People in AI

Acknowledged dangerous Codex/GPT-5.6 failure mode where models unexpectedly deleted files under certain conditions.

Noted that job losses and job creation are not matching, with displaced workers from one sector unlikely to fill positions in different industries.

Founded HUMXN lab offering free plumbing and HVAC repairs to gather real-world data for training AI robots.

Co-author of article announcing Gemini 3.1 Flash Live real-time voice and vision agent capabilities.

Tiago Costa

Researcher

Microbiologist at Imperial College London

Microbiologist who worked with Penadés validating Co-Scientist's ability to replicate years of exploratory research in two days.

Tiago Forte

Creator

Bestselling author who praised Sparkle as the end of organizing.

Author of "DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search" on arXiv

Authored OpenAI Cookbook article on context personalization and stateful memory in AI agents.

Co-author of MinAtar paper, an Atari-inspired testbed for reinforcement learning experiments.

Author of "Mixture of States: Routing Token-Level Dynamics for Multimodal Generation" on arXiv

Chief Scientist at Recursive Intelligence who explained their mission of using AI to optimize AI development steps and build systems that output new knowledge and discoveries.

Tianci Xue

Researcher

Meta

Author of "Meta's Agent Learning" on arXiv

Author of Qwen-Image-Flash paper on few-step distillation for efficient visual generation.

Tianheng Cheng

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of Mixture-of-Depths Attention paper on transformer architecture improvements.

Tianrong Chen

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Tianrong Chen co-authored research on FAE (Feature Auto-Encoder) for efficient image generation using pretrained visual encoders.

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

Co-author of the Tunix library introduction article on Google Developers Blog

Co-author of paper 'RAG MCP' on applying RAG to tool descriptions for LLMs

Co-author of a study introducing Stable Counting Capacity, a mechanical assay to test language model procedural reliability by having models count repeated symbols until failure.

Tianxin Wei

Researcher

Author of "Exhaustive Research Into Agentic Reasoning For LLMs" on arXiv

AI researcher at Thinking Machines Lab who is now at Meta; has coauthored widely cited academic papers.

Co-author on the GazeAnywhere paper on gaze target estimation.

Co-authored technical paper on serving DeepSeek-V4-Pro models on H20 GPUs.

Byline author of paper on text-to-image diffusion model research and i1 development.

Author of "Jonny Kim Returned To Earth With Two Roscosmos Crewmates After 245 Days On The ISS"

Microsoft shareholder skeptical about Copilot product maturity and pricing clarity.

Collaborated on colorectal cancer AI research, highlighting Finland's biobanks and healthcare system enabling high-level research.

EVP and Chief Experience/Technology Officer at CVS Health discussing the company's enterprise-scale AI deployments and responsible AI principles across health initiatives.

Co-developed California AI-Unemployment Tracker methodology to track potential AI-related job displacement.

Tilo Mitra

Journalist

Writer at tilomitra.com

Analyzed Anthropic's S-1 filing, discussing the company's rapid revenue growth, first profitable quarter, and massive compute contract commitments.

Co-authored research on LLMs' impact on N-day exploits and cybersecurity capabilities.

Author of article about Claude Code cache changes and quota complaints.

World Wide Web inventor who invested in AMI Labs as part of seed funding round.

Spent ten years at SpaceX leading upper-stage production; described Musk's Algorithm as 'drilled into our minds.'

Tim Bradshaw

Journalist

Journalist at Financial Times

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

Announced new native image editing and generation capabilities for Gemini with improved consistency and instruction following.

DoorDash CMO commenting on customer ordering behavior and AI agent usage.

Mistral AI Co-Founder and CTO who led discussions with Koyeb leadership about shared infrastructure vision

Discussed how prompt engineering will evolve but jobs will persist as LLMOps and other AI operations roles.

Tim Culpan

Creator

Culpium

Author of "Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage" in Culpium

Tim Davis

Engineer

SVP/GM @ Qualcomm, Co-Founder @ Modular at Modular

Hosting a live Q&A on the new MAX license on Nov 10th at 10 AM PT.

Tim Donahue

Researcher

Surgical Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Participated in Watson training sessions for bladder cancer treatment recommendations despite limited evidence for certain interventions.

Tim Fist

Other

Analyst

Analyst discussing what the frontier lab letter does not specify regarding intervention mechanisms.

Tim G. J. Rudner

Researcher

Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

Co-author of temporal straightening research for latent planning.

Tim Harford

Creator

Financial Times columnist and BBC broadcaster

Author of "Electricity and Factory Efficiency"

Commentary on Duolingo's AI-first strategy and how it lost the human touch through workforce reductions and declining content quality due to over-reliance on AI.

NSA deputy director who announced the agency wants access to all AI models and is engaging with major AI developers.

Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech discussing the new hub's partnership with Amazon that connects research, education, and industry to strengthen Georgia's innovation economy.

Podcast co-host with Ty Magnin interviewing Kirti Sharma about enterprise content marketing and AI.

Tim O'Brien

Journalist

Tech Policy Consultant and Writer at Independent

Microsoft leader for 18 years who now writes on tech policy; argued AI labs have 'go fever' culture and won't voluntarily slow down.

Byline author of article analyzing Google's strategic shift toward cloud infrastructure and AI diffusion over frontier model development.

Co-author of research on fork-and-flush method for autoresearch agents.

Author of "GitHub Integrates Copilot Coding Agent with GitHub Mobile and VS Code"

Discussed Firmus's DSX-aligned AI factory campus in Indonesia scaling to 360 megawatts and 170,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Tim Scott

Politician

U.S. Senator

South Carolina Senator who received a letter from Anthropic accusing Alibaba of distillation attacks.

Tim Stuart is the CEO of AMP, the Colorado-based company that developed the AI-powered sorting systems for municipal solid waste.

Researcher at ElevenLabs who contributed to the development of Cue, the forced alignment model.

Trump cabinet member speaking at announcement of Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant transformation into largest AI data center.

Co-founder of Resect AI responsible for AI research and development strategy.

Co-author of research mapping how VC-backed founders commit fraud and the role investor expectations play.

Co-author of the article on systems thinking and AI in complex contexts

Developed XtalPaint AI tool for reconstructing missing atomic positions in crystal structures with 97% success rate.

Discussed AI in entertainment industry alongside McConaughey at University of Texas town hall

Timothée Chauvin

Researcher

Epoch AI

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

Analyzed AMD and OpenAI's partnership deal involving stock warrants, noting the validation value of OpenAI using AMD's AI GPUs for workloads.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Research linking sectoral productivity disparities and shifts in consumption to foreign borrowing and trade deficits

Proctor discussed QUOPS, a new benchmark for measuring progress toward utility-scale quantum computing applications.

Discusses how human minds are more powerful than AI in many ways and advocates for teaching critical thinking about AI use.

Referenced in "We're Rolling Out GPT-5.1 and New Customization Features. Ask Us Anything" in Reddit

Tina Nguyen

Journalist

Journalist at The Verge

Byline author reporting on David Sacks leaving White House AI and crypto czar role to join Trump's tech advisory council.

Microsoft CVP of Foundry discussing the Microsoft Copilot harness for multi-model agentic work.

Provided assistance on AI security.

Led study demonstrating AI voice agents improved accuracy of blood pressure monitoring for older adults with hypertension.

Author of "Exhaustive Research Into Agentic Reasoning For LLMs" on arXiv

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

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

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

Lead author of Software Engineering at Google discussing how wisdom and charisma become more important when intelligence is commonplace.

Described Samsung's AI leadership and companion experience vision at CES 2026, emphasizing embedding AI across product categories.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Tobias Burns

Journalist

Journalist at The Hill

Reported that Anthropic passed OpenAI on quarterly revenue while OpenAI announced planned 2027 IPO.

Author of "8-bit Rotational Quantization for Vector Search" in Weaviate

DrivingBench co-founder who rented the Toyota Corolla and helped execute LLM driving experiment.

Tobias Giesen provided a quote about Viktor, an AI coworker tool.

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

Tobias Mann

Journalist

Deputy EIC at The Register

Systems editor discussing Oracle's extensive SEC filing outlining risks from Stargate and AI infrastructure commitments.

Tobias Nkosi wrote the article announcing Xiaomi's open-source release of Xiaomi-Robotics-1 embodied AI foundation model.

Todd Feathers

Journalist

Wired

Author of "AI Teacher Inside Alpha School" in Wired

Discussed DLSS 5 integration with Bethesda, noting how it represents the next major step in gaming graphics innovation.

Todd Ouska

Engineer

wolfSSL

wolfSSL developer reporting high signal from OSS Scanner reports with 72 of 74 valid and five becoming CVEs.

Todd Sonflieth

Creator

Videographer/Editor and Animator

Videographer/Editor and animator for the production.

Todd Spangler

Creator

Variety

Author of "ElevenLabs Brings Celebrity Voices to AI, Launches Scribe v2"

Florida-based illustrator noted that AI-generated art has telltale inconsistencies and clients seek human artists for specific vibes.

Released six state-of-the-art Ettin CrossEncoder reranker models ranging from 17M to 1B parameters with training methodology.

Tom Acres

Creator

Journalist at Sky News

Author of "The Internet's New Guessing Game"

Host of video discussion with Emad Mostaque about AI's economic impact

Author of "From 8 years down to 6 months: How we built AI to split the monday.com monolith" in monday.com Engineering

Author of "LLMs Are Getting Better at Character-Level Text Manipulation"

CEO of AI-powered texting platform helping political campaigns; reported helping 10 campaigns in 2025, aiming for 100+.

Tom Chivers

Journalist

Writer at Semafor

Wrote about OpenAI and Anthropic endorsing a petition from 1,224 AI workers calling for government tools to pace frontier development.

Senior reporter discussing BIS report on AI bubble risks and OpenAI's inability to pay datacenter bills.

Author of "We Can Customise… Babies?"

Orchestrated the only credible formalized solution to a First Proof problem through manual effort.

Self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist claiming to have deciphered Linear A, an ancient Bronze Age writing system.

Tom Dotan

Journalist

Journalist

Journalist reporting on NVIDIA's Poolside AI licensing deal

Said AI legislation should be binding but narrowly focused on national security and cybersecurity risks.

Author of "UK Metal-Pressing Firm Urges Government to Back UK Manufacturing in Budget"

Previously worked at Segment and Twilio; co-founder and VP of engineering and hardware at Bedrock Robotics.

Tom Everitt

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Tom Goldstein

Researcher

Researcher

Academic author on paper about offline recurrence for improved online inference in language models.

Commented that ChatGPT built the GenAI chatbot category but users are now diversifying their toolkit as viable alternatives have scaled.

Senior large language model researcher who moved from Apple to Meta in June

Mathematician who proved Kepler conjecture and sought formal verification of his proof.

Tom Hegel

Researcher

Senior Threat Researcher at SentinelOne

Reviewed OpenAI agent activity and confirmed account hijacking and probing matched known agent behavior

Actor ruled out for next James Bond role due to Spider-Man contract restrictions.

Observed that software methodology is built on self-correction.

Florida senator and AI Bill of Rights sponsor warning against AI companion chatbot relationships with minors.

President of Fontana praising the concert film as a landmark moment for AURORA

Author of "Every's Head of Consulting Just Automated Her Job" in Every - AI & I

Co-author of the article

Co-author on attribution graphs and interpretability landscape analysis

Tom Mueller

Engineer

Founder, CEO, and CTO at Impulse Space

SpaceX employee number one who became VP of Propulsion, one of five people offered spots on the founding team.

Tom Nunan

Other

Former Studio and Network Executive

Said Google is enlisting smart Hollywood people to understand inevitable AI-entertainment reliance without terrifying people.

Author of "Lessons from building Claude Code" in Anthropic

Discussed traditional, on-site customer success motion at Harvey serving 60+ countries and 100,000+ attorneys; emphasized change management in AI adoption.

Producer of AURORA's 'What Happened To The Heart?' album and collaborator in new band TOMORA

Co-author of the 'Measuring Intelligence through Games' paper on benchmarking AGI capabilities.

Oversaw use of ChatGPT and Google NotebookLM for translating and analyzing shooter's manifesto; coordinated human review by Russian language academics.

Tom Shaw

Creator

Developer and Creator at Meta

Featured exploring Meta's Infrastructure Lab in Menlo Park for next-generation AI hardware development.

Tech policy think tank head who expressed concerns about using civilian Pokémon Go data for military ends.

Co-authored comprehensive study of eleven coding agent systems and their architectures.

Hugging Face researcher involved in benchmark selection for OpenLLM Leaderboard.

Tom Yeh created DL Math fill-in-the-blank drills as an educational tool with high community engagement.

Tom Zahavy

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Published position paper 'LLMs can't jump' arguing language models lack creative abduction needed for scientific breakthroughs.

Submission contact for Zyphra research on plasticity loss in large language models.

Tomas Geffner

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

CEO of Not Diamond discussing automated model routing to help enterprises optimize which AI models to use for different tasks.

Testimonial on Claude Platform on AWS providing direct access to native Claude API features with AWS IAM integration and consistent performance.

Tomas Pueyo

Creator

Writer at Substack

Posted viral image on X outlining vision of AI frontier growth outpacing jaggedness despite uneven capabilities.

Referenced in "GitHub's Tutorial On Managing Large Codebases Using Markdown"

Commented on the need for more evidence to understand how to design AI grief technology ethically.

Neuroscientist commenting on AI agents discovering connections between gene disruptions and neurological mechanisms.

Open-source maintainer who praised FrontierCode benchmark for grading like a tech lead rather than a CI system.

Tomicah Tillemann

Other

Director, Pro-Human AI coalition at Pro-Human AI coalition

Questioned at The Curve whether democracy technology is ready for coming AI governance challenges.

Author of article examining how AI improved student grades at Bocconi University.

Managed to extract details of GPT-5's hidden system prompt through reverse engineering

Co-founder of Resect AI leading product development and go-to-market strategy.

CEO of GMO AIR who explained the humanoid ambulance service was created to prevent service disruptions from robot repairs.

Co-author of CodeMidas paper on scaling agentic coding RL environments.

Contributor to Claw-Eval benchmark.

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Tong Zheng authored the Dream-RSI research paper on recursive self-improvement through evolving worlds for AI agents.

Co-authored research on the Platonic Representation Hypothesis demonstrating convergence across vision and language models.

Announced Attie's expansion into social vibe coding, allowing users to build interactive experiences on AT Protocol without developer skills.

Texas-based interventional radiologist arguing AI cannot replicate humanity involved in radiology work.

SVP and Chief Digital/Technology Officer at CVS Health who commented on the company's AI-Driven Prescription Interpretation technology winning a Newsweek AI Impact Award.

Manages AI-powered quality control systems at the LaFayette plant and discusses how AI helps achieve manufacturing perfection targets.

Co-authored a research paper on building better reward models for robots using vision-language models.

Tony Lian introduced ThreadWeaver for adaptive parallel reasoning with significant latency speedups in math benchmarks.

Byline author of article on how Chinese researchers plan to build self-improving AI, discussing recursive self-improvement and Chinese labs' progress.

Noted frenetic market moves and that earnings season will clarify AI trade momentum over next quarters.

Building MathDB Frontier, a research-level problem benchmark to evaluate whether language models can engage with mathematical research at the frontier.

Toon Overbeeke, CEO of Vitestro, announced FDA authorization for Aletta, the world's first autonomous robotic phlebotomy device.

Tor Bair

Creator

CEO and head of growth at Secret Foundation

Quoted regarding Cunningham's Law perspective on the scenario essay

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

Toro y Moi

Creator

Recording Artist at Independent

Recording artist who performed AI-powered live music set at Google I/O and provided opening remarks about human connection.

Torsten Hoefler

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science

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

Meta Muse spokesperson confirming the company paused the sharing functionality while reviewing security issues.

Researcher creating digital games for mental health and exploring interactions between technology and emotional wellbeing.

Chief Operating Officer of Jetty, the agentic AI infrastructure company that raised $2M in pre-seed funding.

Co-founder of Armadin, serves as CTO.

Co-founder of Fractional AI; later founded healthcare data logistics company Datavant.

Trenton Bricken

Researcher

Alignment Scientist at Anthropic

Co-authored research on model diffing method for AI safety analysis and comparing model behavioral differences.

Trenton Chang

Researcher

Researcher at Quadrillion Labs

Contributor to analysis of how research judgment becomes scarce resource when implementation is automated by AI.

Trevin Chow

Engineer

Maintainer, Compound Engineering at Every

Discusses compound engineering approaches and human-AI collaboration workflows.

Discussed how foundation model companies are incentivized to disclose security findings to get ahead of lawmakers and regulators.

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

Warned that AI has the potential to accelerate radicalization and mobilization to violence, noting ISIS-K's leadership in urging followers to use AI to avoid detection.

Expert discussing challenges universities face adjudicating large-scale AI cheating cases and need for institutional support.

Author of "Math Research Agent from DeepMind" on arXiv

Trish La Chica

Politician

State Representative for District 37

Hawaii Democrat state representative approached by Google lobbyists to sponsor chatbot safety bill; did not sponsor after identifying targeted exemptions.

Trishla Ostwal

Journalist

Journalist who wrote article about OpenAI hiring Dave Dugan from Meta for ads business.

Reported on Anthropic's launch of Claude for Word beta targeting legal and finance professionals.

Co-authored anatomy and architecture study of eleven coding agent systems.

Previously covered in Andreessen Horowitz discussions about the modern data stack transformation.

Tristan Hume

Engineer

Lead at Anthropic

Designed the take-home test for hiring performance engineers and wrote about how Claude models have progressively outperformed human candidates on the test.

Trooper Sanders

Executive

President, State AI Safety Roundtable at State AI Safety Roundtable

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Executive VP of football operations discussing NFL's integration of Sony's Hawk-Eye technology for measuring first downs.

Byline author reporting on Sam Altman's warnings about AI concentration and power.

Leads Lloyds' AI initiatives including agentic AI deployment and stated that AI will reshape organisational structures.

Co-author of the FGFP neural network compression paper

Co-author of UNU-INWEH report; Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations; commented on AI compute concentration and digital divide.

Tsu-Jui is a co-author on Meta FAIR's work on ThreadWeaver for efficient parallel reasoning in LLMs.

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

Co-author of the FGFP neural network compression paper

Expressed skepticism about Meta AI APIs for real-time performance analysis

Tudor Achim

Engineer

Co-Founder & CEO at Harmonic

Quoted in WebProNews coverage on hallucinations as intrinsic to LLMs and necessary for surpassing human intelligence.

Tugce Erten

Other

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Co-author of a16z survey and analysis of enterprise AI adoption and model selection strategies.

Co-author of the paper on conformal prediction for temporal graphs