People in AI

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs.

First author on the swimming robot research published in Advanced Functional Materials.

Co-author of Nimble research.

Introduced a robot-learning method called 'Do as I Do' that maps human videos to dexterous robot actions.

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

Co-author of 'Neural Architecture Search: Insights from 1000 Papers'

Co-authored investigation on behind-the-scenes tech industry influence on federal AI health policy through CMS Slack workspace.

Co-author of research on AI-driven data centers' energy demands and local labor responses in Pennsylvania.

Research assistant on MIT project developing generative AI models to understand wireless reflections.

Maitreya Wagh

Founder

Co-founder at Bolna

Co-founder of voice AI start-up Bolna who complained about logistical issues at India's AI summit.

Adviser to Familiar Machines and co-founder 25 years ago of the field of socially assistive robotics; praised the Familiar robot design.

Majeed Ahmad

Journalist

Editor in Chief at EETimes

Authored article on OpenAI's AI-first smartphone development with Qualcomm and MediaTek.

Majid Daliri

Researcher

PhD student in Computer Science at New York University

Collaborated on TurboQuant research project.

Collaborated on TurboQuant research for vector compression.

Co-author on Google Developers Blog post about unified API for AI model routing on Google Cloud API Gateway.

Malcolm Crompton criticizes the police's privacy impact assessment as inadequate.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Malcolm Owen

Journalist

Referenced in "Four More Employees Depart Apple, Join Other AI Efforts"

Founder of SeaLand who revolutionized freight shipping with the first containership, the Ideal-X, in 1956

Co-author of published research on Wordle strategy using information theory.

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.

Researcher studying wellness and supplements industry; reported Conspirituality podcast episode on Rosabella and AI marketing fraud.

Journalist who reported on ElevenLabs and Universal Music Group's multi-year strategic agreement for licensed AI music platform.

Author of "Integrators Represent the Breakthrough Beyond Traditional Categories"

Co-author of the TwELL paper on efficient LLM training and inference on H100s.

Contributed to DeepSWE project as part of joint collaboration between Agentica and Together AI.

Manasi Patwardhan

Researcher

TCS Research

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

Software engineer at Google Data Cloud exploring evaluation methods for AI agents using information theory.

Manav Shah

Engineer

Raindrop

Manav Shah co-authored the Signals 2.0 launch announcement for Raindrop's binary classification model.

Author of the article on enterprise AI agent security readiness based on Arkose Labs research.

Reporter who covered the Tokyo court ruling that a performer's voice can carry publicity rights in Japan in a case involving AI voice cloning.

Led research team conducting most detailed multi-omic biological study of supercentenarian Maria Branyas to understand aging and longevity.

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.

Announced AAIF's growth from 3 to 10 projects in its first year with new agentic AI contributions from major labs.

Manish Bhusal

Creator

Widget Factory

Author of "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude Over Every Other AI"

Manish Choudhary

Journalist

Writer at X

Byline author who researched and explained Jev, a new AI classification model.

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Discussed history of nanoGPT progress.

Manisha Priyadarshini

Creator

Author of "Prime Video Pulls Video Recaps After AI Blunders"

Fields Medal winner (2014) co-signing a letter expressing concern about AI's threat to mathematical discovery and intellectual transmission.

Manjula O'Connor

Researcher

Psychiatrist and honorary associate professor at University of Melbourne

Manually classified mental health Reddit threads for the research study training AI models, working to validate AI analysis of mental health narratives.

Manling Li

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored research on staged image composition and visual reasoning.

Author of "Accumulating Context Changes The Beliefs of Language Models" on arXiv

FAIR co-founder who co-founded Warp Sciences to apply AI and robotics to drug discovery and development.

Mansoor Khan described how Meta's vision models are critical technology allowing robotics platforms to understand scenes, navigate, and perform tasks.

Hostinger AI tech lead describing recent pricing changes as the first real test of frontier model pricing power.

Mantas Mazeika

Researcher

Author at Center for AI Safety

Co-authored the Remote Labor Index benchmark measuring AI agent capability on freelance tasks graded by humans.

Manthan Gupta

Engineer

AI Research Engineer

Built Auto-Inference-Optimiser to study LLM inference optimization by letting an AI agent hill-climb on inference speed while keeping quality fixed on Apple Silicon.

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

Led xAI's pretraining team before departing; one of the last two co-founders to leave the company.

Manuel S. Mariani

Researcher

DeepAI

Author of "Hybrid Corn Study on Complex Contagions" in Nature Communications

Contributed a PR adding pricing information for OpenAI's o4-mini-deep-research and o3-deep-research models to llm-prices.com.

Manya Bansal

Creator

humans&

Co-author of blog post introducing Ampersand Tutor, a teaching model trained to optimize for student learning.

Co-author on test-time scaling for long-horizon coding agents.

Co-author of SkillOS paper on learning skill curation for self-evolving LLM agents.

Maor Shlomo

Founder

Founder at Base44

Discussed Base44's custom LLM development and strategy for achieving defensibility through owning their model as part of their entire stack.

Mara Kiefer co-authored the GitHub post on improving token efficiency in agentic workflows.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-author of study comparing CLI agents versus MCP agents across agent scaffoldings.

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

Leading startup developing satellite-based solar power transmission technology for AI data centers.

Einstein analyzed Samsung's earnings as among the best quarterly performances, driven by AI boom and memory demand.

Author of the Arcade Learning Environment, which MinAtar was inspired by.

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

Marc Lanctot

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

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

Heads Adobe's Project Indigo experimental camera app adding AI photo critique and editing suggestions.

Entrepreneur who founded Wonder, a food-tech startup using robotic kitchen automation to make bowls at 500 per hour with AI-driven personalization.

Marc Malott

Creator

Every

Author of "Why 95 Percent of AI Pilots Fail—And How to Avoid It Happening to You" in Every

Marc Manara

Executive

Head of Startups at OpenAI

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

Marc Merrill

Founder

Co-founder at Riot Games

Riot Games co-founder who responded positively to Musk's proposal, indicating Riot Games' willingness to discuss and organize the match

Co-author of FlexGlue image-matching model for 3D reconstruction.

A robotics adviser to Colin Angle's Familiar Machines who founded Boston Dynamics, maker of the four-legged Spot robot.

Co-author of the BCG study on AI ROI and value generation

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.

Marcin Chochowski

Researcher

NVIDIA

Author of "Nemotron Elastic: Towards Efficient Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs" on arXiv

Expert stated European companies could benefit from Anthropic controversy by investing in homegrown AI like Mistral.

Marcin Plaza

Engineer

Engineer at Midjourney

Engineer at Midjourney and tech YouTuber who produced a behind-the-scenes video tour of the company's medical scanner hardware.

Marco Bambini

Creator

Founder at SQLite.AI

Marco Bambini published an article on Substack about WASTE, an open-source inference engine for running large models locally.

Marco Trabucchi

Journalist

Writer at Wired

Byline author of article about Unitree R1 humanoid robot priced around $4,000 for global sale.

Told Rest of World that China has a leading position in hardware and data ecosystem for robotics, despite US leadership in AI talent.

Marcus Beard

Creator

founder at Fenimore Harper Communications

Author of article on AI slopaganda referenced in the letter

Oxford philosopher quoted on the inevitability of human-AI hybrid futures

Noted that basic security controls and good cyber hygiene remain effective against AI-assisted attacks, supporting layered defenses strategy.

Documentary filmmaker noting improved processing accuracy for 30-minute videos

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

Conducted AI Impact interview series conversation with Doug Shapiro on GenAI's impact on entertainment industry and provided analysis of AI market transformation.

Founder and managing partner expects companies will redirect labor budgets to AI spending, resulting in aggressive layoffs impacting U.S. employment.

First woman elected to both houses of Congress, served 24 years in Senate and was outspoken on foreign policy, military affairs, and space program.

Co-author of Meta paper on tokenization scheme comparison in dense transformer model training.

Margarita Belova is a researcher at Princeton University who authored a paper analyzing energy consumption of reasoning models compared to standard queries.

US-based founder who connected Conyngham with Professor Rachel Allavena to navigate ethics approval and treatment administration.

Maria Curi

Journalist

Reporter at Axios

Axios journalist who reported on Amazon's call to White House officials about security concerns with Anthropic's Mythos model, triggering the government's response.

Supported production of the economic scenarios project.

Co-author of study examining cost differences between CLI and MCP agent interfaces across scaffoldings.

Author reporting on BYD's entry into humanoid robotics race with August debut at Di Space.

Author of "Market analysis indicates that speculative AI valuations are concentrating in private markets"

Her blog post about em-dash usage in AI models and digitization driving the phenomenon is referenced and discussed

Author of "Air Canada's Chatbot Promised a Bereavement Discount That Didn't Exist"

Described AI-designed vaccine trial results as important advance in viral protection; highlighted role of NIHR facilities.

Author reporting on studies showing AI tools degrade physician and software engineer skills.

Marianne Goodland

Journalist

Reporter at Colorado Politics

Byline author reporting on Colorado's AI law enforcement hold.

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

Member of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust with expertise in law and policy.

International affairs expert appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust to advise on AI governance.

Stated that killing with AI steals the dignity of the soldier and removes responsibility from the attacker, saying it must be banned.

Authored article reporting Deezer's statistics on AI-generated music uploads and detection.

Used as an example in entity and relationship extraction, with the triple (Marie Curie, discovered, polonium)

Marie Davidsen Buhl

Researcher

Researcher at UK AI Security Institute

Submission contact for arXiv paper on why automated alignment research is harder than expected.

Marija Gavrilov

Creator

Exponential View

Co-authored report on state of the AI economy.

Briedis commented that AI chatbots with excessive authority and insufficient verification create serious security risks.

First author of study using RAVEN AI pipeline to validate 118 new exoplanets from NASA TESS data.

Marine Carpuat

Researcher

Researcher at University of Maryland

Co-author of between-subjects experiment testing MT-mediated exchanges in global team meetings.

Mario Aguilar

Journalist

Health Tech Reporter at STAT

Author of STAT article reporting on Utah's approval of a pilot allowing AI to evaluate acne patients and write prescriptions.

Mario Gabriele

Creator

Byline Author

Wrote about AI's progress in understanding life and biology with Eric Nguyen interview.

Mario Giulianelli

Researcher

Associate Professor at UCL

Commented on research about language coordination patterns in AI agents and how lower-status speakers might use them to persuade.

Mario Schlosser

Investor

Oscar Health

Angel investor in Monogram's $40M seed round.

Noted the difficulty of training Watson without clear evidence for many clinical scenarios in bladder cancer treatment.

Author analyzing how AI is driving more distributed business formation in the US, with new companies forming outside major cities.

Marisa Schultz

Journalist

Politics Editor

Byline author of article about FTC drafting civil investigative demands to compel AI executive testimony.

Individual investor in humans& seed round

Communications director at Tech Oversight Project documenting Big Tech lobbying efforts to weaken chatbot safety legislation.

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

Superintendent quoted on school district's partnership with Realbotix to deploy humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant.

Mark Bissell

Researcher

AI Researcher at Goodfire Research

Co-author at Goodfire Research on the interpretability study of Pleiades model

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Author of "Professional Valuers Apply Discounts of 10 to 25 Percent"

Mark Downie wrote for Microsoft Developer Blogs about Visual Studio October update features including Copilot Chat improvements.

Author of multi-part investigation into how ChatGPT reinforced a school shooter's interest in firearms and tactics before the Tumbler Ridge attack in February 2026.

Co-authored technical report on Azure ND GB300 v6 Virtual Machines achieving record 1.1 million tokens/s on Llama2 70B inference.

Emphasized dangers of AI misuse, particularly regarding child sexual abuse material generation.

Co-authored research on Meta's Just-in-Time Testing system that uses LLMs to generate tests and catch bugs before code ships to production.

Co-led the development of a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor that detects unexpected events while consuming far less energy than conventional AI approaches.

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

Mark Humphries

Creator

Author of "Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems?"

Mark Jen

Engineer

Software Engineer at Meta

Founding team member at Thinking Machines Lab who was hired by Meta; previously worked at Meta.

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist leading the training of Watson for Oncology, acknowledged difficulty updating the system with new evidence.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs seed funding round.

Studied AI-related layoffs and found productivity did not rise after companies invested in AI and cut staff.

Investment officer stating that AI infrastructure companies need to be price insensitive to secure capital.

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

Co-author of the article on Meta's Backbone connectivity scaling for AI

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

Author of "How We Made SWE-Bench 50x Smaller" in LogicStar AI

Led IASEAI but ultimately did not make a public statement supporting Anthropic's position against Pentagon pressure despite promising a member poll.

Co-chair of IETF AI Preferences working group acknowledged in the robots.txt policy token draft.

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

Mark Riedl

Researcher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Co-author of arXiv paper arguing that AI-driven war games should not shape military planning without an auditable safety case.

Australian marketing journalist who praised Anthropic's Super Bowl ads as effective brand strategy.

Discusses the debate between using AI in product offerings versus internal operations for startups

Mark Seemann

Journalist

Software Engineer

Author of blog post discussing implications of AI-generated software, epistemology, and liability when code is generated by LLMs.

Co-senior author on bioprinting research, leading efforts to print functioning blood vessels and complex organ structures.

Mark Smith

Engineer

Infrastructure Lead at Discord

Built Discord's internal WebRTC voice and video infrastructure, demonstrating full-stack vertical integration approach to infrastructure.

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

Mark Spoonauer

Journalist

Global Editor-in-Chief at Tom's Guide

Covered Apple's September event and provided hands-on impressions of the iPhone 18 Pro Max.

Author of "All Ideas Are Secondhand" in Lapham's Quarterly

Mark Tyson

Journalist

News editor at Tom's Hardware

Tom's Hardware news editor who reported on Cloudflare data showing bot traffic has surpassed human traffic online.

Author and developer of the flyhard project training a fruit fly connectome-based model to operate vehicle controls.

Economist co-authoring research on how AI commoditizes answer generation and elevates problem formulation as a strategic skill.

Explained that AI shifted debugging bottleneck rather than eliminating it and that engineers now spend more time debugging than writing code.

Former SpaceX and DOGE Treasury official co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup, faced controversy over social media posts.

Marko Kojic is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report describing a 12B-parameter MoE language model optimized for coding and agentic workflows.

Co-authored research on process-driven image generation.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Medium author who wrote comprehensive article on agentic AI systems and their capabilities.

Submitter of SwarmWorld paper on homogeneous LLM agents building functional technology via stigmergy.

Co-author from Amazon AGI on SkillLearnBench research on agent skills.

Markus Marks

Researcher

Contributor at Meta

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

Author of "Medical Triage As An AI Ethics Benchmark" in nature.com

Markus Wulfmeier

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of study demonstrating multi-agent RL enabling drones to outperform human pilots in racing scenarios.

VC defending rising seed valuations based on proof of traction and founder execution track record in AI companies.

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.

Historical media theorist quoted about how new technologies initially disguise themselves as past technologies, applied to AI development.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Senior Manager and co-author of Spotify article on evaluation funnel approach to LLM evals and A/B testing.

Dutch researcher who noted Watson for Oncology's focus on American practices prevented adoption in the Netherlands.

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

Joint contributor to the research on discovering singularities in fluid dynamics using AI

Author on M&A due diligence and AI-powered document analysis in transactions.

Co-authored arXiv paper on linear-time and constant-memory text embeddings using recurrent language models.

Martin Fleming

Researcher

Researcher at MIT FutureTech

Co-researcher on MIT AI automation study analyzing frontier LLM capabilities.

GlobalFoundries engineer contributing industry perspective to the defect detection research

Martin Jaggi

Researcher

Professor of Machine Learning at EPFL

Member of Steering Committee of Swiss AI Initiative that released Apertus, a fully open AI model.

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.

Prominent researcher cited as excited and hopeful about effects of AI-assisted proofs

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 Maas

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-presented LAVA, a new AI-powered scheduling algorithm for optimizing virtual machine allocation in cloud data centers.

Martin McKeaveney

Other

Co-Founder and CTO at Budibase

Open-source maintainer highlighting FrontierCode's attention to detail and its measurement of genuine model intelligence.

Formalized an optimizing compiler in Lean using AI assistance, completing work in one month.

Commented on GEMA's lawsuit against Suno, noting the importance of music collecting societies in protecting artists' rights.

Co-author of draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08 AI vocabulary and co-author of attachment draft with Gary Illyes on associating AI usage preferences with content.

Martin Wattenberg

Researcher

Researcher

Author on arXiv paper exploring visual meaning and communication in vision-language models.

Hosted forum on AI in education, stating AI is already shaping the future of education in ways everyone in the sector needs to understand.

Stated that companies lack clarity on what responsible AI deployment looks like and need data-driven starting point for building trust.

Martin Woodward

Executive

VP of Developer Relations at GitHub

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