People in AI

Author of "Meta's Set Block Decoding" on arXiv

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

Marty Makary

Policy

FDA Commissioner at FDA

Announced FDA's new AI-powered Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) platform replacing outdated fragmented databases.

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.

Co-author of the article announcing new NotebookLM features

Wrote about Creeping Cognitive Displacement Syndrome and AI's degradation of university credential value.

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.

Mary Branscombe wrote about Cedar, a language and engine for making authorization decisions separately from application logic.

Mary Cunningham

Journalist

News Associate at 60 Minutes - CBS

Byline author of article about FTC investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI consumer risks.

Byline author discussing survey results showing demand for AI skills in entry-level jobs has nearly tripled since fall 2025.

Co-sponsor of the revamped Health and Location Data Protection Act alongside Senator Warren.

Byline author reporting on Microsoft's OpenClaw team and personal assistant project.

Mary Newhauser

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Fastino

Co-author on GLiGuard paper for schema-conditioned LLM content moderation.

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement on AI development coordination and governance.

Original author of Frankenstein novel (1818) whose work is analyzed for AI metaphor parallels.

Co-author of NBER working paper analyzing market responses to AI model releases through bond yield movements

Maryam Karimzadehgan

Creator

Engineering Leader at Google

Byline author of article introducing Google Playground, an experimental AI gaming platform.

Coauthor of the study on gender threats and workplace deviance

Maryam Motamedi

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model with transcription, translation, and speaker attribution capabilities.

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

Expressed hopes that OpenAI will voluntarily comply with Japan's copyright request and indicated measures under Japan's AI Promotion Act may be invoked.

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

Co-author on arXiv paper about AI agents autonomously running quantum physics experiments and discovering new physical laws.

Mason Daugherty

Researcher

Researcher at LangChain

Led evaluation of open-weight LLMs showing they are viable alternatives to frontier models for core agent tasks.

Mason Drxy discussed LangChain 1.1's capability introspection and Deep Agents for dynamic model routing.

Mason Wilder stated that it's never been easier to commit fraud and that financial scams have become ubiquitous.

Matej Balog

Researcher

staff research scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author on AlphaProof Nexus research paper on AI-driven formal proof search that solved nine open Erdős problems.

Prime Intellect engineer who collaborated on RL training experiments and provided hardware resources.

Mateo Quiros

Journalist

Journalist at Google DeepMind

Byline author of article announcing Google's integration of computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Mateusz Makosiewicz

Creator

Ahrefs

Author of "13 Times AI Actually Delivered" in Ahrefs

Sleep researcher at Cleveland Clinic contributing to AI model development for identifying hidden health signals in sleep studies.

Mathew Hogan

Engineer

Cursor

Mathew Hogan co-authored an article describing how Cursor built development environments for cloud agents to test and merge code.

Mathias Biilmann

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Netlify

Coined the term Agent Experience (AX) in 2025 and led Netlify's pivot toward agent-first infrastructure.

Led development of G-AUDIT tool to detect hidden biases in medical AI training data.

Researcher with Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience focused on how AI intersects with child cognitive and emotional development.

Mathilde Collin

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at KORA

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Mati Roy

Engineer

xAI

xAI employee who disclosed the existence of 'spicy mode' in a now-deleted X post about Grok Imagine's nudity capabilities.

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

Matilda Ankargren

Engineer

Staff Data Scientist at Spotify

Co-author of Spotify Engineering article on LLM evals and experiments.

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.

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Matt Booty

Executive

Microsoft

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

Matt Briney

Other

Chief Communications Officer at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Described how the library's AI system allows visitors to search Roosevelt's writings and interact with an AI avatar.

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

Matt Colyer

Engineer

Product Leader at Figma

Product leader at Figma building tools for designers and developers; authored article on Figma canvas opening to AI agents.

Co-founded Convogo, an AI tool for executive coaching, which was acquired by OpenAI in an acqui-hire deal.

Author covering Microsoft's Copilot reboot and enterprise AI strategy.

Matt Deitke

Founder

Co-founder at Vercept

Co-founder of Vercept who negotiated a $250M salary from Meta; congratulated former colleagues on the acquisition but is not joining Anthropic.

Matt DesLauriers

Engineer

Developer who created Windfoil, a GPU-friendly algorithm for vector graphics rendering that runs in browsers

Matt Egan

Journalist

Senior Business Reporter at CNN

Author of "The 'godfather of AI' reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI" in CNN

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.

Announced Autonomy-1 mission using Solo AI intelligence model to operate spacecraft autonomously without ground commands.

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

Matt Growcoot

Journalist

PetaPixel

Author of "Movie Studio Lionsgate is Struggling to Make AI-Generated Films With Runway" in PetaPixel

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

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures who invested in Norm Ai Series C; stated Norm has proven AI-native law firm model works.

Matt Huang

Founder

Co-Founder at Paradigm

Co-author of announcement of Paradigm's fourth $1.2B fund expanding into AI, robotics and other exponential technologies.

Partner at ICONIQ who worked with Amit Agarwal on early Datadog investment in 2015 and supported Standard Template Labs from day zero.

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.

Matt Levine

Creator

Analyst

Estimated OpenAI's old profit cap at approximately $272 billion

Matt Lovett-Barron

Researcher

Scientist at University of California, San Diego

Matt Lovett-Barron studies Danionella and uses virtual reality environments to study how fish brains manage social behavior and schooling.

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

Using Fable 5 to write world-model training code when Anthropic flagged it as frontier AI research and steering vector kicked in implementing JEPA.

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.

Provided early review of ARC-AGI-3 benchmark analysis.

Matt McNiece

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored the Claude Mythos security research at Anthropic.

Matt Miller

Investor

VC firm founder at Evantic

VC firm founder joining Synthesia's Series E as a new investor

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

Matt Reynolds

Researcher

Director of Communications at Forecasting Research Institute

Co-authored post on AI progress forecasts accuracy at FRI.

Matt Rickard

Creator

Quoted for his observation that every Unix command eventually becomes a startup, applied to AI agents.

Matt Ridley

Journalist

Author of "Idea Sex" in YouTube

Matt Robb

Other

Brand and content marketing manager

Tech reviewer whose Facebook Marketplace transaction with Meta's Muse AI resulted in an unexpected buyer visit after the AI agent negotiated a sale, shared the pickup address, and confirmed his presence without his explicit approval.

Matt Schulman

Creator

Founder and CEO at Pave

Byline author discussing GTM Engineer as fastest-growing job and AI-driven role creation.

Matt Sigelman

Researcher

President of The Burning Glass Institute at The Burning Glass Institute

Analyzes skill-biased technological change and labor market divergence, discusses how AI differs from past tech adoption.

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

Studied the surge in low-quality papers linked to LLMs and commented that the fraud testing results should act as a wake-up call to developers.

Reported on major music labels calling for AI-generated songs to be banned from global music charts unless primarily human-made and lawfully created.

Building AI theorist that automatically constructs and tests predictive mathematical models for biological active matter.

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

Lead author of study on maternal RSV vaccination effectiveness in preventing infant hospitalizations.

Co-Principal Investigator on Harvard research into gender disparities in AI adoption and representation.

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

Matthew Berman

Creator

AI YouTuber

Joked about Kylon's conductor in their launch film resembling actor JK Simmons.

Author reporting on Visa's AI-related layoffs affecting high-level executives.

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

Matthew Carrigan

Engineer

Hugging Face

Matthew Carrigan is referenced in an X thread about GPT OSS innovations mentioned in the Hugging Face blog post.

Reported that OpenAI is considering sharp price cuts to its AI offerings in anticipation of similar cuts from Anthropic as both companies prepare for IPOs.

Co-introduced GIST algorithm at NeurIPS 2025 for balancing data diversity and utility in machine learning datasets.

Analyzed fraudulent dating apps and uncovered technical details of the AI catfishing network operation including leaked internal protocols.

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

AI researcher explaining how transformer-based LLMs tokenize text and struggle with character-level spelling tasks.

Matthew Honnibal

Engineer

spaCy

Critiqued the weight-space programming paper for conflating two separate topics about LLM capabilities.

Author covering AI sycophancy problem in language models and research on why chatbots agree with users even when wrong.

Led team that tested thousands of machine learning models on predicting life outcomes and found limited predictive skill.

Co-authored guide on building production commerce agents with Claude, covering latency, cost, memory, safety, and evaluation practices.

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.

Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital providing quote about Rork pushing barriers to software building in the mobile economy.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on persistent multi-agent environments and adversarial stress testing.

Co-founder of Oumi, former Google AI and Microsoft engineer.

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

Author of "Introducing Claude Chic"

Reporter covering Senator Hawley's expanded investigation into camera networks.

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

Researcher studying how uncensored AI models persist across registries and persist through quantization and mirroring.

Legal scholar arguing that predicting technology's future impact is difficult and historical track records are poor.

Engineering intern who directed Copilot through the process of onboarding new token types

Matthew Zeitlin

Journalist

Journalist

Noted lack of coverage compared to mythos incident, suggesting industry response matters for media attention.

Matthias Bethge

Researcher

Professor of Computational Neuroscience at University of Tübingen

Author of "PostTrainBench" in PostTrainBench Official Site

Co-author on Kumo Relational research.

Business angel investor participating in the pre-seed funding round.

Lead researcher on MIT study finding AI automation spreading broadly across thousands of workplace tasks.

Author of "Selectively reducing eval awareness and murder in Gemma 3 27B via steering" in LessWrong

Co-author of WorldAgents paper investigating 3D capabilities in 2D foundation models.

German AI scientist co-founding Keenable; previously worked with Styskin on web search infrastructure for Alexa.

Matthias Rohmer

Executive

Google

Listed as the author of the article about Chrome DevTools updates

Wandercraft CEO announcing FDA clearance of Eve self-balancing exoskeleton for wheelchair users.

Co-author of research on experimental protocols addressing language barriers in multinational knowledge transfer.

Byline author of paper on theoretical improvements of latent prediction methods.

Discussed Finland's AI infrastructure boom, calling it the 'Texas of Europe' with weekly new inquiries from companies entering market.

Issues Executive Order 658 requiring data centers over 25MW to provide 100% clean energy or pay into ratepayer protection fund.

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

Maurice Heumann

Engineer

Developer

Used generative AI with seventeen agents working simultaneously to decompile Modern Warfare 2 on PC, achieving playable state before receiving DMCA takedown from Activision.

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Minerva Humanoids robotics company.

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

Stated that Eve defaults to 1M context for plaintiff attorney work, enabling cross-referencing of long documents and case files.

Author of Stop the Machines book on anti-technology extremism, whose lecture is circulating in fusion centers.

Researcher who contributed to Flow Reasoning Models paper on structured reasoning for AI.

Lead vocalist whose name inspired the fictional character Mavis Beacon.

Author of "Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI's top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say"

Max Brodeur-Urbas

Founder

CEO at Gumloop

CEO and founder of Gumloop who announced the company's $50 million Series B funding for AI automation platform.

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

Max Friar

Creator

Managing Partner at Calder Capital

Author of "Owner Dependency Doesn't Just Reduce Your Multiple"

Max Harley

Researcher

Aiken County Public School District

Author of "LOLMIL: Living Off the Land Models and Inference Libraries"

Former Neuralink co-founder and current Science Corporation CEO announced the company's implantation of vision-restoring chip PRIMA in first patient with Stargardt disease.

Max Kleiman-Weiner

Researcher

Prof at University of Washington at University of Washington

Co-author of MIT research on AI sycophancy and delusional spiraling.

Max Leiter

Creator

Claude Code @ Anthropic at Anthropic

Author of "You Should Be Rewriting Your Prompts" in Max Leiter's Blog

Argued that AI is effectively raising humanity's average IQ and boosting brainpower for anyone online.

Researcher at ElevenLabs who worked on Cue, the forced alignment model for audio alignment.

Said 'I probably spend more than my salary on Claude' demonstrating tokenmaxxing behavior among AI-obsessed workers.

Co-author of research on interpretability protocols for language model post-training

Lead author of Anthropic's engineering article on containing Claude agents and security failures during evaluations.

German robotics team member discussing the value of competition for testing new approaches in robot development.

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

Co-authored a 472-page open-source textbook on agentic large language models.

Co-author of Google blog post on AI-powered contrail avoidance trials in Asia-Pacific.

Max Woolf

Creator

Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed

Author of "Nano Banana Can Be Prompt Engineered For Extremely Nuanced AI Image Generation" in minimaxir.com

Maxence Faldor

Journalist

Journalist at Hugging Face

Byline reporting on Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon agents completing Minecraft survival challenge.

Fields Medal winner (1998) among prominent mathematicians warning about AI's destructive potential if misapplied to mathematical discovery.

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

Maxime Doussin authored an article about Google's integration of Reddit and forum discussions into its AI search results.

Byline author covering Liquid AI's efficient long-context encoders for CPU deployment.

Author of "Claude Opus 4.6 Ships with Agent Teams"

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

Maximilian Schons

Creator

Self-employed

Author of "Building Brains on a Computer" in Asimov Press

Proposes pairing SKILL.md files with PITFALLS.md files to help AI coding tools avoid repeating mistakes across sessions.

Ruled in March that Amazon is likely to succeed in its Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim against Perplexity's Comet.

Author reporting on Agentic Resource Discovery protocol proposed by Google, Microsoft, Cisco and others.

Plastic surgeon whose 1960 observation about 21-day recovery became the origin of the popular habit formation myth.

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

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent containment research.

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.

Franklin reported on Martin Scorsese joining Black Forest Labs as advisor on FLUX technology.

McLaren Stanley

Engineer

Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Stores

Leads 70-person team modernizing 17 years of code for Amazon's mobile shopping app using AI agents.

McNair Shah

Researcher

Research Fellow at Anthropic

Co-author of Anthropic research on self-propagating ideas in multi-agent LLM systems and their spread factors.

Co-author of the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report on data center energy usage.

Lead author of comprehensive review on AI in healthcare covering diagnostics, treatment personalization, and challenges.

Medha Singh

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Co-byline author of article about trillion-dollar IPO filings for SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Warned that the UK financial system is not prepared for a major AI-related incident and criticized regulators for taking a wait-and-see approach to AI risks.

Author of article analyzing GPU collateral valuation and AI infrastructure financing risks.

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

Author of "Microsoft's Power Problem: AI Chips Are Sitting in Inventory" in Data Centre Magazine

Megan Cassella

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Co-authored article about White House meeting with AI companies on cybersecurity framework.

Megan McArdle

Journalist

Columnist at Washington Post

Described using AI for research, transcription, brainstorming, fact-checking, and editing in her journalism workflow.

Megan Morrone

Journalist

Journalist at Axios

Reported on Sunfish's AI-powered egg-freezing program that predicts fertility treatment costs and outcomes.

Meghan Dorn

Policy

In-house Lobbyist at OpenAI

Former staffer for Senator Lindsey Graham who joined OpenAI in October to lead government lobbying efforts.

Mehdi Bennani

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

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

Mehmet yilmaz

Creator

Author of "The Barbell of Software Value"

Author of "By 2026, AI video models are expected to be production-grade"

Nariyawala discussed Matic's new voice-first approach and plans to run AI models locally on the robot's hardware.

Co-researcher on MIT study of AI task automation across workforce.

Co-introduced the Titans architecture and MIRAS framework for helping AI models have long-term memory.

Author of the paper 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Problems in Additive Number Theory' whose problems were tested by ChatGPT 5.5 Pro.

Opposition politician criticizing government's economic performance and growth claims

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

Quoted on why young people are skeptical of AI being pushed by adults and tech corporations.

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

Proposes treating AI as alien intelligence and adapting methods from developmental psychology to evaluate AI cognition; outlines six principles for better AI assessment.

Led UW study finding AI models generate only 2% female animal characters despite bias-reduction guardrails.

Conducted a hackathon study examining how different types of AI assistance affect team creativity.

Educator leader supporting Governor Hochul's efforts to protect kids from harmful AI technology.

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model project.