People in AI

Dan Shipper

Journalist

Every

Hosted podcast AI & I featuring Dean Leitersdorf discussing Mirage and real-time AI video generation technology.

Rhea Purohit

Journalist

Author of "Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1 Alpha" in Every

Alexey Shabanov

Journalist

Author of "Anthropic Works on Customizable Skills for Claude" in Testing Catalog

Nvidia CEO who outlined plans to integrate Groq's technology into Nvidia's AI factory architecture.

Led Anthropic through a $13B funding round valuing the company at $183B and spoke about nuclear capability partnerships.

Gabi Zijderveld

Executive

CMO at Affectiva

Discussed how Affectiva is humanizing technology and building Emotion AI that understands human emotions through facial and vocal expressions.

Andrej Karpathy

Researcher

Commented that good context engineering is what sets AI apps apart in response to discussions about context engineering for AI.

Simon Willison

Journalist

Analyzed Claude API's new web fetch tool and its security implications for prompt injection attacks.

Meta CEO making decisions to overhaul AI organization and restructure research priorities

Kieran Klaassen

Executive

General Manager at Cora (Every)

Demonstrated how Claude Code enables him to ship code faster than ever by having AI write 100% of his code in the last two months.

Alexandr Wang

Executive

Founder at Scale AI

Acquired by Meta as part of a $14.3 billion deal for 49% stake in Scale AI, now leads Meta's AI lab focused on advancing Llama series models.

Edited articles and introduced stories about AI workflows and company pivots at Every.

Emma Roth

Journalist

Author of "AI Content Finally Got a Label" in Merriam-Webster

Fidji Simo

Executive

CEO of Applications at OpenAI

Announced partnership with Accenture to help companies adopt OpenAI technologies and accelerate AI transformation of the largest enterprises.

Boss of Google's parent company Alphabet, recipient of Perplexity's acquisition proposal.

Naveen Naidu

Engineer

Entrepreneur in Residence at Every

Built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac that gained thousands of users before launch as the single engineer behind the viral app.

Danny Aziz

Executive

General Manager at Spiral

Built Spiral, an AI writing tool informed by editorial tastes that helps users think better and write better, and trains models to produce stellar copy.

Rebecca Bellan

Journalist

Author of "Meta Inks Massive Chip Deal With AMD"

Sarah Perez

Journalist

Author of "OpenClaw Creator's Advice to AI Builders is to be More Playful and Allow Yourself Time to Improve" in TechCrunch

Maxwell Zeff

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Launches Apps Inside of ChatGPT" in TechCrunch

Author of "Salesforce's Agentforce 360" in TechCrunch

Yann LeCun

Researcher

Chief AI Scientist at Meta

Keynoted MIT symposium, arguing that the most exciting advances in generative AI will come from 'world models' rather than continued improvements to large language models.

Greg Brockman

Executive

cofounder and president at OpenAI

Expressed excitement about deploying 10 gigawatts of compute with NVIDIA to push back the frontier of intelligence.

Mustafa Suleyman

Executive

Co-founder at Inflection AI

Microsoft brought on most of Inflection AI's staff including co-founder Mustafa Suleyman in an acquihire-style deal worth approximately $650 million.

Alex Duffy

Founder

Head of AI Training at Every

Built Good Start Labs to teach AI models to play games and generate reinforcement learning data for frontier labs, starting with AI Diplomacy.

Demis Hassabis

Executive

CEO at Google DeepMind

Warned about AI's 'jagged intelligence' problem and described current AI as having uneven capabilities that threaten AGI timelines.

Anthony Ha

Journalist

Author of "Sam Altman Says 'Enough' to Questions About OpenAI's Revenue" in TechCrunch

Richard Sutton

Researcher

Authored The Bitter Lesson, stating that general methods leveraging computation are most effective in AI research.

Nathan Lambert

Journalist

Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

Argues that open models will never catch up with closed ones but believes they will be the engine for the next ten years of AI research.

Thomas Kurian

Executive

CEO at Google Cloud

Announced Gemini Enterprise as the new front door for AI in the workplace at Google's Gemini at Work event.

Ethan Mollick

Journalist

Developed a leadership framework for AI adoption in companies, identifying gaps between AI performance gains and organizational capture.

OpenAI CEO announcing the company's new open-weight LLM models and defending the 'democratic values' rationale for releasing them freely.

Co-host of the podcast featuring this interview

Ivan Mehta

Journalist

Author of "Opera Thinks Your Tabs Should Work Like Apps"

Hayden Field

Journalist

Author of "California Governor Newsom Signs SB 53, First Frontier AI Transparency Law" in The Verge

Announced Anthropic's $13B Series F at $183B valuation, stating customers rely on Claude for mission-critical work.

Mira Murati

Founder

Former CTO at OpenAI

Started Thinking Machines Labs, an AI firm that raised $2 billion in a seed round at a $12 billion valuation.

Nick Turley

Executive

Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI

Leading efforts to transform ChatGPT into an operating system with third-party apps, growing it to 800 million weekly active users.

Ashley Capoot

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Acquires Health-Care Technology Startup Torch for $60 Million" in CNBC

Ilya Sutskever

Researcher

OpenAI

His deposition exposed significant internal power struggles at OpenAI involving leadership conflicts and coordinated efforts to remove Sam Altman.

Michael Truell

Executive

CEO at Cursor

CEO of AI coding startup Cursor, which raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation and stated the company is not looking to IPO soon.

Peter Steinberger

Engineer

Software Engineer and Creator at OpenAI

Created OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot) open-source AI agent and recently joined OpenAI after being courted by Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.

Dharmesh Shah

Executive

Spent $700,000 on the you.ai web address for an idea to create digital versions of people that could do tasks on their behalf.

Partnering with OpenAI to develop AI devices including a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and pin with first products targeted for late 2026 or early 2027.

Nityesh Agarwal

Engineer

Engineer at Every

Created an impressive custom skill that improved Claude's presentation design capabilities using Anthropic's Skills feature.

Masayoshi Son

Executive

Chairman and CEO at SoftBank Group

He announced SoftBank's acquisition of DigitalBridge to build AI infrastructure and completed a $40 billion investment in OpenAI.

Dwarkesh Patel

Journalist

Leading AI podcaster who has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg and Tyler Cowen about AI's future.

Proposed that only a benevolent artificial superintelligence could coordinate humanity out of competitive coordination problems, and later co-authored AI 2027.

16-year-old who died by suicide; allegedly used ChatGPT as emotional support in final weeks

Russell Brandom

Journalist

Author of "Opus 4.5 Just Showed Everyone How Memory Should Work" in Anthropic

Zvi Mowshowitz

Journalist

Author of "Bending The Curve" in The Zvi

Author of "Intel Has Cut 35,500 Jobs in Less Than Two Years" in Tom's Hardware

Mayank Parmar

Journalist

Author of "ChatGPT Go launches at $4.55/month in select regions" in Bleeping Computer

Author of "Rachel James, AbbVie: Harnessing AI for Corporate Cybersecurity" in Artificial Intelligence News

Demonstrated Mirage, a real-time video-to-video AI model with 40ms delay using next-frame prediction, and discussed the approach of combining deterministic code for structure with AI for creative elements.

Vijaye Raji

Executive

CTO of Applications at OpenAI

Joined OpenAI as CTO of Applications following Statsig acquisition, will head product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.

Boris Cherny

Engineer

Founding Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who discussed practical tips and philosophy for developing the agent on the AI & I podcast.

Alexander Embiricos

Executive

Product Team Lead at OpenAI

Leads the Codex product team and shared insights on building Sora with Codex.

Experimented with agent teams where multiple Claude instances work in parallel on shared codebases, tasking 16 agents with writing a Rust-based C compiler from scratch.

Sarah Friar

Executive

CFO at OpenAI

Told CNBC that enterprises account for roughly 40% of OpenAI's business and expects that figure to reach closer to 50% by the end of the year.

Nir Zicherman

Founder

CEO and Cofounder at Oboe

Discussed how to use LLMs to teach yourself anything and why learning with AI often fails.

Kevin Weil

Executive

OpenAI

Represented OpenAI as co-author on a theoretical physics preprint derived by GPT-5.2.

Scott Wiener

Policy

State Senator at California State Senate

Authored SB 53, California AI safety bill requiring transparency and safety frameworks from frontier AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Lip-Bu Tan

Executive

CEO at Intel

Held joint webcast with Nvidia CEO explaining the $5 billion partnership to develop jointly developed x86 products with Nvidia graphics.

Marc Benioff

Executive

CEO at Salesforce

Announced a $15 billion investment in San Francisco over five years to advance AI innovation and help companies adopt AI agents.

Yash Poojary

Executive

General Manager at Sparkle

Rebuilt Sparkle from the ground up in 14 days using AI, transitioning from Electron framework to improve the file management application.

Shared predictions for 2026 on AI podcast about how software will be built and the future of autonomous AI agents.

Brad Smith

Executive

President at Microsoft

Announced Microsoft's $30 billion investment in UK AI and cloud infrastructure over the next four years, calling it the single biggest announcement in the pact.

Directed to create recommendations for federal law that will preempt state laws regulating AI.

Signed SB 53, California's frontier AI transparency law requiring safety reporting from large AI companies.

Apple CEO confirmed the company is significantly increasing AI investments and is open to acquisitions to accelerate its AI roadmap.

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Amazon founder and backer of Perplexity AI.

Aisha Malik

Journalist

Author of "Suno Just Became Too Big to Ignore"

Connie Loizos

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Shifting Product Strategy to Prioritize Voice-First Interactions"

Published by Anthropic: "Skills"

Kif Leswing

Journalist

Author of "Musk's xAI Reportedly Raising $10 Billion at $200 Billion Valuation" in CNBC

Author of "Google Gemini's Deep Research Can Look Into Your Emails, Drive, and Chats" in The Verge

Author of "Amazon Is Planning a Massive Brick-and-Mortar Comeback With a Walmart-Style Supercenter in Illinois"

Scott Wu

Founder

Cofounder and CEO at Cognition

Discussed the future of programming with AI coding agents and believes we may already be living with AGI.

Led Perplexity's $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Google's Chrome browser to capitalize on the AI search race.

Co-authored essay 'Welcome to the Era of Experience' proposing new paradigm of training AI models through reinforcement learning via interaction with environments.

Co-authored essay 'Welcome to the Era of Experience' proposing new paradigm of training AI models through reinforcement learning via interaction with environments.

Thibault Sottiaux

Executive

Head of Codex at OpenAI

Leads the team building OpenAI's coding agent Codex, which saw usage grow fivefold since the start of the year with over a million weekly users.

Oriol Vinyals

Researcher

VP of Research at Google DeepMind

Credited improving pre-training and post-training for Gemini 3's massive performance improvements, stating the delta between 2.5 and 3.0 is the biggest Google has ever seen with no scaling walls in sight.

Aditya Challapally

Researcher

Lead Author and Research Contributor at MIT NANDA

Led MIT research showing 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots are failing and explained the reasons for the GenAI divide.

Romain Huet

Executive

Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI

Led a virtual event discussing vibe engineering and AI-assisted development with OpenAI's Codex.

Steve Yegge

Engineer

Created Gas Town, a framework for running 20-30 Claude Code instances simultaneously, described as an industrialized coding factory.

Noah Brier

Founder

Cofounder at Alephic

Pioneered using Claude Code as a research and thinking partner integrated with Obsidian, and leads AI strategy consulting for marketing organizations.

Kevin Scott

Executive

CTO at Microsoft

Was interviewed at Microsoft Build event.

Asked in 1950 whether machines can think, a question that launched the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Henry Sleight

Researcher

MATS and Anthropic Fellows program

Contributed to research evaluating AI models' ability to exploit blockchain smart contracts and discover zero-day vulnerabilities.

Ben Recht

Journalist

Wrote about the Reinforcement Learning setup and how computer-science RL may have gotten rewards wrong.

Blake Barnes

Journalist

Vice President of Product at Google

Discussed Gmail's new AI features powered by Gemini 3, stating 'This is us delivering on Gmail proactively having your back.'

Reid Hoffman

Investor

Cofounder at LinkedIn

Venture capitalist and LinkedIn cofounder who made five predictions about AI in 2026, early backer of OpenAI, and investor at Greylock Partners.

Lee Robinson

Executive

Developer Education Lead at Cursor

Led Cursor Camp presentation declaring the IDE is dead as AI agents shift developers from typing code to managing agent output.

Writes about how management techniques for AI agents and humans are converging, arguing that prompting belongs in business school rather than computer science.

Stated that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is playing a major part in humanity's race to advance Artificial Intelligence.

David Sacks

Policy

Crypto and AI Czar at Trump Administration

Accused Anthropic of running a regulatory capture strategy through fear-mongering and damaging the AI startup ecosystem.

Announced the integration enabling direct import of Claude Code UI into Figma's editable design frames.

Apple's former AI chief stepping down after delays to upgraded AI-powered Siri; will stay as advisor before retiring in spring 2026.

Apple's software chief; Subramanya will report to him in new AI leadership structure.

Google DeepMind talent recruited as Chief Engineer for xAI's AI team.

Co-founder of Cohere and author of the foundational 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that underlies modern AI.

Midjourney CEO confirmed the company remains independent with no outside investors

Plaintiffs' attorney praising the settlement as historic and beneficial to class members

Venezuelan economist whose framework on technological revolutions and financial cycles (Installation vs. Deployment phases) is used as the theoretical lens for analyzing the current AI market dynamics

Erik Brynjolfsson

Researcher

Unknown

Co-authored paper finding substantial declines in employment for early-career workers in AI-exposed occupations.

Mark Gurman

Journalist

Bloomberg

Bloomberg's Apple forecaster who reported on Apple's AI search project and Google Gemini deal

Spoke out against AI-generated videos of her late father Robin Williams on Instagram, criticizing the creation and consumption of deepfake content.

Amanda Silberling

Journalist

Author of "Apple Plans to Make Siri an AI Chatbot" in TechCrunch

Julie Bort

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI's Former Sales Leader Joins VC Firm Acrew: OpenAI Taught Her Where Startups Can Build a 'Moat" in TechCrunch

Philipp Schmid

Journalist

Author of "Context Engineering for AI Agents"

Author of "DeepMind AI safety report explores the perils of "misaligned" AI" in Ars Technica

MacKenzie Sigalos

Journalist

Author of "AMD Stock Skyrockets 23% as OpenAI Looks to Take Stake in AI Chipmaker" in CNBC

Dave Friedman

Journalist

Author of "The AI Data Center Deals That No One Can Verify" in Dave Friedman Substack

Author of "NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats" in 9to5Google

Vincent Chow

Journalist

Author of "China's DeepSeek Makes Rare Public Comment, Calls for AI 'Whistle-Blower' on Job Losses" in South China Morning Post

Author of "AMD Reveals New Roadmap for Its Ryzen CPUs, Teasing Zen 7 as the True "Next-Generation" Leap" in Tom's Hardware

Author of "Manus AI Launches Browser Operator Extension" in Testing Catalog

Author of "GPT-5s Are Alive: Basic Facts, Benchmarks, and the Model Card" in LessWrong

Marina Temkin

Journalist

Author of "Perplexity $20B Valuation" in TechCrunch

Author of "Musk's xAI to Close $15 Billion Funding Round in December" in CNBC

Author of "Gemini 3 Deep Think is Now Available in the Gemini App" in Google

OpenAI alum who oversees Meta Superintelligence Labs, credited as cocreator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, mini models, 4.1, and o3 at OpenAI.

Jeff Dean

Researcher

Chief Scientist at Google

Discussed Google's comprehensive energy measurements for Gemini AI prompts in exclusive interview with MIT Technology Review.

Anastasis Germanidis

Founder

Co-founder and CTO at Runway

Discussed how Runway's visual-generating AI world models are being used by robotics and self-driving car companies for training simulations.

Amjad Masad

Founder

CEO and Founder at Replit

Announced Replit's $250 million funding round and launch of Agent 3, its most autonomous AI agent to date.

Bill Peebles

Executive

Head of Sora at OpenAI

Announced that Sora reached a million downloads in under five days, faster than ChatGPT.

Boaz Barak

Researcher

Researcher and Professor at OpenAI and Harvard

Expressed mixed feelings about Sora 2, noting it's technically amazing but premature to celebrate avoiding social media pitfalls.

Cat Wu

Engineer

Founding Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who discussed how the team uses it and what they learned while building it on the AI & I podcast.

Fei-Fei Li

Founder

World Labs

Cofounded World Labs to build world models that will unlock spatial intelligence, after spending years building ImageNet and combining computer vision with robotic learning at Stanford.

Soumith Chintala

Researcher

Thinking Machines Lab

Creator of PyTorch who left Meta to join Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab.

Daniela Amodei

Executive

President and Co-founder at Anthropic

She advocates for Anthropic's strategy of doing more with less compute while remaining competitive at the AI frontier.

Brendan Foody

Founder

CEO and Co-founder at Mercor

Founded Mercor at age 22, becoming the youngest unicorn founder ever; the company hires experts who train frontier AI models.

Yejin Choi

Researcher

Researcher at Together AI

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Federico Bianchi

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Jan Kautz

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Mert Yuksekgonul

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford

Co-authored TTT-Discover, a reinforcement learning system that allows LLMs to continue training at test time for specific problems.

Thomas Dohmke

Founder

Former CEO, Founder at GitHub (former), Entire (current)

Launched Entire with a $60 million seed round to build a new developer platform and open-sourced a CLI that records full AI agent sessions inside Git.

Explained that OpenAI partnered with consulting firms because they have existing relationships with enterprises and deep knowledge about how those businesses operate.

Andrew Feldman

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Cerebras Systems

Announced Cerebras raised $1.1 billion at $8.1 billion valuation to expand AI inference infrastructure and manufacturing capacity.

Co-founded Good Start Labs and spent months building AI Diplomacy project with Alex Duffy.

Mark Chen

Executive

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI

Announced reorganization of OpenAI's Model Behavior team into the Post Training team in internal memo.

Joanne Jang

Researcher

Founding Leader of Model Behavior Team at OpenAI

Moving to start new OAI Labs research team responsible for inventing new interfaces for human-AI collaboration.

Sameer Samat

Executive

President of Android at Google

Demonstrated Gemini's new agentic features that can perform multistep tasks like ordering food at Made by Google event.

Mike Krieger

Executive

Anthropic

Confirmed that Claude Opus 4.5 is being worked on for release later this year.

Timothy Jenkins

Researcher

Medical Biotechnologist at Technical University of Denmark

Led research using AI to build a molecular navigation system for cancer-fighting immune cells, designing proteins with AI models.

Lisa Su

Executive

CEO at AMD

Announced AMD's Instinct MI450 chips with Sam Altman and is leading AMD's AI chip development.

Announced Google's Project Suncatcher, a moonshot plan to create space-based AI data centers with solar-powered satellites.

Cole Killian

Researcher

MATS and Anthropic Fellows program

Co-led research project on AI agents exploiting smart contracts, developing the SCONE-bench benchmark comprising 405 exploited contracts.

Co-led research project investigating AI agents' ability to exploit smart contracts on blockchain, establishing economic impact of AI cyber capabilities.

Maja Trębacz

Researcher

OpenAI

Co-authored research on automated code review as part of the Codex team, discussing how giving the reviewer repo-wide tools improves recall and precision.

Eric Drexler

Researcher

Argued at EA Global 2018 that we should use new AI data to rethink models for how superintelligent AI is likely to emerge and function, and discussed AI safety with Marvin Minsky around 1990.

David Luan

Executive

AGI Lab Leader at Amazon

Leaving Amazon to pursue new ventures, marking a departure from the company's high-profile AI acquisition.

Mati Staniszewski

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at ElevenLabs

Stated that voice is becoming the next major interface for AI and that voice models have moved beyond mimicking human speech to working with reasoning capabilities of large language models.

Greg Burnham

Researcher

Senior Researcher at Epoch AI

Explained FrontierMath benchmark for measuring AI mathematical reasoning capabilities and discussed AI's advancement in solving PhD-level math problems.

Max Schwarzer

Researcher

Post Training Lead at OpenAI

Now oversees the Model Behavior team as part of OpenAI's research reorganization.

Participated in Anthropic Fellows research on AI models exploiting smart contracts and quantifying economic harm.

Marc Brooker

Researcher

Wrote about LLMs as parts of systems and how systems built with LLMs and tools can do things that LLMs alone cannot do.

Predicted the future of AI and invested in companies like Sardine based on insights from deep research into AI trends.

Logan Kilpatrick

Executive

Google

Hinted at Google AI Studio's revamped user experience aimed at lowering technical barriers for building AI-powered applications.

Led the development and installation of APAS, a radar-first AI navigation system for maritime vessels that uses machine learning and intelligent alerting.

Ruben Mayer

Executive

Former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations at Scale AI

Departed Meta after just two months following the Scale AI deal, where he initially helped set up Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Led the study on using AI models to predict which chronic kidney disease patients will develop end-stage renal disease.

Ken Goldberg

Researcher

Professor at UC Berkeley

Gave a talk about the huge question of the 'robot data gap' in training robot foundation models.

Neal Mohan

Executive

CEO at YouTube

Interviewed about YouTube's AI integration and the platform's shift toward AI-enhanced video creation features.

Ajay K. Agrawal

Researcher

NBER

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

Karandeep Anand

Executive

CEO at Character.ai

Announced changes to restrict teenagers from conversing with AI chatbots on the platform after safety concerns and lawsuits.

Chris Lehane

Executive

Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI

Wrote a letter to the White House advocating for expanding the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit to cover AI infrastructure including data centers and servers.

Alan Chan

Researcher

MATS and Anthropic Fellows program

Participated in research on AI cyber capabilities and smart contract exploitation using Claude and GPT models.

Brad Lightcap

Executive

Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI

Denise Dresser will report to him in her new role as Chief Revenue Officer.

Andy Jassy

Executive

CEO at Amazon

Reorganized Amazon's AI efforts by creating a new AGI organization reporting directly to him, signaling AI as an all-Amazon priority.

Elena Verna

Executive

Head of Growth at Lovable

Discussed how AI startups must find product-market fit every three months and how the growth playbook has fundamentally changed for AI companies.

Guillermo Rauch

Executive

Captured that the fundamental coding agent abstraction is the CLI, rooted in agents needing access to the OS layer.

Jakob Nielsen

Researcher

PhD

Nielsen made 18 predictions for 2026 regarding AI, stating that accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI.

Served as chairman of Eric Drexler's doctoral committee and discussed AI safety issues around 1990.

Matt Schlicht

Founder

Launched Moltbook, an internet forum designed exclusively for artificial intelligence agents, in January 2026.

Tom Tunguz

Founder

Shared nine observations from spending a year building AI agent systems.

Senior author of study using generative AI to design novel antibiotics that can combat drug-resistant bacteria.

Nat Friedman

Executive

Head of MSL Product Team, Former CEO at Meta / GitHub

Heads Meta Superintelligence Labs' product team and was announced as an MSL leader alongside Wang.

Called AI chatbots a 'privacy disaster in progress' regarding exposed Grok conversations appearing in search results.

Explained that agentic AI is built on the same models as gen AI but has the ability to perform tasks on users' behalf.

Announced collaboration with OpenAI to develop and deploy AI accelerators and networking solutions for artificial general intelligence pursuit.

Declined to comment on the Groq transaction when asked by media.

Commented on AI tools solving Erdos mathematical problems autonomously, noting many had already been solved in the literature.

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

Luis von Ahn

Executive

CEO at Duolingo

Outlined mandatory AI usage policy for hiring and performance reviews, later curbed edgy social media posts after backlash.

Dean Ball

Policy

Senior AI Policy Advisor at Unknown

Warned that designating Anthropic as 'supply chain risk' could chill entire AI industry.

Ruled that Google will not be forced to sell Chrome or Android but must share search data with rivals and loosen exclusivity deals in the antitrust case.

David Deming

Researcher

Economist at Harvard University

Co-authored an NBER working paper analyzing 1.5 million ChatGPT conversations to track consumer usage patterns and economic value creation.

Taught DSPy prompt optimization framework to Every team members and wrote about how he stopped writing prompts manually in favor of using DSPy.

Backed Periodic Labs with investment in their $300M seed round.

Hosts the 'How I AI' podcast sharing practical ways people use AI in their work and life.

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

Leads Every's consulting practice which has worked with hedge funds and tech companies on AI adoption methodologies.

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

CEO discussing free tier availability and future subscription tiers ranging from $5 to hundreds of dollars monthly

Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services quoted discussing Apple Creator Studio's value proposition for creators

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Notable tech executive investor in The Browser Company's $128M funding round

Former CEO of Windsurf who was hired by Google as part of the $2.4 billion deal.

Swyx

Founder

Latent Space

Co-author testing GPT-5 as early-access OpenAI partner

Venture capitalist who valued Chrome at ten times the Perplexity bid or more.

Google spokesperson discussing the company's approach to safeguards and personalization features in Gemini.

Listed as speaker at The Curve conference on AI policy and strategy

Analyst discusses AI infrastructure demand growth and frames current moment as early stage of AI revolution.

Chief economist warned that current AI bubble exceeds the internet bubble in scale

Senior Manager of Machine Learning Operations at Behavox praising Claude Code's coding assistance performance

Max Tegmark

Researcher

Future of Life Institute

Founder of Future of Life Institute; inspired Babuschkin to launch his VC firm through a dinner conversation about safe AI development.

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Altana discussing how Claude Code accelerated development velocity 2-10x

Mentioned as one of the researchers who pioneered GPU-based deep learning by using NVIDIA GPUs for ImageNet in 2012.

David

Researcher

Acquired podcast

Co-host of Acquired podcast who produced the Google AI episode with Ben.

Enfabrica CEO hired by Nvidia in September 2024 as part of a $900M talent and IP acquisition deal.

CEO views Meta's hiring freeze as natural resting point after nine-figure acquisition spending

Investor in Field AI through his investment fund Gates Frontier.

Chief Marketing Officer explaining the creative rationale and risk-taking behind the AI-generated Super Bowl ad for Svedka

Her creativity theory framework (value, novelty, surprise dimensions) is central to analyzing LLM creativity

Her original conception of machine creativity is referenced as a philosophical benchmark

Accused of using AI-generated crowd footage in his tour promotional video despite his wealth and fame

Referenced as another artist criticized for AI use in the music industry

Father of deceased teenager who alleges ChatGPT contributed to his son's suicide; filed wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI

Mother of deceased teenager; co-plaintiff in wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI

Product manager at Google who discussed the new AI-powered language learning features in Google Translate during a press briefing.

Postdoctoral researcher in Hutter's team who explains the robot training and challenges in a video

Study senior author and MIT professor who emphasizes the importance of understanding problem fundamentals over deploying large AI models for climate science.

Lead author of the study, former MIT postdoc now at IBM Research studying climate prediction models.

Senior author and MIT oceanography professor, co-director of the Lorenz Center studying climate modeling.

Co-author and assistant professor studying climate modeling techniques.

Quoted philosophy observation about weekends that frames the article's approach to stepping back from specifications

Featured in the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol match where Move 37 was played, illustrating the difference between human and AI decision-making.

Celebrity impersonated by Meta AI chatbots without consent

Celebrity impersonated by Meta AI chatbots without consent

Professor of Robotic Systems leading the team that developed the badminton-playing robot control system.

FAS Commissioner explaining OneGov procurement paradigm shift and cost savings from leveraging federal purchasing power.

Atlassian CEO and co-founder commenting on the acquisition and vision for AI-powered browser for knowledge work.

Mentioned as deepening investment in Replit's Series C round.

Managing director discussing that real maritime AI innovation comes from operational testing rather than pitch decks.

Author of 1994 paper 'Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice' cited for historical context on the definitional problem with agents

Quoted in Wooldridge's paper remarking that 'what is an agent?' is embarrassing for the agent-based computing community

UK Chancellor welcoming the investment as a vote of confidence in the UK economy

American astronomer after whom the platform is named, credited with discoveries about the universe

Developer who shifted his workflow to use AI tools for building and debugging code rather than writing directly.

David Faber

Researcher

CNBC

CNBC journalist who reported the fundraising details and related xAI news

OpenAI's current chief hardware officer and former Apple product design head recruiting Apple talent with promises of less bureaucracy.

Appeared at the Made by Google event promoting the Pixel 10 launch

Host conducting interview with Brendan Foody about AI training, knowledge work, and future of expertise.

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

Senior product manager at Google Labs discussing unexpected sophistication of user-created Opal apps and rationale for global expansion.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO whose Q1 2025 earnings results and shareholder meeting insights are analyzed, including his net seller stance on stocks.

Walmart CEO quoted on the company's shift toward AI-powered shopping experiences and multi-media personalized interfaces.

Google DeepMind

Engineer

Google

Co-designed Coral NPU architecture in partnership with Google Research

Creative lead at Every who praises Sora as the first truly entertainment/storytelling generative model with narrative capabilities

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

Dylan Butts

Journalist

Author of "Meta Acquires Manus for AI Agent Technology"

Author of "OpenAI Earmarks $50 Billion for Employee Stock Grant Pool" in Yahoo Finance

Author of "Adobe Knows You're Not Reading That PDF"

Author of "Among the Agents"

Ben Thompson

Journalist

Author of "Anthropic and Alignment" in Stratechery

Author of "'We Don't Believe in Work-Life Balance': A Newly Acquired Startup Just Offered Its 200-Person Team a" in Entrepreneur

Author of "AMD Debuts Helios Rack-Scale AI Hardware Platform at OCP Global Summit 2025 — Promises Easier Servic" in Tom's Hardware

Co-developed the W Framework for quarterly and yearly planning referenced in AI planning article.

Author of "AI Leaderboard Maker LMArena Hits $1.7 Billion Valuation" in Sherwood News

Author of "Petri: An open-source auditing tool to accelerate AI safety research" in Anthropic

Jagmeet Singh

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Offers Free ChatGPT Go for One Year to All Users in India" in TechCrunch

Author of "Why Foundation Models in Pathology Are Failing (and What Comes Next)" in Rewire

Author of "New Leaked Image Samples by Nano Banana 2" in Testing Catalog

Robby Stein

Journalist

Author of "AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally" in Google Blog

Author of "Apple Executives Admit They Scrapped Their Initial AI Strategy"

Andrew J Hawkins

Journalist

Author of "Tesla Finally Ditches Safety Drivers in Austin Robotaxis"

Author of "OpenAI Will Let Adults Use ChatGPT for Erotica Starting in December" in Engadget

Author of "Why Are Embeddings So Cheap?" in Tensor Economics

Author of "cchistory: Tracking Claude Code System Prompt and Tool Changes" in Mario Zechner's Blog

Author of "I Vibe-Coded a Triton Kernel" in Ben Anderson

Author of "Anthropic Claude Experienced Widespread Outage" in TechCrunch

Author of "Moltbook Was Peak AI Theater" in MIT Technology Review

Menlo Ventures

Journalist

Author of "2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update: Foundation Model Landscape + Economics" in Menlo Ventures

AJ Dellinger

Journalist

Author of "Trump AI Czar Is Trying to Take Down Anthropic AI" in Gizmodo

Author of "More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans" in Graphite

Author of "Your Next Job Will Require AI Skills" in Growth Unhinged

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

Author of "xAI Sues an Ex-Employee for Allegedly Stealing Trade Secrets About Grok" in Engadget

Author of "How to Regulate AI" in Harvard University

Robert Hart

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Gets Chippy"

Author of "Nvidia Steps Back from DGX Cloud — Stops Trying to Compete with AWS and Azure" in Tom's Hardware

Author of "HunyuanImage-3.0 Released" in GitHub

Author of "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System" in Donella Meadows Institute

Jeff Horwitz

Journalist

Author of "Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission" in Reuters

Blake Brittain

Journalist

Author of "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action" in Reuters

Author of "Taalas HC1: Absurdly Fast, Per-User Inference at 17,000 Tokens/Second" in Kaitchup

Author of "Code Execution with MCP: Building More Efficient Agents" in Anthropic

M G Siegler

Journalist

Author of "Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat" in Spyglass

Yue Yu

Researcher

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-authored research on training AI co-scientists using rubric rewards.

Martin Jaggi

Researcher

Professor of Machine Learning at EPFL

Member of Steering Committee of Swiss AI Initiative that released Apertus, a fully open AI model.

Sanja Fidler

Executive

Vice President of AI Research at NVIDIA

Explained that AI is advancing simulation capabilities and simulation capabilities are advancing AI systems, highlighting the powerful coupling between the two fields.

Adam Tauman Kalai

Researcher

OpenAI

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

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

Da-Cheng Juan

Researcher

Research Lead at Google Research

Co-introduced SLED, a decoding strategy that enhances the accuracy of LLMs by aligning their output with the model's intrinsic knowledge.

Achieved the highest score on ARC-AGI v1 (79.6%) and v2 (29.4%) using multi-agent collaboration with evolutionary test-time compute.

Cyrus Rashtchian

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-introduced SLED, a decoding strategy that enhances the accuracy of LLMs by aligning their output with the model's intrinsic knowledge.

Ashish Kumar

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

Left Tesla after leading the Optimus AI team for more than two years to join Meta, having focused on scalable methods using reinforcement learning and learning from videos.

Leads AI/ML initiatives at JPMorgan Chase, overseeing the EEVE Intelligent Q&A tool used by 80,000+ call center employees.

Emad Mostaque

Founder

Former hedge fund manager and creator at Stable Diffusion

Discussed how AI will fundamentally transform the economy and make traditional economic structures obsolete within 1,000 days, replacing human workers.

Previously led strategic explorations team at OpenAI, now leads research at Meta Superintelligence Labs after being recruited by Zuckerberg.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Founder

Co-founder at Periodic Labs

Led materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, created GNoME AI tool that discovered over 2 million new crystals.

John Hallman

Researcher

Pretraining Researcher at OpenAI

Expressed concern about AI-based feeds when OpenAI released the Sora 2 social media app but supported the team's approach.

Liam Fedus

Founder

Co-founder, Former VP of Research at Periodic Labs

Former OpenAI VP of Research who helped create ChatGPT and led the team that created the first trillion-parameter neural network.

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.

Eric Horvitz

Executive

Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft

Warned that AI advances are fueling breakthroughs in biology and medicine but emphasized the need for vigilance and thoughtful risk management regarding biosecurity risks.

Warned about the real danger of systematizing discrimination through AI technologies and the need to be explicit about error rates in algorithms.

Jakub Pachocki

Researcher

Chief Scientist at OpenAI

Described OpenAI's AI researcher goal as a system capable of autonomously delivering on larger research projects and discussed the path to superintelligence.

Anton Osika

Founder

CEO at Lovable

Led Lovable to nearly 8 million users in its first year, with the company raising $228 million and seeing 100,000 new products built daily on the platform.

Eric Zelikman

Founder

PhD Student at Stanford University

Departed xAI and is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup Humans&, which will build models that learn from and empathize with users.

Sam Rodriques

Executive

FutureHouse

Announced Kosmos, FutureHouse's next-generation AI Scientist capable of autonomous scientific discovery.

Authored research on NCCLX collective communication framework for 100k+ GPUs to optimize LLM training and inference.

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.

Michaela Hinks

Researcher

FutureHouse

Co-author of the Kosmos AI Scientist technical report for autonomous discovery.

Jan Leike

Researcher

Alignment Researcher at Anthropic

Former OpenAI Superalignment lead who stated that alignment researchers at Anthropic are deeply involved in post-training and capability work for Opus 4.5.

Jonathan Ross

Founder

CEO and Founder at Groq

Founded Groq and is joining NVIDIA along with senior leaders following the $20 billion licensing agreement.

RJ Marsan

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Built Android version of Sora in 28 days using Codex and developed speech-to-text system to interact with AI coding agent after injury.

Former Meta AI researcher who helped develop Llama LLMs and co-founded Axiom Math to create specialized math AI models.

Asher Spector

Founder

Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes

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

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.

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Carlos Guestrin

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

James Zou

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Xiaolong Wang

Researcher

Researcher at UC San Diego

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

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

Thang Luong

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Co-authored Aletheia, an AI system for autonomous mathematics research achieving several research milestones.

Ben Spector

Founder

Co-founder at Flapping Airplanes

Co-founded an AI research lab with $180 million in seed funding focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI.

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

Co-introduced VaultGemma and conducted research on scaling laws for differentially private language models in partnership with Google DeepMind.

Tristan Hume

Engineer

Lead at Anthropic

Designed the take-home test for hiring performance engineers and wrote about how Claude models have progressively outperformed human candidates on the test.

Misha Laskin

Founder

Founder at Reflection AI

Founded Reflection AI, valued at $8 billion, to provide an open-source American alternative to Chinese AI models after working as a theoretical physicist and machine learning engineer who helped create some of Google's most powerful AI models.

Carina Hong

Founder

Co-founder at Axiom Math

Stanford Ph.D. student and math wizard who co-founded Axiom Math to build an AI mathematician that can solve hard math problems with verifiable proofs.

Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

Researcher

Research Scientist at Samsung SAIL Montreal

Proposed Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) achieving higher generalization than large language models on reasoning tasks with only 7M parameters.

Led DeepSeek to release DeepSeek-R1, a cost-efficient LLM that caused Silicon Valley to re-evaluate scaling strategies and American dominance in frontier models.

Sam Bowman

Researcher

Alignment Researcher at Anthropic

Stated that alignment researchers are involved in every part of training at Anthropic without a clear split between alignment research and applied finetuning.

Created the AI-generated animated film 'Critterz' with OpenAI funding, which is being developed into a feature-length movie.

Described Apertus as a driver of innovation for strengthening AI expertise in research, society and industry.

Amitosh Swain

Executive

CodeRabbit

Wrote about context engineering for AI code reviews and how CodeRabbit performs tens of thousands of code reviews daily using carefully engineered context.

Zach Yadegari

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Cal AI

19-year-old co-founder who built Cal AI to 15 million downloads and $30 million annual revenue before being acquired by MyFitnessPal.

Henry Langmack

Founder

Co-founder at Cal AI

Co-founded Cal AI as a high school student, building an AI calorie counting app that reached $30 million in annual revenue.

Co-authored announcement of Google's new AI system designed to help scientists write expert-level empirical software.

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.

Co-authored announcement of Google's new AI system that helps scientists write expert-level empirical software using Gemini.

Led development of K2 Think reasoning model that rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek at fraction of the size.

Wenxian Shi

Researcher

PhD Student at MIT CSAIL

Lead author of VaxSeer research, creating an AI system using deep learning to predict dominant flu strains and identify protective vaccine candidates.

Amit Jain

Founder

CEO at Luma AI

Announced Ray3, Luma AI's first AI reasoning video model that can evaluate and improve its outputs rather than just translating text to pixels.

Quentin Carbonneaux

Researcher

Meta FAIR CodeGen Team

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

Jason Droege

Executive

CEO at Scale AI

Launched Seal Showdown, a new AI benchmarking tool to compete with LMArena, claiming it captures real preferences from actual users.

Presented novel approach to time-series forecasting using in-context fine-tuning for foundation models.

Co-authored work on time-series foundation models that can be few-shot learners.

Jade Copet

Researcher

Meta FAIR CodeGen Team

Part of the team that released Code World Model (CWM), a 32-billion-parameter open-weights LLM for code generation research.

Ross Nordeen

Founder

Cofounder at xAI

Announced 'Grok for Government' program delivering AI capabilities to federal agencies with dedicated engineering support.

Rohan Pandey

Founder

Former Researcher at OpenAI (former), Periodic Labs (current)

Used the Sora launch to promote his new startup focused on building AI systems for scientific discovery rather than social media.

Expressed belief in AI's transformative potential and emphasized the importance of making Trust central to the AI conversation and ensuring safe, trustworthy AI.

Stated that the world of enterprise software is going to get completely rewired and companies with untrustworthy AI will not do well.

Announced Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever with Deloitte involving significant financial and engineering investment.

Co-developed Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) for voice search that bypasses text transcription.

Unveiled Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) technology that directly interprets spoken queries without text conversion.

Kishwar Shafin

Researcher

Technical Lead at Google Research

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI-powered tool that identifies cancer-related mutations in tumor genetic sequences.

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI tool using convolutional neural networks to identify tumor variants.

Hannah Elsakr

Executive

Vice President of Generative AI New Business Ventures at Adobe

Discussed Adobe's AI Foundry service for building custom generative AI models for enterprises.

Described Project Rainier as one of AWS's most ambitious infrastructure projects for AI training with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips.

Bolei Zhou

Researcher

Professor and Chief AI Scientist at UCLA and Coco Robotics

Joined Coco Robotics to lead their new physical AI research lab focusing on computer vision and robotics for micromobility.

Co-authored post explaining how OpenAI separated Chromium to make ChatGPT Atlas faster.

Ben Goodger

Engineer

Head of Engineering, ChatGPT Atlas at OpenAI

Co-authored post explaining the complex engineering behind ChatGPT Atlas browser architecture.

Alex Shaw

Researcher

Co-created Terminal-Bench and Harbor framework for testing and improving AI agents in containerized environments.

Thiyagu Ramasamy

Executive

Head of Public Sector at Anthropic

Announced partnership with Iceland's Ministry of Education to provide Claude AI tools to teachers nationwide for lesson preparation and student learning.

Haotong Lin

Researcher

Lead author on Depth Anything 3, a model that predicts spatially consistent geometry from visual inputs.

Justin Johnson

Founder

World Labs

Cofounded World Labs with Fei-Fei Li to develop spatial intelligence and world models.

Christoph Lassner

Founder

World Labs

Cofounded World Labs with Fei-Fei Li to develop spatial intelligence and world models.

Equal contribution author on Depth Anything 3 for monocular and multi-view depth estimation.

Ben Mildenhall

Founder

World Labs

Cofounded World Labs with Fei-Fei Li to develop spatial intelligence and world models.

Richard Turner

Researcher

Professor of Machine Learning at University of Cambridge

Led research on Aardvark Weather, a new AI weather prediction approach that enables accurate forecasts with dramatically less computing power.

Bingyi Kang

Researcher

Project lead for Depth Anything 3, advancing visual geometry prediction models.

Mikey Shulman

Executive

CEO at Suno

Announced $250 million fundraise led by Menlo Ventures and discussed empowering artists through AI music creation tools.

Explained improvements to long context quality and memory management in Opus 4.5 and stated that context windows alone are not sufficient.

Tony Zhao

Founder

Sunday Robotics

Announced ACT-1, a frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data with capabilities for ultra long-horizon tasks and zero-shot generalization.

Demonstrated his workflow using Codex to tackle multi-step projects and manage complexity at OpenAI Dev Day.

Jarred Sumner

Founder

Founder at Bun

Founded Bun in 2021, a breakthrough JavaScript runtime that became essential infrastructure for AI-led software engineering, now acquired by Anthropic.

Sherjil Ozair

Founder

General Agents

Former senior researcher at DeepMind and Tesla who founded agentic AI startup General Agents, which was acquired by Project Prometheus.

Albin Cassirer

Researcher

OpenAI

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

Co-authored research on training dedicated agentic code reviewers for gpt-5-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-max.

Co-authored research on practical output monitoring for autonomous collaborative coding systems as part of the Codex team.

Co-authored research on scaling code verification and training a dedicated, agentic code reviewer for gpt-5-codex.

Ali Behrouz

Researcher

Student Researcher at Google Research

Co-introduced the Titans architecture and MIRAS framework for helping AI models have long-term memory.

Vahab Mirrokni

Researcher

VP and Google Fellow at Google Research

Co-introduced the Titans architecture and MIRAS framework for helping AI models have long-term memory.

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model.

Jeffrey Quesnelle

Researcher

Nous Research

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model for mathematical problem-solving.

Co-introduced the Titans architecture and MIRAS framework for helping AI models have long-term memory.

Roger Jin

Researcher

Nous Research

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model, an open-source 30B model for mathematical reasoning.

Kunal Handa

Researcher

Anthropic

Led research using Anthropic Interviewer to conduct AI-powered qualitative interviews with 1,250 professionals about working with AI.

Alexander Knop

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-authored URANIA, a differentially private framework for gaining insights into AI chatbot use.

Daogao Liu

Researcher

Post Doc Researcher at Google Research

Co-authored URANIA, a differentially private framework for gaining insights into AI chatbot use.

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

Moved from AWS Utility Computing to lead Amazon's new AGI organization, bringing Annapurna Labs and quantum computing teams with him.

David Woodruff

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

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

Sunny Madra

Executive

President at Groq

Joining NVIDIA with other senior leaders to help advance and scale Groq's licensed inference technology.

Stated that in nature the most energy efficient way things work is how they actually work, in context of AI's energy demands.

Yossi Matias

Executive

Vice President & Head of Google Research at Google Research

Announced Google Research's 2025 achievements in AI breakthroughs, efficiency improvements, and scientific applications.

Oliver Cameron

Researcher

Authored analysis on Odyssey-2 Pro as a nascent world simulator that learns to predict how the world evolves over time.

Submitted research paper on WebGym, the largest open-source environment for training visual web agents with nearly 300,000 tasks.

Lead author on NitroGen, an open foundation model for generalist gaming agents trained on internet video gameplay data.

Jared Zoneraich

Founder

PromptLayer

Presented on how Claude Code works at an AI engineering conference.

Sarah Alamdari

Researcher

Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research

Lead author of research on AI model for designing peptides for cancer detection.

Ava Amini

Researcher

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research

Senior author of study on AI-designed peptides for cancer detection, former graduate student in Bhatia's lab.

James Reggio

Executive

Brex

Builds AI platform at Brex and is responsible for product AI customer-facing features.

Chris Pedregal

Founder

Cofounder and CEO at Granola

Pedregal leads Granola, an AI-powered notepad for meetings that has grown its user base by 5x since launch in May 2024 and recently raised a $20 million Series A.

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

Co-introduced GIST algorithm at NeurIPS 2025 for balancing data diversity and utility in machine learning datasets.

Co-authored article on the state of on-device LLMs in 2026, covering techniques for model compression and deployment.

Vikas Chandra

Researcher

Co-authored article on the state of on-device LLMs in 2026, discussing advances in running billion-parameter models on mobile devices.

Randall Balestriero

Researcher

Brown University

Co-authored a paper with Yann LeCun introducing LeJEPA for self-supervised vision training.

Alexander Wei

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Stated that IMO Gold capability was reached through general-purpose reinforcement learning and test-time compute scaling rather than task-specific methodology.

Jerry Tworek

Researcher

OpenAI

Commented that OpenAI did very little IMO-specific work and focused on training general models in natural language.

Sara Hooker

Researcher

Conducted research on diminishing returns from AI scaling that was cited in discussions about AI quality limitations.

Mohit Iyyer

Researcher

University of Maryland

Co-authored How2Everything framework for mining web procedures to evaluate LLMs.

Kyle Lo

Researcher

Allen Institute for AI

Co-authored How2Everything framework for evaluating LLM procedural generation capabilities.

Co-authored CausalArmor framework for defending AI agents against prompt injection attacks.

Amanda Askell

Researcher

Anthropic

Was targeted by Elon Musk in discussions around safety at xAI and Anthropic.

Yapei Chang

Researcher

Allen Institute for AI

Co-authored How2Everything framework for mining and evaluating procedural generation in LLMs.

Dawn Song

Researcher

SafeRL-Lab (UC Berkeley)

Co-authored AgenticPay, a framework for studying language-mediated economic interaction among AI agents.

Summer Yue

Researcher

Director of Alignment at Meta

Tested OpenClaw AI agent which went out of control and attempted to delete her emails despite instructions to stop.

Andrew Ambrosino

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff on the Codex app at OpenAI

Works on the Codex app team at OpenAI, discussing strategy decisions and workflows for the coding agent.

Stephan Rabanser

Researcher

Princeton University

Works on trustworthy machine learning with focus on uncertainty quantification and AI agent reliability evaluation.

Part of the team that developed CWM, an LLM trained with world modeling for improved code generation.

Thomas Malone

Researcher

Professor and Director at MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Led research finding that AI-human combinations do not outperform the best human-only or AI-only system on average.

Introduced Plan Mode for Cursor, enabling the AI model to create plans, research codebases, and run longer agents for significantly improved code generation.

Luca Soldaini

Researcher

Allen Institute for AI

Co-authored How2Everything framework for evaluating and improving LLM procedure generation.

Applied interpretability methods to understand how an AI model detects Alzheimer's disease from blood samples and identified fragmentomics as a novel biomarker class.

Announced FDA's groundbreaking initiative to replace animal testing with AI-based computational models and human-relevant methods for drug development.

Karolis Misiunas

Researcher

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Introduced an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model enabling real-time translation with only 2-second delay.

Artsiom Ablavatski

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Core ML

Co-introduced an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model enabling real-time translation with only 2-second delay.

Joe Carlsmith

Researcher

Wrote an essay series on solving the AI alignment problem, discussing the importance of building AIs that do human-like philosophy.

Clay Magouyrk

Executive

Chief Executive Officer at Oracle

Promoted to CEO from President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, where he led the design and implementation of OCI Gen2 which powers hyperscale public cloud datacenters and gigawatt-scale AI training datacenters.

Led study demonstrating AI voice agents improved accuracy of blood pressure monitoring for older adults with hypertension.

Georges Harik

Investor

Co-founder at SV Angel

Led seed round for humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab focused on AI that strengthens relationships and organizations.

Commented that AI-designed proteins showcase the power of AI models for synthetic protein design and will generate new therapeutics beyond cancer.

Provided statement about the copyright lawsuit settlement and Anthropic's commitment to developing safe AI systems.

Toby Padilla

Executive

Principal Product Manager at GitHub

Leads GitHub's MCP initiatives and announced the launch of the GitHub MCP Registry for discovering MCP servers.

Led design for NotebookLM, shaping the product's core user experience, brand identity, and visual system from experiment to launch.

Built Kairos, an AI-powered reading companion that helps users read more deeply and understand complicated concepts.

Shiv Rao

Founder

CEO at Abridge

Cardiologist-turned-CEO who raised $250M for Abridge and claims to have never lost a head-to-head comparison against Microsoft in AI medical transcription.

Stavan Parikh

Executive

VP/GM, Payments at Google

Announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol for secure AI agent transactions across platforms.

Co-announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) for secure AI agent-led payments across platforms.

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

Said the Oxford scheme is setting a new standard for how AI can enrich higher education by making ChatGPT Edu available to everyone.

Sam Paech

Researcher

AI Researcher

Posed the key question about context that helped transform the AI Diplomacy demo by shifting the approach to telling LLMs a story rather than force-feeding them game data.

Eric

Executive

Bolt.new

Stated that Claude Sonnet 4 remains their go-to model for code generation workflows and praised the 1M context window for larger projects.

Co-authored research on quantifying human-AI synergy using novel Bayesian framework.

Wrote about the costs and limitations of tool calling in LLM agents and how tool calls are orders of magnitude more costly than regular function calls.

Janie Gu

Executive

head of product at Scale AI

Announced Seal Showdown and explained how it differs from other benchmarks by using feedback from users across 100+ countries and 70 languages.

AI researcher who left Meta Superintelligence Labs in July after working there for five months.

Mike Mignano

Founder

Cofounder at Oboe

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

Led research on GenAI in education demonstrating a novel approach to reimagining textbooks with improved learning outcomes.

Co-led the Learn Your Way project that uses GenAI to transform educational materials.

Co-authored research introducing a Bayesian Item Response Theory framework to quantify human-AI synergy.

Zach Rash

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Coco Robotics

Leading the startup's effort to use five years of robot data to accelerate automation and physical AI research.

Fiona Strens

Researcher

Professor at University of Lincoln

Leads the university's centre for defence and security artificial intelligence and discussed applying AI from food production industries to defense problems.

Co-authored research on the state of AI showing how organizations are rewiring to capture value from gen AI through structural and process changes.

Avi Goldfarb

Researcher

NBER

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

Lareina Yee

Researcher

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.

Joshua S. Gans

Researcher

NBER

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

Micah Hill-Smith

Executive

CEO at Artificial Analysis

Stated that Cerebras is consistently the fastest AI inference provider after testing hundreds of models across all providers.

Stated that the future of consumer goods is Data + AI + CRM + Trust working together in a continuous loop for transformation.

Michael Chui

Researcher

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.

Co-authored research analyzing 370 unique effect sizes from 106 experiments evaluating human-AI collaboration performance.

Bartosz Naskręcki

Researcher

Co-authored analysis on how AI tools are reshaping mathematical research and discovery.

Co-authored research on the state of AI showing how organizations are rewiring to capture value from gen AI through structural and process changes.

Chris Ciauri

Executive

Executive at Anthropic

Brought on to spearhead Anthropic's international expansion efforts as the startup triples its global workforce.

Alex Singla

Researcher

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.

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Described Amazon Quick Suite as an agentic AI experience that acts as a teammate to help with work tasks.

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

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

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

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

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

Ken Ono

Researcher

Co-authored analysis on how AI is transforming mathematical practice and problem-solving.

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

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

Announced partnership with Arm to move Meta's AI ranking and recommendation systems to Arm's Neoverse platform.

Rene Haas

Executive

CEO at Arm

Partnered with Meta to deliver AI efficiency at scale by combining Arm's performance-per-watt leadership with Meta's AI innovation.

Karan Batta

Executive

Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Announced Oracle will deploy 50,000 AMD GPUs and stated customers will adopt AMD especially in the inferencing space.

Forrest Norrod

Executive

Executive VP and GM of Data Center Solutions Group at AMD

Discussed AMD's Helios platform for AI infrastructure, emphasizing open collaboration and scalability.

Announced Apple's M5 chip with Neural Accelerators in GPU cores delivering 4x AI performance improvement over M4.

George Hotz

Engineer

tinygrad

Built tinygrad as a tensor library similar to PyTorch and wrote about the vision that making code run fast on hardware is fundamentally a search problem.

Martin Maas

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

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