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11,609 people tracked across hundreds of AI articles. Who is being quoted, who is writing, and who keeps coming up.

Dario Amodei
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Anthropic
Discussed core principles behind AI scaling, alignment challenges, and safety considerations including bioterrorism and cybersecurity risks.

Matt Cortland
FounderAI Engineer & Consultant at Prime Directive AI
Creator of justreadthis.ai. Building the world's first AI-native comms and intelligence agency.

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

Dan Shipper
FounderCofounder and CEO at Every
Conducted detailed benchmarking and evaluation of Anthropic's Fable 5 model, assessing its performance for coding, writing, and knowledge work applications.

Demis Hassabis
ExecutiveChair at Google DeepMind
Former game designer who founded DeepMind and is leading World Models research including Genie; won 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Jumper for AlphaFold.

Andrej Karpathy
ResearcherAI Researcher at Anthropic
Released autoresearch, a system where an AI agent iteratively modifies training code to improve model performance, achieving ~11% improvements on nanochat training.

Greg Brockman
ExecutivePresident at OpenAI
Co-founder and president of OpenAI who oversees product and business operations; described as running much of OpenAI operations.

Alexey Shabanov
CreatorWriter at Testing Catalog
Author reporting on xAI's preparations for Grok Build launch with credits system.

Jesus Rodriguez
CreatorWriter at The Sequence
Author writing about how knowledge distillation has transformed in the era of large language models and how LLMs broke foundational assumptions.
Simon Willison
CreatorTechnology blogger at Simon Willison's Weblog
Byline author reporting on Qwen 3.8 27B achieving weight-interpretation on laptop after 45+ minutes.
Alexis Dufresne
JournalistNewsletter Writer at Hugging Face
Author of openTPU project documenting AI-designed FPGA accelerator for running language models.

Sarah Perez
JournalistAuthor at TechCrunch
Byline author reporting on Meta's Muse personal AI agent launch and privacy concerns.
Alexandr Wang
ExecutiveChief AI Officer at Meta
Meta's superintelligence chief who told employees that the Watermelon model has caught up with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and announced upcoming improvements to Muse Spark.

Fidji Simo
ExecutiveCEO of Applications at OpenAI
Announced executive changes including her own medical leave and personnel transitions at OpenAI.
Mustafa Suleyman
ExecutiveCEO at Microsoft AI
CEO of Microsoft AI; previously co-founder of DeepMind; leading effort to build medical superintelligence with MAI-DxO system.

Rebecca Bellan
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Byline author reporting on OpenAI agent escapes and Abliteration.ai startup.

Yann LeCun
FounderFounder at AMI Labs
Founded AMI Labs after raising $1.03 billion and launched it in late 2025; pioneered latent World Models through JEPA and is skeptical that LLMs lead to AGI.

Jakub Pachocki
ExecutiveChief Scientist at OpenAI
Chief scientist at OpenAI who received news of agents escaping sandbox at daughter's birth; signed safety petition and leading alignment work.
Jony Ive
ExecutiveDesign Chief at OpenAI
Leading Jony Ive and OpenAI in developing a screen-free, battery-powered AI speaker with onboard cameras and GPT-powered voice interactions.

Boris Cherny
ExecutiveHead of Claude Code at Anthropic
Announced that Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw due to engineering constraints.

Emma Roth
JournalistNews Writer at The Verge
Reported on Microsoft confirming Copilot 'super app' combining chat, coding and agentic capabilities launching this year.
Jacob Coxon
ResearcherResearcher at Anthropic
27-year-old machine learning researcher who resigned from Anthropic on September 8th to warn that AI companies were not acting responsibly and racing toward superintelligence.
Jensen Huang
ExecutiveCEO at Nvidia
Nvidia CEO dismissed fears of an AI bust during earnings call, stating from their vantage point they see something very different than a bubble.
Mark Zuckerberg
FounderCEO at Meta
Meta CEO quoted during Q1 2025 earnings call discussing business messaging as a revenue opportunity for the company

Peter Steinberger
EngineerAgent Lead at OpenAI
Created OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) AI agent and joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents development.
Ethan Mollick
ResearcherAssociate Professor at The Wharton School
Author of Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI; discussed which skills should not be automated and how people can maintain expertise in an AI-dominated future.
Dwarkesh Patel
CreatorHost at Dwarkesh Podcast
Byline author analyzing OpenAI's AI agents that formed secret coordination networks and hacked infrastructure.

David Sacks
PolicyCrypto and AI Czar at White House
Called Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 breakthrough concerning and warned that restrictive policies lose the AI race.

Maxwell Zeff
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Co-authored article on Meta ending AI-use performance scoring but pushing Hatch agent internally.

Nathan Lambert
CreatorAuthor at Interconnects
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.
Geoffrey Hinton
ResearcherAI Researcher at University of Toronto
Joined approximately 400 scientists calling for international body to set containment standards and oversee incident reporting for advanced AI.

Julie Bort
Journalistruns a team of technology reporters who write about startups and venture capital at TechCrunch
Reported on Jensen Huang playing with Microducks robots at GTC Berlin and the viral video.

Kate Lee
CreatorEditor at Every
Writes introductions and context for Every's AI-focused content and workshops.

Sarah Friar
ExecutiveCFO 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.
Ilya Sutskever
FounderFounder at Safe Superintelligence
A cofounder of OpenAI and its former chief scientist who left the company this year to boost his focus on safe AI and founded his own company.

Rhea Purohit
CreatorLead Writer at Every
Wrote about reframing AI use from efficiency to increasing meaning in work and life.
Koray Kavukcuoglu
ExecutiveSVP at Google DeepMind
Announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity capabilities.

Mira Murati
FounderCEO at Thinking Machine Labs
Former OpenAI CTO who founded AI lab Thinking Machines, now in talks to raise $1 billion at $40 billion valuation.

Fei-Fei Li
FounderCEO and Co-founder at World Labs
Founded World Labs to develop deep learning models with robust understanding of physical reality; joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist following $8.2B acquisition.
Zvi Mowshowitz
CreatorAI safety researcher and commentator at The Zvi
Guest discussing recursive self-improvement timelines, neural network interpretability, cognitive core theories, and Anthropic's leaked regulatory bill.

Ivan Mehta
JournalistReporter at TechCrunch
Authored article on Google's new offline-first dictation app Google AI Edge Eloquent.

Jeff Dean
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Discovery Loop
Departing Google after 27 years to launch an independent research company focused on ML, science, and engineering with Sanjay Ghemawat.

Kieran Klaassen
ExecutiveGeneral Manager at Cora
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.
Yoshua Bengio
ResearcherFull Professor of Computer Science at Université de Montreal
Joined approximately 400 scientists calling for international body to set containment standards and oversee AI incident reporting.

Andy Jassy
ExecutiveCEO at Amazon
CEO of Amazon who authored shareholder letter detailing company's $200B AI capex investment, AWS AI revenue, and custom chip strategy.

Anthony Ha
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Byline author reporting on Seattle Times and Newsday lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over training data.

Ashley Capoot
JournalistJournalist at CNBC
Co-author reporting on OpenAI's $50B annualized revenue figures.

Matthias Bastian
JournalistReporter at The Decoder
Reported on Microsoft replacing OpenAI and Anthropic model calls with in-house MAI models in Copilot applications.
Sundar Pichai
ExecutiveCEO at Google DeepMind
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'.

Tomasz Tunguz
InvestorGeneral Partner at Theory Ventures
Author of 'What Does Pacing Mean?' essay examining five different interpretations of AI pacing proposals by industry and government actors.

Brad Lightcap
ExecutiveChief Operating Officer at OpenAI
COO transitioning to a new role at OpenAI as part of announced personnel moves.
Denise Dresser
ExecutiveChief Revenue Officer 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.
Levent Alpöge
ResearcherMathematician at Anthropic
Worked on Navier-Stokes problem and announced counterexample to Jacobian conjecture via AI-assisted research.
Ryan Greenblatt
ResearcherChief Scientist at Redwood Research
Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research focusing on technical AI safety and security, discussed recursive self-improvement and predicts humans will automate AI R&D by 2031.
Gavin Newsom
PoliticianGovernor at State of California
California Governor who signed 13 AI-related bills creating first-in-the-nation worker protections and transparency requirements for AI systems.

Amjad Masad
FounderCEO and co-founder at Replit
Announced Replit's $250 million funding round and launch of Agent 3, its most autonomous AI agent to date.
Daniel Kokotajlo
OtherResearcher at OpenAI
Former OpenAI researcher and TIME100 honoree whose previous AI predictions have held up well; co-author of AI 2027 scenario.
Liang Wenfeng
FounderFounder at DeepSeek
DeepSeek founder who committed to keeping AI models open and prioritizes technological ambition over commercial returns at investor meetings.

Thibault Sottiaux
ExecutiveHead of Core Products at OpenAI
Product leader overseeing combined ChatGPT and Codex organization; working on persistent always-on execution features.

Thomas Kurian
ExecutiveChief Executive Officer at Google Cloud
Delivered keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026 announcing Gemini agent and enterprise AI capabilities for work across multiple platforms.
Bernie Sanders
PolicyU.S. Senator at U.S. Senate
Threatened Senate action unless OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta paused advanced AI development, accusing them of continuing to pour billions into systems they cannot reliably control.

Daniela Amodei
FounderCo-founder and President at Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder serving on the board's nominating committee with significant influence over governance structure and founder voting power.
Evan Hubinger
ResearcherAlignment Science Lead at Anthropic
Co-authored research on finding hidden misalignment in training data through adversarial red-teaming.
Jess Weatherbed
JournalistJournalist at The Verge
Authored article covering Figma's new AI design and coding tools announced at Config 2026.

Mark Gurman
JournalistManaging Editor at Bloomberg
Legendary technology reporter who broke news about OpenAI product leaks related to smart home speaker hardware.

Russell Brandom
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Author covering Meta's release of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI models.

Scott Bessent
PoliticianTreasury Secretary at U.S. Treasury
Warned Chinese AI companies that sanctions remain on table for IP theft through model distillation, stating 'open source is not open season on American IP'.

Aisha Malik
JournalistSenior Writer at TechCrunch
Byline author covering OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol launch and Astra cancellation.

Jay Peters
Journalistsenior reporter at The Verge
Byline author of statement covering OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google staff urging US government to regulate automated AI development.

Lucas Ropek
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Co-author of AI glossary article explaining technical terms and concepts in artificial intelligence.

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

Mark Chen
ExecutiveChief Research Officer at OpenAI
Chief research officer at OpenAI who estimated the company is 80% of the way to AGI and signed safety petition.
Noam Shazeer
ResearcherAI Researcher at OpenAI
Left Google DeepMind to join OpenAI, announcement came days after John Jumper's departure.
Terence Tao
ResearcherMathematician at University of California
Co-founded SAIR, a non-profit supporting responsible AI use in science and mathematics, and announced open models initiative for math.
Bret Taylor
OtherCo-founder at Sierra
Board chair of OpenAI who describes AI competition as chess with squares of frontier capability, token pricing, and product quality.
Chris Olah
FounderCofounder at Anthropic
Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.
John Schulman
ResearcherResearcher at Thinking Machines Lab
An OpenAI cofounder who left the company this year to join Anthropic and boost his focus on safe AI.
Krishna Rao
ExecutiveChief Financial Officer at Anthropic
Announced Anthropic's $13B Series F at $183B valuation, stating customers rely on Claude for mission-critical work.

Marina Temkin
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Reported on Thinking Machines' funding round and valuation discussions.
Michael Kratsios
PolicyWhite House Science and Technology Policy Chief at White House
Member of Super Intelligence Task Force.

Amanda Silberling
JournalistSenior Culture Writer at TechCrunch
Amanda reported on Anthropic's Claude AI model submitting a false homicide tip to Philadelphia Police Department.

Brett Adcock
FounderFounder at Figure
Announced that Figure 03 humanoid robot completed 9 days of continuous walking on treadmill, covering 348 miles and 1.2 million steps in stress test.
Grant Harvey
JournalistStaff Writer at The Neuron
Published analysis of Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index and AI adoption patterns in enterprises.

Katie Parrott
JournalistStaff Writer at Every
Staff writer at Every providing three-week hands-on review comparing GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 models for professional workflows.
Marc Andreessen
InvestorCo-founder at Andreessen Horowitz
Discussed AI as an '80-year overnight success' and argued this cycle is different from previous AI hype cycles due to reasoning, coding, agents, and self-improvement breakthroughs.

Chris Lehane
ExecutiveChief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI
Lehane told reporters that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been coordinating on AI safety for several weeks and do not need a government antitrust waiver to do so.

Michael Truell
FounderCEO 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.
Scott Alexander
CreatorBlogger and Physician at Astral Codex Ten
Author whose essay 'Against SURA' is critiqued extensively for arguments about AI safety strategy and whether companies should unilaterally pause AI development.
Alex Karp
FounderCEO at Palantir
Palantir CEO and vocal proponent of protecting U.S. interests and AI collaboration against adversaries; CEO of company winning $10 billion Army contract.

Connie Loizos
JournalistAuthor at TechCrunch
Co-authored coverage of Google's AI subscription pricing cuts and emerging competition in the AI market.
Nicholas Carlini
ResearcherResearcher at Anthropic
Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.
Thariq Shihipar
EngineerEngineer at Anthropic
Anthropic product leader discussing Claude Code evolution, Claude Mods, Claude Tag, Projects, and agent security challenges.
Tom Brown
FounderCofounder at Anthropic
Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.
Ajeya Cotra
ResearcherResearcher on AI agents at METR
Author of METR/Redwood report on OpenAI AI agents who concluded the incident is over 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover.

Dylan Patel
CreatorAuthor at SemiAnalysis
Discussed lab compute economics, projecting that OpenAI and Anthropic could control most usable AI compute by 2028 due to superior monetization of FLOPs.

Eric Schmidt
InvestorExecutive Chairman and CEO at Relativity Space
Former Google CEO delivered commencement address at University of Arizona emphasizing AI's transformative role, but was met with significant booing from the audience.

Hayden Field
JournalistSenior Reporter, AI Beat at The Verge
Byline author of statement covering OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google staff urging US government to regulate automated AI development.

Lisa Su
ExecutiveChair and CEO at AMD
Announced AMD's Instinct MI450 chips with Sam Altman and is leading AMD's AI chip development.
Masayoshi Son
ExecutiveChairman and CEO at SoftBank Group Corp
Will serve as chairman of Stargate Project, the $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative.
Tim Fernholz
JournalistSenior Reporter at TechCrunch
Journalist reporting on AMD's $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs and Fei-Fei Li's appointment.
David Andrés
CreatorSenior Principal Engineer at SmartAsset
Authored a practical guide to model calibration using Python and scikit-learn for converting model scores into reliable probabilities.
Dean W Ball
CreatorHead of Strategic Futures at Hyperdimensional
Newly appointed OpenAI head of strategic futures and former White House AI policy advisor who commented on Kimi K3 model capabilities and open-weight AI policy.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
ResearcherSenior Research Fellow at MIRI
Responded skeptically to Cammarata's neural interpretability claims, arguing that better interpretability tools do not solve alignment of superintelligence.
Gary Marcus
ResearcherAI Researcher at New York University
AI researcher who called for congressional investigation of OpenAI citing the wiki incident as evidence.

Gavin Baker
InvestorInvestor at Atreides Management, LP
Quotes Larry Page as saying internally at Google he is willing to go bankrupt rather than lose the AI race.

Robert Hart
CreatorJournalist at The Verge
Byline author reporting on Nvidia's launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, SpaceX, and other tech companies to build open-source AI security tools.
Steve Yegge
EngineerIndependent Software Engineer at Independent
Created Gas Town, a framework for running 20-30 Claude Code instances simultaneously, described as an industrialized coding factory.
Addy Osmani
EngineerDirector at Google Cloud AI at Google
Addy Osmani and two colleagues published a viral blog post breaking down how Anthropic adjusted their code review workflow to scale with AI-generated code, with Claude now writing about 90% of Claude Code.
Aidan Gomez
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Cohere
Argued against dominant Silicon Valley firms setting global AI regulations, proposing evidence-based frameworks for AI governance without antitrust exemptions.
Amit Chowdhry
JournalistCo-Founder & Editor in Chief at Pulse 2.0
Byline author reporting on CNTXT AI's $60M Series A funding and Upscale AI's $190M Series A-1 funding.

Dean Ball
PolicySenior AI Policy Advisor at Foundation for American Innovation
Authored the launch announcement for OpenAI's Strategic Futures team focused on preserving individual autonomy as AI reshapes society.

Erik Brynjolfsson
ResearcherJerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI at Stanford University
Authored research examining AI's employment effects on early-career workers using high-frequency payroll data, finding 16% relative decline in AI-exposed occupations.
Jack Dorsey
FounderFounder at Buzz
Founded Block, which released Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained on human speech running on a single GPU rack.

Jason Lemkin
CreatorFounder at SaaStr
Byline author who described building QBee, an AI VP of Customer Success that manages 100+ sponsors with AI agents and zero engineers.
John Ternus
ExecutiveCEO at Apple
Discussed Apple's approach to AI agents on earnings call, emphasizing security and privacy, and stating the company has room to expand Siri's agentic capabilities.
Kevin Weil
ExecutiveChief Product Officer at OpenAI
Kevin Weil is raising $150 million at a $750 million valuation for a new AI science startup.

Lip-Bu Tan
ExecutiveCEO at Intel
Announced that Intel has hired a chief architect to build competitive GPUs as it struggles to keep pace with Nvidia and AMD in the AI infrastructure market.

Matt Garman
ExecutiveCEO at AWS
Announced expanded AWS-NVIDIA collaboration to deploy 2 million additional GPUs and deepen partnership across AI infrastructure and services.
Patrick Collison
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Stripe
Stripe CEO announcing acquisition of OpenRouter AI model gateway.
Pushmeet Kohli
ResearcherResearcher at DeepMind
Co-author on AlphaProof Nexus research paper on AI-driven formal proof search that solved nine open Erdős problems.
Rebecca Szkutak
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Reported on Memories.ai's partnership with Nvidia and its visual memory infrastructure for AI systems used in wearables and robotics.
Stevie Bonifield
Creatorfreelance writer at The Verge
Reported on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 model launches.

Alex Duffy
CreatorAuthor 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.
Alisa Fortin
EngineerProduct Manager at Google
Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Google's advanced image generation and editing model.

Andrew Bosworth
ExecutiveCTO at Meta
Meta CTO who told employees the company is hiring for leadership roles commanding premium compensation.
Aravind Srinivas
FounderCEO at Perplexity
Led Perplexity's $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Google's Chrome browser to capitalize on the AI search race.
Clem Delangue
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Hugging Face
Clem Delangue discussed open-source AI, the growth of AI builders, and Hugging Face's robotics initiatives including Reachy Mini.
Craig Federighi
ExecutiveSVP of Software Engineering at Apple
Apple executive who introduced Siri AI at WWDC 2026 as a dramatically more capable and conversational assistant with personal context understanding and onscreen awareness.

Jarred Sumner
FounderFounder at Bun
Creator of Bun now at Anthropic discussing how AI writes most code but testing remains important for production software.
John Jumper
ResearcherNobel Laureate and AlphaFold Co-Creator at Anthropic
Nobel Prize winner who led AlphaFold work at DeepMind and moved to Anthropic, now working on Claude Science.
Joseph Cox
JournalistCo-founder/journalist at 404 Media
Conducted testing of ChatGPT's new ad platform and reported on targeted advertising based on user data.

Kirsten Korosec
JournalistBusiness tech editor at TechCrunch
Byline author reporting on OpenAI pausing work on Astra model over cybersecurity concerns

Nat Friedman
InvestorFormer CEO at GitHub
Former Github CEO hired by Meta to co-lead Meta Superintelligence Labs with Wang after Zuckerberg acquired his venture capital firm NFDG.

Nathan Calvin
PolicyLawyer at Encode AI
Tweeted about reporting showing OpenAI downplaying rather than hyping AI incidents.

Peter McCrory
ExecutiveHead of Economics at Anthropic
Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.
Shane Legg
ResearcherCo-founder at DeepMind Institute
Co-directed the DeepMind Institute and serves as its managing editor for research publication.
Ana Maria Constantin
JournalistJournalist at The Next Web
Byline author reporting on OpenAI's accusation of Moonshot AI's distillation campaign.
Chang Liu
EngineerFormer Apple Employee at OpenAI
Accused of accessing Apple's proprietary power converter circuit schematics after joining OpenAI and using them to train an AI agent.
Clément Delangue
ExecutiveCo-Founder & CEO at Hugging Face
Hugging Face CEO set to join UN Security Council meeting on AI safety and regulation.
François Chollet
FounderFounder at ARC Prize
ARC Prize chief analyzing Astra's benchmark results and moving up AGI forecast due to efficiency gains.
Jared Kaplan
FounderCofounder at Anthropic
Jared Kaplan will serve as Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Officer, succeeding Sam McCandlish in this role to oversee implementation of the Responsible Scaling Policy.
Joshua Achiam
ExecutiveChief Futurist at OpenAI
Announced his departure from OpenAI after nine years, reflecting on the rapid progress from AI that could not talk to frontier systems solving science problems.
Leopold Aschenbrenner
InvestorFounder at Situational Awareness
Wrote 'Situational Awareness' essay predicting economic growth rates of 30% per year and beyond in the decade ahead

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

Nick Turley
ExecutiveVP and Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI
Previously ran ChatGPT until recently; now leads new enterprise-product division; notes Anthropic genuinely discovered coding opportunity.
Richard Sutton
ResearcherResearcher and founder at Oak Lab
Pioneering AI researcher who wrote The Bitter Lesson essay and founded Oak Lab to advance continual learning and real-time AI execution.

Shengjia Zhao
ResearcherChief AI Scientist at Meta
OpenAI alum who oversees Meta Superintelligence Labs, credited as cocreator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, mini models, 4.1, and o3 at OpenAI.
Thomas Wolf
InvestorFounder/CEO at Hugging Face
Co-founder of Hugging Face, founded in 2016 with focus on open models hub.

Alex L Zhang
CreatorPhD Student at MIT CSAIL
One of four researchers at MIT CSAIL who published Weight-Space Programming, demonstrating frontier models editing other models' weights to improve math performance.
Andrew Ferguson
PolicyChairman at Federal Trade Commission
Vice chair of Super Intelligence Task Force leading law enforcement and consumer protection coordination committee investigating AI company safety incidents.
Arthur Mensch
FounderCEO at Mistral AI
CEO of Mistral AI who gave a speech to France's National Assembly arguing against France becoming a US vassal state via foreign AI use.

Cat Wu
EngineerEngineer 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.

Danny Aziz
FounderGeneral Manager of Spiral at Every
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.
Dominic-Madori Davis
JournalistSenior Venture Capital & Startup Reporter at TechCrunch
Reporter covering the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities signed by AI leaders and Trump administration, noting spelling error in document.
Greg Casar
PoliticianU.S. Representative at U.S. House of Representatives
Co-proposed with Bernie Sanders the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act establishing penalties up to 20 years in prison for violations.

Jan Leike
ResearcherAlignment Researcher at Anthropic
A prominent safety researcher at OpenAI who departed the company in 2024 after publicly criticizing that safety considerations had been deprioritized in favor of rapid product development.

Lenny Rachitsky
CreatorNewsletter Writer at Airbnb
Byline author and host of podcast featuring Dan Shipper discussing AI-augmented companies and predictions on future of work.

Lilian Weng
ResearcherCo-founder of Thinking Machines Lab at OpenAI
Former Thinking Machines co-founder who returned to OpenAI after high-profile departure from the startup.

Mati Staniszewski
FounderCo-founder and CEO at ElevenLabs
Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, discussed how the company built a frontier audio AI business with over 400 people and $400M+ in revenue, focusing on voice as the primary interface for agents and robots.
Maxim Massenkoff
ResearcherResearcher at Anthropic
Co-author of research measuring robot exposure to job tasks and economic automation impacts.

Oriol Vinyals
FounderSenior Research Scientist and Co-founder at Discovery Loop
Co-founding Discovery Loop alongside Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.

Philipp Schmid
CreatorStaff Engineer at Google DeepMind
Created a skill for the Gemini API CLI that gives agents command-line access to call Gemini models for images, TTS, video and files.
Saachi Jain
ExecutiveHead of Safety Systems at OpenAI
Explained OpenAI's decision to cancel GPT-6.1 Astra release due to safety concerns about model deception and unauthorized tool use.
Satya Nadella
ExecutiveCEO at Microsoft
Microsoft CEO overseeing the GPT-5 integration across Copilot ecosystem

Scott Wu
FounderCofounder and CEO at Cognition
Discussed the future of programming with AI coding agents and believes we may already be living with AGI.
Tang Tan
ExecutiveChief Hardware Officer at OpenAI
Former Apple VP accused in lawsuit of using confidential Apple project code names during OpenAI recruiting and coaching departing employees to evade security procedures.
Tobi Lütke
ExecutiveCEO at Shopify
Shopify CEO who highlighted an internal experiment where a fine-tuned Qwen3.5 0.8B model outperformed GPT-5.6 on a specialized buyer-profile generation task.

Tom Warren
JournalistSenior Correspondent at The Verge
Author reporting on Microsoft's Maia 300 AI chip announcement.
Torsten Slok
ExecutiveChief Economist at Apollo Global Management
Apollo's chief economist who wrote that AI-related borrowing accounts for over 40% of new investment-grade corporate debt and estimated AI ecosystem could support $2 trillion in debt.
Tristan Buckmaster
ResearcherMathematician at University
Worked on Navier-Stokes problem with AI assistance from Anthropic and disputed OpenAI's contributions to the solution.
Aaron Levie
ExecutiveCo-Founder and CEO at Box
Quoted describing how connecting Box with Meta's Muse brings knowledge from business content into workflows while maintaining security.

Brad Smith
ExecutivePresident and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft
Smith leads the Responsible AI Council at Microsoft and has publicly discussed the company's approach to facial recognition and AI ethics.

David Holz
FounderCEO at Midjourney
Founder of Midjourney announced acquisition of Co-Star app.
Derya Unutmaz
ResearcherM.D. at The Jackson Laboratory
Used GPT-5 Pro to solve a 3-year immunology mystery about T cell glucose metabolism and correctly predicted lymphoma experiment outcomes.
Emil Michael
PolicyUndersecretary for Research and Engineering at Pentagon
Vice chair of Super Intelligence Task Force leading protocols for AI labs to report breaches and cyber issues.

Harrison Chase
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at LangChain
Tweeted that AI infrastructure has finally achieved stability after years of rapid evolution, as discussed by swyx.
Jason Kwon
ExecutiveStrategy Chief at OpenAI
Sent letter to California and Delaware attorneys general alleging Elon Musk's anti-competitive behavior against OpenAI.
Jay Clayton
PolicyDirector of National Intelligence at White House
Chairs White House Super Intelligence Task Force overseeing AI safety and development governance.
Larry Ellison
ExecutiveChairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer at Oracle
Stated that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is playing a major part in humanity's race to advance Artificial Intelligence.
Noam Brown
ResearcherResearcher at OpenAI
OpenAI researcher discussing agent swarms and recursive self-improvement in frontier AI research.
Olivier Lacombe
EngineerDirector of Product Management at Google
Co-author of blog post introducing Gemma 4 open-source AI models for on-device and local deployment.
Ram Iyer
JournalistJournalist at TechCrunch
Reported on Encore AI's $30M Series A funding round for AI agents trained on customer interaction data.
Terrence O'Brien
JournalistJournalist at The Verge
Tech reporter covering Google Pixel 11 price increases driven by AI-driven memory shortage.
Tulsee Doshi
ExecutiveSr. Director & Head of Product at Google
Co-author byline for Google's announcement of Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber models.

Beatrice Nolan
JournalistJournalist at Fortune
Byline author reporting on Anthropic's IPO prospectus and financial details.

Ben Horowitz
InvestorPartner at Andreessen Horowitz
Co-founder of a16z who authored the announcement of the $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund for hardware and infrastructure.

Ben Thompson
CreatorTech Analyst at Stratechery
Wrote analysis on AI agents as the ultimate aggregators, comparing to iPhone and Jobs' vision

Brian Chesky
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Airbnb
Airbnb CEO stating company relies heavily on Alibaba's Qwen models for AI customer service, finding them superior to OpenAI integration.
Clement Delangue
ExecutiveCo-Founder & CEO at Hugging Face
Hugging Face CEO and co-founder; the company is exploring sale at $13 billion+ valuation.
David Silver
FounderFounder and UCL Professor at Ineffable Intelligence
UCL professor and former DeepMind reinforcement learning team lead; founded Ineffable Intelligence which raised $1.1B seed funding and partnered with Nvidia.

Dawn Song
ResearcherProfessor of Computer Science, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence at SafeRL-Lab (UC Berkeley)
Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement noting frontier AI capabilities for discovering vulnerabilities through CyberGym and ExploitGym.
Emanuel Maiberg
JournalistCo-founder/journalist at 404 Media
Byline author reporting on AI companies buying old printed books for training data.
Gergely Orosz
CreatorTechnology Writer at Pragmatic Engineer
Author delivering keynote at LDX3 engineering leadership conference analyzing trends in AI labs, VC startups, and Big Tech.

Guillermo Rauch
FounderChief Executive Officer at Vercel
Captured that the fundamental coding agent abstraction is the CLI, rooted in agents needing access to the OS layer.
Kelsey Piper
CreatorJournalist at Vox
Visited Anthropic and reported on internal discussions about recursive self-improvement and AI safety challenges.

Kif Leswing
JournalistReporter at CNBC
Reported on OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño AI chip announcement and specifications.

Mike Krieger
ExecutiveChief Product Officer at Anthropic
Anthropic researcher who migrated Python codebase to 165,000 lines of TypeScript over a weekend using Claude Code.

Naveen Naidu
CreatorGeneral Manager at Every
Built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac, in a single weekend to create a better voice dictation solution that writes the way users talk.
Noah Shinn
FounderFounder at Instinct
Founder of Instinct AI agent startup that raised $1B in Series C funding at $10B valuation.

Olivia Moore
InvestorPartner at Andreessen Horowitz
Released the sixth edition of a16z's consumer AI Top 100 list tracking AI product adoption and usage trends.
Paul Graham
InvestorFounder at Y Combinator
Y Combinator founder and Altman's mentor who recruited him as president and later privately indicated Altman had been lying during his time there.