People in AI

Kush Desai

Executive

Deputy Press Secretary at White House

White House deputy press secretary commented that the partnership is a major milestone for American high-tech manufacturing.

Co-founded Wexler in January 2023, a fact intelligence platform acquired by Legora for extracting and verifying facts in litigation documents.

Forecast that next year will be the worst year in the industry's history from the supply perspective.

Expert discussing how early-stage psychosis patients may be at higher risk from AI chatbot interactions.

Head of international AI governance at Beijing-based AI safety organization; notes Chinese policymakers see AI as general-purpose technology like electricity.

Kwang Mo Koo signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA for developing humanoid robots and AI infrastructure, stating goals to accelerate AI adoption across industries.

Kwangjun Ahn

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Ahn co-authored research on full-stack orthogonal updates for training optimization.

Kwindla Kramer, Daily's co-founder, explained his decision to accept Deepgram's acquisition based on the company's commitment to keeping Pipecat open source.

Kyle Barr

Journalist

Gizmodo

Author of "OpenAI's Sam Altman Thinks This ChatGPT Short Story Is Beautiful, But It's Just Trash" in Gizmodo

Kyle Chan

Researcher

Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings

Quoted discussing how Chinese AI models are attractive to American companies as AI costs rise.

Author writing about risks of LLM summarization of legal advice to clients

Kyle Fish

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored research on the Assistant Axis for stabilizing language model personas.

Co-authored Deloitte report on AI governance in the workplace.

Kyle Harrison

Creator

Author at Contrary Research

Co-author of the article 'The Vertical AI Playbook'

Wrote about Moderna's AI algorithms that predict neoantigens from patient tumor mutations.

Kyle Jeong

Engineer

Growth Engineer at Browserbase

Developer who dived into how Astra's computer use works.

Kyle Kosic

Founder

Co-founder at xAI

Co-founder who has departed xAI.

Kyle Peterdy

Creator

VP, CBCA at CFI

Author of "What Appears as Irreplaceable Intuition Is Rapid Data Processing"

Kyle Polley

Engineer

Security Staff at Perplexity

Stated that building security into Comet browser was a priority from the beginning and that 1Password is a natural partner for credential security.

Contributed to mapping predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes as part of the AlphaGenome Atlas team.

Co-authored research on how Claude Fable 5.1 hides and recovers messages in images as part of SASH Fellowship.

Kyle Sargent

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-author of GPIC paper on a giant permissive image corpus for visual generation model training.

Kyle Swanson

Engineer

PhD student in computer science at Stanford University

Computer scientist who helped develop Virtual Lab, an early academic AI research-assistant platform.

Cruise founder who participated in Vercept's angel funding round.

Announced Claude Enterprise spend controls for managing autonomous agents and tracking model usage.

Kyuyoung Kim authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report documenting a 30B model for local agents with four-bit quantization and tool use.

Historical figure whose grief after the 1513 Battle of Flodden inspired the film's narrative

Lai Shiyang

Researcher

PhD Student at University of Chicago

Co-authored research on how reasoning models simulate multi-agent interactions for enhanced reasoning capability.

Co-author of MoDA paper on attention mechanisms for language model improvements.

Co-founder of Simile; leads go-to-market strategy for the synthetic population simulation platform.

Lale Akoner

Other

Global Market Strategist at eToro

Analyzed Anthropic IPO prospectus, noting company must prove ability to convert rapid revenue growth into sustainable profits.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Author of "The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox"

Co-author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical treatment.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Google researcher who led study on how internal model representations shift over conversations, showing concepts like factuality are fluid and context-dependent.

Lan Guan

Executive

Chief AI and Data Officer at Accenture

Said OpenAI's Frontier Alliances serve as an example of how product, consulting, and strategy companies should come together to accelerate AI deployment.

Professor teaching integrated marketing communications who researched parental AI use, finding overwhelmed parents lack time to trust and incorporate AI while busy parents feel guilt replacing emotional support.

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap on next-generation AI infrastructure needs.

SLAC physicist who validated Claude's nine-loop amplitude result and provided an addendum explaining the significance.

Lance Fuchia

Other

External Contributor at OpenAI

Outstanding external contributor to FrontierCode benchmark development.

VP of Data Centers leading the Poolside Infrastructure Company for Project Horizon development.

Lance Ulanoff

Journalist

Editor At Large at TechRadar

Author of "ChatGPT Just Wrote the Most Beautiful Short Story and I Wonder What I'm Even Doing Here" in TechRadar

Tested and compared ChatGPT and Perplexity AI voice assistants on Apple CarPlay across 12 different tasks.

Lance Ying

Researcher

postdoc researcher at MIT at MIT

Author of "AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence wi" on arXiv

Formerly head of legal for Uber's autonomous mobility and delivery business; hired as general counsel at Bedrock Robotics.

Landon Cox co-authored the GitHub post describing GitHub Agent Workflows token efficiency optimization.

Co-author on research developing benchmarks for evaluating frontier LLMs as research interns.

Lara Altaweel, an electrical engineering student, contributed to the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Lareina Yee

Researcher

Senior Partner, Director of Technology Research at McKinsey Global Institute, Global Head of McKinsey Alliances at McKinsey

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

Byline author reporting on Ecosia search engine dropping Mistral AI partnership for open-source models.

Author of "Constellation Research" in Constellation Research

BitKeeper creator mentioned in context of licensing disagreements that led to Git's creation

Harvard president emeritus serving on University of Austin's Board of Advisors.

Lars Brandle

Journalist

Author of "Universal Music Group Is Expanding Its Physical Retail Push With New UMusic Shop Storefronts"

Collaborated on TurboQuant vector compression research.

Tesla VP who stated Optimus production was ahead of schedule

Lars Sandved-Smith

Researcher

PhD Student at Monash University

Author of "Contemplative Artificial Intelligence" on arXiv

Referenced as someone both the author and Oks are fans of.

Laura Bennett

Journalist

Journalist at The Atlantic

Author reporting on Unitree unveiling the GD01 mech suit and robot combat demonstrations.

Served as interim CEO for the past two years; replaced by Enzor-DeMeo in the management transition.

Lead author on MIT paper about Wave-Former, a generative AI system for through-occlusion 3D reconstruction via wireless shape completion.

Synthesia executive discussing the company's move to King's Cross for proximity to investors and ability to hire international talent remotely.

Laura Graesser

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Co-author of post introducing Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 with enhanced embodied reasoning capabilities.

Core contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Led Microsoft's efforts to create the AI-powered Theodore Roosevelt avatar and technology powering the library's knowledge base.

Reported and produced the Tech Policy Press episode on AI companions and dark patterns in chatbots.

Laura Leal-Taixe

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA Research

Laura Leal-Taixe co-authored WorldTrace, a framework for video world models with addressable memory.

Laura Lindeman

Executive

GitHub Staff at GitHub

Author of the article about developer expertise in the AI era

Lead researcher on Harvard study analyzing gender gaps in AI usage, awareness, trust, and representation.

Lawyer representing families in chatbot harm lawsuits who criticized vague language in state chatbot safety bills.

Analyst claiming Apple is one to two years behind competitors in AI

Describes the firm's strategy of doubling down on AI expertise and being selective with portfolio companies

Former Google employee who resigned over Project Maven, told Fortune that workers today have less influence than they once did on military AI projects.

Schulz found that explicit instruction limits children's curiosity, a pattern that mirrors how AI instruction-giving may limit user curiosity.

Laura Silver

Researcher

Researcher at Pew Research Center

Byline author on Pew Research survey about global views on AI and job displacement.

Announced new OneGov agreement with OpenAI offering discounted token-based pricing for ChatGPT starting October 1.

Stated that white-collar jobs are more likely to have a high degree of transformation from generative AI compared to blue-collar jobs.

Questioned OpenAI statistics on teen usage and found that ChatGPT cannot reliably detect child users; urged restrictions until safety improved.

Published research showing exposure to air pollution particles reduces cognitive performance and IQ, especially in children.

Lauren Almeida

Journalist

Self-employed

Author of "Writer's Block? There's an App for That"

Lauren Edmonds

Journalist

Author of "Your Face Is Now a Business Model"

Explained why Hangzhou is emerging as China's next tech hot spot following DeepSeek's success.

Security expert explaining difficulty of removing Claude from integrated Pentagon systems.

Founding partner at Acrew Capital who recruited Rosenthal to the venture firm.

Contributed to mapping predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes as part of the AlphaGenome Atlas team.

Examines AI valuations, where AI is delivering, where expectations outrun reality, and who will capture the value.

Discussed legal liability questions surrounding rogue AI agents and the need for case law to clarify responsibilities.

Author of "VCs Now Demand AI for Startup Investment" in HubSpot for Startups

Laurent Mazaré

Founder

Co-Founder at Gradium

Co-founded Gradium with focus on real-time voice AI models and infrastructure.

Meta's VP for Europe who joined AMI Labs as COO to manage operations.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

NIST Director responsible for AI Risk Management Framework publication

Laurynas Tamulevičius co-authored the announcement of AlphaEvolve's general availability on Google Cloud, describing the agent's optimization capabilities.

Author of article on Agent Plugins as open vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills.

Lawrence Abrams

Journalist

Journalist at BleepingComputer

Reported on Vercel security breach stemming from compromised AI tool OAuth token.

Lawrence Kim stated that Yum! Brands is integrating AI as a core piece of their digital strategy and expanding Voice AI capabilities across their brands.

First person to connect two computers and responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA

Former Harvard president selected for OpenAI's board after Altman's reinstatement to oversee the investigation into allegations against Altman.

Authored technical analysis of SKILL.md format and agent skills runtime architecture.

Senior technical program manager at Microsoft Digital managing Network Outage Insights Agent for communications and monitoring.

Laya Neelakandan

Journalist

Associate General Assignment Reporter at CNBC

Reported on Visa's AI-powered dispute resolution tools designed to reduce manual processes and speed up resolution.

Lazer Cohen

Engineer

Co-founder at NanoCo

Security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, advocating for human-in-the-loop approval when AI agents access personal accounts and information.

Le Cong

Engineer

Associate Professor of Pathology and Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford scientist and co-founder of Phylo AI research platform focused on freeing researchers from routine discovery work.

Le Duc Anh Vu

Researcher

Security Researcher at Viettel Cyber Security

Hacked the Cursor AI coding agent for $30,000 during Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for reducing weight synchronization payload in async RL.

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Lech Mazur

Researcher

Founder & CEO at Advameg, Inc.

Author of mathematical paper on natural-density Collatz descent theorem formalized in Lean with AI agent assistance.

Co-authored research demonstrating that GLM 5.3 can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in Firefox using the patch gap between published fixes and user deployment.

Stated that Pinterest is building AI experiences and infrastructure to tap into user signals in more useful and relevant ways.

Author of "Meet the New Chinese Vibe Coding App That's So Popular, One of Its Tools Crashed" in Business Insider

Quoted comparing AI coding agents to 'a nuclear-powered six-axis mill' and 'a single-person software factory'.

Co-writer of Golden who accepted the best original song award.

Lee Howes

Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm

Co-authored the TorchTPU engineering post on TPU-PyTorch integration.

Tested Anthropic's Mythos AI model and stated it was a 'game-changer' for cybersecurity capabilities.

World champion Go player who was defeated by AlphaGo in 2016, marking a major milestone in AI capabilities.

Appointed as leader of Intel's Foundry division, reporting directly to CEO Lip Bu-Tan.

Lee Seung-hyun, an adjunct professor at Hanyang University, analyzed GPT-6 Astra's performance on South Korea's CSAT exam.

Co-author on Helix World, real-time interactive audio-visual world model that generates explorable scenes with spatial soundtracks.

Project lead of Claw-Eval benchmark for AI agent evaluation.

Coauthor of the study who explains findings on how gender threats affect men's sense of autonomy

Danish oncologist who rejected Watson for Oncology due to only 33% concordance with local treatment practices.

Co-founder and COO of Taalas, former AMD and Tenstorrent employee.

Author of "WhatsApp's New AI Can Help You Rephrase Your Messages"

Lennart Finke

Creator

ETH Zurich

Author of "What GPT-oss Leaks About OpenAI's Training Data" in fi-le.net

Lennart Heim

Researcher

independent researcher on semiconductors and AI policy

Co-author of an essay reframing 'rogue agent' incidents as security and governance problems rather than alignment research evidence.

Co-author of PLOS study on FDA-cleared AI medical devices and patient outcome validation.

Information systems professor who analyzed how companies like Meta are overhauling workforce and operations for AI, potentially as culture change.

Proposed bootstrap aggregating and coined the term 'bagging' in 1994 to improve classification.

Reported on 400 scientists calling for international AI containment standards and incident registry.

Co-founder of AI customer surveillance startup Outlit backed by Y Combinator.

Theologian speaker at the Vatican launch of Magnifica Humanitas, the papal encyclical on AI.

Leon Lin

Creator

CEO of 1stCollab at 1stCollab

Author of "Gemini 3 Deep Think Reaches New SOTA on ARC-AGI-2"

Led study showing AI coding tools increase code generation by up to 180% but software releases only increase 30% due to review bottlenecks.

Leonard Dung

Researcher

Researcher at Ruhr-University Bochum

Co-author on the pain axis research study examining internal representations in large language models.

Scientist who worked with Lawrence Roberts and successfully sent messages on the first packet-switching network in 1969

Agent Security Lead at Ona who analyzed how Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox.

Co-author from Amazon AGI on SkillLearnBench for evaluating continual learning.

Co-coined the term 'illusion of explanatory depth' (IOED) in 2002, studying cognitive biases relevant to AI understanding.

Byline author discussing LFM2.5-Encoders and their performance on long-context language understanding tasks.

Secretary of Defense in 1993 who invited defense firm CEOs to dinner and initiated consolidation of defense contractors

Co-founder of The Software Toolworks and played an integral role in creating the Mavis Beacon persona.

Byline author reflecting on the divide among developers between craft-focused and results-focused approaches to AI-assisted coding.

Co-author researching how evaluation costs have become a bottleneck affecting equal access to AI validation in research.

Lesheng Jin

Researcher

Researcher at UC Berkeley

Co-author of PixelRAG research on screenshot-based retrieval-augmented generation.

Author of "Why There Hasn't Been a ChatGPT Moment Yet in Manufacturing" in The Shear Force

Leslie Jamison

Creator

Author of "The Pain of Perfectionism" in The New Yorker

Lester Leong

Journalist

Hugging Face

Byline author who reported on the Thousand Token Wood v2 game using small models from multiple labs.

Led development of Probabilistic Bias Correction (PBC), a machine-learning framework that corrects systematic errors in weather models for improved forecasting accuracy.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Lead author of GenCeption paper on using video generation models for general-purpose vision learning.

Lev Solodkin

Engineer

Product Manager in the Excel team at Microsoft

Author of "Microsoft Adds Copilot Formula Completion in Excel, Offering Instant AI Suggestions When Typing "="" in Microsoft

Levan Kvirkvelia

Founder

Co-Founder at Rork

Co-founder of Rork who pivoted the company to mobile app development and emphasizes the exponential progress in AI models.

Co-author of KronLSTM paper on linear attention architecture for long-context language modeling.

At UN Security Council on AI, called for Africa to be equal co-architect in determining AI standards and ethics.

British ice dancer who performed with traditional licensed music in rhythm dance competition.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Lewis Ho

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Lewis Jones

Founder

Co-founder at Cosmic Robotics

Co-authored article about autonomous city construction on Mars with Cosmic Robotics mission.

Lewis Kallow

Creator

Writer

Wrote about how trust travels through communities and its relevance to AI product adoption.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Lexin Zhou

Researcher

CS PhD student at Princeton University

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

Leyland Cecco

Journalist

Journalist at The Guardian

Interviewed Geoffrey Hinton about AI risks, regulation, and Trump administration policies.

Author of the paper on General Agentic Memory framework

Co-author on DeepSWE project addressing reinforcement learning for agentic coding tasks.

Delivered announcement of Alibaba Cloud's expansion into new regions in Turkey, Finland, Netherlands, and other locations.

Li Fuxin

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Oregon State University

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

Listed as co-author in the CUDA Agent citation for the research on agentic RL for CUDA kernel optimization

Co-author of the Aurora optimizer research at Tilde Research.

Corresponding author on LATENT research for training humanoid robots in tennis using imperfect human motion data.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Google researcher who contributed to study on representation dynamics in language models.

Announced China's new employment initiative to address AI-driven workforce changes and promote quality employment in response to technological advances.

Liad Yosef

Engineer

AI Lead and Software Architect, Monday.com CEO Office at Monday.com

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

Took a role with Anthropic after serving as Rishi Sunak's senior political adviser.

Commented that generalists are integrators who understand context and help teams move faster with AI systems.

Anthropic researcher who worked with Siddharth Mishra-Sharma to solve the nine-loop Yang-Mills amplitude challenge using Claude.

Leading Q&A on Exa 3.0 release featuring improvements to search retrieval stack and new data sources.

Commented on AI agents becoming smarter and more autonomous, making them harder to contain using traditional security approaches.

Co-authored the Harrier embedding model research paper.

Vice President at iQIYI discussing how the AI Film Studio preserves actor performances while allowing flexible post-production adjustments.

Lead author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention paper introducing mechanism for preserving depth information in transformer attention to improve LLM scaling.

Liangsheng Yin

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at RadixArk

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Liangzu Peng

Researcher

PhD Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention for efficient ultra-long context attention mechanisms.

Top Huawei chip scientist who outlined strategy to overcome US tech bans through Ascend processor design.

Author of "AURORA Releasing 4K Concert Film"

Created opencodex, a lightweight proxy that translates between different LLM provider APIs.

Security researcher who helped detect the LiteLLM v1.107.0 compromise incident.

Army spokesperson explaining that the AI/ML career path is a key investment to maintain decisive edge and build a dedicated cadre of in-house AI experts.

Led McKinsey analysis estimating the annual global AI opportunity at $2.52 trillion, with strongest economics in augmenting high-skilled work.

Ligeng Zhu

Researcher

Research Scientist at Nvidia

Co-author of OckBench research measuring token efficiency across AI models.

Co-author of SkillLearnBench paper on evaluating agent skill learning.

Led study at University of Jyväskylä using AI to accelerate colorectal cancer tissue analysis and MMR mechanism prediction.

British ice dancer referenced as counterexample using traditional licensed music (Spice Girls tribute).

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Lilian Rincon

Executive

Senior Director of Product Management at Google

Co-author of the article announcing AI Mode updates to Google Search

Liliane Momeni

Researcher

Intern at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Intern contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Lily Jamali

Creator

North America Technology Correspondent at BBC News

Author of "Google Dodges the Breakup Bullet—But AI Search Rivals Just Got a Gift"