People in AI

Noted that annual capital expenditure by hyperscalers on data centers is nearing $400 billion.

Presented at APSARA Conference reaffirming Qwen's commitment to open-source AI development, announcing Qwen 4.0 and 5.0 models will remain open-weight.

Discussed the company's Nadou Pro AI tool for connecting filmmakers with actors for AI-generated content creation.

Manager of Salesforce's cross-functional agent portfolio who identified 'agent sprawl' problem and drove the shift toward fewer, better-built agents.

Liz Wessel

Executive

Entrepreneur and Investor at First Round Capital

Co-hosted a dinner with six people responsible for buying, deploying, and operating compute for major AI labs and infrastructure companies to discuss GPU and compute capacity.

Long Cheng

Executive

Senior Vice President of Thunderfire BU at NetEase

Senior VP at NetEase describing support for NetEase games on RTX Spark ultrathin laptops.

Announced release of Stable Audio 3.0 model family with open-weight music generation models trained on fully licensed data.

Lucas Pickup

Executive

Microsoft Azure

Confirmed that Azure's 80% benchmark score was caused by running an older vLLM version, now fixed.

VP of AI Systems Software at NVIDIA, endorses Meta's Helion project for simplifying kernel authoring on NVIDIA systems.

Stated that Sandisk's partnerships with three US hyperscalers support expansion in data-center market driven by AI demand.

VP of Product Management discussing the launch of new AI agents and writing surface as a turning point in product development.

Luke Elder

Executive

Senior Lead, Sustainability Reporting at Google

Author of "Google's AI Toolkit for Sustainability Reporting" in Google Blog

Quoted discussing American Express's contribution to AP2 protocol for customer protection

Author of "Apple Reportedly Planning AI-Enhanced Siri With Search Tool in 2026" in Apple

Madhav Thattai

Executive

Executive Vice President and General Manager of Salesforce AI at Salesforce

Discussed how companies are measuring AI agents' work output rather than just usage metrics.

Vice president of strategy, regions, and policies at IDRC, quoted on supporting AI evaluation work for responsible scaling.

Author of "Launch Week recap: Monetization infrastructure for the AI era" in Metronome

Current CFO of X who is leaving the company, to be replaced by Armstrong.

Mallory De Leon

Executive

Comms at Google at Google

Google spokesperson explaining AI headline replacement as a narrow experiment not yet approved for wider launch.

Google representative explaining the AI headline rewriting as a small UI experiment for Discover users.

Described ambition for agents to help merchants answer product questions and support purchases, returns, and exchanges.

Executive evaluating NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed models for agentic retrieval use cases and deployment flexibility.

CEO who transformed his company to be AI-driven in six months by personally leading the AI initiative rather than delegating it.

CEO of Trafalgar Releasing commenting on partnership to distribute AURORA's concert film globally

Leading EY's multi-agent AI deployment across 130,000 auditors with plans for 100% coverage by 2028.

Marc Manara

Executive

Head of Startups at OpenAI

Comments on breakthroughs in AI reasoning and agentic capabilities opening doors for startup applications

Announced ABB Robotics' integration of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into RobotStudio to close sim-to-real gap in industrial robotics deployment with up to 99% accuracy.

Former Genentech Chief Scientific Officer leading Xaira Therapeutics, founded with $1B in funding for biology AI.

Chair of Wallenberg Investments discussing the role of Sferical One supercluster in enabling innovation across Swedish industries.

Quoted on Claude Marketplace enabling Cox Automotive to extend Anthropic investment into partner tools.

CRO who announced Mistral AI's suite of AI services for banks and hedge funds at Bloomberg Invest conference.

Quoted on IBM joining OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program for security services.

Planning to use Caterpillar equipment with battery storage for massive data-center project in Utah.

Discussed Morgan Stanley's plan to open its wealth management platforms to external AI agents from corporate clients.

GM President stated that new initiatives are tangible products entering the market shortly and revenue plans are on track.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Stated technology is changing too quickly for proprietary AI to make sense, preferring to buy solutions.

Chief Business Officer of Rebellions leading U.S. market expansion for AI inference infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Martin Keely

Executive

General Manager, Epic Games Store at Epic Games

Explained that Epic Games used AI to write new code from scratch for the rebuilt launcher with new architecture.

Said Tencent feels comfortable with large AI infrastructure investments due to substantial return potential and clear loss protection.

Cisco executive announcing the Cisco 8223 routing system and new Silicon One P200 chip for AI data center connectivity.

Martin Woodward

Executive

VP of Developer Relations at GitHub

Authored article on GitHub Copilot integration with Logitech MX Keypad for developers

Referenced in "Build vs Buy in the Age of AI"

Partner at generative-AI texting firm; reported over 2.5 million texts sent resulting in 20,000-30,000 conversations.

Google VP who announced the multi-year partnership between Google and MrBeast for Gemini, Google Health, and Fitbit integration in content.

Announced GM's new software initiatives including conversational Google Gemini AI for vehicles and new driver-assistance systems.

Mary Beth Westmoreland

Executive

Vice President, Worldwide Selling Partner Experience at Amazon

Amazon VP discussing new AI tools and plugins for independent sellers to manage their Amazon businesses through Claude and other agents.

Referenced by Lip-Bu Tan as the person who made the investment decision and with whom he has worked for decades

Executive commenting on Mitsubishi Electric's acquisition of Japanese space company Infostellar.

Kalibrate legal director defending the company against algorithmic price-fixing allegations.

Unilever supply chain executive praising Freehand as full-scale agentic deployment and shift from assisting to autonomous software.

Matt Ausman described how Gemini Enterprise agents helped Zebra transform internal functions and support partners.

CEO of Stitch Fix who announced AI Vision feature generated 100% lift in spending and is being rolled out to more customers.

CEO of Freelancer platform noted that markets can detect AI-generated content and have visceral reactions to it.

Matt Booty

Executive

Microsoft

Promoted by Sharma to lead game development efforts, known for delivering award-winning work.

Discussed Unity Spark's design philosophy, emphasizing it is not a one-shot game development tool and requires creativity and ambition.

CFO of Groq during $650M fundraising for AI inference cloud scale-up.

Discussed new agency equation and four modes of working with AI in Microsoft's research.

CEO discussing Beatport's policy to block fully AI-generated music while allowing AI-assisted tracks with tagging.

Explained YouTube's AI content monetization policy distinguishing between high-quality AI-enhanced content and low-quality content farming.

Matt Kaufman

Executive

Chief Safety Officer at Roblox

Co-author of announcement on Roblox's AI-powered chat rephrasing system for keeping communication civil while maintaining flow.

Matt Knight

Executive

Head of Security at OpenAI

OpenAI security head who remained in role on safety committees after other original safety committee members departed.

WHOOP executive stated that integrating OpenAI models in Snowflake Cortex AI enhances agent capabilities while maintaining security and governance.

Matt MacInnis

Executive

Executive at Rippling

Described the value difference between tokens spent on generic questions versus reasoning over company-specific data in terms of commodity versus strategic tokens.

AWS VP of Core Networking discusses why subsea cables are essential for international connectivity and superior to satellite alternatives.

Authored analysis of Wendy's FreshAI launch, describing generative AI-powered drive-thru ordering system and its benefits to customers and crew.

Head of digital partnerships quoted noting Google's core advantage remains intact despite ruling tweaks

Said the UK Data Centre Covenant represents significant opportunity for responsible data center development if government, energy providers and industry collaborate.

Commented on Nvidia's investment strategy in AI companies and the circular investment theme of vendor financing.

Matthew Griffin

Executive

Marketing and PR lead at Team Cherry

Team Cherry marketing and PR lead who confirmed pricing information in the official Discord server

Matthew Midson from Box noted that the Skills API enabled Box Agent to apply specialized document creation for banking workflows, capturing credit methodology and approved memo formats.

President of NABR quoted discussing that NAMs must be validated before replacing animal models and noting limitations of AI in drug development.

Discussed importance of network visibility and understanding device origins as foundational cybersecurity practices.

Matthias Rohmer

Executive

Google

Listed as the author of the article about Chrome DevTools updates

VP of Learning & Sustainability at Google, quoted describing Guided Learning as a collaborative thinking partner for students.

Discussed Waymo Driver's superior safety performance compared to human drivers in insurance claims study.

Using Gemini Embedding 2 to help legal professionals find critical information during litigation discovery, improving precision and recall across millions of records.

Max Schwendner is co-CEO of Alorica and discussed challenges in managing AI agent calls and potential solutions like agent registration systems.

Speaking on how financial institutions approach AI operations with emphasis on regulatory compliance and trust.

CEO of Writer who launched the new flagship model Palmyra X6 aimed at reducing AI deployment costs for customers.

Noted that Claude's 1M context window allows production systems to maintain full visibility of complex incidents without compaction or loss of nuance.

Discussed Indian enterprises moving from AI experimentation to business outcomes and data architecture modernization.

Co-author of the article announcing Kaggle Game Arena

Former product marketing lead at Brex who discusses interview questions for assessing AI curiosity in candidates

Defended McDonald's AI-generated Christmas advert that took seven weeks to produce using generative AI.

CEO of Nairobi-based financing company who tested both American and Chinese AI models internally.

Melissa Keogh

Executive

Communications Officer at University of South Australia

Listed as media contact for the article

Quoted discussing Checkout.com's support for AP2 in reshaping agentic commerce

Reported huge uptick in interest from data centers for Spot quadruped robots in the last year, with pricing ranging from $175,000 to $300,000.

Appointed VP and CFO of The Timken Company with 25 years of experience at the organization

HP executive discussing the company's AI PC strategy, projection that AI PCs will reach 50% of shipments by year-end, and partnerships with Wubble AI.

Discussed Lionsgate's strategic collaboration with Runway to expand storytelling capabilities using AI technology.

Clinical development expert who joined Enveda from Madrigal Pharmaceuticals to lead development of AI-discovered drug candidates.

Confirmed Microsoft's continued partnership with OpenAI while the company diversifies its AI partnerships to include Anthropic.

Chairman and CEO of Dell describing RTX Spark-powered XPS 16 Creator Edition laptops.

Michael Fine

Executive

Head of Machine Learning at Exa

Head of machine learning at Exa; discusses using Chinese open models as cheaper and faster alternative to closed U.S. models like GPT-5 and Gemini.

Film and television effects specialist who created the film's visual effects and computer animation

COO expressing enthusiasm about partnership with Anthropic providing educators access to Claude and feedback opportunities.

Quoted discussing Unsloth's use of Transformers for fine-tuning and training models efficiently.

CricViz managing director describing the partnership as providing NZC with advanced analytical tools and long-term value.

Announced Criteo as the first advertising technology partner integrating with OpenAI's advertising pilot in ChatGPT.

Called for media to present a united front against platforms and AI companies seeking content for free.

Michael Nicolls

Executive

President at xAI

xAI president who sent memo to staff about the company's model FLOPs Utilization being at 11% and aiming to reach 50%.

Michael Obradovitch, VP at Ecolab, commented on alternative water sources being used to cool AI data centers in response to environmental concerns.

Michael Robbins

Executive

President & CEO at AUVSI

Noted that Hesai's firmware update in 2024 failed to account for leap year, causing all sensors to stop working.

Michael Saylor

Executive

Founder and CEO at MicroStrategy

Billionaire entrepreneur who claims he used ChatGPT to help his company make $15 billion, advising people to use AI to solve new problems rather than automating existing tasks.

Published letter advising engineers to learn AI and stay close to customers as part of Amazon's rethinking software development for the AI era.

Author of "General Motors Brings AI to Your Vehicle" in General Motors

CEO addressed TCO performance, pipeline issues, growth opportunities in Iraq, Venezuela, and the Permian, and discussed AI applications in exploration and operations.

President of motherhood social network app Peanut who noticed moms query chatbots then bring findings to community for verification before trusting AI answers.

CEO cited as reminder that AI is becoming backbone of modern workflows

CTO of Remedy Entertainment expressing excitement about bringing games to RTX Spark laptops.

Mike Aragon is president of Integrated Services at Ford and responsible for the new Ford and Lincoln AI assistant launch.

Mike Bidgoli

Executive

Chief Product and Technology Officer at Tubi

Tubi executive announcing the launch of Tubi's native app within ChatGPT for content discovery.

Mike Clifton is co-CEO of Alorica and envisions an AI agent registration system similar to ID.me to validate that bots are associated with authorized persons.

CEO of MDA Space announcing acquisition of CLS to create vertically integrated AI-driven Earth observation platform.

Aerospace expert who accompanied Musk to Moscow as an advisor on the second trip to buy missiles.

Mike Intrator discussed CoreWeave's Q2 earnings and strategy for competing in AI infrastructure.

Mike Liberatore

Executive

xAI

Former CFO of xAI who left the company in July.

Former Chair of Executive Committee of Sidley Austin; chairs Norm Law, the AI-native law firm built on Norm Ai platform.

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

Mike Speiser

Executive

Reve

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

Stated BMW is determining applications for humanoid robots in production and wants to accompany the technology from development to industrialization.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Previous CEO whom Laura Chambers replaced in early 2024.

Oversaw strategy and finance at CRED since 2020; taking over as interim CEO after Kunal Shah steps down.

Discussed how CEOs are redesigning organizations to bring together people and technology for AI transformation.

Stated at Davos that 2026 is a decisive year for AI with small group of companies turning AI into measurable returns.

CEO of Bitzero who designed the company's infrastructure-first business model for AI data centers in Nordic regions.

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security and CTO/CIO of Snyk.

Shared insights on customer success practices at Lovable, including renaming CS roles and building custom CS tools; leading fastest company to $400M.

Testified on behalf of OpenAI at NYC Council hearing about AI safety measures and potential dangers.

Seoul cybersecurity analytics firm executive who warned that cybersecurity attacks powered by AI agents have been increasing in South Korea.

Unveiled Purdue's comprehensive AI strategy and introduced an AI working competency graduation requirement for all undergraduate students.

Shifting focus to Microsoft's proprietary models and pursuit of superintelligence after Copilot reorganization.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Joined Enveda from Novo Nordisk as clinical development leader to advance AI-discovered medicines through trials.

Data protection and AI governance analyst who warns that data leakage incidents are inevitable given the rapid pace of AI feature releases.

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

Endorsed NEURA Robotics investment, highlighting Qualcomm's support for Physical AI and robotics edge computing capabilities.

Deployed GuideGeek-powered AI bots Ellis and Libby for tourism in New York City.

Infosys chairman stated that AI has made the cost of rewriting legacy apps affordable and necessary.

Visited Asia with Alex Schultz to study startups organizing around AI and contributed to Meta's internal AI transformation planning.

Natalie Meurer

Executive

FDE Lead at Sierra

Leads forward-deployed engineers at Sierra, discussing enterprise AI orchestration and agentic ecosystem management.

Nathan Rifkin

Executive

Co-CEO at Scale to Win

Co-CEO warning of risks from using generative AI in political campaigns including false information and harmful statements.

CEO of Accenture Song who quoted on Netomi's agentic AI platform enabling brands to deliver empathetic customer experience at scale.

Quoted about expanding partnership with Adobe and bringing creative tools into Gemini.

Co-authored research on the critical role of strategic workforce planning in the age of AI and how gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills.

Leads network operations and AI agent deployment at Microsoft for managing connectivity incidents across 900+ sites.

Stated PTC's work with NVIDIA supports connected design and simulation workflows.

Senior VP of Amazon Health Services discusses how Health AI brings together fragmented health information to give patients a complete picture of their health.

Announced AI licensing deals with Microsoft and OpenAI, describing Microsoft's publisher content marketplace as a pay-per-use model for AI companies to compensate publishers.

Discussed collaboration with Google on NowAI-Bench and Gemini 4 Argon's performance improvements on enterprise workflows.

Niccolo de Masi

Executive

Chairman & CEO at IonQ

Announced IonQ's $1.3B acquisition of zero-trust security firm Elisity to protect AI agent networks.

Nick Beckstead

Executive

CEO at Secure AI Project

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

COO of Motif Neurotech who led the IDE submission to FDA for clinical trials.

Manager at Anthropic under whom Andrej Karpathy joins the pre-training team.

Nick Tornow

Executive

Senior Vice President at Roblox

Co-authored announcement of Build, Roblox's AI-powered game creation tool that converts text prompts into playable 3D games.

Involved in Getty Images' multi-year licensing deal with Perplexity to display images across AI-powered search tools.

Nicolai Ouporov

Executive

Co-founder and CEO at Fleet AI

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Waymo executive stating goal to bring autonomous rides to more people through partnership with Lyft.

Leading Accenture's new market unit focused on taking AI to the next level in 2026

Branded the Google antitrust ruling 'a complete failure' and criticized it for not adequately addressing monopoly power harms.

Plans to introduce humanoid robot to building site by year-end to address housing crisis and achieve 24/7 production.

Quoted discussing BHN's role in shaping AP2 for autonomous commerce with stored value

Palo Alto Networks CEO warning that token efficiency and pricing must drop significantly to enable large-scale AI adoption.

Commented on AI reshaping how we learn and work with its rapid pace of disruption.

Discussed automating traveler support and reducing wait times through Ace AI agent deployment.

Co-author of Google Cloud blog announcing Agent Compute Engine at AGNTCon.

Meta spokesperson who provided statement about shifting investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables.

Nitin Agrawal discussed CoreWeave's pricing, margins, and financial strategy during earnings.

Author of "Learn Your Way: Google's AI-Powered Interactive Textbooks" in Google Blog

AI finance startup tech chief explaining competitive intelligence among major model developers.

Noam Schwartz

Executive

CEO at Alice

Explained the security challenges AI agents face when given tools, credentials, and autonomous action capabilities.

CEO of Martin Marietta who named the 1993 consolidation meeting 'the Last Supper'

Director of AI Model Post-Training at Nvidia, explains the pruning from 12B to 9B parameters and hybrid model architecture benefits.

Google executive defending company's appeals against EU DMA orders opening Android to rival AI assistants.

Head of asset allocation commenting on lower burst risks due to robust balance sheets of leading players

Zocdoc CEO who argued that companies with verified information could gain influence as AI assistants bypass websites.

Spoke about Apple Music's AI music detection technology and the impact of AI-generated music on the platform.

Described how Mercury 2.5 reduced P99 response time from several minutes to one second for AI phone agent calls.

Discussed how AI is redefining global energy infrastructure and the balance between energy demand and infrastructure pressure.

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.

Described how LangSmith Sandboxes enable Sidekick assistant to execute code safely for data analysis and multimedia generation.

Announced Nebius securing a $3.5 billion financing facility from Citi to support global GPU and data center capacity build-out.

Introduced Ramp Applied AI Solutions, which embeds engineers in finance teams to create custom AI solutions.

IT Lead noting partnership has connected organizations navigating AI opportunities with learning around responsible implementation.

Aker CEO and Nscale Board member who announced consolidation of Aker-Nscale joint venture into single entity.

Temple manager who heard the knocking from inside the coffin and ordered it to be opened, discovering the woman was alive.

Delivered a speech at convocation describing the university's 92-student inaugural cohort as 'pioneers' and emphasizing the institution's founding mission.

Author of "Chrome: The Browser You Love, Reimagined with AI" in Google Blog

Parker Harris

Executive

CTO at Salesforce

Hopes the new AI agent version of Slackbot will be as viral as ChatGPT and discussed its development and adoption.

Talsania stated that Apple's decision to use Google's Gemini models for Siri shifts OpenAI into a more supporting role with ChatGPT positioned for complex, opt-in queries.

Quoted expressing Confluent's support for AP2 and expertise in data streaming for payments ecosystem

Patricia Paskov

Executive

Director of Standards, AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI) at AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI and value generation.

Patrick Moreau

Executive

Vice President for Multi-Domain Operations at Thales

Discussed Thales's HexaForce AI-assisted command system in advanced talks with NATO countries for military command and control.

Mondoo CSO affirming AI's role in accelerating vulnerability discovery and need for better access controls.