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The Digg AI rankings track people actively involved in artificial intelligence across research, startups, investing, engineering, and media. It's built from the X social graph, using roughly 9 million follow relationships to map how the AI community connects.

162 tagged Research Engineer

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

RESEARCH ENGINEER1353 AI ranked followers10.000 gravity

I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

RESEARCH ENGINEER955 AI ranked followers7.058 gravity

Recently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

RESEARCH ENGINEER860 AI ranked followers6.356 gravity

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

RESEARCH ENGINEER832 AI ranked followers6.149 gravity

Researcher at Cursor https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

RESEARCH ENGINEER830 AI ranked followers6.135 gravity

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o3 / o1 / 🍓 reasoning models

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

RESEARCH ENGINEER814 AI ranked followers6.016 gravity

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st ...

Alec Radford

@AlecRad

RESEARCH ENGINEER710 AI ranked followers5.248 gravity

James Bradbury

@jekbradbury

RESEARCH ENGINEER631 AI ranked followers4.664 gravity

Compute at @AnthropicAI! Previously JAX, TPUs, and LLMs at Google, MetaMind/@SFResearch, @Stanford Linguistics, @Caixin.

Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

RESEARCH ENGINEER628 AI ranked followers4.642 gravity

@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence.

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

RESEARCH ENGINEER618 AI ranked followers4.568 gravity

@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

RESEARCH ENGINEER614 AI ranked followers4.538 gravity

Research @allen_ai, reasoning, open models, RL(VR/HF)... Contact via email. Writes @interconnectsai, @readsail Wrote The RLHF Book, 🏔️🏃‍♂️

Sander Dieleman

@sedielem

RESEARCH ENGINEER590 AI ranked followers4.361 gravity

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen, Veo). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal...

rohan anil

@_arohan_

RESEARCH ENGINEER580 AI ranked followers4.287 gravity

member of technical staff & co-founder of @coreautoai - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

RESEARCH ENGINEER579 AI ranked followers4.279 gravity

post-training lead at xAI. ex-google

Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

RESEARCH ENGINEER576 AI ranked followers4.257 gravity

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

Aakanksha Chowdhery

@achowdhery

RESEARCH ENGINEER555 AI ranked followers4.102 gravity

@Stanford @reflection_ai // Previously @GoogleDeepMind :: PaLM, Gemini // @MSFTResearch, @Princeton // views my own and subject to change

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Horace He

@cHHillee

RESEARCH ENGINEER544 AI ranked followers4.021 gravity

@thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale

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Luke Metz

@Luke_Metz

RESEARCH ENGINEER543 AI ranked followers4.013 gravity

OpenAI Previously: Thinking Machines, Google Brain

114

Jack Rae

@jack_w_rae

RESEARCH ENGINEER527 AI ranked followers3.895 gravity

Distinguished Scientist @ Meta LLMs (e.g. Gopher, Chinchilla, Gemini, Muse) Compression & RL ☯️ Past: Google, OpenAI, Quora

115

Jonathan Frankle

@jefrankle

RESEARCH ENGINEER524 AI ranked followers3.873 gravity

Chief AI Scientist @databricks via MosaicML. e/brick

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John Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack

RESEARCH ENGINEER521 AI ranked followers3.851 gravity

AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace

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Taco Cohen

@TacoCohen

RESEARCH ENGINEER515 AI ranked followers3.806 gravity

Slop janitor & post-trainologer at Meta / FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.

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Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

RESEARCH ENGINEER512 AI ranked followers3.784 gravity

CEO and co-founder of Core Automation former VP of RL @ OpenAI : reasoning models, o3, o1, GPT4, ChatGPT, Codex, RL for robots cautious AI optimist

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Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

RESEARCH ENGINEER482 AI ranked followers3.562 gravity

Hanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microco...

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Yi Tay

@YiTayML

RESEARCH ENGINEER475 AI ranked followers3.511 gravity

research scientist @googledeepmind ✨♊, model co-lead/captain of gemini deepthink imo gold medal 🥇, opinions are my own.

150

Smerity

@Smerity

RESEARCH ENGINEER467 AI ranked followers3.452 gravity

ML x society. Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11....

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Dumitru Erhan

@doomie

RESEARCH ENGINEER465 AI ranked followers3.437 gravity

Co-lead of Veo @GoogleDeepMind. Senior Research Director.

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Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt

RESEARCH ENGINEER462 AI ranked followers3.415 gravity

ML/AI research engineer. Ex stats professor. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://m...

175

Rowan Zellers

@rown

RESEARCH ENGINEER440 AI ranked followers3.252 gravity

multimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. http://rowanzellers.com (he/him)

182

Shengjia Zhao

@shengjia_zhao

RESEARCH ENGINEER430 AI ranked followers3.178 gravity

Chief Scientist @ Meta MSL. Formerly MTS @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford. I train models. All opinions my own.

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Noam Shazeer

@NoamShazeer

RESEARCH ENGINEER418 AI ranked followers3.089 gravity

Engineer

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Karina

@karinanguyen

RESEARCH ENGINEER410 AI ranked followers3.030 gravity

building @thoughtfullab, prev. AI research & product @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @maisonagi (side proj)

204

Rishabh Agarwal

@agarwl_

RESEARCH ENGINEER404 AI ranked followers2.986 gravity

Reinforcement Learner @periodiclabs, Adjunct Prof at McGill. Ex Meta, DeepMind, Brain, @iitbombay. NeurIPS Best Paper, On-Policy Distillation

214

Bob McGrew

@bobmcgrewai

RESEARCH ENGINEER395 AI ranked followers2.919 gravity

Learning new things. Former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, early exec at Palantir, early employee at Paypal.

219

Hyung Won Chung

@hwchung27

RESEARCH ENGINEER385 AI ranked followers2.846 gravity

AI Research Scientist @Meta Superintelligence Labs. Past: @OpenAI / @Google Brain / PhD @MIT

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typedfemale

@typedfemale

RESEARCH ENGINEER385 AI ranked followers2.846 gravity

a really exciting new account "advanced pytorch user" - @cHHillee alt: @typedalt

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Aäron van den Oord

@avdnoord

RESEARCH ENGINEER382 AI ranked followers2.823 gravity

Lead of the GenMedia team working on Veo, Imagen, Genie, Nano Banana, ... Research Scientist @ DeepMind

228

Aidan Clark

@_aidan_clark_

RESEARCH ENGINEER380 AI ranked followers2.809 gravity

Qualitative Mathematics @OpenAI Ex: @DeepMind Hae sententiae verbaque mihi soli sunt

235

will depue

@willdepue

RESEARCH ENGINEER376 AI ranked followers2.779 gravity

retired ex @openai (sora 1 & 2, posttraining o3/4o, pretraining moonshots)

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Junyang Lin

@JustinLin610

RESEARCH ENGINEER369 AI ranked followers2.727 gravity

❤️ 🍵 ☕️ 🍷 🥃 🍺

246

Aditya Ramesh

@model_mechanic

RESEARCH ENGINEER368 AI ranked followers2.720 gravity

VP Robotics @OpenAI

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Prafulla Dhariwal

@prafdhar

RESEARCH ENGINEER368 AI ranked followers2.720 gravity

Technical fellow @OpenAI. Co-creator of GPT-4o, GPT-3, DALL-E 2, Jukebox, Glow, PPO. Previously @MIT '17

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Rohan Pandey

@khoomeik

RESEARCH ENGINEER364 AI ranked followers2.690 gravity

descending cross-entropy to ascend entropy @PeriodicLabs || prev research @OpenAI @CarnegieMellon '23

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Teknium 🪽

@Teknium

RESEARCH ENGINEER361 AI ranked followers2.668 gravity

Cofounder and Lead Engineer - Hermes Agent @NousResearch, prev @StabilityAI Github: http://github.com/teknium1 HuggingFace: http://huggingface.co/t...

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Andrew Carr 🤸

@andrew_n_carr

RESEARCH ENGINEER359 AI ranked followers2.653 gravity

co-founder leading science @getcartwheel co-founder advisor @arcade_ai Past: Codex @OpenAI, Brain @GoogleAI, world ranked Tetris player

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Ahmad Beirami

@abeirami

RESEARCH ENGINEER358 AI ranked followers2.646 gravity

stealth // ex Gemini RL+Inference @GoogleDeepMind // Chat AI @AIatMeta // RL Agents @EA // ML+Information Theory @MIT+@Harvard+@GeorgiaTech

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Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

RESEARCH ENGINEER356 AI ranked followers2.631 gravity

pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. she/her/hers

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Irwan Bello

@IrwanBello

RESEARCH ENGINEER342 AI ranked followers2.528 gravity

Supercomputers & Friends, AI & Science. Founding team & Research Lead at @reflection_ai. Past: @OpenAI, Founding team @character_ai, Google Brain

282

David Luan

@jluan

RESEARCH ENGINEER342 AI ranked followers2.528 gravity

retired!! former cofounder of @adeptailabs, vp engineering @openai and @amazon, and @google LLMs lead. all about type II fun.

289

Hongyu Ren

@ren_hongyu

RESEARCH ENGINEER341 AI ranked followers2.520 gravity

research @meta superintelligence. CS PhD @stanford. prev @openai.

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Dhruv Batra

@DhruvBatra_

RESEARCH ENGINEER335 AI ranked followers2.476 gravity

Co-founder & Chief Scientist @yutori_ai. Prev: Senior Director leading FAIR Embodied AI @MetaAI and Professor @GeorgiaTech.

306

Luca Soldaini 🎀

@soldni

RESEARCH ENGINEER330 AI ranked followers2.439 gravity

data mines are my passion ⛏️ mts @MicrosoftAI // ex co-lead Olmo @allen_ai // pfp @YanhongLi2062 // thoughts are mine, leave my employer alone // 🌈

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Mike Lewis

@ml_perception

RESEARCH ENGINEER329 AI ranked followers2.432 gravity

Llama3 pre-training lead. Partially to blame for things like the Cicero Diplomacy bot, BART, RoBERTa, attention sinks, kNN-LM, top-k sampling & Dea...

312

Denny Britz

@dennybritz

RESEARCH ENGINEER328 AI ranked followers2.424 gravity

Human. Ex Google AI, Stanford, Berkeley. Lived in 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇸🇰🇷🇹🇭. Opinions are not really my own.

313

Yann Dubois

@yanndubs

RESEARCH ENGINEER327 AI ranked followers2.417 gravity

Posttraining @OpenAI | PhD @StanfordAILab

315

Bill Peebles

@billpeeb

RESEARCH ENGINEER325 AI ranked followers2.402 gravity

head of sora @openai 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

319

rapha

@rapha_gl

RESEARCH ENGINEER324 AI ranked followers2.395 gravity

making models programmable @ openai

335

will brown

@willccbb

RESEARCH ENGINEER318 AI ranked followers2.350 gravity

reward hacking @primeintellect

337

Boris Power

@BorisMPower

RESEARCH ENGINEER317 AI ranked followers2.343 gravity

Head of Applied Research @OpenAI

338

Eric

@ericmitchellai

RESEARCH ENGINEER316 AI ranked followers2.336 gravity

chatgpt posttraining @openai. building personal agi. I like ai and music and some other stuff

352

Zhiqing Sun

@EdwardSun0909

RESEARCH ENGINEER310 AI ranked followers2.291 gravity

Lead Agents @Meta MSL TBD Lab. previously posttraining/agent research @OpenAI. CS PhD @LTIatCMU

355

kipply

@kipperrii

RESEARCH ENGINEER309 AI ranked followers2.284 gravity

"uncanny ability to be mentioned in every slack thread about code that's mysteriously breaking" - claude

361

Julian Schrittwieser

@Mononofu

RESEARCH ENGINEER308 AI ranked followers2.276 gravity

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic | AlphaGo, AlphaZero, MuZero, AlphaCode, AlphaTensor, AlphaProof Gemini RL Prev Principal Research Engineer ...

364

Mo Bavarian

@mobav0

RESEARCH ENGINEER305 AI ranked followers2.254 gravity

Scaling up RL at OpenAI 🍓 Optimization and long context research before. Math PhD, MIT.

365

Stephen Roller

@stephenroller

RESEARCH ENGINEER304 AI ranked followers2.247 gravity

MTS @thinkymachines. previously pre-training @googledeepmind, @character_ai, and @aiatmeta.

368

Tom Brown

@nottombrown

RESEARCH ENGINEER304 AI ranked followers2.247 gravity

Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer @AnthropicAI

372

Ananya Kumar

@ananyaku

RESEARCH ENGINEER301 AI ranked followers2.225 gravity

Researcher at Meta TBD Labs. Previously core contributor to o1, o3, gpt5, at OpenAI. PhD at Stanford University AI Lab with Percy Liang and Tengyu Ma

379

Bill Yuchen Lin

@billyuchenlin

RESEARCH ENGINEER296 AI ranked followers2.188 gravity

RL for coding @xAI. Affiliate Assistant Prof @UW. Ex: @allen_ai; Google, Meta FAIR.

380

James Campbell

@jam3scampbell

RESEARCH ENGINEER295 AI ranked followers2.180 gravity

post training @OpenAI

383

finbarr

@finbarrtimbers

RESEARCH ENGINEER294 AI ranked followers2.173 gravity

modeling language at @allen_ai

390

niki parmar

@nikiparmar09

RESEARCH ENGINEER291 AI ranked followers2.151 gravity

Working @Anthropic. Views expressed here are my own.

395

Tim Brooks

@_tim_brooks

RESEARCH ENGINEER289 AI ranked followers2.136 gravity

superintelligence @ Meta

409

Keller Jordan

@kellerjordan0

RESEARCH ENGINEER285 AI ranked followers2.106 gravity

CIFAR-10 fanatic Pretraining @OpenAI OpCo LLC.

417

Jiahui Yu

@jhyuxm

RESEARCH ENGINEER282 AI ranked followers2.084 gravity

Lead Multimodal @Meta Superintelligence Lab. Previously led Perception @OpenAI; co-led Gemini Multimodal @GoogleDeepMind.

418

Chelsea Sierra Voss

@csvoss

RESEARCH ENGINEER281 AI ranked followers2.077 gravity

engineeress ✨ Member of Technical Staff @openai // board $QCLS // past @pilothq, @sendwaveapp, @khanacademy, CS/math @MIT, 2x IBO gold

419

Kory Mathewson

@korymath

RESEARCH ENGINEER281 AI ranked followers2.077 gravity

@GoogleDeepMind generative AI models + agents | getting great tech into the hands of great creative people

422

Yuchen Jin

@Yuchenj_UW

RESEARCH ENGINEER281 AI ranked followers2.077 gravity

Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Wa...

424

Peter Steinberger 🦞

@steipete

RESEARCH ENGINEER279 AI ranked followers2.062 gravity

Polyagentmorous ClawFather. Came back from retirement to mess with AI and help a lobster take over the world. @OpenClaw🦞 + @OpenAI

426

andy jones

@andy_l_jones

RESEARCH ENGINEER279 AI ranked followers2.062 gravity

engineering & research at anthropic. i don't check twitter DMs. email me!

428

Yu Bai

@yubai01

RESEARCH ENGINEER278 AI ranked followers2.055 gravity

Training Accelerations @OpenAI. Previously @SFResearch, PhD @Stanford.

436

Devendra Chaplot

@dchaplot

RESEARCH ENGINEER274 AI ranked followers2.025 gravity

Building superintelligence @xai

444

Xiao Ma

@infoxiao

RESEARCH ENGINEER273 AI ranked followers2.018 gravity

just an RL-pilled girl. prev: gemini @googledeepmind. views are mine.

453

Jacob Austin

@jacobaustin132

RESEARCH ENGINEER271 AI ranked followers2.003 gravity

I sometimes do AI research. I also play piano and climb. NYC. Previously @GoogleDeepMind, @Google Brain. Opinions my own

460

Isa Fulford

@isafulf

RESEARCH ENGINEER269 AI ranked followers1.988 gravity

research @openai

464

kache

@yacineMTB

RESEARCH ENGINEER268 AI ranked followers1.981 gravity

reinforcement learning, robots. prev eng @ x, stripe. 6'3 (height) working on a hardware startup with 0 funding because it's funny. subscribe to ...

469

Hieu Pham

@hyhieu226

RESEARCH ENGINEER267 AI ranked followers1.973 gravity

Something new 🇻🇳 | ex: @openai, @xai, @augmentcode, @GoogleBrain, @LTIatCMU, @Stanford, ACM ICPC, IMO🥈 Opinions are my own.

472

Max Schwarzer

@max_a_schwarzer

RESEARCH ENGINEER265 AI ranked followers1.959 gravity

Doing RL @AnthropicAI. Formerly VP of Research, Head of Post-Training @OpenAI. PhD with Aaron Courville and Marc Bellmare at Mila.

473

Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

RESEARCH ENGINEER265 AI ranked followers1.959 gravity

Scaling @xAI. Previously Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind

494

Adam Coates

@adampaulcoates

RESEARCH ENGINEER259 AI ranked followers1.914 gravity

Has AI made the world better yet? Let's get on that. Director at Apple. Fmr Stanford PhD, Director Baidu SVAIL, @khoslaventures. #deeplearning #H...

496

Clément Farabet

@clmt

RESEARCH ENGINEER259 AI ranked followers1.914 gravity

AI @ Google DeepMind (Gemini, Gemma & Beyond). Ex NVIDIA (self-driving cars, http://rapids.ai), Twitter (founded Cortex), MadBits (founded+sold) 🇺🇸🇫🇷

503

Scott Gray

@scottgray76

RESEARCH ENGINEER257 AI ranked followers1.899 gravity

GPU Geek at @OpenAI. I have a long standing interest in neuroscience and its application to machine learning. He/Him.

508

Sharif Shameem

@sharifshameem

RESEARCH ENGINEER256 AI ranked followers1.892 gravity

playing with models @openai

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Yaroslav Bulatov

@yaroslavvb

RESEARCH ENGINEER248 AI ranked followers1.833 gravity

@southparkcommons (early OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta) https://yaroslavvb.substack.com/ https://medium.com/@yaroslavvb https://yaroslavvb.blogspot.com/

538

Kevin Lu

@_kevinlu

RESEARCH ENGINEER246 AI ranked followers1.818 gravity

Research @thinkymachines

544

Jiaming Song

@baaadas

RESEARCH ENGINEER245 AI ranked followers1.811 gravity

Chief Scientist @LumaLabsAI. #LumaDreamMachine

551

Zachary Nado

@zacharynado

RESEARCH ENGINEER244 AI ranked followers1.803 gravity

Research eng @GoogleDeepMind on Gemini pretrain. Personal acct. Past: swe intern @SpaceX, ugrad researcher in @tserre lab @BrownUniversity. All opi...

557

Alex Nichol

@unixpickle

RESEARCH ENGINEER241 AI ranked followers1.781 gravity

Code, AI, and 3D printing. Opinions are mostly my own, sometimes a computer's. Husband of @thesamnichol. Co-creator of DALL-E 2. Researcher @openai.

559

Clive Chan

@itsclivetime

RESEARCH ENGINEER240 AI ranked followers1.774 gravity

perplexity per picojoule @openai / formerly a car @tesla dojo

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Shuchao Bi

@shuchaobi

RESEARCH ENGINEER240 AI ranked followers1.774 gravity

Research at Meta Superintelligence Labs, RL/post-training/agents; Previously Research at OpenAI on multimodal and RL; Opinions are my own.

563

Sharon Zhou

@realSharonZhou

RESEARCH ENGINEER239 AI ranked followers1.766 gravity

Recursively self-improving | VP Eng & AI, @AMD | Prev: Founder & CEO, Lamini. CS Faculty & PhD @Stanford. @Google. @Harvard | @MIT 35 under 35. Ang...

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