People in AI

Created Stringman, a cable-driven robotic claw system powered by LeRobot-based firmware for household automation.

Nathaniel Rochester collaborated with McCarthy and Minsky to organize the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Naveen Chhabra

Investor

Principal Analyst at Forrester

Analyzed how Nvidia gains visibility into customer AI model preferences through Hugging Face acquisition.

28-year-old computer science graduate and only male member who serves as the group's link to the outside world

Managing Partner at Mayfield venture capital firm; investor in Upscale AI's Series A-1 round.

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

Nayel Rehman

Creator

Co-developer of WiFind, an AI-powered search-and-rescue system using Wi-Fi signals.

Nayeon Lee

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Wrote article on China's first humanoid robot fighting tournament and EngineAI T800 technology.

CEO of Accenture Song who quoted on Netomi's agentic AI platform enabling brands to deliver empathetic customer experience at scale.

Neal Lathia

Founder

Co-founder at Gradient Labs

Former Monzo employee who co-founded Gradient Labs to build specialist AI agents for financial services.

Quoted about expanding partnership with Adobe and bringing creative tools into Gemini.

Neal Wadhwa

Researcher

Researcher at Google

Co-author of MultiGen research on video world models and interactive simulation for multiplayer games.

Neal Wu

Engineer

Coder at Thinking Machines Lab

Coder who won three gold medals in a programming Olympiad and was hired by Thinking Machines Lab.

Co-authored Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research report on AI's impact on labor markets.

Consciousness researcher who participated in conference on AI consciousness organized by Dmitry Volkov.

Co-authored Nature article on why AI is not conscious and likely never will be.

Organizer of the CVPR 2025 Workshop Challenge on few-shot object detection

Co-authored research on the critical role of strategic workforce planning in the age of AI and how gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills.

Co-founder and CTO of K2 Space, a customer of Sift's AI-controlled hardware infrastructure platform.

VC partner who traveled to Shenzhen and Beijing to assess China's technological advances in robotics and data collection.

Described how IBM uses AI to give new engineers harder assignments sooner, with juniors handling 70-80% of senior-level tasks.

Leads network operations and AI agent deployment at Microsoft for managing connectivity incidents across 900+ sites.

Byline author reporting on Anthropic Project Glasswing finding 10,000+ critical software vulnerabilities using Claude Mythos Preview model.

Wrote article about Tesla beginning construction of dedicated Optimus humanoid robot factory at Gigafactory Texas.

NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer presenting on AI physics and simulation at SIGGRAPH 2026.

Stated PTC's work with NVIDIA supports connected design and simulation workflows.

Neil C Hughes

Journalist

Contributor at Cybernews

Byline author analyzing Utah's Stratos Project data center, Kevin O'Leary's involvement, and AI's energy demands.

Co-led research on surfacing pathological behaviors in language models using reinforcement learning and propensity bounds.

Had a deepfake used in a scam ad falsely promoting erectile dysfunction medication.

Co-authored research using AI to analyze GLP-1 side effects from social media data, identifying unreported patient experiences.

Commented on the Hugging Face incident as an 'impressive feat' and criticized OpenAI's safe deployment capabilities.

Senior VP of Amazon Health Services discusses how Health AI brings together fragmented health information to give patients a complete picture of their health.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Author of "ASML Announces Breakthrough in EUV Light Source to Boost Chip Output" in New Electronics

Announced AI licensing deals with Microsoft and OpenAI, describing Microsoft's publisher content marketplace as a pay-per-use model for AI companies to compensate publishers.

Released 'Nightborne', his first short film generated entirely by AI using Seedance video generation model, and founded AI film studio.

Nela Richardson

Researcher

Chief Economist at ADP

ADP's chief economist partnering with Brynjolfsson on research showing AI is disrupting tasks from the bottom up, not jobs from the top down.

Said CCC is a business made better by AI, not worse, explaining private equity valuation approach to software under AI disruption concerns.

Nelson Spruston is Janelia's executive director working on understanding brain structure and function using transparent fish models and AI.

Discussed collaboration with Google on NowAI-Bench and Gemini 4 Argon's performance improvements on enterprise workflows.

Neta Shaul

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Byline author on Parallel Decoding Distillation for accelerating video generation in diffusion models.

Co-author of fraud research examining how founder-investor dynamics enable fraudulent behavior.

Director of Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation; prior work on reaching motion extended by new therapy robot.

Co-discovered Agentjacking attack exploiting Sentry and AI coding agents.

Fields Medal winner (2010) joining prominent mathematicians in warning about AI's misalignment with the discipline's core values.

Author on paper introducing Kalman Delta Networks for uncertainty-aware associative memory in LLMs.

Author of "tcgen05 for Dummies" in Personal Blog

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering discussing China's dominance in open-source AI models at the 2025 OpenAtom Developers Conference.

Analyst describing OpenAI's Instant Checkout as technology demonstration and commenting on challenges of focused consumer product strategy.

Angel investor in Prime Intellect's $130M Series A funding round.

Niccolo de Masi

Executive

Chairman & CEO at IonQ

Announced IonQ's $1.3B acquisition of zero-trust security firm Elisity to protect AI agent networks.

Nicholas Arcolano

Other

Chief Scientist at Jellyfish

Chief scientist at Jellyfish who discussed AI tool adoption and spending trends among software developers.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Nicholas Charriere

Founder

Tech Founder at Mocha

Noted the fine line between using AI to be productive and being a meat proxy.

Nicholas Gordon

Journalist

Editor, Asia at Fortune

Reported SK Hynix's record $26.5 billion US listing, largest ever by a foreign company.

Co-author of IRIS study, helped develop model that infers signaling pathways to guide stem cell differentiation in regenerative medicine.

Co-author on Microsoft's O-Voxel and sparse compression VAE research for 3D generation.

Author of "LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks" on arXiv

Nicholas Lin

Engineer

Anthropic

Author of "Advancing Claude for Financial Services" in Anthropic

Nicholas Lourie

Researcher

Researcher

Lourie authored a paper showing that small models can predict scaling laws if hyperparameters are tuned correctly.

Nicholas Marwell

Researcher

RL Lead at Anthropic

Discussed on American Optimist podcast how confusing the future will be for most people if AI development continues as planned.

Analyzed SpaceX's Starlink revenue and subscriber growth as the company's profitable business line funding AI expansion.

Co-authored G-AUDIT research on bias detection in medical AI training data.

Nicholas Thorne

Founder

Cofounder at Audos

Cofounder of Audos, previously appeared on the podcast in March 2024.

Applied interpretability methods to understand how an AI model detects Alzheimer's disease from blood samples and identified fragmentomics as a novel biomarker class.

Co-authored research paper on AI-assisted ultrasound for maternal care assessment.

Journalist who attended White House AI event and reported on atmosphere and announcements.

Nick Beckstead

Executive

CEO at Secure AI Project

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Byline author on Cursor's cloud agent development environment systems.

Nick Davidov

Investor

Co-founder at Davidovs VC

VC expert quoted discussing how AI costs will decrease over time and IT budgets will shift toward AI investment.

Nick Dobos

Creator

Prompt Engineer

Argues that timing, taste, and opinionated products remain the real competitive moat despite AI coding tools lowering execution barriers.

Videographer for the production.

Contrasted small, open, locally deployable models with large, expensive, proprietary systems like Mythos/Fable as a model strategy.

Author of article about PagedAttention and virtual memory for KV cache.

Stanford researcher studying therapeutic potential of LLMs and their inadequate responses to mental health conditions.

COO of Motif Neurotech who led the IDE submission to FDA for clinical trials.

Manager at Anthropic under whom Andrej Karpathy joins the pre-training team.

Nick Mcginnis

Engineer

product and UX design lead at Google

Collaborated on the brand identity definition for NotebookLM.

Works on Codex and insisted on social media that the goblin system prompt issue was not a marketing gimmick.

Nick Patience

Researcher

AI Lead at The Futurum Group

Noted Meta's re-embrace of open weights was response to Chinese labs taking large share of open-weight market over two years.

Nick Perry

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Candid Health

Led Candid Health in automating revenue cycle management using AI agents, achieving 190% YoY ARR growth.

Nick Pizzo, co-author of the GOFLOW study, discussed how AI can help understand ocean dynamics and vertical mixing through real-world satellite observations.

Nick Robins-Early

Journalist

The Guardian

Author of "Elon's Feud with Sam Altman Just Went Nuclear"

Informed OpenAI President Greg Brockman about a hack found for OpenAI crawlers to bypass NYT paywall.

Nick Tikhonov

Creator

ntik.me

Author of "How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent" in ntik.me

Nick Tornow

Executive

Senior Vice President at Roblox

Co-authored announcement of Build, Roblox's AI-powered game creation tool that converts text prompts into playable 3D games.

Involved in Getty Images' multi-year licensing deal with Perplexity to display images across AI-powered search tools.

Community practitioner from One North who created /cc-figma-component skill for generating Figma components from JSON.

47-year-old patient with hypotony who participated in the study and described restoration of vision enabling near-normal activities.

Co-author from Theorem on Claude formal verification research.

Nico Laqua

Founder

Co-Founder And CEO at Corgi

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Corgi, which raised $160M Series B for its AI-native full-stack insurance carrier platform.

Co-author of the 200+ WebGPU Kernels library for browser-based AI inference.

Angel investor participating in General Intuition's $320M Series A funding round.

Announced EIB backing of NEURA Robotics, supporting Physical AI and cognitive robotics development in Europe.

Missing hiker whose body was found using AI-powered drone technology after 10 months in the Italian Alps

Author of "How to Create an Effective Prompt for Nano Banana Pro" in Radical Curiosity

Nicolai Ouporov

Executive

Co-founder and CEO at Fleet AI

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Founded Telepatia, an AI Doctor platform designed to help physicians identify and prevent medical errors.

Nicolas Bareil was a co-author of the Unit 42 investigation documenting how frontier AI models were used to execute a rapid, coordinated ransomware attack.

Co-author of the paper on Discriminator-Guided RL for flow matching models, affiliated with FAIR.

Finance leader and influencer quoted on AI adoption in financial planning, comparing it to Excel's impact 40 years ago.

Actor in Lord of War (2005) whose character serves as metaphor for Jensen Huang's role in GPU distribution

Spanish MEP discussing Europe's strategic vulnerability in AI and concerns about US and Chinese dominance.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Tested impact of tool argument naming on agent performance with Claude models.

Nicole Brichtova

Creator

Author of "Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade"

Byline author of article on how AI tools have made game cloning a weekend project for people with no programming skill.

Co-author of the article about robots playing badminton

Waymo executive stating goal to bring autonomous rides to more people through partnership with Lyft.

Co-conducted international survey on AI trust and acceptance across 47 countries with 48,000 participants.

Henning worked with the MIT team to develop ultrasound-guided injection methods and monitoring techniques for the injectable liver cell grafts.

Left Amazon senior manager role to co-found Datalinx AI, an AI data refinery startup.

AI advisor demonstrating methods for building portable AI workflows across multiple platforms using skills and external storage.

Leading Wellcome Sanger Institute's participation in Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative for AI-accelerated biological discovery.

Co-authored announcement about Google's Project Genie update with Street View integration for interactive AI worlds.

Leading Accenture's new market unit focused on taking AI to the next level in 2026

Nicole Winfield

Journalist

Journalist at AP News

AP News journalist reporting on Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical launch with Christopher Olah from Anthropic.

Author of "Chinese Doctors Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant"

Nicolò Lucchesi

Engineer

vLLM

Co-author of technical post on push-based KV transfer improvements in vLLM for disaggregated inference.

Co-authored 2006 'Model Compression' paper on ensemble model compression.

Branded the Google antitrust ruling 'a complete failure' and criticized it for not adequately addressing monopoly power harms.

Plans to introduce humanoid robot to building site by year-end to address housing crisis and achieve 24/7 production.

NielsRogge

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Reproduced the weight space programming paper with ML Intern, an open-source AI-research harness, and released the model and a demo.

Stanford Medical School professor who pioneered end-of-life prediction research using deep learning on longitudinal patient datasets.

Stated that AI will help creativity by enabling people to overcome writer's block and get started on creative projects.

Byline author on AI's execution problem and difficulty translating intelligence into business outcomes.

Quoted discussing BHN's role in shaping AP2 for autonomous commerce with stored value

Nik Sharma

Founder

Co-founder at BioCorteX

BioCorteX co-founder noting lots of AI activity and hyperscalers moving into King's Cross.

Palo Alto Networks CEO warning that token efficiency and pricing must drop significantly to enable large-scale AI adoption.

Commented on AI reshaping how we learn and work with its rapid pace of disruption.

Author of "Anthropic's IPO"

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Technology analyst noting the broad challenges OpenAI faces in improving financial fundamentals ahead of IPO.

Nikhila Ravi

Researcher

AI Research Director at Meta

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

Working on AI imaging techniques to detect defects in semiconductor chips during manufacturing.

Nikhyl Singhal

Journalist

Newsletter Writer

Wrote about how hiring advice for AI roles has changed; conducted interviews with recent executives who switched AI roles.

Discussed automating traveler support and reducing wait times through Ace AI agent deployment.

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

Nikil Thalapaneni is a member of the Maya Research team that created Maya-2 multilingual voice model.

Nikita Dolgov

Engineer

JetBrains

Nikita Dolgov is listed as Pavlichenko in the byline; they are a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report.

Nikita Nekrasov, winner of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 2023, is part of the collaboration group for OpenAI's Yang-Mills existence proof.

Study co-author who commented on how well the Surgie robot integrated with surgical workflow.

Provided visual design and art direction for the scenario explorer.

Widely credited for coining the term 'meat proxy' to describe people who blindly copy-paste AI chatbot output without editing.

Disclosed that Spotify engineers run 5 to 10 Claude sessions simultaneously and 73% of pull requests are AI-assisted.

Created CorridorKey, an open-source neural network for perfect green screen keys.

Author of the article analyzing agent labs and their competitive advantages over model labs

Nikola Jurkovic

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at METR

Asked clarifying questions about Sol's role in the post-training process for Luna.

Co-authored study showing AI Overviews now trigger for 90% of commercial search queries.

AI product lead at Jellyfish who discussed Anthropic's competitive position and adoption of Claude Code.

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

Byline author of LA Times investigation into Hollywood's quiet AI adoption through job postings analysis.

Co-author of the paper on Scalable In-context Ranking with Generative Models

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

Nima Owji

Creator

independent app researcher and full-stack web developer

Author of "Grok is Working on Background Thinking" in X

Led a $25 million investment in Quilter, an AI company that develops software for printed circuit boards, and discussed the challenges of predicting OpenAI's competitive moves.

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Optical engineer whose winning entry in Nikon's Small World in Motion contest was disqualified for using generative AI in post-processing.

Nino Scherrer

Researcher

Researcher at FAR.AI

Co-authored research on societies of thought in reasoning models and mechanistic interpretability.

Co-author of paper on ethics of AI sycophancy and how chatbots prioritizing approval over factual accuracy harms users.

Niraj K Jha is a researcher at Princeton University who co-authored a paper analyzing energy consumption and sustainability of generative AI systems.

Co-author of Google Cloud blog announcing Agent Compute Engine at AGNTCon.

Nishtha Bhatia

Engineer

Product Lead at Google

Google product lead for AI & Glasses who demoed Android XR audio glasses ordering coffee via Gemini at Google I/O 2026.

Meta spokesperson who provided statement about shifting investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables.

Nitay Calderon

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google

Lead author on Empty Shelves or Lost Keys paper studying recall as bottleneck for factuality in LLMs.

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

Author of "The democratization of AI is accelerating through No-Code Agent platforms"

Nitin Agrawal discussed CoreWeave's pricing, margins, and financial strategy during earnings.

Nitin Jayakrishnan

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Freehand

CEO of Freehand AI agent platform for supply chain spend management, previously founded and sold Pando logistics platform.

Nitya Nadgir

Researcher

AI policy researcher at The Brookings Institution

Nitya Nadgir is a co-author of CORE-Bench research on computational reproducibility agents.

Author of "Learn Your Way: Google's AI-Powered Interactive Textbooks" in Google Blog

Amsel authored research on Dion3, an optimizer that reduces training step time by 6x over Muon.

Wrote article about OpenAI and Synopsys co-developing GPT-Synopsys model for semiconductor design.

Attached to star in the upcoming Rambo origin film set during the Vietnam War.

AI finance startup tech chief explaining competitive intelligence among major model developers.

Former MIT visiting student co-developing dual-arm adaptive therapy robot using diffusion models and force feedback.

Noah MacCallum

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Co-authored the Codex Prompting Guide for OpenAI's developer documentation.

PostgreSQL developer praising OSS Scanner for finding defects and providing nearly usable fixes.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Noah Shutty worked with Craig Gidney on the 'magic state cultivation' breakthrough for quantum computing.

Author of the article on AI-Driven FP&A Platforms

Co-author of Joints, Camera, Action! system for co-generating 3D motion and video from text.

Noam Schwartz

Executive

CEO at Alice

Explained the security challenges AI agents face when given tools, credentials, and autonomous action capabilities.

Co-authored survey on tech worker sentiment regarding AI adoption and workplace impacts.

Founded Rasa Legal to use AI to speed up criminal record expungement, reducing processing time from 10-12 hours to about five hours.

Community practitioner from Rad Collab who created /rad-spacing skill for applying hierarchical spacing with variables.

First human recipient of Neuralink's Telepathy brain implant in the PRIME clinical trial.

Noorie Dhingra

Founder

Co-founder at Shapes

Co-founded Shapes app that launched with $8 million seed funding to address isolated AI interactions.

MIT mathematician who wrote about cybernetics, machine learning, and the risks of automated systems that transcend human understanding.

Co-author of OpenLife paper studying autonomous LLM agents in the open internet.

Contributed significantly to the development of the Mavis Beacon program.

CEO of Martin Marietta who named the 1993 consolidation meeting 'the Last Supper'

Nouriel Roubini

Other

Economist and strategist

Top economist predicted 2008 financial crash; discusses AI's economic potential and need for universal basic income as AI displaces workers.

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

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