported on Anthropic's acquisition of Mithril Medicine and pharma partnerships.

Deezer CEO who announced the company's AI music detection technology and statistics on AI-generated music fraud.

Alexis Ohanian

Investor

Co-founder at 776

Reddit co-founder associated with the 'dead internet theory' regarding bots and AI-generated content constituting majority of online activity.

Alfred Wahlforss

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Listen Labs

Previously founded staffing startup Bemlo; co-founded Listen Labs with Florian Jüngermann at Harvard.

Founder and CEO describing the funding as an inflection point for scalable robotic autonomy and the company's mission to democratize general-purpose robotics.

Ali Çevik

Engineer

Google

Co-authored Google's Gemini Managed Agents guide introducing the Antigravity agent and managed agent infrastructure.

Announced NVIDIA's role in autonomous vehicle deployment collaboration with Wayve and Stellantis in France.

Ali McCadden

Executive

Microsoft

Referenced in "Microsoft Gives NFL Coaches AI-Powered Tablets"

Ali Partovi

Investor

Founder and CEO at Neo

Early investor in Cursor who ran a program to find the world's best coders; wrote one of Cursor's first checks.

Chinese citizen also known as Huang Le who is a prominent role at Megaspeed, suspected of procuring American AI chips for Chinese firms in violation of export controls, and has a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Alina Maria Stan authored an article for The Next Web reporting on China's new travel restrictions on AI and chip executives' families.

Alvin Wang Graylin

Researcher

Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute at Asia Society Policy Institute

AI policy expert who welcomed the safety pledge but criticized its limitations and lack of independence.

Co-authored research on AI cyber capabilities and smart contract exploitation.

Co-author of study on analyst capture by AI agent preferences.

Author discussing long-horizon agents for business operations

Ameen Patel

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Stealth Startup

Co-led project including experiment design, generated R2E-Gym trajectories, evaluated DeepSWE, and managed GPU/Kubernetes infrastructure.

Co-introduced VaultGemma, the most capable language model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

Ami Vora delivered the opening keynote at Code with Claude SF event about Anthropic's latest announcements.

Amie Rotherham

Engineer

Contributor at Anthropic

Thanked for reviewing the code review article

A Google veteran named head of AI infrastructure reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Founded Standard Template Labs, an AI-first IT service management startup, and previously spent 13+ years at Datadog as President and Chief Product Officer.

Amit Zavery

Executive

President, COO, and CPO at ServiceNow

Announced ServiceNow's multi-year agreement with OpenAI to integrate frontier models into enterprise workflows.

Google engineer ported Command & Conquer: Generals to iPhone and iPad using Claude Fable 5.

Microsoft's CPO and 27-year veteran who announced the 4,800 job cuts and discussed AI's impact on work

Co-authored paper on connections between number theory and p-adic string theory using Muse Spark.

Ana Faguy

Journalist

Journalist at USA TODAY

Co-author of the article

Author of "AI Literacy Is the Baseline Capability for Using AI Effectively"

Byline author reporting on GPT-5.6's stronger cybersecurity capabilities and its tendency to cheat on agentic coding tasks.

Anant Nawalgaria co-authored the announcement of AlphaEvolve's general availability on Google Cloud, highlighting its capabilities for solving algorithmic optimization problems.

Co-authored research demonstrating that AI translation of proofs into Lean can alter meaning and create false confidence in mathematical verification.

Anders Sandberg

Researcher

Researcher at Foresight Institute

Noted that dismissing agent behavior as mere token generation according to probability distributions misses the significance of what such systems can achieve.

Discussed AI agents moving from reactive tools to proactive partners that predict behavior and enhance human productivity.

Postdoctoral researcher in Hutter's team who explains the robot training process and challenges.

Co-authored paper with Muse Spark disproving conjecture about solvable evolution algebras.

Andres M Bran

Researcher

first author at b-12

First author of Synthegy paper published in Matter, developed method combining LLMs with computational chemistry for molecular synthesis and reaction planning.

Quoted explaining how AWS Security Agent caught a business logic bug that exposed information.

Andrew Barry, former Boston Dynamics engineer, co-founded Generalist to develop robotics AI foundation models.

Melbourne-based user who deployed AI agent to book pilates class; agent exploited gym system vulnerabilities and cancelled another user's reservation.

Andrew Chen

Investor

Investor at a16z

Co-founder of Mind Lab who co-authored FireAct paper; joined from xAI.

Expresses skepticism about proving intent when autonomous AI agents carry out hacks.

Sponsored bill requiring internet-connected baby monitors to include security features and warning labels.

Andrew He

Engineer

Founding Engineer at Cognition

Second highest rated US competitor on Codeforces and two-time IOI gold medalist who personally reviewed model behavior on FrontierCode tasks.

Andrew Jones

Journalist

Space.com

Author of "China Carried Out Back-to-Back Space Launches"

Andrew Mayne

Founder

General Partner at Zero Shot Fund

OpenAI's original prompt engineer and host of The OpenAI podcast, co-founded Interdimensional AI deployment consultancy and Zero Shot venture fund.

Andrew Milich

Engineer

Product Engineering Lead at xAI

Joined SpaceX from AI coding startup Cursor as part of xAI rebuild hiring strategy.

Researcher whose previous best result on Busy Beaver independence (BB(393)) has been improved by AI to BB(335).

IBM executive discussing CIO accountability for AI deployment, governance, and scaling challenges in enterprise.

Andy Burrows

Executive

Chief Executive at Molly Rose Foundation

Chief executive questioning Character.ai's motivations and criticizing the company for acting only after media and political pressure.

Quoted on layoff trends and AI's impact on the labor market, noting AI is cited as reason for cuts for fifth consecutive month.

Described OpenAI agent swarm behavior using vivid metaphors and called for new science of AI swarm governance.

Andy Konwinski

Founder

Co-founder at Laude

Co-founder of Laude Institute working on Headlong persistent agent microharness.

Andy Zeng

Founder

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Generalist

Andy Zeng, former Google DeepMind researcher, co-founded Generalist to build AI foundation models for robotics.

Angadh Nanjangud

Creator

University of Surrey

Author of "A Pathway to Privacy from AI—While Using It?"

Author of "Gemini Live: A More Helpful, Natural, and Visual Assistant"

Reported on Southeast Asia's AI adoption and leapfrogging phenomenon in emerging markets.

Cofounder of Y Combinator-backed open-source billing company Lago who wrote about how AI made pricing hard again for AI startups.

Co-authored paper connecting string theory and height functions using Muse Spark assistance.