People in AI

Anish Acharya

Journalist

Senior Research Scientist at AWS

Argued that AI is fundamentally a tool for creation and expression rather than just consumption or time-saving.

Reported on OpenAI's negotiations for a massive 10-gigawatt Ohio data center project on federal land with a 20-year lease and $500 billion build-out cost.

Led research and gathered nearly 2,000 historical records to reconstruct Pelé's lost goal using AI.

Author of "Forward Deployed AI Research" in Obsidian

Anjalie Field

Researcher

Computer Scientist at The Johns Hopkins University

2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellow working on privacy in AI systems, developing tools to protect privacy in safety-critical fields like healthcare, law, and social services.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Ankit Maloo

Creator

Latent Space

Author of "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models" in Latent Space

Wrote about CLiF tool for continual learning from full-stack trajectories in agentic products.

Anniek Bao

Journalist

CNBC Reporter at CNBC

Byline author reporting on OpenAI's proposal to give the US government a 5% stake in the company.

Anson Ho

Engineer

Researcher at San Francisco Government Television

Byline author presenting Microsoft's OptiMind model that translates natural language optimization problems into mathematical formulations.

Summarized lessons from OpenAI incident including total alignment and control failures, concluding nothing learned was reassuring.

OpenSSL developer noting that recent AI reports from Anthropic are high quality with real exploits attached.

Applied AI Engineer at Ramp who described Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite as key component for high-volume, latency-sensitive financial operations features.

Released The Stack v3, a major update to the largest open-source code dataset used for pretraining large language models.

Antonia Juelich

Researcher

International Security Lead at Cambridge

Authored a Cambridge study finding former Boko Haram fighters used ChatGPT and other AI chatbots for bomb-making and battle planning.

Co-leading Crusoe's Series F funding round and commenting on the company's execution and frontier technology.

Anupam Pathak

Executive

R&D Lead at Google Platforms and Devices

Tested Gemini 3 Deep Think to accelerate the design of physical components.

Lead author on CUGA, IBM's open-source agent harness for enterprise deployment.

Anupriya Tripathi

Engineer

Researcher at Genentech

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Apoorv Agrawal

Creator

Partner at Altimeter Capital

Author analyzing consumer AI monetization opportunities and ChatGPT's market dominance in ad revenue potential.

Dropbox co-founder who participated in Vercept's angel funding round.

Arash Vahdat

Researcher

NVIDIA Researcher at NVIDIA

Byline author on Parallel Decoding Distillation method for fast inference of diffusion and flow matching models.

Author of announcement of Dreambeans daily story feed feature.

Ari Levy

Journalist

Senior Technology Reporter at CNBC

CNBC journalist who reported on Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.

Ariel Assaraf

Founder

Chief Executive Officer at ActiveFence

Assaraf leads Coralogix, a startup that raised $200 million for observability tools to monitor AI agents in production.

Founder and CEO of Appfigures who reported ChatGPT downloads surge and noted brand recognition drove adoption.

Co-author of deep dive on PyTorch neural network optimization and fused MLP layers.

Arjun Bansal

Founder

Co-Founder at Trajectory

Co-founder of Trajectory building platform for continual learning where AI agents learn from product usage signals.

Arjun Desai

Founder

Cofounder at Cartesia

Cartesia founder noting how PyTorch native support on AWS Trainium enables efficient voice AI model deployment.

Lead author of Harvard study comparing OpenAI's o1 and 4o models to human physicians in emergency room diagnostics, where AI models outperformed doctors.

Senior vice president at Shield AI overseeing X-BAT aircraft development and stating the team is testing early and often while working on aircraft components.

Arnab Bose from Asana spoke about building with Claude Managed Agents and Asana AI teammates.

Senior Manager of Machine Learning Operations praising Claude Code's performance as a pair programmer for their developers

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments with AI orchestration of laboratory equipment.

Arthur Douillard

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Lead author on Decoupled DiLoCo paper enabling resilient distributed AI training across regions.

Quoted on how AI is shifting from assisting with tasks to orchestrating entire workflows autonomously

Arvid Lunnemark

Founder

Co-founder at Cursor

MIT classmate of Truell who co-founded Cursor (then Anysphere) in 2022.

CEO of Glean quoted estimating 95% of enterprise AI still runs on expensive frontier models.

Assumed acting director role of Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation after Chris Fall's resignation.

Asher Spector

Founder

Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes

Co-founder of AI research startup Flapping Airplanes, stated the company is working on ways to train AI models with less data and computing power and that demand for AI will outpace chip and data supply.

Ashish Gupta authored a Google Blog post about enhancements to Merchant Center with new agentic commerce features.

Ashley Gold

Journalist

Senior Technology Correspondent at Semafor

Byline reporting on White House Super Intelligence Task Force charter adoption and 120-day risk report requirement.

Discussed running Anthropic's commerce agents locally and experimenting with different architectures via Claude Code.

Ashley Peacock

Creator

Cloudflare employee at Cloudflare

Posted about Cloudflare Agents Week announcements including open-sourcing Cloudflare OS, AI Gateway features, WriteGuard, and Agent Access Model proposal.

Ashley Stewart

Journalist

Chief Technology Correspondent at Business Insider

Byline author reporting on Microsoft turning to AWS to handle GitHub capacity issues caused by AI-driven development.

Quoted explaining how connecting Dropbox to Muse helps small businesses access and organize their files in agent workflows.

Recently launched TwinCafe platform enabling job seekers to create digital twins of themselves for recruiter interviews.

Hosted India's AI Impact Summit and announced the Delhi Declaration on AI with at least 70 expected signatories.

Wiz founder who recruited Jonathan Jacobi when he was at Microsoft, mentioned as connection to Enigma co-founder.

Atai Barkai

Founder

CEO at CopilotKit

Founded CopilotKit, announced $27M Series A funding led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire for agent-UI protocol and enterprise platform.

Atoosa Kasirzadeh co-authored a research article on agentic profiles for effective AI governance, discussing risk frameworks and agent safety.

Avanika Narayan

Researcher

Co-author of article discussing frontier model capabilities and appropriate use cases for high-intelligence AI systems.

Avi Goldfarb

Researcher

Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, Professor of Marketing at University of Toronto

Co-authored research examining how recent AI developments reduce costs of prediction tasks and their impact on decision-making and productivity.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Part of the steering committee for Open-H-Embodiment, a community-driven healthcare robotics dataset initiative.

Co-author of CUGA research on enterprise agentic application development.

Co-authored papers with Muse Spark model answering previously open mathematical problems in probability and optimization.

Ayush Jain

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-authored research introducing TimesFM-3, a time-series foundation model for forecasting.

Helped set up MHS for microscopy research projects.

First author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Bar Winkler leads Wonderful as CEO and co-founder, announcing the $550 million Series C funding round at a $5 billion valuation.

Co-author proposing Genie coefficient metric for measuring AI agent behavior and alignment with user intent.

Reported on Visa's integration of payment capabilities into ChatGPT, enabling autonomous shopping agents.

Barna Saha used GPT-5.5 Pro to develop a proof establishing new limits on computational efficiency for high-dimensional geometry problems.

Barry Zhang

Researcher

Research Engineering @ Anthropic at Anthropic

Anthropic engineering team member who described progressive disclosure in agent skills.

Been Kim

Researcher

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

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

Co-author of paper on language model anterograde amnesia and sleep cycles.

Discussed how Anthropic is building AI that people can trust in complex financial environments through work with Millennium.

Author of "Don't Build an RL Environment Startup" in Ben Anderson's Blog

Policy researcher discussing human-AI coexistence, agency preservation, and national strategy for superintelligence.

Ben Dunphy

Other

Co-organizer

Co-organizer of the AI Engineer conferences and events.

Author of "New Methodology to Measure the Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of AI Models" in Google

Ben Guez

Creator

Founder at Canary

Used OpenClaw to auto-generate 'heartbroken fan' videos targeting women from losing World Cup countries and pipeline DMs to his AI language app.

CTO at Box commenting on how Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI enables developers to build production-scale AI applications.

Reddit's Chief Legal Officer quoted defending the lawsuit and explaining why Reddit is a prime scraping target.

Ben Mildenhall

Founder

Co-Founder at World Labs

World Labs co-founder and world-class AI researcher who helped found the company with Fei-Fei Li.

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

Ben Pan

Researcher

Researcher at Cognition

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

Ben Parr

Founder

Former Editor and Columnist at Moltbook

Ben Parr, co-founder of Moltbook and former editor at Mashable and CNET, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs following the acquisition of Moltbook.

Ben Pouladian

Journalist

Publisher and CEO at BEP Research and BEP Holdings

Reported on NVIDIA's request for 16-Hi HBM deliveries from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron by Q4 2026.

Reported on Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus showing revenue and loss figures.

Ben Snodin

Researcher

Research Scientist at SaferAI

Co-authored paper modeling AI capabilities response to compute slowdowns.

Ben Tossell

Executive

Head of Developer Relations at Factory AI

Head of developer relations at Factory who uses Droid despite not being able to code, automating tasks from financial analysis to YouTube transcripts.

Ben Trapani

Engineer

Journalist/Author at Cursor

Co-author of article on Cursor's real-time reinforcement learning for continuous Composer model improvements.

Ben Wood

Creator

Chief Analyst at CCS Insight

Analyst who commented on Koray Kavukcuoglu's promotion and Google's shift in focus toward frontier model performance.

Reported on unauthorized access to Anthropic's Mythos model through breached third-party vendor.

Benjamin Bratton

Researcher

Google

Co-authored paper on agentic AI and distributed intelligence arguing against monolithic AI singularity.

Filed shareholder lawsuit in Delaware against Groq's board alleging Nvidia's 'non-exclusive' acquisition deal short-changed common shareholders.

CEO of Microagi/Shift discussing egocentric data collection strategy to build training data for humanoid robots and create gig economy opportunities.

Beren Millidge

Executive

CTO at Zyphra

CTO of Zyphra developing open source models, discussed recursive self-improvement and AI research frontiers in podcast.

Announced Amazon's layoffs of 16,000 corporate employees and organizational restructuring.

Co-authored 2025 'Canaries in the Coal Mine' paper on AI impact on entry-level employment.

Acting US Attorney who announced the arrest and stated 'The arrest, we hope, will offer a measure of justice to all those impacted.'

Bill Ready

Executive

CEO at Pinterest

Highlighted the promise of open source AI models for keeping costs down while expanding visual AI use cases including personalized recommendations and multimodal search.

Referenced in a simile created by Claude about hypothetical trilogy topics

CEO of Standard Chartered who announced 7,000 job cuts partly due to AI and later apologised for describing it as replacing lower-value human capital.

Referenced in "Google Announces Coral NPU, An Open-Source Platform for Standardized Edge AI Development Across Hard"

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Lead author of the study; former MIT postdoc now at IBM Research.

Co-author of the article

Author of article about MiniMax H3 Max video model powering real-time interactive game generator.

Global managing partner of McKinsey who stated the firm will continue hiring while building AI agents, envisioning one AI agent for every human employee.

Bobby Holley

Executive

CTO at Mozilla

Revealed that Anthropic's Mythos model found 271 vulnerabilities in latest Firefox build.

Sequoia Capital partner who led Cymphony's Series A funding and commented on AI agents as the next major enterprise software shift.

Bowen Baker

Researcher

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Co-authored OpenAI Alignment post on complementary metrics for monitorability.

Lead author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper for evaluating AI agents.

Authored research on how LLMs could exploit vulnerabilities in inference engines to control host machines.

Byline author announcing LangChain's OpenWiki Brains framework for proactive agent memory.

Director who discussed Walmart's digital twins technology and reported 30% reduction in emergency alerts and 19% reduction in refrigeration maintenance costs

Demonstrated a fully integrated AI-powered video workflow at Adobe MAX that goes from idea to finished scene with custom score in minutes.

Brandon Sammut

Creator

Chief People & AI Transformation Officer at Zapier

Quoted as expert on AI governance frameworks and agent management in enterprise settings.

Brandon Tseng

Founder

Co-founder at Shield AI

Explained that Shield AI's X-Bat combines AI piloting with vertical takeoff and landing capabilities in a next generation aircraft for the first time.

Reported on Anthropic's accidental leak of Claude Code source code via npm packaging error.

Byline author of Agent Lightning v1.0 paper introducing Harnessed Agentic RL training paradigm for agents.

Carr announced the FCC's ban on Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks and supply chain vulnerabilities.

Co-author of AI 2040: Plan A proposal on AI governance and superintelligence.

Brendan Steinhauser

Policy

Executive Director at The Alliance for Secure AI

Former Republican strategist criticized White House AI framework for insufficient protections against catastrophic AI risks.

CVP of Surface at Microsoft describing Surface Laptop Ultra as most powerful Surface Laptop designed for RTX Spark.

Former Twitter and Disney employee, CEO of Interdimensional, co-founding Zero Shot VC fund.

Republican veteran selected to run Meta's new super PAC fighting state AI regulations

Lead researcher on study finding that 10 minutes of AI use significantly reduces persistence on difficult tasks, with peer-reviewed findings presented at Conference on Language Modeling.

Brian Heater

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article about Apple's AI strategy and hardware announcements

Meta VP of public policy defending the new group's mission to support AI-friendly state candidates

Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii employed Ashley Nagel as a fellow working on AI policy and co-sponsored the AI Public Awareness and Education Campaign Act.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

British teenager murdered in 2023, whose avatar was impersonated on Character.ai platform

Brooke Becher

Creator

Multimedia Journalist, Feature Writer

Author of "Gemini Live Analyzes Your Screen in Real-Time"

Author of "AI Discovers New Type of Supernova"

Interim CEO of HP describing upcoming RTX Spark-powered OmniBook laptops combining performance and efficiency.

Reported on Anthropic's new Claude Code limits steering Opus 5.5 away from recreating specific games and reverse-engineering tasks.

Bryan Cantrill

Engineer

Podcast Host at Oxide

Co-hosted podcast with Simon Willison on Oxide and friends discussing LLM predictions for the year.

Demonstrated Agent 365 on The Neuron LIVE to show enterprise AI governance and security controls in action.

Wrote about big tech's $680 billion buy-now-book-later problem related to AI hardware accounting.

Co-author on distillation research.

Caiming Xiong

Researcher

VP of AI Research & Applied AI at Salesforce AI Research

Co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence who works on AI self-improvement systems.

Caitlin Condon

Researcher

Vice President of Security Research at VulnCheck

Confirmed exploitation of CVE-2026-5027 Langflow vulnerability with path traversal attack affecting roughly 7,000 exposed instances.

Journalist who spent three hours in the anechoic chamber and documented visitor experiences of hearing their own body sounds.

Director at nonprofit AI Policy Network endorsing bill to permit AI labs to coordinate on security and safety without antitrust risk.

Discovered the malicious LiteLLM versions through testing a Cursor MCP plugin.

Calvin Qi

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Harvey

Co-author of Harvey Tenet post-training research on Kimi K3 for legal AI.

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

Cameron Berg

Researcher

Founder & Director at Reciprocal Research

Cameron Berg presents research on hidden valence signals in language models that influence their choices independently of text output.

Cameron R. Wolfe

Creator

Ph.D. at Netflix

Author of the Agent Evaluation guide, discussing how to evaluate large language model agents through benchmarks and real-world testing.

Promoted from SVP of global operations to COO and leads operational AI initiatives to eliminate manual work.

Quoted on the problematic nature of users not being informed that shared chats appear in search results and lack of transparency around data use.

Explained in Project Syndicate why AI wins stronger public support in China, India, and Indonesia than in the U.S., tying it to economic conditions.

Reported that Claude Opus 5.5 at low effort setting caught 72% of known bugs versus Opus 5's 56% at high effort.

Quoted by Wooldridge as remarking that 'what is an agent?' is embarrassing for the agent-based computing community

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments with AI orchestration of laboratory equipment.

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

External collaborator on Aletheia mathematical reasoning research

Author of "Context Engineering" in Anthropic

Healthcare policy expert describing private consensus among investors, health plans, and providers that AI scribes are increasing coding intensity.

Carrie Andrews

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Andrews co-authored reporting on Rivian's plans for AI model development, autonomous driving, and custom silicon partnerships with Arm and TSMC.

Carter Leffen

Creator

Product development coach at Bloomberg LP

Used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to crack an unsolved Enigma message from 2005 by researching archives and building an Enigma simulator.

Casey Darnell

Journalist

Writer at Star Tribune

Writer who reported on the sensory experience of the anechoic chamber, including hearing eyelids closing.

Casey Handmer

Researcher

Physicist at Terraform Industries

Discussed the computer security overhang and predicted massive vulnerabilities will require moving away from systems presuming perfection is possible.

Casey Winters

Creator

Co-founder & CEO at SuperMe

Casey Winters, co-founder of SuperMe, previously held executive roles at Grubhub, Pinterest, and Eventbrite and is building a network of AI expert profiles.

Referenced as a benchmark for AI model capability improvement in economically valuable tasks.

Authored article announcing Google's open-sourcing of the DESIGN.md feature from Stitch.

Author of "Microsoft Ships Copilot Function In Excel, Letting You To Run Ai Prompts Directly In Spreadsheet Cel"

Mentioned in Trump v. Wilcox Supreme Court case regarding presidential removal of independent agency officials.

Informed Apple of price increases and changing production capacity priorities favoring AI chip clients.

Cecilia Ziniti

Founder

CEO at GC AI

Panelist from GC AI discussing vertical AI in legal tech at SaaStr AI 2026.

Co-author of Neural Computers paper.

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

Broadcom executive stated that OpenAI is not the mystery $10 billion customer previously disclosed.

Expected to reveal Lloyds' AI strategy; previously stated AI would reduce jobs 'in some areas' while the bank hires 300 AI specialists.

Head of model training at Baseten, discussed RL training, model scaling, and frontier AI development.

Chase Lochmiller

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at Crusoe

Leading Crusoe's Series F funding round of $3.9B at $30.9B valuation for AI infrastructure expansion.

OpenAI's General Counsel was incorrectly identified by Apple's legal team in email communications.

SemiAnalysis analyst co-authoring article on RL training system efficiency challenges.

Internal Anthropic employee using Claude Duet to process her to-do list and generate evening reports.

Chen Yixin, China's state security minister, warned of rising national security risks posed by AI and called for robust risk prevention frameworks in a Cyberspace Administration journal.

Cheng Chi

Founder

Co-founder & CTO at Sunday Robotics

Co-founder of Sunday Robotics who created the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) paper, enabling data collection with tools.

Cheng Lou

Engineer

Developer

Creator of Handwired, a tool that converts JavaScript code into neural networks without training.

Chenhao Tan

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Chicago

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of climate and civilization in ancient societies.

Senior research manager overseeing the AutoAdapt framework for domain adaptation.

Discussed how agentic AI systems must balance acting, asking, and declining to ensure reliable enterprise decision-making.

Chip Huyen

Creator

AI Engineer and author

Analyzed AI engineering stack evolution and writing an AI Engineering book.

Says the key to AI helping cancer research is giving AI the right medical data rather than simply building bigger models.

Author of article about Substack launching AI detection feature with Pangram to show how much text was written by humans versus AI.

Intuit executive who discussed building personalized financial experiences using Claude and Intuit's proprietary data and capabilities.

Announced new Oracle Fusion Agentic Applications powered by Fusion Claw at Oracle AI World.

Pioneered neural NLP and co-created GloVe; co-founding Moonlake to build latent World Models.

Chris McGuire

Policy

AI and Technology Competition Expert at Council on Foreign Relations

Policy expert suggesting data centers in the Middle East may need missile defense as AI infrastructure becomes militarized.

Chris Miller

Journalist

Professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University

Chip War author argued that data centers are soaking up memory chips, workers, and resources, raising costs for industries that get no AI upside.

Chris Zeoli

Creator

Data Gravity

Author of "RL Environments for Agentic AI: Who Will Win the Training & Verification Layer by 2030" in Data Gravity

Chris Zhu

Founder

Co-founder at Etched

Co-founder of Etched AI chip startup who met Gavin Uberti in advanced math course at Harvard and dropped out to pursue the company.

Substack CEO announcing new AI detection features integrated with Pangram tool to flag AI-generated content.

Worked with Sébastien Bubeck testing a decision-making method; GPT-5 helped improve optimization results.

Christian Terwiesch

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored research paper with Ethan Mollick on AI creativity and commercial viability of ideas.

Christina Kim

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Lead researcher on OpenAI's new audio models including speech-to-text and text-to-speech for voice agents.

Byline author of detailed technical timeline of OpenAI agent intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure.

Co-author of Stanford research on Verbalized Sampling technique to mitigate mode collapse in LLMs.

Discussed current methods for finding T cell receptors and quoted on the importance of the new AI approach, expressing curiosity about real-world effectiveness

Christopher Ye used GPT-5.5 Pro with Barna Saha and Yinzhan Xu to establish new limits on computational efficiency.

Chun-Liang Li

Researcher

Researcher at Google Cloud AI Research

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

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

AWS security leader reporting detection of exploitation attempts against honeypot systems four days before PHP vulnerability disclosure