The people behind U.S. AI

Developer of the Local AI Registry, tested recipes for running open models on specific GPUs

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Vice President of Graphics Research at NVIDIA; leads the Real-Time Rendering Research team

Image, video, and 3D generation

IBM technology engineer and code owner for llama.cpp's zDNN backend for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Local SIInference and servingChips and hardware

Speech researcher; co-author of wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT at Facebook AI Research

Speech and audio

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the pointer-generator summarization paper

Language modelsTeaching and writing

Co-founder of the Gradio library and machine learning team lead at Hugging Face

Developer toolsML frameworks and libraries

First author of the PyTorch paper and a named author of JAX; research scientist at Google

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Former CEO of Amazon Web Services; member of Circle's board of directors since July 2025

Developer tools

Research scientist at Meta's FAIR; first author of the MultiNLI corpus and co-author of Llama 2

Evaluation and benchmarksLanguage models

VP of Research at OpenAI who leads Worldsim; first author of DALL·E and DALL·E 2, co-author of CLIP

Image, video, and 3D generationMultimodal models

Member of llama.cpp's llama-server and shared-code code-owner teams; Hugging Face

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb; founded Meta's Generative AI group and led the team behind Llama

Language models

Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Brain

Language models

METR technical staff working on threat modeling and risk assessment; lead of METR's 2026 Frontier Risk Report

Evaluation and benchmarksSafety and alignment

Senior Research Engineer at Ai2 working on the OLMo and FlexOlmo open language models

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Lead Core Maintainer of PyTorch and a research engineer at Meta

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Research scientist at Mistral AI; first author of the Mistral 7B and Mixtral of Experts papers

Language modelsDatasets and data

llama.cpp shared-code owner working on chat parsing, tool calls and JSON-schema grammars

Local SIInference and servingAgents

First author of GPT-2, CLIP and Whisper at OpenAI; independent researcher on 2026 papers

Language modelsMultimodal models

Led Trustworthy Machine Intelligence at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets

Safety and alignmentInterpretability

First author of Neural Turing Machines and of the Google DeepMind differentiable neural computer paper

Machine-learning theorySpeech and audio

OpenAI researcher; first author of GLIDE, Improved DDPM, and Point-E; co-author of the HumanEval paper

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS

Teaching and writingMachine-learning theory

First author of Segment Anything; works on multimodal models at Thinking Machines; formerly OpenAI and FAIR

Multimodal modelsComputer vision

Apple machine learning researcher; co-author of DataComp-LM, MobileCLIP2, and recent agent-training work

AgentsComputer vision

Researcher at Cursor; contributor to Ai2's OLMoE and co-author of SWE-bench

Language modelsDatasets and data

Scale AI founder and Meta's first Chief AI Officer, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs and its Muse models

People Behind Big SI

Head of Research at Kyutai; former FAIR research scientist behind MusicGen, EnCodec, and AudioCraft

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Co-creator of scikit-learn and initial creator of MNE-Python; Research Science Director at Meta Reality Labs

ML frameworks and librariesAI for science

Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

First author of wav2vec 2.0 and data2vec at Facebook AI; fairseq co-author

Speech and audioMultimodal models

University of Washington professor co-directing the RAIVN Lab; former Ai2 CEO who advised on OLMo

Computer visionMultimodal models

Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; one of the creators of Apache Spark and co-author of the Mesos paper

Datasets and dataLanguage models

Philosopher who leads Anthropic's Character work; primary author of Claude's constitution

Safety and alignmentLanguage models

Research scientist at Google; first author of Prompt-to-Prompt image editing with cross-attention control

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye; Sachs Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University

Computer visionRobotics

Heads AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind; UC Berkeley associate professor who runs the InterACT Lab

Safety and alignmentRobotics

Oxford professor who co-leads the Visual Geometry Group; Amazon Scholar; co-author of DINOv3 and VGGT

Computer vision

Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

Wrote llama2.c, a dependency-free C program for running Llama 2 models on a personal computer

Local SILanguage modelsTeaching and writing

Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team

Teaching and writingTraining systems

CEO of Nomic and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports

Local SILanguage modelsDatasets and data

Founder of Amazon Web Services and Amazon's President and CEO, building the cloud and AI that power invention

People Behind Big SI

Co-founder of Laude, Databricks and Perplexity; co-author of the Terminal-Bench and Mesos papers

Evaluation and benchmarksAgents

Llama 3 core contributor and Llama 2 co-author; machine translation research at Meta's FAIR, including NLLB

Language models

One of the four initial developers of MLX, Apple's array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon

Local SIML frameworks and libraries

Bren Professor at Caltech; Fourier Neural Operator co-author; former NVIDIA senior director of AI research

AI for scienceMachine-learning theory

Member of Technical Staff at Amazon AGI; co-author of Generative AI on AWS and Data Science on AWS

Teaching and writingLanguage models

Co-author of the GPT-J-6B open model; first author of the Sparse Upcycling paper from Google Research

Language modelsDatasets and data

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity; first author of CURL and Bottleneck Transformers

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Lead of the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports at Google DeepMind; co-author of Meta's LLaMA and the fastText papers

Language modelsDatasets and data

Co-founder of Perceptron; first author of CM3 and joint first author of Meta's Chameleon models

Multimodal modelsLanguage models

Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks

Datasets and data

Anthropic Member of Technical Staff; former Google DeepMind senior research engineer; ACDC first author

InterpretabilitySafety and alignment

Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of DeepMind's Chinchilla scaling paper

Language modelsTraining systems

Chairman, President and CEO of IBM; earlier led IBM Research and IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software unit

Datasets and data

Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat; previously led its cloud platforms business

Developer tools

CEO of Essential AI, maker of the open Rnj-1 models; first-listed author of the Transformer paper

Language modelsDatasets and data

NLP researcher; first author of IBM's open-source PrimeQA toolkit and co-author of Granite Embedding

Language modelsDatasets and data

Co-creator of MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon

Local SIML frameworks and librariesInference and serving

University of Washington associate professor studying bias, safety, and societal impacts of AI

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Listed by NVIDIA in 2025 as VP and general manager for retail and consumer packaged goods

Agents

First author of Code Llama and co-author of LLaMA and Llama 3; later an author on Mistral AI model papers

Language modelsDeveloper tools

First author of neural architecture search at Google Brain; earlier VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI

Language modelsTraining systems

Publishes GGUF quantizations of open models and contributes to llama.cpp; ML engineer at Red Hat

Local SIInference and servingLanguage models

Computer vision researcher; first author of Meta's Fairy video-editing paper and of FBNet

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Chief scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA; co-author of Deep Compression; former Stanford CS chair

Chips and hardwareInference and serving

Managed Microsoft Research's NLP group; co-author of DialoGPT and the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus

Language modelsDatasets and data

Initiator of OpenDevin (now OpenHands); StarCoder2 co-author and first author of the Qwen2.5-Coder report

AgentsLanguage models

Listed in OpenAI's executive leadership on the o1 System Card; led aspects of OpenAI's robot-hand research

RoboticsReinforcement learning

Nomic co-founder and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports

Local SILanguage modelsDatasets and data

Former AWS vice president for AI, machine learning and data infrastructure services

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA; co-author of the Megatron-LM and cuDNN papers

Language modelsTraining systems

Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington; co-founder and CEO of Overland AI

RoboticsComputer vision

Led Liger Kernel, open-source Triton kernels for memory-efficient LLM training and fine-tuning

Local SITraining systemsInference and serving

Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi

ML frameworks and librariesInterpretability

Founder and CTO of Together AI; Neubauer Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Chicago

Datasets and dataTraining systems

Former AWS senior vice president and Microsoft security executive; Tenable board member since October 2026

Developer tools

Stanford assistant professor who runs the IRIS lab; co-founder of Physical Intelligence and co-author of π0

RoboticsReinforcement learning

Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor

Teaching and writingDeveloper tools

UCLA associate professor of computer science; co-author of the LAMB and Lion optimizer papers

Training systemsMachine-learning theory

Co-founder of Modular, maker of the MAX inference framework and the Mojo language

Local SIML frameworks and librariesInference and serving

Anthropic co-founder working on reverse engineering neural networks; previously led interpretability at OpenAI

InterpretabilitySafety and alignment

CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat; longtime Linux kernel developer

Developer tools

Founder and CPO of Reve AI; formerly led Adobe Design Prototyping and was VP of Product at Stability AI

Local SIImage, video, and 3D generationDeveloper tools

Director and research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; SAM 3 project lead and SlowFast first author

Computer visionMultimodal models

Microsoft Technical Fellow, founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, and machine learning textbook author

AI for scienceTeaching and writing

Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of GloVe and the Stanza NLP library

Language modelsTeaching and writing

Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder

Training systemsLanguage models

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, whose Hub distributes open models and the libraries used to run them

Local SIDeveloper toolsML frameworks and libraries

VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Gemma 4 core contributor; formerly NVIDIA's VP of AI infrastructure

Language modelsTraining systems

University of Toronto associate professor and Hugging Face faculty researcher; first author of the T5 paper

Language modelsTraining systems

AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic; first author of weak-to-strong generalization research

Safety and alignmentLanguage models

Co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile and the GPT-NeoX-20B paper

Language modelsDatasets and data

Inria research director in the WILLOW team, with a joint appointment at Google Research since 2018

Computer visionMultimodal models

Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, also responsible for Apple's core AI efforts

Language modelsDeveloper tools

Executive and Research Director of the Center for AI Safety; co-author of MMLU and Humanity's Last Exam

Evaluation and benchmarksSafety and alignment

Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of Speech and Language Processing

Language modelsSpeech and audio

Co-first author of GameNGen, a diffusion model that simulates DOOM in real time, and first author of UniTune

Image, video, and 3D generation

llama.cpp code owner for model-conversion tooling and member of its CI team; Hugging Face

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Co-founder of Character.AI; led the development of the Meena and LaMDA dialog models at Google

Language models

Works on Unsloth, open-source software for fine-tuning and running models on local hardware

Local SITraining systemsInference and serving

Co-founder and President of Anthropic, building the people, culture, and governance behind Claude

People Behind Big SI

Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE

Language modelsTraining systems

Founder and CEO of insitro, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford adjunct professor of computer science

AI for scienceTeaching and writing

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, a physicist turned AI leader behind Claude and safety research

People Behind Big SI

Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy; former IBM SVP and Director of Research

AI for scienceChips and hardware

Northeastern professor studying neural-network internals; Bau's lab launched the NDIF project

InterpretabilityDeveloper tools

VP, AI Foundations at IBM Research, working on IBM's Granite models; earlier a Harvard professor

Local SILanguage modelsTraining systems

Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit

Language modelsTraining systems

Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; former Google research scientist and co-author of World Models

Image, video, and 3D generationReinforcement learning

UT Austin assistant professor who leads the SALT Lab; former MIT CSAIL research scientist

Speech and audioMultimodal models

Creator of Omarchy, a Linux system that sets up local-model tools such as Ollama and LM Studio

Local SIDeveloper tools

Helped found NVIDIA Research in 2006; runs a research group on computer graphics and neural image synthesis

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Google Fellow and UC Berkeley professor emeritus; co-author of Google TPU papers and MLPerf Training

Chips and hardwareEvaluation and benchmarks

CEO of Ineffable Intelligence and UCL professor; formerly led DeepMind's reinforcement learning team

Reinforcement learningTeaching and writing

CEO of John Snow Labs and creator of the open-source Spark NLP library; formerly at Microsoft and Amazon

Language modelsML frameworks and libraries

Research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini post-training; former Ai2 researcher on OLMo and Tülu

Language modelsAI for science

DeepMind co-founder and Nobel laureate whose teams built AlphaGo and AlphaFold

People Behind Big SI

Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity; first author of DrQ-v2 for reinforcement learning from pixels

Reinforcement learningEvaluation and benchmarks

First-listed author of a 2017 Google Brain study of NMT architectures; contributor to its TensorFlow framework

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Researcher at Anthropic; first author of the Variational Autoencoder and Adam optimizer papers

Image, video, and 3D generationMachine-learning theory

UW Allen School professor who leads Ai2's Robotics team; started NVIDIA's robotics research lab in 2017

RoboticsComputer vision

First author of Ai2's OLMo paper; contributor to OLMo 2, OLMoE, and the Dolma corpus

Training systemsLanguage models

Co-founder of Fireworks AI; previously a PyTorch core maintainer at Meta

Inference and servingML frameworks and libraries

VP of AI Foundations at Capital One; former Microsoft Research principal researcher; first author on CNTK

Speech and audioML frameworks and libraries

Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper; co-author of fastText and of Kyutai's Moshi

Language modelsSpeech and audio

Hugging Face research scientist; credited author of the TRL library and co-first author of Zephyr

Language modelsReinforcement learning

PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers; research engineer at Meta

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Leader of SpaceX and Tesla, bringing reusable rockets, crewed spacecraft, electric cars, and Grok to the world

People Behind Big SI

Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor

RoboticsDeveloper tools

University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements

Language modelsDatasets and data

Principal ML specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team at Annapurna Labs; author

Training systemsChips and hardware

EHESS professor in the Cognitive Machine Learning team; co-author of FAIR's generative spoken language work

Speech and audioLanguage models

Founder of Quixi.AI and creator of the Dolphin and Samantha open models; formerly at Microsoft and AWS

Local SILanguage modelsInference and serving

Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft and former director of Microsoft Research

AI for scienceEvaluation and benchmarks

Research scientist at Meta; first author of HolisticBias and a core contributor to Llama 3

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-lead of OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team; co-author of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Leads the alignment team at Anthropic; co-author of the RAG, red-teaming, and Constitutional Classifiers work

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; former Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Alignment Stress-Testing lead at Anthropic; first author of the Sleeper Agents paper

Safety and alignmentLanguage models

Research scientist at Google on the Gemini Core team; led scikit-learn's first public release in 2010

ML frameworks and librariesMachine-learning theory

Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, Stanford Sequoia Professor, and principal investigator of ImageNet

Computer visionDatasets and data

IBM Fellow and IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; past president of AAAI and IJCAI

Safety and alignmentAgents

Emeritus TorchVision maintainer and co-author of Meta's DINOv3, DETR and Detectron2

ML frameworks and librariesComputer vision

Creator and project lead of Keras, whose KerasHub runs open-weight models on JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow

Local SIML frameworks and librariesEvaluation and benchmarks

Member of the JAX team at NVIDIA; first author of the 2012 Theano paper

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Research scientist at Meta; last author of Code Llama and co-author of Wav2Letter, EnCodec, and MusicGen

Language modelsSpeech and audio

Senior Director for Simulation and AI at NVIDIA, heading the team behind Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab

RoboticsReinforcement learning

2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President

Machine-learning theoryComputer vision

Develops llama.cpp and the ggml tensor library for running models on local hardware

Local SIInference and servingML frameworks and libraries

Professor at the University of Liège leading the Science with AI Lab; former scikit-learn core developer

AI for scienceML frameworks and libraries

Carnegie Mellon associate professor and Chief Scientist at OpenHands; co-author of the OpenHands paper

AgentsLanguage models

University of Guelph professor and Vector Institute faculty member building deep learning for biodiversity

AI for scienceMultimodal models

Co-founder and President of OpenAI, and Stripe's founding engineer and CTO

People Behind Big SI

PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the original PyTorch paper and the PyTorch 2 paper

ML frameworks and libraries

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper

Language models

Creator of LightGBM; SVP of AI at DP Technology and former senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia

ML frameworks and librariesAI for science

Research scientist at Google DeepMind working on reinforcement learning; first author of Double DQN

Reinforcement learning

ML engineer and consultant at Parlance Labs; earlier applied ML at GitHub and first author of CodeSearchNet

Evaluation and benchmarksDeveloper tools

Systems security researcher listed with IBM Research; co-author of confidential-computing studies for AI

Chips and hardwareInference and serving

CTO of Neural Networks at Databricks; co-founder and former CTO of MosaicML

Language modelsAgents

Torode Family Professor at the University of Washington; co-led Ai2's OLMo and Tülu open models

Language models

Started the open-source LangChain framework and co-founded LangChain, the company behind it

AgentsDeveloper tools

Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind; WaveNet co-author and an original author of HTS speech synthesis

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and MIT-IBM lab explainability lead; co-creator of GLTR

InterpretabilityLanguage models

Introduced in 2025 as general manager of Microsoft Health Futures; co-author of LLaVA-Med and Medprompt

AI for scienceMultimodal models

PyTorch core maintainer and torch.compile contributor; wrote a Thinking Machines post on LLM nondeterminism

ML frameworks and librariesInference and serving

Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research; former Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia

Speech and audioLanguage models

Researcher on reasoning and agents, formerly at Google Brain; first author of the Flan-T5 scaling paper

Language modelsAgents

First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook

Image, video, and 3D generationSafety and alignment

Lead author of the Inverse Scaling paper and of FAR.AI's STACK study of attacks on LLM safeguards

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Founder of NEAR AI; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Research

Language models

Co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc.; co-author of the CLIP, Whisper and GPT-3 papers at OpenAI

Language modelsSafety and alignment

Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale

Inference and servingTraining systems

Anthropic co-founder and Head of Public Benefit; writes the Import AI newsletter

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

MIT associate professor in EECS and CSAIL studying language learning and how neural models represent meaning

Language modelsInterpretability

UC Berkeley associate professor of Statistics and EECS; founder and CEO of the nonprofit lab Transluce

Safety and alignmentInterpretability

First author of MusicGen and co-first author of EnCodec, both released in Meta's AudioCraft library

Image, video, and 3D generationSpeech and audio

Named author of JAX who has written several of its design proposals

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

Oxford associate professor and research scientist at FAIR (Meta); first author of COMA for multi-agent RL

Reinforcement learningAgents

Co-founder and CEO of Inceptive; co-author of the Transformer paper during Google's language research

Language modelsAI for science

Chief Scientist at OpenAI; overall pretraining lead for GPT-4; set research direction for OpenAI Five

Language modelsReinforcement learning

First author of the Hyperopt paper and co-developer of Theano; former Research Scholar at Harvard

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

Named author of JAX and co-author of the original PyTorch paper

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Software engineer and longtime MSDN Magazine Test Run columnist; worked for Microsoft Research

Teaching and writingMachine-learning theory

Leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic; formerly co-led Superalignment at OpenAI

Safety and alignmentReinforcement learning

PyTorch module maintainer for torch.optim and for the C++ API (libtorch and the stable ABI)

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper

Language modelsSafety and alignment

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models

Image, video, and 3D generationMachine-learning theory

AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the chain-of-thought prompting paper

Language modelsAgents

Research scientist at Meta; first author of Memory Networks and co-author of ParlAI and Self-Rewarding LMs

Language modelsAgents

VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS; started the AWS News Blog in 2004

Developer toolsTeaching and writing

NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer and member of llama.cpp's Vulkan backend code-owner team

Local SIInference and servingChips and hardware

UBC professor and Recursive co-founder; former OpenAI research manager and Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind

Reinforcement learningAgents

Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research; co-author of the TensorFlow white paper

Training systemsML frameworks and libraries

Works on Ollama, an open-source tool for running open models on your own machine

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

NVIDIA co-founder and CEO who led the company that introduced the GPU and helped spark the modern AI era

People Behind Big SI

Co-founder of Answer.AI, which released FSDP/QLoRA for fine-tuning large models on gaming GPUs

Local SITraining systemsTeaching and writing

Author of the open-source LlamaIndex framework; CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex

AgentsDeveloper tools

Research scientist in Meta Superintelligence Labs; former OLMo evaluation lead at Ai2

Evaluation and benchmarksDatasets and data

Creator of DDIM; former Chief Scientist at Luma AI and former research scientist at NVIDIA Research

Image, video, and 3D generationMultimodal models

Microsoft Technical Fellow and CVP setting direction for AI models; co-founder of MSR's Deep Learning Group

Language modelsMultimodal models

First author of the VERSA speech and audio evaluation toolkit; former PhD student in CMU's WAVLab

Speech and audioEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-leads NVIDIA's GEAR embodied-agents group; co-author of GR00T N1, Voyager and Eureka

RoboticsAgents

Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab

Computer visionRobotics

Research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-creator of the Kinetics dataset and the Perception Test

Computer visionMultimodal models

VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection AI; PyTorch core maintainer

ML frameworks and librariesLanguage models

PyTorch module maintainer for torch.nn and torch.optim

ML frameworks and libraries

Chief AI Officer at Cohere and McGill professor; led Meta's FAIR research team from 2017 to 2025

Reinforcement learningRobotics

Member of llama.cpp's CUDA backend code-owner team; experimental particle physicist at KIT

Local SIInference and servingChips and hardware

Stanford associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering; first author of the Adagrad paper

Machine-learning theoryTraining systems

Former Apple senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, overseeing Core ML and Siri

Language modelsML frameworks and libraries

Co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab; OpenAI co-founder and first author of PPO and TRPO

Reinforcement learningLanguage models

Apple's chief hardware officer, overseeing Apple silicon and the company's hardware technologies

Chips and hardware

NVIDIA AI software leader who led NeMo development; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits

Language modelsSpeech and audio

Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; first author of the lottery ticket hypothesis paper; MosaicML founding team

Training systemsLanguage models

First author of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and of Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Founder and former CEO of Groq, maker of the LPU inference chip and the GroqCloud platform

Chips and hardwareInference and serving

First author of the Tacotron 2 text-to-speech paper, written as a software engineer at Google

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Professor at CIIRC, Czech Technical University, and head of the IMPACT group; consults for Adobe Research

Computer visionRobotics

UC Berkeley professor whose group built Gorilla and the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard

Inference and servingAgents

Wrote the TensorFlow Hub launch post as Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, and later TensorFlow release posts

Teaching and writingML frameworks and libraries

Works on Transformers.js at Hugging Face, a library for running Transformers models in the browser

Local SIInference and servingML frameworks and libraries

TTIC PhD student in speech and language processing; former research intern at Meta and Microsoft

Speech and audioLanguage models

CTO of Hugging Face; added the Hub's local-apps registry and works on the hf command-line tool

Local SIDeveloper tools

AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital; former Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face and Arcee AI

Teaching and writingInference and serving

CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Independent researcher on language models and agents; co-author of the OpenHands and Qwen3 papers

Language modelsMultimodal models

Founder and CEO of 01.AI; developed CMU's Sphinx speech recognizer; earlier at Apple, Microsoft and Google

Speech and audioLanguage models

First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer

Speech and audioLanguage models

First author of the VGG networks paper; joined Microsoft AI as Chief Scientist in 2024 from Inflection AI

Computer visionLanguage models

VP of AI software product management at NVIDIA; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits

Language modelsAgents

Director of Technical Product Management for Granite at IBM Research; co-author of Granite Embedding

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Creator of the k-diffusion library and co-first author of VQGAN-CLIP

Image, video, and 3D generation

UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor working on robot grasping and automation; senior author of Dex-Net 2.0

Robotics

Thinking Machines Lab researcher; lead author of Othello world-model and Inference-Time Intervention papers

InterpretabilityLanguage models

SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences; former Open-Endedness Team Leader at OpenAI and creator of NEAT

Reinforcement learningMachine-learning theory

Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft; earlier led engineering and operations at LinkedIn

Developer tools

Vice president and general manager of healthcare at NVIDIA

AI for science

SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google; co-author of the DQN and WaveNet papers

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT

Language models

IBM Fellow directing trustworthy AI research at IBM; team behind AI Fairness 360 and Granite Guardian

Safety and alignmentInterpretability

Former Ai2 research scientist who co-led the OLMo project; last-listed author of the Dolma paper

Datasets and dataLanguage models

NYU professor of computer science and data science; co-author of the RNN encoder-decoder and attention papers

Language modelsAI for science

React Compiler core team engineer who helped bring automatic memoization to React, now at xAI and Cursor

People Behind Big SI

Author and educator who led AI Advocacy at Google and taught TensorFlow specializations with DeepLearning.AI

Teaching and writingML frameworks and libraries

First author of Transformer Grammars at DeepMind and co-author of the SynJax library for JAX

Language modelsML frameworks and libraries

Machine learning at Hugging Face; first listed author of TRL and co-author of StarCoder2 and smolagents

Language modelsReinforcement learning

First author of The Pile and first-listed author of EleutherAI's LM Evaluation Harness

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Works on post-training at Hugging Face; first author of Zephyr and a listed author of TRL

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Former Chief Scientist of AI at Microsoft and founder of its Deep Learning Technology Center

Speech and audioLanguage models

On the Periodic Labs team; first author of Switch Transformers; in OpenAI o1 reasoning research leadership

Language modelsAI for science

Research Engineer at Hugging Face leading the SmolLM series of small open language models

Local SILanguage modelsDatasets and data

Former co-lead of Ai2's Olmo open-model project; now a member of the technical staff at Microsoft AI

Local SILanguage modelsDatasets and data

OpenAI researcher; co-author of the Transformer paper and the TensorFlow white paper

Language modelsML frameworks and libraries

Building Cursor at Anysphere; former Meta visiting researcher working on 3D generation

Language modelsComputer vision

University of Washington professor and Senior Research Director at Meta; co-author of RoBERTa and QLoRA

Language modelsTraining systems

Chief Open-Source Officer at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers library paper and DistilBERT

ML frameworks and librariesLanguage models

Carnegie Mellon assistant professor and part-time senior research scientist at Ai2; co-author of SOTOPIA

Safety and alignmentAgents

Stonepeak operating partner; as NVIDIA's Head of Enterprise Computing, launched NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Developer toolsDatasets and data

Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-author of Meta's LLaMA and Llama 2 papers and of Mistral 7B; first author on unsupervised code translation

Language models

Senior Research Scientist and manager at IBM Research; co-author of the MTRAG multi-turn RAG benchmark

Evaluation and benchmarksLanguage models

CEO and co-founder of Apollo Research, working on AI model evaluations; former Epoch research fellow

Evaluation and benchmarksSafety and alignment

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI; first author of the Codex paper that released HumanEval

Language modelsMultimodal models

CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure; creator of Sysinternals

Safety and alignmentDeveloper tools

Co-founder of Core Automation and of GPU MODE; PyTorch maintainer whose work includes torchao

Local SIML frameworks and librariesInference and serving

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Meta, builder of Facebook and open Llama models, and champion of personal superintelligence

People Behind Big SI

At Google since 2014; first author of the TensorFlow papers; emeritus at UC Santa Cruz

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO

Training systemsDeveloper tools

Research scientist at Google DeepMind; former lead developer of JAXopt and former scikit-learn core developer

Machine-learning theoryML frameworks and libraries

CEO of Amazon Web Services since June 2024; first product manager for Amazon EC2

Developer tools

President and CEO of Red Hat and an IBM Senior Vice President; a founding engineer on the OpenShift team

Inference and servingDeveloper tools

Named author of JAX and co-author of the SysML 2018 paper on an early JAX; research scientist at Google

ML frameworks and libraries

Named author of KerasHub, the pretrained-model library for Keras, and co-author of its getting-started guide

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

Clarifai founder named SVP, Research at Nebius in May 2026; author of the ADADELTA paper

Computer visionInference and serving

Author of llama.cpp's Hexagon NPU backend; member of its Hexagon and OpenCL code-owner teams

Local SIInference and servingChips and hardware

Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI; author of the LLM Course and its quantization tutorials

Local SILanguage modelsTeaching and writing

Developer of local model deployment recipes and the sparkDash monitoring dashboard

Local SIInference and serving

Former Principal Research Scientist/Director at Meta FAIR; last author of wav2vec 2.0, fairseq, and MMS

Speech and audioLanguage models

MIT associate professor heading the Programming Systems Group; co-author of the lottery ticket hypothesis

Training systemsChips and hardware

Natural language processing researcher with a Google Research profile; former MIT faculty member

Language modelsMachine-learning theory

Works on Unsloth and is an area owner for the Studio UI, its web interface for running and training models

Local SITraining systemsDeveloper tools

Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets

Safety and alignmentInterpretability

Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Machine-learning theoryTraining systems

Co-author of the SMPL-X body model; co-founder of Body Labs; named a Distinguished Amazon Scholar in 2017

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Member of NVIDIA Research; co-author of the StyleGAN3, EDM, and EDM2 generative model papers

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

PyTorch module maintainer for torch.nn and the C++ API; author of PyTorch tutorials

ML frameworks and libraries

Founder and CEO of Langboat; former Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia, where Zhou led NLP research

Language models

Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab; previously in OpenAI's executive leadership

Language modelsMultimodal models

Co-author of Microsoft's Phi-3 technical report on small language models that run on a phone

Local SILanguage models

Former Google DeepMind research scientist whose work includes data-driven robotics and learned optimizers

RoboticsReinforcement learning

Lambda's Head of Cloud in 2023–2024 posts; introduced Lambda 1-Click Clusters of NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Chips and hardwareInference and serving

University of Maryland associate professor; former Young Investigator at Ai2

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-founder of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; led an AWS team working on Apache MXNet

ML frameworks and librariesTeaching and writing

Co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI pursuing humanist superintelligence

People Behind Big SI

Founding-team member at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of fairseq and co-author of OPT and RoBERTa

Language modelsTraining systems

Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP

Language modelsMultimodal models

PyTorch core maintainer for CUDA; co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers

ML frameworks and librariesChips and hardware

Researcher on generative model pre-training at Google DeepMind; lead author of DreamBooth

Image, video, and 3D generationMultimodal models

Co-founder of Trillium Labs; first author of the Tülu 3 report and former post-training lead at Ai2

Language modelsReinforcement learning

CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI; founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML; former Databricks VP of AI

Chips and hardwareTraining systems

Runs the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team; creator of the TransformerLens library

InterpretabilitySafety and alignment

First author of SoundStream and co-author of AudioLM at Google Research; Audio Research Advisor at Kyutai

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Code owner for llama.cpp's SYCL backend, which is designed primarily for Intel GPUs

Local SIInference and servingChips and hardware

Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-founder of Cohere; co-author with Geoffrey Hinton of capsule-network research at Google Brain

Language modelsComputer vision

Maintainer of PyTorch's TorchVision and TorchCodec libraries; ML engineer at Meta AI

ML frameworks and librariesComputer vision

Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic

Local SIML frameworks and librariesDatasets and data

Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs who co-leads the Segment Anything team; first author of SAM 2

Computer visionMultimodal models

Co-author of the Transformer paper and first-listed author of Image Transformer, both from Google

Language modelsComputer vision

PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI

Local SIML frameworks and librariesChips and hardware

Creator of the Sentence Transformers library and VP of AI Search at Cohere

Language modelsML frameworks and libraries

UW Vice Provost for AI and professor; Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, directing OLMo

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of the Transformer paper and the mixture-of-experts layer

Language modelsTraining systems

MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer; added Jinja chat templates and tool calling to llama.cpp

Local SIDeveloper toolsAgents

First author of DSPy and ColBERT; Assistant Professor at MIT EECS, where Khattab leads the OASYS lab

Developer toolsLanguage models

Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, working on Gemma launches and developer guides

Local SILanguage modelsDeveloper tools

Founding CEO of Ai2 (2013–2022) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington

Datasets and dataLanguage models

Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of sequence-to-sequence learning and the TensorFlow white paper

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Director of the nonprofit Truthful AI and affiliate researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley; TruthfulQA co-author

Safety and alignmentLanguage models

Engineering lead for developer experience at Google DeepMind; contributor to the first Gemma open models

Developer toolsLanguage models

Research scientist in Meta's FAIR team; first author of the stacked denoising autoencoders paper

Machine-learning theoryComputer vision

Co-first author of Taming Transformers (VQGAN) and co-author of Latent Diffusion Models

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

First listed author of Hugging Face Diffusers; vLLM code owner for Mistral models

Image, video, and 3D generationML frameworks and libraries

Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, heading its AI efforts; Apache Spark committer

Datasets and dataDeveloper tools

Executive director of the Alignment Research Center and technical advisor at NIST's CAISI

Safety and alignmentReinforcement learning

Machine learning engineer at Hugging Face; Diffusers co-author and builder of on-device Swift tools

Local SIImage, video, and 3D generationInference and serving

Stanford professor and director of CRFM; creator of Marin, first author of HELM, Together AI founder

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

CEO of Useful Sensors, founding member of the TensorFlow team, and co-author of TinyML and Moonshine

Local SIInference and servingSpeech and audio

Named author of JAX, the Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation

ML frameworks and libraries

President of Microsoft Science; previously led Microsoft Research's worldwide laboratories

AI for science

Co-founder and former CEO of Silo AI, acquired by AMD in 2024; co-author of the Poro 34B open model paper

Language models

Staff Engineer for developer experience at Google DeepMind; former Technical Lead at Hugging Face

Developer toolsAgents

MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico

ML frameworks and librariesLanguage models

Contributor to llama.cpp's server, its test and benchmark workflows, and model support

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist

RoboticsReinforcement learning

Emeritus maintainer of PyTorch Distributed; contributor to the Gloo collective communications library

Training systemsML frameworks and libraries

PyTorch core maintainer who manages NVIDIA's PyTorch team and its work on the CUDA backend

ML frameworks and librariesChips and hardware

Research director at Meta's FAIR; co-author of Segment Anything, COCO and Mask R-CNN; SAM 3 project lead

Computer visionDatasets and data

Maintains llama.cpp's parser code and contributes to Lemonade; systems architect at Syndatis

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Research scientist at OpenAI; co-author of Diffusion Models Beat GANs, GLIDE, Jukebox, and Glow

Image, video, and 3D generationSpeech and audio

Vice president at IBM Research, titled VP of AI platform in March 2026; co-author of LLM-serving research

Inference and servingTraining systems

Co-author of the sequence-to-sequence, GNMT, and neural architecture search papers at Google

Language modelsTraining systems

Code owner for llama.cpp's RPC backend, which offloads computation to remote machines

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Co-author of the TensorFlow white paper and the TensorFlow system paper from Google Brain

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Vice President, Machine Learning at Amazon India; previously vice president at Yahoo Labs

Datasets and dataMachine-learning theory

Vice president of AI for IT at NVIDIA; former IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations

Language modelsSpeech and audio

Vice President of Search and AI at Microsoft; co-author of the MS MARCO reading comprehension dataset paper

Language modelsDatasets and data

Co-led IBM Research's Project Debater team and co-wrote its 2021 Nature paper

Language modelsDatasets and data

Research Scientist at DeepMind; contributor to Theano and first author of a study of RNN training difficulties

Machine-learning theoryML frameworks and libraries

NVIDIA vice president of physical AI simulation, heading the Omniverse product, engineering and research teams

Robotics

Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks; Apache Spark committer and first author of Shark and GraphX

Datasets and dataDeveloper tools

Industry general manager for media and entertainment at NVIDIA; former CTO of Lucasfilm

Image, video, and 3D generation

University of Alberta professor of computing science; co-founded Google DeepMind Alberta in 2017

Reinforcement learningTeaching and writing

Principal Scientist at Adobe Research; first author of the LPIPS perceptual metric and image colorization work

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Senior Research Scholar at Stanford HAI; HELM co-author and first author of the foundation models report

Evaluation and benchmarksLanguage models

Google researcher; co-author of Tacotron and Tacotron 2 and first author of Tacotron prosody transfer

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Author of the original lasso paper and co-author of glmnet and The Elements of Statistical Learning

Machine-learning theoryTeaching and writing

Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

CEO of Boston Dynamics since October 2026; previously head scientist for Alexa and AGI at Amazon

Language modelsSpeech and audio

VP of Research at BRIA AI; co-author of Prompt-to-Prompt and first author of Null-text Inversion

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Research scientist in Apple Machine Learning Research; developer of Torch, wav2letter, and flashlight

ML frameworks and librariesSpeech and audio

First author of TinyStories and co-author of Microsoft's Phi small language model reports

Local SILanguage modelsDatasets and data

First author of R-CNN and Detectron; co-author of Segment Anything; formerly at FAIR, Microsoft and Ai2

Computer visionML frameworks and libraries

Co-author and core developer of JAX; research scientist at Google DeepMind

ML frameworks and librariesMachine-learning theory

Chief Scientist of IBM Research and IBM Fellow; first author of the Project CodeNet dataset paper

Language modelsDatasets and data

Overall lead of Apple's 2024 foundation language models and corresponding author of AXLearn; now at Meta

Training systemsLanguage models

UPMC Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; co-author of dropout

Multimodal modelsAgents

UCLA assistant professor studying factuality, intent, and harm in language; former NYU and MIT fellow

Language modelsSafety and alignment

Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the team behind ChatGPT and GPT-4, and former president of Y Combinator

People Behind Big SI

Co-author of the PyTorch paper and author of PEP 703, which makes CPython's GIL optional

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Architect; co-led the 2020 scaling-laws research at OpenAI

Training systemsLanguage models

UC Irvine professor of computer science; co-author of LIME and CheckList; former Ai2 Allen Fellow

InterpretabilityEvaluation and benchmarks

Leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam at Anthropic; first author of a study on auditing hidden objectives

InterpretabilitySafety and alignment

Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007; first author of nvdiffrast and co-author of StyleGAN and EDM

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple; sponsor of the MLX library

ML frameworks and librariesLanguage models

University of Toronto associate professor and Vector Institute co-founder; co-author of NVIDIA Cosmos

Computer visionImage, video, and 3D generation

Research scientist at Meta FAIR; first author of WavLM and co-first author of VALL-E

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Co-founder and CEO of Adaption; author of The Hardware Lottery and last author of the Aya model paper

Language modelsDatasets and data

AI and climate researcher; co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Sustainable AI Group

Evaluation and benchmarksDatasets and data

ML researcher at Cursor; former Cornell and Harvard professor and Hugging Face researcher

Language modelsTeaching and writing

Microsoft's Chairman and CEO, who led its shift to the cloud and brought Copilot and AI to Microsoft

People Behind Big SI

Google vice president; former Microsoft CVP and Technical Fellow who led the Microsoft Turing group

Language modelsTraining systems

Works on diffusion models at Hugging Face and is a listed author of the Diffusers library

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer and Windsurf

AgentsDeveloper tools

LLM research engineer and author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch); formerly at Lightning AI

Language modelsTeaching and writing

OpenAI author on gpt-oss and GPT-5 science work; earlier a Microsoft GenAI vice president and Phi co-author

Local SILanguage modelsMachine-learning theory

CTO of Genesis Molecular AI; formerly led development of Meta's Llama 2 and Llama 3 models

Language modelsAI for science

UC Berkeley associate professor working on robot learning; co-author of the π0 robot foundation model paper

RoboticsReinforcement learning

Oxford professor of computer science and Research Director at Google DeepMind; works on multi-agent RL

Reinforcement learningAgents

Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; first author of the ESPnet speech processing toolkit

Speech and audioML frameworks and libraries

Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini; co-author of Gumbel-Softmax and zero-shot CoT

Language modelsReinforcement learning

Computer science researcher who built DocETL at UC Berkeley; incoming Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon

Datasets and dataEvaluation and benchmarks

First author of ReAct, Tree of Thoughts and the τ-bench agent benchmark; language-agent researcher

AgentsLanguage models

NYU Courant PhD student; first author of Cambrian-S and co-first author of Thinking in Space and Qwen-VL

Multimodal modelsComputer vision

Lead developer of GPT-NeoX-20B; co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile

Training systemsLanguage models

llama.cpp code owner for model conversion, gguf-py and core model code; Hugging Face

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Author of the LoRA repository for diffusion fine-tuning; AuraFlow collaborator and Diffusers contributor

Image, video, and 3D generationTraining systems

Global Head of the NVIDIA AI Technology Center and Chief Solution Architect at NVIDIA

AI for scienceMultimodal models

MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director; co-author of AWQ, SmoothQuant and StreamingLLM

Local SIInference and servingChips and hardware

Co-founder of PyTorch, the framework behind ExecuTorch's on-device AI stack

Local SIML frameworks and libraries

GM of IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab; formerly vice president for AI at IBM Research

Language modelsDatasets and data

Software engineer focused on LLM training at Snowflake AI Research; author of an open ML engineering book

Training systemsLanguage models

Senior Vice President, The Open Accelerator at Red Hat; previously led Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Developer tools

Vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Agentic AI; UCLA professor of computer science

Language modelsAgents

Executive Director of EleutherAI; first author of the Pythia open model suite

Local SILanguage modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor working on AI safeguards, incidents, and governance

Safety and alignmentEvaluation and benchmarks

Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; co-first author of OPT; dialogue and LLM work at Meta FAIR

Language modelsTraining systems

Vice President of AI Engineering at Red Hat; a founder of Open Data Hub, which became Red Hat OpenShift AI

Developer toolsDatasets and data

Researcher on the social implications and evaluation of NLP; formerly at Microsoft Research

Evaluation and benchmarksSafety and alignment

CEO of Google and Alphabet who helped build Chrome and is leading Google into the Gemini era of AI

People Behind Big SI

Co-first author of Meta AI's OPT; built LLM training infrastructure at FAIR and RL systems for OpenAI Five

Training systemsLanguage models

USC Gabilan Assistant Professor and Amazon Scholar; first author of Dataset Cartography

Evaluation and benchmarksDatasets and data

Vice President of Agentic AI at AWS; co-author of Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper

AgentsDeveloper tools

Former core maintainer of Hugging Face Transformers and co-author of Deep Learning for Coders

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Stanford assistant professor; advisor on Stanford Alpaca, HELM co-author, and CS336 instructor

Language modelsEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-founder of Nous Research and first-listed author of the Hermes 3 and Hermes 4 technical reports

Local SILanguage modelsAgents

Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research; primary author of the StyleGAN models

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Published quantized GGUF, GPTQ and AWQ versions of open language models on Hugging Face

Local SIInference and servingLanguage models

Founder and CEO behind T3 Chat, T3 Code, and UploadThing, and the maker of the typesafe T3 Stack

People Behind Big SI

Leads Codex, OpenAI's software engineering agent, after guiding Gemini human data work at Google DeepMind

People Behind Big SI

scikit-learn maintainer; Member of Technical Staff at Modal

ML frameworks and librariesDeveloper tools

Corresponding author of Meta's Llama 2 paper; a lead author of the ARE agent platform and Gaia2 benchmark

Language modelsAgents

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face; created the Transformers library

Local SIML frameworks and librariesLanguage models

Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers

Local SIInference and servingML frameworks and libraries

Creator and founder of Open WebUI, a self-hosted AI interface for local and cloud models

Local SIDeveloper tools

VP and general manager of quantum at NVIDIA; earlier led product management for NVIDIA HPC software

AI for scienceDeveloper tools

Creator and maintainer of bitsandbytes; Assistant Professor at CMU and Research Scientist at Ai2

Local SITraining systemsInference and serving

Founder and executive director of DAIR; first author of Datasheets for Datasets

Datasets and dataEvaluation and benchmarks

Co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI; co-author of Meta's LLaMA paper

Language models

Founder of Mintplex Labs, maker of AnythingLLM, an AI application that runs locally by default

Local SIDeveloper tools

Director of Research at Google DeepMind and CIFAR program co-director; works on deep RL for control

Reinforcement learning

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Compute Officer; first author of the GPT-3 paper

Training systemsLanguage models

Google DeepMind senior staff research scientist and RL team lead; Prioritized Experience Replay author

Reinforcement learning

Co-author of the XGBoost R package; committer on DGL, GluonCV and Apache MXNet; former AWS applied scientist

ML frameworks and librariesComputer vision

UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI

Computer visionMultimodal models

Maintainer of the glmnet package and co-author of The Elements of Statistical Learning; Stanford emeritus

Machine-learning theoryTeaching and writing

First author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba; Princeton professor and Together AI co-founder

Local SITraining systemsLanguage models

Principal research scientist at NVIDIA Research; led the creation of the COCO dataset; Cosmos co-author

Computer visionDatasets and data

First author of Soft Actor-Critic and a bipedal robot soccer paper; joined DeepMind after a Berkeley PhD

Reinforcement learningRobotics

Chief Technologist of Amazon Robotics

Robotics

Machine learning researcher; shared last author of DataComp-LM at Apple and a co-lead of OpenCLIP

Datasets and dataMultimodal models

Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI at Siemens; former AWS Vice President of Generative AI

Language modelsAgents

First author of DistilBERT and T0; co-author of the Transformers library paper and the Idefics2 model

Language modelsMultimodal models

Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive

RoboticsReinforcement learning

Founder and CEO of Together AI, which builds a cloud platform for training and running large models

Inference and servingTraining systems

Research scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the deep Q-network (DQN) and A3C papers

Reinforcement learning

Research scientist at Meta AI (formerly FAIR); first author of HuBERT

Speech and audioMultimodal models

Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com; co-author of the 2007 Dynamo paper

Developer toolsDatasets and data

Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; co-founder and CTO of Inferact

Local SIInference and serving

Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center

Multimodal modelsLanguage models

Contributes to multimodal work at OpenAI; formerly at xAI and Meta FAIR; first author of SimSiam

Computer visionMultimodal models

Research VP of Multimodality at Moonshot AI; formerly Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

Software engineer at Hugging Face and core maintainer of llama.cpp

Local SIInference and serving

Chief Technology Officer of Zoom; former Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow at Microsoft

Speech and audioLanguage models

Leads the ML and Society team at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers and StarCoder2 papers

Datasets and dataLanguage models

LM Studio team member; made the first commits to LM Studio's lms CLI and MLX engine repositories

Local SIInference and servingDeveloper tools

Research Principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the score SDE and consistency models papers

Image, video, and 3D generationMachine-learning theory

Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab

ML frameworks and librariesTraining systems

Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and NYU professor; former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-author of V-JEPA 2

Computer visionRobotics

Principal Researcher in Microsoft's Speech and Dialog Research Group; co-author of WavLM

Speech and audio

Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2

Language modelsSafety and alignment

First author of FastSpeech and FastSpeech 2; former MSRA intern; leads video model research at HeyGen

Speech and audioImage, video, and 3D generation

SGLang co-author and codeowner; first author of FlexGen, for running large models on a single GPU

Local SIInference and serving

Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford

Language modelsAgents

First author of the paper on Google's Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT); co-author of Lingvo

Language modelsTraining systems

Listed author of Hugging Face's TRL library and co-author of the StarCoder2, Zephyr, and LLM.int8() papers

Language modelsInference and serving

Research scientist at FAIR (Meta) working on speech; in the technical leadership of Omnilingual ASR

Speech and audioLanguage models

First author of the phi-1.5 report and co-author of TinyStories and Microsoft's other Phi model reports

Local SILanguage modelsDatasets and data

University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP

Language modelsSafety and alignment

Research Scientist at Runway; first author of ReStyle and co-author of Attend-and-Excite

Image, video, and 3D generationComputer vision

Creator of Detectron2; builds foundation models at Moonshot AI; formerly at Google Brain and FAIR

Computer visionML frameworks and libraries

Co-first author of XLNet and Transformer-XL; earlier worked at Google Brain and Meta AI

Language models

Head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; chairs OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee

Safety and alignmentDatasets and data