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The founders and chief executives behind the largest AI companies.
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116 people
Tech creators and communicators who explain AI to the public.
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Featured today
A rotating pick of profiles, refreshed daily.
- Builders & open source
Nicholas Carlini
Research Scientist · Anthropic
- Big SI
Sam Altman
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer · OpenAI
- Builders & open source
Jesse Dodge
Research scientist · Meta Superintelligence Labs
- Builders & open source
Emily M. Bender
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory · University of Washington
- Builders & open source
Karen Livescu
Professor · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
- Builders & open source
Ming-Yu Liu
Vice President of Cosmos Lab (Vice President of Research) · NVIDIA
- Builders & open source
Kenneth Li
Researcher · Thinking Machines Lab
- Builders & open source
Julien Simon
AI Operating Partner · Fortino Capital
- Builders & open source
Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder/CEO · World Labs
- Big SI
Jensen Huang
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer · NVIDIA
- Builders & open source
Sayak Paul
Senior Research Engineer, working on diffusion models (since March 2026) · Hugging Face
- Builders & open source
Azalia Mirhoseini
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Scaling Intelligence lab · Stanford University
Popular companies
- Google 121
- FAIR 106
- Skype 75
- DeepMind 64
- OpenAI 63
- NVIDIA 43
- Stanford University 40
- Amazon 39
- Anthropic 34
- Hugging Face 34
- IBM 29
- Apple 27
- UC Berkeley 27
- MIT 25
Topics
- Language models 285
- Teaching and writing 153
- Developer tools 140
- Agents 103
- ML frameworks and libraries 100
- Datasets and data 96
- Training systems 95
- Evaluation and benchmarks 93
- Inference and serving 91
- Chips and hardware 76
- Computer vision 75
- Image, video, and 3D generation 67
- Safety and alignment 64
- Reinforcement learning 58
- Multimodal models 53
- AI for science 51
- Speech and audio 46
- Robotics 43
- Machine-learning theory 36
- Interpretability 18
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