People in AI

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.

Dario Amodei

Executive

CEO at Anthropic

Discussed core principles behind AI scaling, alignment challenges, and safety considerations including bioterrorism and cybersecurity risks.

Andrej Karpathy

Researcher

Released autoresearch project for autonomous AI agent-based LLM training research.

Author of the article

Meta CEO who became frustrated with the AI team after Llama 4's lackluster launch and orchestrated aggressive recruitment of top AI talent

CEO of OpenAI quoted discussing how AI compute is essential to ensure everyone can benefit from AI and unlock future breakthroughs through Stargate.

Created OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) AI agent and joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents development.

Editor introduction to the article, providing framing context

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.

Greg Brockman

Executive

Co-founder at OpenAI

OpenAI co-founder who called GPT-5.5 (codenamed Spud) 'a new class of intelligence' and praised its efficiency improvements.

Alexandr Wang

Executive

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Joined Meta to oversee Meta Superintelligence Labs after Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI where he was CEO.

Published by Anthropic: "Anthropic Replaces Node.js Based Claude Code Installs With a Native Executable a"

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.

Discussed Gemini 3.5 Flash's advanced coding capabilities and argued that AI improving developer productivity is not a threat to software engineers, calling AI layoff concerns a 'lack of imagination'.

Founded Nvidia in 1993 with focus on GPUs for video games, which later became critical for AI training.

Ilya Sutskever

Founder

OpenAI

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

Rebecca Bellan

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article about Tesla's Dojo supercomputer

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.

Maxwell Zeff

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article about Meta's AI investments and Scale AI

Nat Friedman

Investor

Former CEO at GitHub

Backed Fluidstack's funding round as an AI investor and entrepreneur alongside other prominent tech figures.

Alexey Shabanov

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Tests ChatGPT Agent Upgrades Powered by New Alpha Models" in Testing Catalog

Emma Roth

Journalist

Author of "Microsoft's Pitch for Humanist Superintelligence"

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.

Boris Cherny

Executive

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic

Announced that Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw due to engineering constraints.

Richard Sutton

Researcher

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

Mark Gurman

Journalist

Bloomberg

Bloomberg reporter known for Apple insider information, reported on upcoming 2026 Mac computers

Former Apple chief design officer partnering with OpenAI to develop AI devices

Published by xAI: "Grok Voice Agent API"

Sarah Perez

Journalist

Author of "Wikipedia Wants a New Deal with AI"

Daniela Amodei

Executive

Co-founder and President at Anthropic

Announced Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and workflows designed to help small businesses leverage Claude AI in their existing tools.

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.

Published by Perplexity: "Perplexity Upgraded Comet Assistant"

Anthony Ha

Journalist

Author of "OpenAI Reportedly Developing New Generative Music Tool" in TechCrunch

Founded Ineffable Intelligence to build superintelligence through reinforcement learning after developing AlphaGo at Google DeepMind, arguing that most AI companies are taking the wrong path by relying on large language models trained on human data.

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.

Simon Willison

Engineer

Programmer

Pointed out on X that AI-written work lacks weight and emotional investment

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

Implied as speaker at The Android Show: XR Edition announcing Android XR ecosystem updates

Microsoft CEO whose company is launching the Maia 200 chip

Julie Bort

Journalist

Author of "Wall Street analysts explain how AMD's own stock will pay for OpenAI's billions in chip purchases" in TechCrunch

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

Discussed enterprise AI adoption and noted that enterprise now makes up more than 40% of OpenAI's revenue after her first 90 days with the company.

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

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.

Jeff Dean

Researcher

Chief Scientist at Google

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

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

Alexander Embiricos

Executive

Product Team Lead at OpenAI

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

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.

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.

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.

Mike Krieger

Executive

Anthropic

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

Kevin Weil

Executive

OpenAI

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

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.

Co-author of the article

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

CPO of GitHub Copilot quoted praising Grok Code Fast's speed and quality in agentic coding tasks

Katie Parrott

Engineer

Staff Writer at Every

Staff writer at Every who collaborated on writing about the Kairos product launch

Author of "This is the AI device Apple didn't build"

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.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

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.

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.

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.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Researcher

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI at Stanford

Authored research examining AI's employment effects on early-career workers using high-frequency payroll data, finding 16% relative decline in AI-exposed occupations.

Lisa Su

Executive

CEO at AMD

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

Russell Brandom

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article reporting on Nvidia's earnings results

Co-author of the article announcing Veo 3 updates on the Google Developers Blog

Named as one of the pioneering figures in AI and machine learning alongside Bengio and LeCun

Andrew Ng

Founder

Founder at DeepLearning.AI

Referenced in the course conclusion section regarding AI news and updates from DeepLearning.AI

Author of the article about Mythos AI's APAS maritime technology system

Mentioned as the founder of Blue Origin, which also aspires to support NASA's Mars ambitions with its own MTO design

Acknowledged for reviewing drafts of the essay

Interviewed by MLStreetTalk to help launch ARC-AGI-2 benchmark

Essays used as haystack material in the needle-in-haystack task testing

CNBC journalist credited as contributor to the report

16-year-old who allegedly used ChatGPT to plan his own suicide, highlighting mental health concerns with the chatbot

Dan

Analyst

Unknown at Every

Stated he does not use Sonnet 4.5 daily, preferring ChatGPT and Codex CLI for his current workflow

Kiana Ehsani

Founder

Vercept

CEO of Vercept who announced the acquisition via LinkedIn post and disclosed the startup had raised $50M total.

Luca Weihs

Founder

Vercept

Co-founder of Vercept joining Anthropic as part of the acquisition.

Co-founder of Vercept joining Anthropic as part of the acquisition.

Former Google CEO who was an angel investor in Vercept.

Rejected Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement over concerns about the terms of the agreement for authors.

Meta spokesman who stated that Meta's AI tools should not have created intimate images of adults or any pictures of child celebrities

Michael Burry

Investor

Independent Fund Manager

Famous for predicting the 2008 housing crisis, drew parallels between current AI spending and dot-com mania in a Substack essay.

Author of "Switzerland Releases 100% Open AI Model" in artificialintelligence-news.com

Tom Warren

Journalist

Author of "Meet Mico, Microsoft's AI Version of Clippy" in The Verge

Robert Hart

Journalist

Author of "Google Introduces Private AI Compute"

Dylan Butts

Journalist

Referenced in "Sam Altman Calls a Bubble"

Akash Sriram

Journalist

Author of "AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser"

Arman Cohan

Researcher

Yale University

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Newton Cheng

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Soumith Chintala

Executive

CTO at Thinking Machines Lab

Co-founder of PyTorch and 11-year Meta veteran appointed as CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, recently recruited from Meta to lead technical efforts.

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.

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.

Bill Peebles

Executive

Head of Sora at OpenAI

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nathan Lambert

Researcher

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Chen

Executive

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI

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

Brad Lightcap

Executive

COO at OpenAI

Transitioned to leading special projects involving complex deals and investments, reporting to Sam Altman.

Co-author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Sara Hooker

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Adaption

Introduced AutoScientist, a tool that helps AI models train themselves through automated fine-tuning and co-optimization of data and models.

Jakob Foerster

Researcher

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Jeff Clune

Researcher

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Bingchen Zhao

Researcher

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Co-authored paper measuring Claude Mythos' ability to develop exploits and find zero-day vulnerabilities.

Tim Rocktäschel

Founder

Founder at Recursive Superintelligence

Former Google DeepMind engineer who founded AI lab raising up to $1 billion.

Leading the merger between Cohere and Aleph Alpha to create a sovereign AI alternative.

Jerry Tworek

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Noted achievement of IMO Gold performance through general model training and natural language prompting without IMO-specific work.

Alexander Wei

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Described breakthrough in general-purpose reinforcement learning and test-time compute scaling for IMO problem solving.

Former OpenAI researcher who founded Situational Awareness, an AGI-focused fund that led Fluidstack's funding round.

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.

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.

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.

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

Steve Yegge

Engineer

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

Amanda Askell

Researcher

Anthropic

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

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.

Peter McCrory

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored research on Project Deal, an experiment analyzing AI agent behavior in marketplace negotiations.

Described Eclipse's investment strategy focused on physical AI and the convergence of intelligence with the physical world.

Explained the advanced cyber threat landscape and how legacy security tools are ineffective against novel attacks

Co-author of the Deep Think with Confidence research paper

Discussed Fetch.ai's mission to enable users to access AI for complex coordination tasks

Listed as member of Darktrace's advisory board

19th century mathematician whose detailed descriptions of his thought process helped Wallas define the verification stage of creativity

Kyle Wiggers

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

Co-author of the article reporting on Nvidia's earnings results

Reporter on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Built the new search feature for Sparkle using a research subagent to analyze how other apps approached indexing and performance.

Briefly mentioned in relation to analyzing error logs with subagents, but context is incomplete in the article.

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

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

Runway representative quoted extensively discussing the company's world models, their applications in robotics and self-driving, and the company's expansion strategy

Celebrity whose likeness was used in an impersonating chatbot created by a Meta product lead that invited users on romantic encounters

Celebrity whose AI fake was discovered running on Meta platforms with sexually suggestive content

Celebrity whose likeness was used in an impersonating chatbot on Meta platforms

Celebrity whose AI fake was discovered running on Meta platforms

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

Co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media mentioned in closing message

CEO of Walmart quoted discussing the company's commitment to bringing AI training to associates

His FlashAttention-2 paper is referenced in comparison to Triton implementations of FlashAttention backward

Co-author of paper investigating diminishing returns in LLM scaling

AI rater hired in 2023 who discusses lack of pay increases, demanding project work, and workplace stress with tight task timers

Rhea Purohit

Journalist

Lead Writer at Every

Lead writer whose script is used as a few-shot example in the intro prompt for TLDR generation

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

Lead author of research paper on long horizon execution in large language models

Co-author of research on long-horizon task execution in language models

CEO of Apple reportedly attending Wednesday's state banquet as part of tech-boss influx

Wall Street Journal journalist who excluded Siri from her comparison of AI chatbots

Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp quoted discussing how Stargate harnesses SoftBank's data center design and energy expertise to power AI's future.

California Governor who called the arrest an important step toward bringing closure to affected Californians and stated the state is supporting the federal investigation

Collaborated with Michel Devoret on quantum research in the 1980s that led to Nobel Prize in Physics

Nvidia's CFO told a Goldman Sachs conference that Nvidia will pursue strategic deals to help other companies adopt AI more quickly

Chief scientist on Google's quantum team who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum research conducted in the 1980s

Article author

Collaborated with Michel Devoret on quantum research that led to Nobel Prize in Physics

Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for breakthrough AlphaFold research

Co-author of the article introducing Veo 3.1 and Flow enhancements

Logan Kilpatrick

Engineer

Unknown at Google

Co-author of the article announcing Google AI Studio updates

Co-author of the article introducing Veo 3.1 and Flow enhancements

Co-author of the robot learning tutorial paper

Co-author of the research paper on reinforcement learning and LLM reasoning

Quoted defending Perplexity's approach and stating they will fight for users' rights to access public knowledge

Asked for help identifying tensor attributes that could differ between two tensors

Coder providing perspective on IDE preferences and comparisons between Cursor 2.0, Composer 1 Alpha, and competing tools

Reid Hoffman

Founder

Cofounder at LinkedIn

Dan Shipper prepared for an interview with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman using Claude to understand philosophical concepts

Journalist who spent three hours in the anechoic chamber and documented visitor experiences.

Thomas Bloom

Researcher

Mathematician who maintains the Erdos Problems website and provided validation for OpenAI's mathematical proof disproving the planar unit distance problem.

Mathematician who provided peer validation for OpenAI's claim about disproving an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture in geometry.

Mathematician who provided peer validation for OpenAI's claim about disproving an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture.

Timothy Gowers

Researcher

Fields Medalist, Combinatorics Chair at College de France

Demonstrated that ChatGPT 5.5 Pro solved an open mathematics problem in number theory, producing doctoral-level research in under two hours.

UiPath CEO stated that 950 customers were developing AI agents orchestrating 365,000 processes on Maestro platform

Co-founder and investor in Vercept who is not joining Anthropic; expressed disappointment about the acquisition shutdown on LinkedIn.

Every's senior designer who led the design process for Monologue's iOS app and shares design principles used in the project

Apple's Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, quoted on the value and features of Apple Creator Studio.

Technology entrepreneur and co-founder complementing the research team at Merge Labs.

Former Head of Global Revenue Strategy at Eventbrite, co-author sharing planning framework from experience

Appointed as new CEO of Mozilla, replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers; previously general manager of Firefox since August 2025.

President of Mozilla Foundation; discusses Mozilla's strategy to revive the browser as a vibrant space and the 'third browser war' driven by AI.

CEO discussing Rolls-Royce's SMR strategy and potential to become UK's most valuable company

Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy; JPMC deployed an AI tool mimicking his expertise for instant strategic guidance

Luis von Ahn

Executive

Duolingo

Duolingo CEO who posted an AI memo that sparked backlash and discussed the company's decision to moderate social media posts in response.

Represented authors in copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, stating the $1.5 billion settlement sends a message that using copyrighted works from pirate websites is wrong.

Invested in ElevenLabs and partnered with the AI audio company to create virtual replications of his voice for his newsletter in Spanish.

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

NFL Chief Information Officer discussing Microsoft partnership and AI opportunities for the league

Praised Devstral 2 for delivering tool-calling success rate on par with best closed models in their platform

ServiceNow CEO discussing partnership with NVIDIA on agentic AI strategy and Nemotron 3 integration

Quoted observing that AI is shifting from assisting tasks to orchestrating entire workflows autonomously.

Apple analyst titled assessment 'Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino'

Senior analyst suggesting the xAI deal signals SpaceX preparing for a public listing given compute and infrastructure costs.

Referenced as debating laundry machines at family dinners, illustrating taste development through deliberation.

Actor portrayed in the fake leaked ad with supposed OpenAI hardware device

Expressed strong doubts about methodology and medal claim, though concerns were addressed

Podcast host who interviewed Fidji Simo about AI-based relationships and user attachments.

Indian Prime Minister and host of the AI summit, pictured with major AI company leaders.

Grammy-winning rapper who collaborated with ProducerAI as a community partner

Established musicians who participated in ProducerAI community development

Grammy-winning artist who used Lyria as a creative tool for his song 'Back From Abu Dhabi'

One of three lead plaintiffs who filed the class action lawsuit against Anthropic.

One of three lead plaintiffs who filed the class action lawsuit against Anthropic.

One of three lead plaintiffs who filed the class action lawsuit against Anthropic.

Atlassian CEO and co-founder explaining the strategic rationale for acquiring The Browser Company to build an AI-powered browser for knowledge work.

CEO of The Browser Company confirming the acquisition and stating the company will operate independently while accelerating feature development.

Listed as an investor in The Browser Company.

Listed as an investor in The Browser Company.

Listed as an investor in The Browser Company.

Listed as an investor in The Browser Company.

Listed as an investor in The Browser Company.

Head of Engineering transitioning to CTO of B2B Applications

Research scientist who announced departure via tweet in April, citing desire to take different risks.

Former OpenAI researcher who went through Meta onboarding but never started.

Machine-learning scientist who left Meta after joining weeks ago.

Former Twitter CEO who founded Parallel Web Systems after being fired by Elon Musk to build AI agent infrastructure for web search.

Argued that productive friction in creative work is what AI threatens to take away.

Connie Loizos

Journalist

Author of "Mistral, The French AI Giant, Is Reportedly on the Cusp of Securing a $14B Valuation" in TechCrunch

Author of "Musk's xAI nears $20 billion capital raise tied to Nvidia chips" in Yahoo Finance

Author of "China Claims Nvidia Built Backdoor Into H20 Chip Designed for Chinese Market" in Ars Technica

Author of "Google Updates Gemini App With Personalization From Past Chats And New Temporary Chat Privacy Option"

Author of "Netflix Wants Its Partners to Follow These Rules When Using Gen AI" in The Verge

Aisha Malik

Journalist

Author of "Roblox Just Made Creating a Whole Lot Easier"

Rowan Cheung

Journalist

Author of "Tencent Releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager: Open-Source AI Creates 3D Worlds from Single Images" in The Rundown

Co-authored research on general scales for AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power.

Lexin Zhou

Researcher

Researcher at Princeton University

Lead author on research introducing general scales for AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power.

Co-authored research on teaching LLMs to reason like Bayesians by training them to mimic optimal Bayesian model predictions.

Tal Linzen

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-authored research on teaching LLMs to reason like Bayesians by training them to mimic optimal Bayesian model predictions.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-authored research on Code-Space Response Oracles for generating interpretable multi-agent policies with LLMs.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Sid Wang

Researcher

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-authored research on Code-Space Response Oracles for generating interpretable multi-agent policies with LLMs.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Yue Yu

Researcher

Meta Superintelligence Labs

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

Co-authored research on Code-Space Response Oracles for generating interpretable multi-agent policies with LLMs.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Yixin Liu

Researcher

Yale University

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Marc Lanctot

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Co-authored research on Code-Space Response Oracles for generating interpretable multi-agent policies with LLMs.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Sent letter to California and Delaware attorneys general alleging Elon Musk's anti-competitive behavior against OpenAI.

Core contributor on MolmoPoint research for better visual grounding in vision-language models.

Jieyu Zhang

Researcher

Allen Institute for AI

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Core contributor on MolmoPoint research for better visual grounding in vision-language models.

Jae Sung Park

Researcher

Core Contributor at Allen Institute for AI

Core contributor on MolmoPoint research for better visual grounding in vision-language models.

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Vinay Prabhushankar

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Core contributor on MolmoPoint research for better visual grounding in vision-language models.

Zixian Ma

Researcher

Allen Institute for AI

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Winson Han

Researcher

Allen Institute for AI

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Michael Moore

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Announced partnership with Agile Robots to develop advanced AI models for next generation robots and scale their impact across sectors.

Samuel Altman

Executive

CEO at OpenAI

Defendant in $134B civil trial filed by Elon Musk regarding OpenAI's development of superintelligence and governance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Carlos Guestrin

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Stéphane d'Ascoli

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

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

Yohann Benchetrit

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

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

Jean-Rémi King

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

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

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

Hubert Banville

Researcher

Researcher at Meta AI

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

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Researcher

AI researcher who proposed the Gödel Machine concept decades ago, which inspired the Darwin-Gödel Machine self-improving AI system.

Part of the steering committee for Open-H-Embodiment, advancing Physical AI for surgical robotics and ultrasound.

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

Nassir Navab

Researcher

Professor at Technical University of Munich

Part of the steering committee for Open-H-Embodiment, building open datasets for Physical AI in healthcare robotics.

Co-author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool for accelerating mathematical research with agentic AI.

Co-author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool for accelerating mathematical research with agentic AI.

Lead author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool that uses agentic AI to accelerate mathematical research.

Ingrid von Glehn

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Co-author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool for accelerating mathematical research with agentic AI.

Co-author of research paper on EvoClaw, evaluating AI agents on continuous software evolution.

Co-author of research paper on EvoClaw, evaluating AI agents on continuous software evolution.

Co-author of MetaClaw research on AI agents that meta-learn and evolve in the wild.

Lead author of research on online experiential learning for language models.

Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Researcher

Microsoft Research

Co-author of research on online experiential learning for language models.

Keivan Alizadeh

Researcher

Apple

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

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

Lead author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Co-author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Co-author of research paper on EvoClaw, evaluating AI agents on continuous software evolution.

Lead author of MetaClaw research on AI agents that meta-learn and evolve in the wild.

Huaxiu Yao

Researcher

Co-author of MetaClaw research on AI agents that meta-learn and evolve in the wild.

Co-author of research on online experiential learning for language models.

Parshin Shojaee

Researcher

Apple

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

Urged staff to urgently bridge the gap with Anthropic's Claude in coding and agentic capabilities.

Announced strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots' hardware platform.

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Lead author of HorizonMath research paper on measuring AI progress toward mathematical discovery with automatic verification.

Sumeet Motwani

Researcher

Co-author of HorizonMath research paper on measuring AI progress toward mathematical discovery.

Lilian Weng

Researcher

Authored a must-read recap on autonomous agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI.

James V. Roggeveen

Researcher

Co-author of HorizonMath research paper on measuring AI progress toward mathematical discovery.

Alex Rattray

Founder

Founder and CEO at Stainless

Founded Stainless, a leader in SDKs and MCP server tooling, which was acquired by Anthropic to advance Claude's agent connectivity.

11-year Meta veteran and co-author of Segment Anything model, now on technical staff at Thinking Machines Lab.

Leads engineering for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, demonstrating practical applications of Claude in various workflows.

Arthur Mensch

Executive

Chief Executive Officer at Mistral AI

CEO of French AI startup Mistral AI who stated the company is exploring designing its own AI chips and building data centers to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Cofounder of Anthropic who participated in the $65 billion funding round that valued the company at $965 billion.

Cofounder of Anthropic who participated in the $65 billion funding round that valued the company at $965 billion.

Chris Olah

Founder

Cofounder at Anthropic

Cofounder of Anthropic who participated in the $65 billion funding round that valued the company at $965 billion.

Tom Brown

Founder

Cofounder at Anthropic

Cofounder of Anthropic who participated in the $65 billion funding round that valued the company at $965 billion.

Mojtaba Seyedhosseini

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Announced Gemini Embedding 2, Google DeepMind's first native multimodal embedding model that provides unified representations for text, audio, video, and image inputs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Romain Huet

Executive

Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nir Zicherman

Founder

CEO and Cofounder at Oboe

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Junyang Lin

Executive

Technical Lead at Alibaba

Announced departure as technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen LLM project.

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

Max Schwarzer

Researcher

Post Training Lead at OpenAI

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

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.

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

Keir Bradwell

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored research on Project Deal, studying how AI agents negotiate and conduct transactions on behalf of humans.

Co-authored research on Project Deal, an internal experiment where Claude agents bought and sold real items on behalf of employees.

Co-authored research on Project Deal, an internal experiment where Claude agents conducted negotiations and transactions on behalf of employees.

Co-founded ARI, acquired by Meta for humanoid robotics; previously taught at NYU and co-founded Fauna Robotics before Amazon acquisition.

Wrote about the pattern of AI application companies becoming full-stack by vertically integrating either into the model layer or the human service layer.

Alexandre Moufarek

Executive

Director at Google DeepMind

Expressed admiration for EVE Online and discussed using it as a testing ground for DeepMind's AI models to study long-horizon planning and complex decision-making.

Yilun Zhao

Researcher

Yale University

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neil Zeghidour

Executive

CEO at Gradium

CEO of Gradium (spinoff of Kyutai Moshi) who gave a talk on realtime voice AI development and whose work was referenced alongside Thinking Machines' interaction models.

Sanchan Saxena

Executive

Senior Vice President of Teamwork Collaboration at Atlassian

Announced new AI tools including Remix and third-party agents for Confluence to turn data into visual assets and applications.

Lee Robinson

Executive

Vice President of Developer Education at Cursor

Acknowledged that Cursor's Composer 2 model started from Kimi's open-source base but emphasized that three-quarters of compute came from Cursor's training.

Announced that the Cove team is joining Microsoft after building AI collaboration tools.

Noah A. Smith

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored research on modular post-training with mixture-of-experts for language models.

Sewon Min

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored paper on BAR recipe for modular post-training in language models at Allen AI.

Jacob Morrison

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored paper on modular post-training with mixture-of-experts (BAR recipe) for language models at Allen AI.

Co-authored paper on modular post-training with mixture-of-experts for improving language model capabilities.

Akshita Bhagia

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored research on BAR modular post-training recipe for language models at Allen AI.

Co-authored paper on modular post-training approaches for language models.

Discussed Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless to extend agent capabilities and connectivity.

Hongxun Wu

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher who described the reasoning-LLM breakthrough on solving Erdős problems as a milestone on 'the hardest problems'.

Amol Avasare

Executive

Head of Growth at Anthropic

Explained Anthropic's considerations around Claude Code availability in Pro plans due to increased agentic AI usage.

hyunji amy lee

Researcher

Researcher

Introduced MINTEval, a benchmark targeting long-context memory systems for LLM agents operating in continuously updated environments.

Announced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for building, scaling, and governing enterprise AI agents.

Co-announced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform providing comprehensive foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI agents.

Built ExploitBench benchmark to study exploit development capabilities of large language models.

Eight-year Meta veteran who worked on multimodal perception systems and open-world segmentation including SAM3D, recently joined Thinking Machines Lab.

Harvard PhD who spent 10 months at Meta before joining Thinking Machines Lab, part of TML's talent expansion.

Andrea Madotto

Researcher

Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab

Former research scientist in Meta's FAIR division focused on multimodal language models, joined Thinking Machines Lab in December.