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161 people at 98 labs, each role with its source. Company roles come from Leaders.

161 people

Person
Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu LeeFounder01.AI
Bernt Øyvind BørnichCEO and founder1X Technologies
Amba KakCo-Executive DirectorAI Now Institute
Sarah Myers WestCo-Executive DirectorAI Now Institute
Ori GoshenCEO and co-founderAI21 Labs
Peter ClarkInterim CEOAi2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Ilhan ScheerCo-Chief Executive OfficerAleph Alpha
Reto SpörriCo-Chief Executive OfficerAleph Alpha
Samuel WeinbachCo-Chief Research Officer, Co-FounderAleph Alpha
Yasser JadidiCo-Chief Research OfficerAleph Alpha
Paul ChristianoExecutive DirectorAlignment Research Center (ARC)
Peter DeSantisLeads the combined AI, silicon and quantum computing organizationAmazon AGI and Amazon Science
Jan-Willem van de MeentDirectorAmsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab)
Jeremy HowardFounding CEOAnswer.AI
Eric RiesFounding directorAnswer.AI
Dario Amodei
Dario AmodeiChief Executive Officer and co-founderAnthropic
Rahul PatilChief Technology OfficerAnthropic
Jared Kaplan
Jared KaplanChief Science Officer and co-founderAnthropic
Marius HobbhahnCEO / Co-FounderApollo Research
Alexander MeinkeHead of ResearchApollo Research
Robin Li
Robin LiChief Executive OfficerBaidu (ERNIE)
Ion StoicaCore facultyBerkeley Sky Computing Lab
Matei Zaharia
Matei ZahariaCore facultyBerkeley Sky Computing Lab
Robin RombachCo-founderBlack Forest Labs
Andreas BlattmannCo-founderBlack Forest Labs
Patrick EsserCo-founderBlack Forest Labs
Andy PavloPrimary facultyCMU Database Group
Zico Kolter
Zico KolterDepartment HeadCMU Machine Learning Department
Peter BonczGroup leaderCWI Database Architectures
Karan GoelCEO and FounderCartesia
Albert GuChief Scientist and Co-founderCartesia
Arjun DesaiCo-founderCartesia
Brandon YangCo-founderCartesia
Dan HendrycksExecutive & Research DirectorCenter for AI Safety (CAIS)
Oliver ZhangManaging DirectorCenter for AI Safety (CAIS)
Ben GarfinkelExecutive DirectorCentre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
Markus AnderljungDirector of Policy and ResearchCentre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
Andrew FeldmanChief Executive Officer and Co-FounderCerebras Systems
Sean LieCTO and Co-FounderCerebras Systems
Curtis NorthcuttCEOCleanlab
Jonas MuellerChief ScientistCleanlab
Aidan Gomez
Aidan GomezChief Executive Officer and co-founderCohere and Cohere Labs
Garud N. IyengarAvanessians DirectorColumbia Data Science Institute
Rich SkrentaExecutive DirectorCommon Crawl Foundation
Gil ElbazChairman and FounderCommon Crawl Foundation
Douwe KielaCo-founder and CEOContextual AI
Ali Ghodsi
Ali GhodsiChief Executive Officer and co-founderDatabricks Mosaic Research
Matei Zaharia
Matei ZahariaChief Technology Officer and co-founderDatabricks Mosaic Research
Ari MorcosCo-Founder, CEODatologyAI
Bogdan GazaCo-Founder, CTODatologyAI
Jaroslaw KutylowskiCEODeepL
Liang WenfengFounderDeepSeek
Hannes MuhleisenCo-founder and CEODuckLabs (DuckDB Labs)
Alexander IlicCo-Founder and Executive DirectorETH AI Center
Andreas KrauseChair of the steering committeeETH AI Center
Stella BidermanExecutive DirectorEleutherAI
Jaime SevillaCo-founder and CEOEpoch AI
Ashish VaswaniCEOEssential AI
Adam GleaveCo-founder & CEOFAR.AI
Karl BerzinsCo-Founder and PresidentFAR.AI
Brett AdcockFounder and CEOFigure AI
Demis Hassabis
Demis HassabisChief Executive Officer, Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind
Yossi MatiasVice President, Google, and Head of Google ResearchGoogle Research
Tudor AchimCo-Founder and CEOHarmonic
Vlad TenevCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanHarmonic
Chris RéLead (Professor)Hazy Research
Clément Delangue
Clément DelangueChief Executive Officer and co-founderHugging Face
Julien ChaumondChief Technology Officer and co-founderHugging Face
Thomas Wolf
Thomas WolfChief Science Officer and co-founderHugging Face
Jay Gambetta
Jay GambettaDirector of Research and IBM FellowIBM Research
Demis Hassabis
Demis HassabisFounder and CEOIsomorphic Labs
Akiko MurakamiExecutive DirectorJapan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI)
Igor CarronCo-founderLightOn
Laurent DaudetCo-founder, Scientific AdvisorLightOn
Zeev FarbmanCo-founder and CEOLightricks
Yaron IngerCo-Founder and CTOLightricks
Nir PochterCo-Founder and CMOLightricks
Ramin HasaniCEO and co-founderLiquid AI
Beth BarnesFounder and CEOMETR
Daniela Rus
Daniela RusDirectorMIT CSAIL
Malo BourgonChief Executive OfficerMachine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Eric SteinbergerCEO and Co-founderMagic
Alexandr Wang
Alexandr WangChief AI Officer, leads Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs
Shengjia ZhaoChief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs
Nat Friedman
Nat FriedmanHead of AI products and applied research, Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs
Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa SuleymanExecutive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft AIMicrosoft AI
Peter LeePresident, Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft Research
Hugo LarochelleScientific DirectorMila
Yan JunjieFounderMiniMax
Arthur Mensch
Arthur MenschChief Executive Officer and co-founderMistral AI
Yang ZhilinChief Executive OfficerMoonshot AI
Bill Dally
Bill DallyChief Scientist and Senior Vice President of ResearchNVIDIA Research
Sam Altman
Sam AltmanChief Executive OfficerOpenAI
Vijaye RajiCTO of ApplicationsOpenAI
Jakub Pachocki
Jakub PachockiChief ScientistOpenAI
Sachin KattiLeads compute infrastructure for AGIOpenAI
Toru NishikawaCo-Founder, ChairmanPreferred Networks
Daisuke OkanoharaCo-Founder, Chief Executive OfficerPreferred Networks
Danqi ChenAssociate DirectorPrinceton Language and Intelligence (PLI)
Karthik NarasimhanAssociate DirectorPrinceton Language and Intelligence (PLI)
Ali MadaniCo-founder and CEOProfluent
Najat KhanCEO and PresidentRecursion
Chris GibsonCo-founder, Chairman of the BoardRecursion
Buck ShlegerisChief Executive OfficerRedwood Research
Ryan GreenblattChief ScientistRedwood Research
Dani YogatamaCo-founderReka
Yoshihisa IjiriPresident and CEOSB Intuitions
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya SutskeverChief Executive Officer and co-founderSafe Superintelligence (SSI)
David HaCo-founderSakana AI
Llion Jones
Llion JonesCo-founderSakana AI
Prem AkkarajuCEOStability AI
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei LiCo-DirectorStanford HAI and CRFM
James LandayCo-DirectorStanford HAI and CRFM
Victor RiparbelliCEO and Co-founderSynthesia
Steffen TjerrildCOO and Co-FounderSynthesia
Matthias NiessnerCo-FounderSynthesia
Lourdes AgapitoCo-FounderSynthesia
Thomas Neumann
Thomas NeumannProfessorTUM Database Systems
Mira Murati
Mira MuratiChief Executive Officer and founderThinking Machines Lab
Vipul Ved PrakashFounder and CEOTogether AI
Ce ZhangFounder and CTOTogether AI
Tri DaoFounder and Chief ScientistTogether AI
Chris RéFounderTogether AI
Percy LiangFounderTogether AI
Gill PrattChief Executive OfficerToyota Research Institute
Jacob SteinhardtCo-Founder, CEOTransluce
Sarah SchwettmannCo-Founder, Chief ScientistTransluce
Kai-Wei ChangProfessor; Co-director, UCLA DataX AI Technology CenterUCLA NLP
Henry de ZoeteDirectorUK AI Security Institute
Ian HogarthChairUK AI Security Institute
Sunghun KimCEOUpstage
Glenda CrispPresident and CEOVector Institute
Tengyu MaCEOVoyage AI
Raquel UrtasunFounder and CEOWaabi
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei LiCo-founderWorld Labs
May HabibCEO and Co-founderWriter
Waseem AlShikhCTO and Co-founderWriter

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