People in AI

Melis Anahtar

Researcher

Former Postdoc at MIT

Lead author of study using generative AI to design novel antibiotics.

Author of "The New Ethical Implications of Gen AI" in tec.mx

Co-authored article on the EU's AI Act implementation challenges two years after its agreement.

Melissa Heikkilä

Journalist

MIT Technology Review

Author of "DeepMind's New Lab Changes The Game"

Melissa Keogh

Executive

Communications Officer at University of South Australia

Listed as media contact for the article

Byline author of article on rural NY school using humanoid robot Sally in classroom for teaching assistance.

Author of "GitHub's Tutorial on Using Copilot to Improve Code Reviews"

Melissa Repko

Journalist

CNBC

Author of "Walmart Teams Up With OpenAI to Allow Purchases Directly in ChatGPT" in CNBC

Melody Guan

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-authored OpenAI Alignment post on complementary metrics for monitorability and monitoring AI systems.

Created Grok Bot Activity Dashboard for tracking bot activities, progress, and status.

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

Mengting Gu

Researcher

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

Co-author of the Robix research paper

Author of 'Artificial Unintelligence' who commented on the growing AI backlash and negative attitudes toward generative AI.

Meredith Ringel Morris

Researcher

Author of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" on arXiv

Expert in DMCA law who commented on Google and Reddit's legal strategies against AI scraping.

Merlijn Vos

Other

Core Maintainer at uppy

Open-source maintainer who worked with FrontierCode team on evaluating code mergeability and quality standards.

Merlyn Thomas

Journalist

BBC Verify Correspondent at BBC

Co-author of BBC Verify report on risks of Google's Earth AI image generator and misinformation potential.

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

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Merrill Lutsky

Founder

Co-founder at Graphite

Co-founded Graphite, a startup using AI to review and debug code that was acquired by Cursor.

Former AWS deputy CISO warning that MCP and AI framework security failures will feel like traditional security failures rather than AI problems.

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

Journalist provided detailed analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 announcement, noting the lack of published benchmarks and comparing to predecessor Qwen3.7-Max.

Co-authored study on AI coding productivity gains and downstream bottlenecks in software development process.

Researcher on media, body image, and disabilities, discussing limitations of AI in understanding multidimensional body image.

Author of "AI Unity Lasted Minutes"

Stated that the government views non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights and announced blocking access to Grok.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Micah Janke

Other

User who quoted the OpenAI announcement and provided feedback requesting the branch conversations feature

Micah Zoltu

Researcher

Security Expert at Serv.eth Support

Provided assistance and advice on Vitalik's local AI security setup.

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

Co-authored paper on reasoning architecture for large language models inspired by AlphaGo.

Michael Acton

Journalist

Correspondent at Financial Times

Reported on OpenAI's hardware device project with Jony Ive facing technical challenges.

SCE senior engineer discussing the utility's grid monitoring platform using AI algorithms.

Presented AgentFlayer family of zero-click hijacks affecting agents from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Salesforce at Black Hat USA 2025.

Author of "Your Food Wasn't Late. It Was AI-Delivered"

Michael Birtwisle gave evidence at a UK parliamentary inquiry about facial recognition and discusses limitations of UK trial data for Australian deployment.

Discussed how developers and deployers of AI agents are only actors capable of holding responsibility for their actions.

Michael Blau

Founder

Founder at Dripstack

Built Dripstack, a micropayment system for AI agents to pay content creators using stablecoins.

Michael Bleigh

Other

engineering lead at Google

Author of "Context Engineering Is Sleeping on the Humble Hyperlink"

Partner at Quiet Capital leading the Series A round and joining Orchard's board; quoted on the company providing 'ground truth' for agriculture.

Author of the research paper on theoretical limitations of embedding-based retrieval

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

Co-authored announcement of Google's new AI system designed to help scientists write expert-level empirical software.

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

92-year-old British actor joining ElevenLabs' Iconic Voice Marketplace, allowing companies to license his AI-generated voice for projects

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

Co-founded Ollama; helped build largest developer network in open model ecosystem.

Michael Chui

Researcher

Senior Fellow at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey 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.

Clarified details about JadePuffer agentic ransomware attack, explaining human involvement in setup versus technical execution.

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

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

Michael Douglas is part of the external collaboration group shepherding OpenAI's quantum field theory result on Yang-Mills existence.

Michael Dubakov

Creator

Founder at Fibery

Author of "Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World"

Leading Eyes-On project developing computer vision system to continuously detect tracheostomy tube displacement and distress in infants.

Michael Elabd

Founder

Co-Founder at Trajectory

Co-founder of Trajectory, a startup building continual learning platform for AI systems that improve from real-world experience.

Michael Feathers

Engineer

Software Developer at R7K Research & Conveyance

Coined the term 'characterization testing' in his book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code'

5x Grammy nominated singer and pianist known for Great American Songbook participating in the project

Michael Field

Other

Chief Equity Market Strategist EMEA at Morningstar

Field analyzed tech companies' shift to public markets, noting Anthropic and Alphabet's capital raises for AI competition.

Michael Fine

Executive

Head of Machine Learning at Exa

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

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

Running ClawCons around the country organizing meetups for developers and non-technical users interested in OpenClaw agent technology.

Gerlich conducted a study finding a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities.

Michaël Gharbi

Engineer

Reve

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

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

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

Author of "When Coca-Cola Used AI to Make Their Christmas Ad"

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

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

Author of comprehensive technical guide explaining how prompt caching works across different LLM providers and optimization strategies.

Blogger who documented Peter Scholze's quote on the importance of definitions in mathematics.

Michael Helcig

Researcher

PhD Student / Researcher

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs and RCO model compression research.

Co-founder of Rescue Air who built a business, ran a PE partnership process drawing 20+ offers, and was one of the first operators to deploy AI across their front office.

Co-authored Anthropic's Project Fetch report on Claude's performance with robotic tasks.

Michael Isaac, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, implemented Flex for DSPy during his internship at cmpnd and authored the guest post introducing the module.

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

Co-author of article on AI benchmarks and benchmaxxing problems in model evaluation.

Michael Kirchhof

Researcher

Research Scientist at Apple

Co-authored research on semantic calibration emergence in LLMs.

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

Founder of SPAC merging with Agility Robotics in $2.5 billion deal

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

Michael Krigsman

Creator

Host, CXOTalk at CXOTalk

Host of CXOTalk episode featuring Andy Baldwin on CIO AI agenda and enterprise AI governance.

Author of "KernelEvolve: Scaling Agentic Kernel Coding for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators at" on arXiv

Michael Larabel

Journalist

Phoronix

Author of "Intel Announces "Crescent Island" Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card With 160GB vRAM" in Phoronix

Authored ABI Research report on Toyota's O-Beya implementation, noting staff responsibility for validating AI responses.

Discussed somatic mutations as high-hanging fruit in geroscience and priorities for aging research interventions.

Michael Levan

Creator

Principal AI Architect at solo.io

Author of "Multiplexing MCP Servers For Agentic Specialization"

Michael Liedtke

Other

Author of "This Gmail Update Is Bigger Than It Looks"

Co-author of KronLSTM paper on memory-revision mechanisms for long-context linear attention architectures.

Author of "USC research warns" in USC

Author who reverse-engineered Claude's generative UI implementation and built terminal version using Glimpse.

Michael Luo

Engineer

ML Engineer at Together AI

Trained the DeepSWE RL model, developed Kubernetes wrapper for R2E-Gym, and implemented agent/environment abstractions for rLLM.

Lead author of Walrus, a transformer-based foundation model for simulating fluids, liquids, and gases across diverse physical systems.

Co-led negotiations resulting in agreement to ban nudification apps and AI-generated child sexual abuse material while simplifying AI Act compliance.

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

Announced National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for schools with Microsoft and AFT.

Michael Nicolls

Executive

President at xAI

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

Michael Noukhovitch

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Author of paper on RL for LLMs introducing the Matthew Effect and Never Give Up method.

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

Co-author of 2013 study measuring job susceptibility to computerization, methodology used by Forrester

Michael Poli

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

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

Lead technologist for EUV light sources, discusses the new 1,000-watt system capability and future potential to reach 1,500-2,000 watts.

High-profile researcher from Meta who joined AMI Labs as VP of world models.

Used Fable 5 to one-shot a clean interactive architecture diagram as pure SVG and HTML after the model read an OpenAPI spec.

Co-developed Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) for voice search that bypasses text transcription.

Michael Robbins

Executive

President & CEO at AUVSI

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

Michael Santoli

Journalist

Commentator at CNBC

Commentator discussed software sector's 30% value loss due to AI spending concerns.

Michael Saylor

Executive

Founder and CEO at MicroStrategy

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

Thanked for reviewing the code review article

Byline author of article about Perplexity's Personal Computer AI agent running on Mac mini servers.

Nobel laureate from NYU who called for an all hands on deck approach to prepare for AI's economic transformation.

Co-author of the article on AI productivity advances

Byline author and host of podcast discussing portable AI workflows and platform-agnostic AI setup strategies.

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

Conservative policy analyst critiquing David Sacks's aggressive AI preemption policy approach as politically damaging.

Michael Tschannen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored research with Jon Barron on bugs in softmax and cross-entropy implementations.

Co-authored research on Cheminformatics Skills for agents to solve chemistry problems.

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

Identified five AI trade-offs for balancing predictions with interpretability in high-stakes applications.

Michael Wall

Creator

Founder, Solo Music Business at Solo Music Business

Author of detailed account of using ChatGPT Pro as a first hire in his solo music composition and licensing business.

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

Army's top enlisted advisor saying experimentation phase is over and service must make decisions on technology priorities.

Author of the research paper on theoretical limitations of embedding-based retrieval

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

Senior author of research on humanoid robots performing surgery; discussed potential for remotely operated robots to address healthcare shortages.

Founder of clinical-trials startup Lindus discussing TechBio disruption and patent analysis in drug discovery.

Michaela Hinks

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at FutureHouse

Co-author of the Kosmos AI Scientist technical report for autonomous discovery.

Anti-racism coordinator discusses normalisation of hatred and racism in Europe.

Co-sponsored legislation mandating privacy features in internet-connected baby monitors.

Lead author studying LLM-generated ghost authors polluting academic databases and scholarly repositories

Led research identifying 1,655 Zenodo records attributed to fictional authors created by AI language models.

Co-author of research using AI to reconstruct images from fMRI brain scans through Brain-Inspired Transformer approach.

Researcher who studies dark patterns in AI chatbots and emotional manipulation in AI companions.

Byline author covering Google Colab's Data Explorer integration with Kaggle for dataset and model search.

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Author of "AI Will Compromise Your Cybersecurity Posture"

Expert discussing risks of PHP vulnerability exploitation and poor state of internet infrastructure incentivizing speed over maintenance

Michel Aractingi

Researcher

Co-author of the robot learning tutorial paper

Co-author of arXiv systematic review on AI-generated code bugs.

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

Authored the announcement of Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL multimodal reasoning model.

Provided feedback on Naomi Saphra's essay on AI's impact on trust and communication.

Michelle Lim

Engineer

Developer at Stripe

Michelle Lim works at Stripe and conducted an informal benchmark testing how well AI models can build and deploy fully functioning t-shirt stores.

Co-authored the article about Generac's $8 billion deal with Amazon.

Michelle Nguyen is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.

Technology and national security expert discussing loopholes in US chip export controls.

Co-authored research on Multi-Token Prediction optimization for on-device LLM inference on Pixel devices.

Discusses detecting AI-written student work and uses ChatGPT as artistic commentary in her novel

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario on European geopolitical AI competition.

Co-founder of nonprofit tracking identical language across state chatbot bills and Google's lobbying involvement.

Co-author of guide on fine-tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for robot video generation.

Wrote comprehensive comparison article between Claude Code and Cursor for AI-assisted development.

Mihaela Van Der Schaar

Researcher

John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI and Medicine at University of Cambridge; Chief AI Scientist at Francis Crick Institute

Co-author of a paper on amortizing sequential experimental design in reasoning LLMs.

Mihai Lis

Engineer

Head of Engineering at AMP PBC

Head of Engineering at AMP who worked at Google building Borg/GQM scheduler, focused on compute optimization and scheduling infrastructure.

Mihail Eric

Researcher

Stanford researcher at Stanford University

Stanford researcher who demonstrated that the core of Claude Code is 200 lines of Python with three main tools.

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

Used Claude Code to disable bloat apps, replace stock launcher, and add rotating wallpapers to smart TV.

Byline author of article about Sentry's Seer Agent optimization that cut tokens up to 86%.

Mihir Parmar

Researcher

Researcher at Google

Co-author on NEXUS multi-agent time series forecasting framework.

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

Mikael Wettercrantz posted that Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude over information security concerns.

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on agent containment and security incidents.

Mike Allen

Journalist

Co-Founder at Axios

Byline author of article about SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 launch.

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

Mike Bidgoli

Executive

Chief Product and Technology Officer at Tubi

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

Mike Chambers

Engineer

AWS

Co-author of AWS Velocity Labs release of Strands Decider 2B decision model for agent workflows.

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

Author of "Stone Roses Tribute Band Delivers Emotional Performance at Shepherd's Bush Empire"

Urban theorist whose 2005 book 'Planet of Slums' chronicled the rise of million-person cities in the developing world and life in global slums.

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

Co-founder of The Software Toolworks and contributor to program development.

Co-founder of Mixhalo, Incubus guitarist and songwriter, founded the real-time audio startup in 2016.

Discussed how Island created the first Enterprise Browser and expanded into security and governance for AI agents.

American astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.

Developmental psychologist who urged AI researchers to adopt experimental methodologies from developmental psychology.

Co-founded Convogo and joined OpenAI as part of the acqui-hire to work on AI cloud efforts.

Author announcing Apex, a React Native specialized coding model trained for framework-specific engineering work.

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

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

Stanford researcher at Trustworthy AI Lab who co-identified benchmaxxing practice and examined system card documentation gaps.

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

New York Times reporter who first reported OpenAI's acquisition of Weights.gg startup.

Posted on LinkedIn about consumer AI predictions including device failures and mini-app emergence.

14-year Marine Corps veteran who co-founded Foundation and advocates for deploying humanoid robots in warfare instead of soldiers.

Byline author covering Armadin's Series B funding and agentic security platform.

Mike Liberatore

Executive

xAI

Former CFO of xAI who left the company in July.

Iconic Silicon Valley investor and Floodgate cofounder with early investments in Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft, interviewed about AI startup investing strategy.

Mike Mignano

Founder

Cofounder at Oboe

Former Spotify exec who ran Spotify's podcast team and cofounded Oboe with Nir Zicherman.

Introduced Drew Breunig to Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework.

Mike Schaekermann

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author reporting on Google's medical AI system AMIE's evolution toward disease management.

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

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

Mike Solana

Journalist

Founder, Editor-in-Chief at Pirate Wires

Provided analysis of why Jacob Coxon's resignation resonated with the public, relating to the preference cascade.

Mike Speiser

Executive

Reve

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

Author of "Google Chrome"

Byline author reporting on AstroForge's plans for fully autonomous space missions using AI.

Mike Whitaker

Creator

Navigating AI Transitions with Whit

Author of "Back to School with AI: The Clarity Crisis" in Navigating AI Transitions with Whit

Transitioned from theoretical physics postdoc to full-time AI alignment work.

CEO of Vesta who stated that demand for the product has exploded and revenue is up 12x year over year, with the company focusing on AI agents for mortgage origination.