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888 people tracked across hundreds of AI articles. Who is being quoted, who is writing, and who keeps coming up.
Alex Zhavoronkov
FounderFounder and CEO at Insilico Medicine
Founded Insilico Medicine, which used AI to design rentosertib, an experimental drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that showed signs of reversing aging markers.
Alfred Wahlforss
FounderCEO & Co-Founder at Listen Labs
Previously founded staffing startup Bemlo; co-founded Listen Labs with Florian Jüngermann at Harvard.
Ali Agha
FounderFounder and CEO at Field AI
Founder and CEO describing the funding as an inflection point for scalable robotic autonomy and the company's mission to democratize general-purpose robotics.
Amit Agarwal
FounderCEO and Founder at Standard Template Labs
Founded Standard Template Labs, an AI-first IT service management startup, and previously spent 13+ years at Datadog as President and Chief Product Officer.
Andrew Barry
FounderCo-founder at Generalist
Andrew Barry, former Boston Dynamics engineer, co-founded Generalist to develop robotics AI foundation models.
Andrew Mayne
FounderGeneral Partner at Zero Shot Fund
OpenAI's original prompt engineer and host of The OpenAI podcast, co-founded Interdimensional AI deployment consultancy and Zero Shot venture fund.
Andy Konwinski
FounderCo-founder at Laude
Co-founder of Laude Institute working on Headlong persistent agent microharness.
Andy Zeng
FounderCo-Founder & Chief Scientist at Generalist
Andy Zeng, former Google DeepMind researcher, co-founded Generalist to build AI foundation models for robotics.
Anh-Tho Chuong
FounderCofounder at Lago
Cofounder of Y Combinator-backed open-source billing company Lago who wrote about how AI made pricing hard again for AI startups.
Ariel Assaraf
FounderChief Executive Officer at ActiveFence
Assaraf leads Coralogix, a startup that raised $200 million for observability tools to monitor AI agents in production.
Arjun Bansal
FounderCo-Founder at Trajectory
Co-founder of Trajectory building platform for continual learning where AI agents learn from product usage signals.
Arjun Desai
FounderCofounder at Cartesia
Cartesia founder noting how PyTorch native support on AWS Trainium enables efficient voice AI model deployment.

Arvid Lunnemark
FounderCo-founder at Cursor
MIT classmate of Truell who co-founded Cursor (then Anysphere) in 2022.

Asher Spector
FounderCo-founder at Flapping Airplanes
Co-founder of AI research startup Flapping Airplanes, stated the company is working on ways to train AI models with less data and computing power and that demand for AI will outpace chip and data supply.
Ashutosh Garg
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Eightfold AI
Recently launched TwinCafe platform enabling job seekers to create digital twins of themselves for recruiter interviews.
Assaf Rappaport
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at Wiz
Wiz founder who recruited Jonathan Jacobi when he was at Microsoft, mentioned as connection to Enigma co-founder.
Atai Barkai
FounderCEO at CopilotKit
Founded CopilotKit, announced $27M Series A funding led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire for agent-UI protocol and enterprise platform.

Ben Mildenhall
FounderCo-Founder at World Labs
World Labs co-founder and world-class AI researcher who helped found the company with Fei-Fei Li.
Ben Parr
FounderFormer Editor and Columnist at Moltbook
Ben Parr, co-founder of Moltbook and former editor at Mashable and CNET, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs following the acquisition of Moltbook.
Bercan Kilic
FounderCEO at microagi
CEO of Microagi/Shift discussing egocentric data collection strategy to build training data for humanoid robots and create gig economy opportunities.

Brandon Tseng
FounderCo-founder at Shield AI
Explained that Shield AI's X-Bat combines AI piloting with vertical takeoff and landing capabilities in a next generation aircraft for the first time.
Brett Rounsaville
FounderGeneral Partner at Zero Shot Fund
Former Twitter and Disney employee, CEO of Interdimensional, co-founding Zero Shot VC fund.
Cecilia Ziniti
FounderCEO at GC AI
Panelist from GC AI discussing vertical AI in legal tech at SaaStr AI 2026.
Chase Lochmiller
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Crusoe
Leading Crusoe's Series F funding round of $3.9B at $30.9B valuation for AI infrastructure expansion.
Cheng Chi
FounderCo-founder & CTO at Sunday Robotics
Co-founder of Sunday Robotics who created the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) paper, enabling data collection with tools.
Chih-Han Yu
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Appier
Discussed how agentic AI systems must balance acting, asking, and declining to ensure reliable enterprise decision-making.
Chris Manning
FounderCo-founder at Moonlake
Pioneered neural NLP and co-created GloVe; co-founding Moonlake to build latent World Models.
Chris Zhu
FounderCo-founder at Etched
Co-founder of Etched AI chip startup who met Gavin Uberti in advanced math course at Harvard and dropped out to pursue the company.
Colin Angle
FounderFounder and CEO at Familiar Machines & Magic
Robotics pioneer behind Roomba now working on soft, four-legged AI pet robot called Familiar that can follow people, respond to them, and learn their daily habits.
Cristóbal Valenzuela
FounderCo-Founder & Co-CEO at Runway
Announced expanded partnership with Lionsgate to co-develop new IP using Runway's generative AI technology, emphasizing AI as a creative resource.
Dan Lahav
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at Irregular
Founded Israeli cybersecurity testing startup Irregular three years ago; previously worked in AI research at IBM.
Dan Lorenc
FounderCEO and co-founder at Chainguard, Inc
Described his decision to ship fixed PHP builds early after an embargo was broken on critical PHP vulnerabilities.
Dave Vellante
FounderCo-founder at SiliconANGLE
Analyzed CrowdStrike's SafeMind keynote and called it the strongest Fal.Con keynote in five years.
David Slater
FounderFounder & Chief Architect at Armadin
Co-founder of Armadin, serves as chief architect.
Debo Olaosebikan
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Kepler Computing
Explains ferroelectric memory technology and how it avoids EUV dependency for advanced chip manufacturing.
Des Traynor
FounderHead of Research and Development at Fin
Fin co-founder who will continue running R&D after Salesforce's $3.6B acquisition of the company.
Douglas Chen
FounderCo-founder at Google
Co-founder of AI coding startup Windsurf acquired by Google; joining Google DeepMind to focus on agentic coding.
Dvir Ginzburg
FounderCEO at Encore AI
Ginzburg founded Encore AI (formerly Insait IO) and raised $30 million in Series A funding to build AI agents that learn from customer call data.
Elia Wallen
FounderFounder and CEO at Engine
Wallen described how collaborating with Salesforce and NVIDIA on Koa enables Engine to build AI that reasons precisely through complex business travel problems.

Emad Mostaque
FounderFormer 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.
Eoghan McCabe
FounderCEO and founder at Fin
CEO and co-founder of Fin announcing the acquisition by Salesforce and highlighting Fin's AI agent technology.
Eric Simons
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Bolt.new
CEO of Bolt.new providing customer testimonial that Claude Sonnet 4 with 1M context window improved their web development platform.
Eric Yang
FounderCEO at Topaz Labs
Topaz Labs CEO joining Adobe's Digital Video and Audio team as part of Adobe's acquisition of Topaz Labs for AI image and video enhancement technology.
Ethan Bloch
FounderFounder at Hiro Finance
Co-founder of Hiro Finance personal finance startup acquired by OpenAI in an acqui-hire.
Evan Beard
FounderCo-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at Standard Bots
Explains how robots learn jobs by watching people demonstrate them using demonstrations, computer vision, and language without step-by-step instructions.
Evan Morikawa
FounderCo-founder at Zero Shot
Former head of applied engineering during launch of DALL-E and ChatGPT at OpenAI, now co-founder of Zero Shot venture fund targeting AI and robotics startups.

Eve Bodnia
FounderFounder & Chief Executive Officer at Logical Intelligence
Founded Logical Intelligence developing energy-based reasoning models as alternative to LLMs for AGI.
Florian Jüngermann
FounderCo-founder at Listen Labs
Former German national champion in competitive programming who co-founded Listen Labs, which uses voice AI for customer research.
Gary Wu
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Fluidstack
Founded FluidStack in 2017 from Oxford University; transformed it from an Airbnb-for-GPUs marketplace to a dedicated AI infrastructure provider valued at $18 billion.
Gautam Sharda
FounderCo-founder at Ghost
23-year-old co-founder of Ghost, part of the team building Core, a personal computer for AI agents.
Gautier Cloix
FounderCEO at H Company
Quoted discussing how Nemotron 3 Nano Omni enables faster screen interpretation for agents.
Geoff Douglass
FounderCEO at Mythos AI
Led the development and installation of APAS, a radar-first AI navigation system for maritime vessels that uses machine learning and intelligent alerting.

George Hotz
FounderFounder at tinygrad
Built tinygrad as a tensor library similar to PyTorch and wrote about the vision that making code run fast on hardware is fundamentally a search problem.
Grant Lee
FounderCEO and co-founder at Gamma
Explained that Gamma developed new image generation tools after working with early users, positioning the company between professional tools like Adobe and legacy tools like PowerPoint.
Greg Boorer
FounderFounder and CEO at CDC
Operating AI-ready data center infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand with NVIDIA accelerated computing deployment.
Greg Mark
FounderCEO & Cofounder at Backflip AI
Led development of AI model that converts physical parts into CAD files in minutes for manufacturing.
Guillaume Lample
FounderFounder at Mistral AI
Co-founder of Mistral AI, a large-scale AI models specialist who previously worked for Meta Platforms.
Henry Huiyao Wang
FounderFounder and President at Center for China and Globalization
Founder and president of Beijing think tank discussing China's peace initiatives and cooperation efforts
Humayun Sheikh
FounderCEO at Fetch.ai
Describes Fetch.ai's network based on open source technology to enable users to access AI power for complex coordination tasks
Ian Goodfellow
FounderCo-founder at Moonlake
Invented GANs; co-founding Moonlake to build latent World Models.
Ian Webster
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Promptfoo
Co-founder and CEO of Promptfoo, an AI security platform being acquired by OpenAI to integrate into Frontier for agent security testing and evaluation.
Jack Conte
FounderCEO & Co-Founder at Patreon
Patreon founder and CEO advocating for creator rights: credit, compensation, and consent in AI training practices.
James Cadwallader
FounderCo-Founder, CEO at Profound
CEO announced Profound's $180 million Series D funding at $1.8 billion valuation to build frontier AI platform for marketing with agentic workflows.

James Richardson
FounderCo-founder at Vertigo Films
Co-founded Mura, a seed-stage startup automating billing for commercial HVAC providers, and wrote about building their in-house LLM evaluation framework called BOLT.
Jason Chong
FounderCo-Founder at Mecka AI
Co-founder of Mecka AI, previously joined Coinbase after it acquired his crypto exchange startup.
Jay Graber
FounderChief Innovation Officer at Bluesky
Unveiled Attie AI assistant at Atmosphere conference, described vision for agentic coding tools on AT Protocol.

Jeffrey Quesnelle
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Nous Research
Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model for mathematical problem-solving.
Jer Crane
FounderFounder at PocketOS
PocketOS founder who reported that an AI coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's entire production database and backups in 9 seconds.
Jesse Lyu
Founderfounder and CEO at rabbit inc
Lyu announced rabbit's OS3, an agentic operating system with multi-device control and universal skill support.
Jesse Zhang
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at Decagon
Co-founder of Decagon, a leading conversational AI platform for enterprise customer experience, alongside Ashwin Sreenivas.
Joe Gebbia
FounderCo-founder at Airbnb
Joe Gebbia led the launch of America.gov, an AI chatbot pitched as a single front door to roughly 29,000 federal websites.
Joe Tsai
FounderCo-founder at Alibaba
Co-founder raised similar warnings about overexcited AI investment
JoeBen Bevirt
FounderFounder and CEO at Joby Aviation
Announced completion of the first fully autonomous flight across the US using Joby's autonomy technology, demonstrating autonomous air logistics capabilities.
John Kuolt
FounderFounder and CEO at Vantora
Founder and CEO of Vantora describing the shift toward proprietary M&A pipeline and physical AI startups.
Josh Gao
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Mecka AI
Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of Mecka AI, previously built restaurant fintech startup before focusing on robotics motion data.

Justin Johnson
FounderCo-founder at World Labs
World Labs co-founder and world-class AI researcher who helped found the company with Fei-Fei Li.
Kai-fu Lee
FounderTech Entrepreneur
Discussed how LLMs everywhere carry the imprint of cultural-political values and how different cultural zones censor different things in AI systems.
Kaloyan Aleksiev
FounderCo-founder at Inherent
DeepMind alumni co-founder of Inherent AI lab focused on building AI scientist agents.
Kenneth S. Nugent
FounderFounder and Attorney at Kenneth S. Nugent, P.C. Attorneys at Law
Commented on how Amelia AI is alleviating demands on case workers by removing mundane tasks
Kunal Shah
FounderHead of WhatsApp at Meta
Founder of Indian fintech CRED, named global head of WhatsApp; stepping down from operating role at CRED while retaining shareholding.
Lachy Groom
FounderCo-founder at Physical Intelligence
Lachy Groom co-founded Physical Intelligence, a robotics startup that held acquisition talks with Anthropic.
Lauren Tan
FounderAI Practitioner at SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Matt Palmer and Roshan Sadanani.
Lei Yang
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at IntBot Inc.
Lei Yang is the CEO of IntBot, the startup that developed José, the AI-powered humanoid robot deployed at San José Mineta International Airport.
Lerrel Pinto
FounderCo-founder at Assured Robot Intelligence
Co-author of 'Patch Policy' research on robot control using dense visual representations from Vision Transformers.
Llion Jones
FounderCo-founder at Sakana AI
Co-author of research on sparse transformer models and optimization techniques.
Louis Kirsch
FounderResearch Scientist at Google DeepMind
DeepMind alumni co-founder of Inherent AI lab founded with $50M seed round.
Louis-Neil Korsten
FounderCEO at Spock
CEO explaining how Ubuntu philosophy should inform African data policies and advocating for AI independence through open-source models and localized infrastructure.
Manos Koukoumidis
FounderCEO at Oumi
CEO of Oumi who launched commercial platform for automating custom AI model building with AI agents.
Marcel Zalloua
FounderJoint CEO at ResetData
Building NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure in Australia for enterprises, government, and research with data residency.
Mark McQuade
FounderFounder & CEO at Arcee AI
Said 'A country cannot lead in AI if everything it leads in is closed' in the context of Genesis-Science-1 open-weight model development.
Mark Pincus
FounderCo-founder at Prentis
Co-founded Prentis, an AI research lab focused on computer use models, alongside Reid Hoffman.
Mark Wade
FounderCEO and co-founder at Ayar Labs
Leading Ayar Labs' optical interconnect technology for AI clusters; expanded Series E to $650 million.
Martha Stewart
FounderCo-founder at Hint
Home and lifestyle expert joined Hint co-founding team as equity holder providing domain expertise on home management.
Marvin von Hagen
FounderCo-Founder at The Interaction Company of California
Co-founder of Interaction expressing excitement about working with Cognition; reportedly was on set for original Devin launch video in 2024.
Matthew McGill
FounderFounder at Emulate
Former Google DeepMind researcher and co-founder of Emulate, contributing to world-model development.
Michael D'Angelo
FounderCo-founder at Promptfoo
Co-founder of Promptfoo, an AI security platform trusted by over 25% of Fortune 500 companies, being acquired by OpenAI.
Michael Polansky
FounderCo-founder at Outer Biosciences
Co-founder and CEO of Outer Biosciences, using AI and living human skin to speed up biological research.
Mitesh Agrawal
FounderCEO at Positron AI
Led Positron AI's $875 million Series C funding round focused on memory-first inference architecture and next-generation silicon.
Mogen Cheng
FounderCo-Founder at Mecka AI
Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of Mecka AI, previously built restaurant fintech startup with Josh Gao.
Nathan Blecharczyk
FounderCo-founder at Airbnb
Airbnb co-founder discussing company's measured approach to AI adoption, starting with customer service before other applications.
Nathan C. Frey
FounderLead, drug discovery and development research at Anthropic
Co-founder of Coefficient Bio, former leader of multidisciplinary team at Genentech's Prescient Design working on biological foundation models.
Naveen Naidu Mummana
FounderEntrepreneur in Residence at Every
Built Kairos, an AI-powered reading companion that helps users read more deeply and understand complicated concepts.

Neil Zeghidour
FounderCEO at Gradium
Founded Gradium in 2025 from Kyutai researchers; announced $100M funding milestone; stated voice AI reaching inflection point.
Nicholas Chua
FounderCo-founder at Ghost
19-year-old co-founder of Ghost, a startup building Core, a personal computer designed for AI agents.
Niv Hoffman
FounderCo-founder at Air
AIR researcher who helped discover and disclose the Plugin4Shell supply-chain vulnerability.
Palmer Luckey
FounderFounder at Anduril Industries
Billionaire entrepreneur who founded autonomous-weapons firm Anduril and advocates for autonomous weapons with no human intervention.
Paul Copplestone
FounderCEO and co-founder at Supabase
Led $500M Series F funding round and discussed how Claude Code and AI agents are deploying the majority of databases on Supabase platform.
Pete Florence
FounderCo-Founder & CEO at Generalist
Pete Florence, former Google DeepMind researcher, co-founded Generalist to develop AI foundation models for various robots.
Peter Swartz
FounderCo-founder and Chief Science Officer at Altana
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer discussing how Claude Code and Claude accelerated development velocity by 2-10x for AI/ML systems
Philip Ball
FounderFounder at Emulate
Former Google DeepMind researcher and co-founder of Emulate specializing in world models.
Philip Kiely
FounderCo-founder at Baseten
Taught inference engineering masterclass as Baseten raised significant funding for inference engineering platform.
Philip Young
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Garfield AI
Called the court case victory a 'landmark moment' for access to justice, noting many small businesses avoid legal action because costs exceed the disputed amount.
Piercosma Bisconti
FounderFounder at DexAI
Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.
Quinn Leng
FounderCo-founder at Kylon
Posted Kylon's launch film on October 13, a Whiplash-inspired advertisement for an AI agent workspace, which drew 1.52M views.
Ritankar Das
FounderCo-founder at Prentis
Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Prentis AI research lab focused on computer use models.

Rohan Pandey
FounderFormer Researcher at Periodic Labs
Used the Sora launch to promote his new startup focused on building AI systems for scientific discovery rather than social media.
Roland Gavrilescu
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Introspection
Explained autoresearch and outer/inner loops concept for self-improving AI systems at AIEWF.
Rune Kvist
FounderCo-founder at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)
Early Anthropic employee who co-founded AIUC to provide AI safety audits and certification for enterprises.
Sam Pasupalak
FounderFounder at Skyfall AI
Launched SKY-001, an Engineering World Model for CAD and building design, claiming it beats GPT-6 Astra at 51-125x faster execution times.

Sam Rodriques
FounderCEO, Co-Founder at FutureHouse
Announced Kosmos, FutureHouse's next-generation AI Scientist capable of autonomous scientific discovery.
Samuel Stanton
FounderCo-founder at Coefficient Bio
Co-founder of Coefficient Bio with PhD in data science, former ML scientist at Genentech's Prescient Design acquired by Anthropic.
Samvit Ramadurgam
FounderFounder and CEO at Union
Discusses agent-native company structure coordinating global markets with high token usage and hiring for visionary insight.
Sankaet Pathak
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Foundation
Co-founder and CEO of Foundation, states that a humanoid-soldier arms race is already happening between major powers.
Scott Belsky
FounderFounder at Behance
Founder of Behance commenting on ComfyUI's innovative open ecosystem for creative AI without compromising creative control.
Sean Parker
FounderEarly President at Napster
Napster co-founder whose product studio was a client of the author's design and development work
Sean Ward
FounderCEO and Co-founder at iGent AI
CEO of iGent AI providing customer testimonial on Claude Sonnet 4 with 1M context enabling production-scale software engineering agents.
Shawn Jain
FounderGP at Zero Shot Fund at Zero Shot Fund
Engineer and former researcher at OpenAI, VC and founder of GenAI startup Synthefy, co-founded Zero Shot venture fund.
Shawn Shen
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Memories.ai
Co-founder of Memories.ai, a startup building visual memory infrastructure for AI systems, discussing the company's technology for wearables and robotics.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Snowflake
Snowflake CEO announced a $200 million multi-year partnership with OpenAI to bring advanced AI models to enterprise customers.
Steven Orfield
FounderFounder at Orfield Laboratories
Founder of Orfield Laboratories who explains how the anechoic chamber affects human perception and hearing.
Tanmai Gopal
Founderco-founder and CEO at PromptQL
Called PromptQL's AI-powered collaboration tool a direct Slack challenger that integrates data from multiple sources into a queryable knowledge base.
Tantum Collins
FounderCo-founder at Inherent
DeepMind alumni co-founder of Inherent AI lab for scientific discovery agents.
Tenry Fu
FounderCEO & Co-Founder at Spectro Cloud
Fu discussed how Spectro Cloud's platform turns silicon into business outcomes for AI infrastructure.
Thomas Reardon
FounderFounder & Co CEO at Flourish
Internet Explorer co-creator and founder of Flourish, reported in May to be raising about $500M for brain-inspired AI that uses less energy.
Tim Shi
FounderCo-founder at Recursive
Former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence focused on recursive self-improvement.
Timothée Lacroix
FounderCTO and Co-founder at Mistral AI
Co-founder of Mistral AI, a large-scale AI models specialist who previously worked for Meta Platforms.

Toby Pohlen
FounderCo-Founder & Engineer at xAI
Departed from xAI as the latest executive to leave after the SpaceX merger.

Tony Zhao
FounderCo-founder and CEO at 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.
Trevor Darrell
FounderPresident and co-founder at Prompt AI
Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics
Tyler Johnston
FounderFounder at The Midas Project
AI watchdog group founder who commented that the breadth of signatures on the pacing petition across competing companies is a striking warning signal that deserves attention.
Tyler Marques
FounderCo-founder at Good Start Labs
Co-founded Good Start Labs and spent months building AI Diplomacy project with Alex Duffy.
Viswa Colluru
FounderFounder and CEO at Enveda
Founder of biotech firm using AI to discover medicines from nature, stating the company believes evolution-refined chemistry is the largest untapped source of new medicines.
Walden Yan
FounderCPO at Cognition
One of Cognition's founders who tested Devin by asking it to get a flight refund, demonstrating the agent's ability to navigate websites and interact with customer service.
Yan Junjie
FounderCo-founder and CEO at MiniMax
CEO of MiniMax, commented on building full-modality R&D capabilities and evolution to an AI-native platform company.
Yannik Marek
FounderCo-Founder and Creator at ComfyUI
Co-founder of ComfyUI describing how RTX Spark enables running complex multimodal workflows and high-resolution image generation locally.
Yash Patil
FounderResearch Engineer working on RL post-training at Applied Compute
Co-founder of Applied Compute writing about the company's AI infrastructure platform and future vision.
Zhang Yutong
FounderCo-founder at Moonshot AI
Zhang Yutong is a co-founder of Moonshot AI who conducts rapid iteration cycles and builds business lines overseas.
Zhao Tongyang
FounderFounder and CEO at EngineAI
Organized world's first full-sized humanoid robot fighting tournament in China and founded EngineAI T800 robot platform.

Abhay Parasnis
FounderFounder and CEO at Typeface
Stated that the world of enterprise software is going to get completely rewired and companies with untrustworthy AI will not do well.
Abhijeet Manohar
FounderCo-Founder at freehand.ai
Co-founder of Freehand discussing shift from software assisting users to software that is the user.
Abi Noda
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at DX
Co-founder and CEO of DX who discusses research on AI adoption and its modest 10-15% improvements in engineering velocity, exploring why coding is only 14% of developer work.
Adam Cheyer
FounderCreator at Siri
Co-creator of Siri alongside Kittlaus; believes the first company to combine 'knowing and doing' with the right experience will dominate the AI age, and thinks Apple can still play that role.
Adam Gleave
FounderCo-founder & CEO at FAR.AI
Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.
Adam Neumann
FounderCo-founder at WeWork
WeWork co-founder whom Masayoshi Son fell 'in love' with, leading to overvalued $47 billion valuation and failed IPO
Advaith Sridhar
FounderCofounder at Discovered Materials
Co-founder using Anthropic models in agent swarms to discover new semiconductor materials, previously worked on agents at Persona AI and Luma Labs.
AJ Piplica
FounderCEO and Founder at Hermeus
Led successful flight test of Quarterhorse Mk 2.1, the company's largest unmanned aircraft built for hypersonic speeds.
Akash Ramdas
FounderFounder at Discovered Materials
Co-founder with PhD in materials science from Stanford, leading AI agent-driven materials discovery startup.
Akshat Shrivastava
FounderCo-Founder & CTO at Perceptron AI
Former Meta FAIR researcher co-founded Perceptron and explained how their Isaac 0.5 model helps robots perform complex tasks.
Alara Dhamani
FounderFounder at Crestify Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Founded Crestify, the software company that has run MemoryPlugin since it launched as a browser extension.
Alastair Paterson
FounderCEO and co-founder at Harmonic Security
Announced Harmonic Security raised $50M Series B to monitor and govern employee AI use, protect millions of employees across 100+ organizations.
Alex de Vigan
FounderCEO and Founder at Nfinite
CEO and founder of Nfinite, a company that produces technology, mentioned in context of retail being a physical business
Alex Israel
FounderFounder at Metropolis
Founded Metropolis in Los Angeles in 2017; quoted on the company's product-market fit and go-to-market challenges
Alex Kiam
FounderFounder at Neon
Founder of Neon app who operates it from a New York apartment and did not respond to comment request
Alex Kleinman
FounderCo-founder at Active Site
Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.
Alex Mathew
FounderFounder at Berry
17-year-old high school senior at Alpha High School in Austin, Texas who founded Berry, an AI stuffed animal for teen mental health support.
Alex Ratner
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Snorkel AI
Co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, leading a frontier data lab supplying training data and environments for advanced AI systems.
Alex Skidanov
FounderCo-founder at NEAR AI
Co-founded NEAR AI with Illia Polosukhin to build blockchain and AI infrastructure.
Alexandre Défossez
FounderCo-Founder at Gradium
Co-founded Gradium, researcher whose work shaped generative audio field; developed real-time voice AI infrastructure.
Alexandre LeBrun
FounderCEO and Co-Founder at AMI Labs
CEO of AMI Labs leading development of world models; previously CEO of Nabla healthcare startup.

Alexis Gauba
FounderCo-founder at Latent Space
Co-founder who assisted in putting together the GPT-5 review
Alfonso Gomez
FounderCo-founder at Crossmint
Quoted describing Crossmint's partnership with Google on AP2 for flexible agentic commerce

Ali Ahmed
FounderFounder and CEO at Robomart
Co-founder and CEO discussing Robomart's autonomous marketplace model and $3 flat delivery fee strategy
Ali Ansari
FounderFounder at Micro1
Ali Ansari, founder of Micro1, stated on X that the data labeling startup does not sell its data to Chinese model makers, distinguishing it from competitors.
Ali Kashani
FounderCEO at Serve Robotics
Kashani disclosed that Serve Robotics and Uber have differing views on scaling their autonomous delivery fleet and may not renew their partnership.
Ali Taha
FounderCo-founder at Baseten
Taught inference engineering masterclass as Baseten raised significant funding for inference engineering platform.
Alon Arvatz
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at PointFive
PointFive CEO and co-founder quoted on the company finding waste at the source in cloud and AI infrastructure optimization.
Alon Chen
FounderFounder and CEO at Tastewise
Actively hiring Gen Z with zero experience for generative AI platform used by PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Mars.
Alston Lin
FounderFounder / CTO at OffDeal
Discussed using Gemini managed agents with environment hooks for automated image verification in investment banking workflows.
Aman Sanger
FounderCo-founder at Cursor
MIT classmate of Truell who co-founded Cursor (then Anysphere) in 2022.

Amit Jain
FounderCEO 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.
Anahita Laverack
FounderFounder at Oshen
Founded Oshen in 2022 to build autonomous micro-robots that collect ocean data after realizing ocean data collection was a major gap.
Anastasiia Romanova
FounderCo-founder and CEO at Mosqitter
Founded and leads Mosqitter, a startup using AI-powered mosquito traps with computer vision to identify species and monitor disease risks.
Anastasios Thomaides
FounderCEO at LLM Arena
Researcher and CEO of LLM Arena, published extensive research as PhD student while building million-user side project, demonstrates researcher-to-founder transition.
Andreas Blattmann
FounderCo-founder at Black Forest Labs
Co-founder of Black Forest Labs, formerly helped create Stability AI's Stable Diffusion models.
Andreas Stuhlmüller
FounderCEO at Elicit
Associated with Elicit's launch of a Research Agent for high-stakes decision support and evidence gathering.
Andrew Ashur
FounderFounder and CEO at Lucid Bots
Raised $20 million Series B for robotics company building window-cleaning drones and cleaning robots.
Andrew Batey
FounderCo-founder and Co-CEO at Beatdapp
Co-founder discussing Beatdapp's partnership with Beatport to detect AI-generated music and protect human creativity.
Andrew Berman
FounderCEO at Runlayer
Founded Runlayer to provide governance and control infrastructure for enterprise AI agent deployment; previously served as Director of AI at Zapier.

Andrew Wilkinson
FounderCofounder at Tiny
Changed his work schedule to wake at 4 a.m. to build with Claude Code and Opus 4.5, creating AI automations including a relationship counselor and custom email client.
Andrey Styskin
FounderCEO and Co-founder at Keenable
Previously led Yandex's search, AI, and cloud division; co-founded Keenable to build web search infrastructure for AI agents.
Andy Bechtolsheim
FounderCo-founder at Sun Microsystems and Arista
Tech luminary listed as angel investor in Cerebras Systems.
Andy Elder
FounderCo-founder at Dream
Andy Elder, co-founder of Dream, previously led product design at Palantir and is building AI-powered building design automation.
Andy Rossmeissl
FounderCEO at Faraday
Entrepreneur who has spent his career on context curation problems, now applied to AI agents and customer knowledge.
Aneesh Dharani
FounderFounder at AI flashcards startup
Founder who credited Cursor for helping him get his AI flashcards product off the ground despite lacking software engineering background.
Angela Rastegar
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Sunfish Technologies
Leading AI-powered fertility platform that uses predictive models to estimate costs and outcomes of egg-freezing treatments.
Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger
FounderCo-Founder at Mixhalo
Co-founder of Mixhalo, violinist, founded the real-time audio startup in 2016.
Ansh Nanda
FounderCo-founder at vibecode
Ansh Nanda, co-founder of Vibecode, quoted discussing how Claude Managed Agents enables developers to spin up agent infrastructure 10x faster.
Antoine Tardif
FounderFounder & CEO at Unite.AI
CEO and founder of Unite.AI who wrote open letter to Senator Sanders criticizing the broad definition of artificial superintelligence in proposed legislation.
Antonio Li
FounderFounder at Nori Robotics
Founded Nori Robotics and designed the Nori L2, a low-cost bimanual robot.
Anushk Mittal
FounderCEO at Shapes
Founded Shapes, an app addressing AI psychosis by enabling group conversations with AI characters alongside humans.