Key Players
The people shaping AI, robotics, and quantum, and what they built.
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the Claude family of models.…
Andrej Karpathy
Who is Andrej Karpathy? Andrej Karpathy is a researcher, engineer, and educator widely regarded as one of the clearest explainers of modern…
Boris Cherny
Boris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, and one of the people most responsible for…
Peter Steinberger
Peter Steinberger is an Austrian software developer who became one of the most visible builders of the AI coding era. In 2011…
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the founder and chief executive of multiple technology companies and one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence.…
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models, and one of the…
Liang Wenfeng
Liang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the founder of DeepSeek, the Hangzhou AI lab whose efficient, openly released models…
Demis Hassabis
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and co-founder and chief executive of Google DeepMind. A chess prodigy who…
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur and investor who has shaped Silicon Valley as both a builder and a financier. He…
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is one of the most influential researchers of the modern AI era, and a central figure in the rise of…
Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat is an author, speaker, and former technology executive who has become one of the most widely heard public voices on…