PEOPLE IN AI

Andrej Karpathy ↗

AI researcher and educator

Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator, a founding member of OpenAI, and a former director of AI at Tesla working on computer vision.

AI education / Neural networks / Large language models / Computer vision

Andrew Ng ↗

Founder of DeepLearning.AI and AI Fund managing general partner

Andrew Ng is an AI researcher, educator, and entrepreneur who founded DeepLearning.AI, co-founded Coursera, and teaches at Stanford University.

AI education / Machine learning / AI entrepreneurship / Applied AI

Boris Cherny ↗

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic

Boris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. His work focuses on AI coding tools, developer workflows, and software engineering.

AI coding / Claude Code / Software engineering / Developer tools

Dario Amodei ↗

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. His work covers large language models, AI safety, and understanding how AI systems behave.

Anthropic / Large language models / AI safety

Demis Hassabis ↗

Chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet

Demis Hassabis is Google DeepMind's co-founder and chair, Alphabet's chief scientist, and a Nobel laureate for AI-based protein structure prediction.

Google DeepMind / AlphaFold / AI for science

Elon Musk ↗

Tesla CEO and technology entrepreneur

Elon Musk is Tesla's CEO and a technology entrepreneur whose work spans electric vehicles, space technology, and the AI business acquired by SpaceX.

Grok / AI infrastructure / Technology entrepreneurship

Ethan Mollick ↗

Associate professor of management at Wharton

Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor who studies AI's effects on work and education, co-directs its Generative AI Labs, and wrote Co-Intelligence.

AI and work / AI education / Human-AI collaboration / Entrepreneurship

Geoffrey Hinton ↗

University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto

Geoffrey Hinton is a University of Toronto professor emeritus whose research on neural networks helped establish modern deep learning methods.

Deep learning / Neural networks / AI safety / Machine learning

Harrison Chase ↗

Co-founder and CEO of LangChain

Harrison Chase is the co-founder and CEO of LangChain. His work focuses on frameworks and tools for building, testing, and deploying AI agents.

LangChain / AI agents / Context engineering

Ilya Sutskever ↗

CEO of Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever is CEO of Safe Superintelligence and a former OpenAI chief scientist, with research contributions to deep learning and language models.

Deep learning / AI safety / Superintelligence / Large language models

Jensen Huang ↗

Co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA

Jensen Huang is the co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, whose work spans graphics processors, accelerated computing, and generative AI.

NVIDIA / AI infrastructure / Accelerated computing

Mark Zuckerberg ↗

Founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta. He directs the company's product strategy and its work on personal AI systems.

Meta / Personal AI / AI products

Matt Pocock ↗

AI engineering and TypeScript educator

Matt Pocock is an educator and engineer behind AI Hero and Total TypeScript. He teaches web developers AI engineering and practical TypeScript.

AI education / AI engineering / TypeScript

Mira Murati ↗

Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab

Mira Murati is co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab and a former OpenAI CTO. Her work spans AI research, products, and customizable systems.

AI research / AI products / Multimodal AI / Human-AI collaboration

Peter Steinberger ↗

OpenClaw creator working on agents at OpenAI

Peter Steinberger created OpenClaw and works on AI agents at OpenAI. He previously founded PSPDFKit and writes about AI-assisted software development.

AI agents / OpenClaw / AI coding / Developer tools

Sam Altman ↗

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. He previously served as president of startup accelerator Y Combinator.

OpenAI / Generative AI / AI governance

Satya Nadella ↗

Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

Satya Nadella is Microsoft's chairman and CEO. His leadership spans cloud computing, enterprise software, and the company's Copilot AI strategy.

Microsoft / Cloud computing / Copilot

Simon Willison ↗

Independent open source developer and creator of Datasette

Simon Willison is an independent developer, Datasette creator, and Django co-creator who builds open source tools and writes about language models.

Open source AI / Large language models / Developer tools / Data journalism

Sundar Pichai ↗

CEO of Google and Alphabet

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He leads Google's product and business strategy, including its work on AI-powered services.

Google / Alphabet / AI products

Thariq Shihipar ↗

Engineer working on Claude Code at Anthropic

Thariq Shihipar is an engineer working on Claude Code at Anthropic. His projects span AI agents, developer tools, gaming, and academic publishing.

Claude Code / AI agents / Developer tools

Yann LeCun ↗

Executive chairman of AMI Labs and professor at NYU

Yann LeCun is executive chairman of AMI Labs and a professor at NYU whose research spans neural networks, computer vision, and world models.

Deep learning / Computer vision / World models / Robotics

Yash Thakker ↗

Founder of explainx.ai and AI educator

Yash Thakker is the founder of explainx.ai. His work focuses on AI education, product development, and practical uses of generative AI.

AI education / AI agents / AI product development

Yoshua Bengio ↗

Co-president and scientific director of LawZero

Yoshua Bengio is co-president and scientific director of LawZero, a deep learning researcher and Université de Montréal professor studying AI safety.

Deep learning / AI safety / AI research / AI governance