Key Players
The people shaping AI, 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…
Georgi Gerganov
Most of the open-source software that quietly runs the modern world was written by people almost no one can name, and for…
Clément Delangue
When two engineers and a designer started a company around a chatbot for bored teenagers in 2016, almost no one would have…
Jeff Morgan
The command that introduced millions of people to running their own AI is only a few characters long, and Jeff Morgan is…
Tim Baek
The part of local AI that most people actually touch is not the model or the engine but the window they type…
Yagil Burowski
For years, trying an open-weight model meant a terminal, a pile of dependencies, and a good chance of an error message, and…
Daniel Han
For most people, the wall between a general model and one tuned to their own work is not knowledge but cost, the…
Woosuk Kwon
The question of who can afford to run a large model is decided less by the model than by the cost of…
Lianmin Zheng
Much of the industry agrees on which model is ahead at any moment, and a surprising amount of that shared judgment traces…
Chris Lattner
The tools that compile the world software are usually invisible until they break, and for two decades a large share of them…
Jeffrey Quesnelle
Some of the most capable open models of the past few years came not from a corporate lab but from a loose…
Steph Ango
Most software is designed to keep you inside it, and Steph Ango has built a career and a company on the opposite…
Yang Zhilin
When a Chinese startup began matching the coding ability of the best American models at a fraction of the price, a lot…
Mira Murati
When one of the most powerful figures at the company that started the modern AI boom walked away to build something of…
Babak Hassibi
The race in AI is usually told as a story of things getting bigger, and Babak Hassibi is betting his company on…
Arthur Mensch
For a while the frontier of AI looked like a purely American affair, and then a young French company started releasing open…
Michael Truell
Few products have gone from a side project to a company worth tens of billions as fast as Cursor, and the person…
Robin Rombach
The technology that lets anyone turn a sentence into an image was not the work of a single lab, but if you…
Harrison Chase
When AI agents went from a research curiosity to something companies actually wanted to ship, most of them reached for the same…
Aravind Srinivas
For twenty-five years the way people looked things up online barely changed, and then a former researcher decided the answer, not the…
Geoffrey Hinton
The man most responsible for the technology now reshaping the economy has spent his final working years warning the world about it,…