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John Backus

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BIO

Dissonant and obsessive try-hard. Founded @getcognito (acquired by @Plaid)

#1768in/Tech

Top followers

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

I like training large deep neural nets.

Chris Olah

@ch402

Reverse engineering neural networks at @AnthropicAI. Previously @distillpub, OpenAI Clarity Team, Google Brain. Personal account.

LM

#103

Luke Metz

@Luke_Metz

OpenAI Previously: Thinking Machines, Google Brain

Ashish Vaswani

@ashVaswani

Smerity

@Smerity

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

David Dohan

@dmdohan

reducing perplexity @openai | past: probabilistic programs, proteins, science & reasoning @ google brain 🧠

Chip Huyen

@chipro

@aisysbooks @goodailist AI Engineering: https://amazon.com/dp/1098166302 Designing MLSys: http://amazon.com/dp/1098107969 Reading @chipslib

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur & Investor

Alex Tamkin

@AlexTamkin

machine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp

Emmett Shear

@eshear

CEO of Softmax: Massively Multiplayer Learning Environments

Nick

@nickcammarata

neural network biologist, meditation, jhana brother

Balaji

@balajis

Author of the Network State. Founder of the Network School.

Chelsea Sierra Voss

@csvoss

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

Adam D'Angelo

@adamdangelo

CEO of Quora, working on Poe: @poe_platform

Jessy Lin

@realJessyLin

ai x humans | prev PhD @Berkeley_AI

Russell Kaplan

@russelljkaplan

President @cognition. Past: director of engineering @Scale_AI, startup founder, ML scientist @Tesla Autopilot, researcher @StanfordSVL.

Kanjun 🐙

@kanjun

helping humans fight Moloch. CEO @imbue_ai. support founders @outsetcap.

christina kim

@christinahkim

researcher @openai

anton 🇺🇸

@atroyn

http://troynikov.io | founder @trychroma

Dan Roberts

@danintheory

Scientist @OpenAI. Prev. co-founder @diffeo, acquired by @salesforce // co-authored The Principles of Deep Learning Theory // studied gravity.

Alexey Guzey

@alexeyguzey

http://guzey.com, http://newscience.org, @openai; in pursuit of a just, beautiful future.

Tristan Hume

@trishume

Performance optimization lead @AnthropicAI. Profiling, distributed systems, dev tools, interpretability. tristan@thume.ca

Jasmine Wang

@j_asminewang

alignment @OpenAI. formerly @ UK AISI. opinions mine!

Michelle Lee

@michellearning

Founder & CEO of @medra_ai. Let's eradicate disease. Prev. phd @StanfordAILab, robotics @nvidia, propulsion @SpaceX

José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente

@ArtirKel

Head of Theory at @RetroBio_ , enjoyer of things, blog: http://nintil.com

Jeffrey Ladish

@JeffLadish

Applying the security mindset to everything @PalisadeAI

Ben Kuhn

@benkuhn

care a lot and try hard

Flo Crivello

@Altimor

Founder @getlindy. "Striving to remember the obvious over grasping the esoteric."

Tim Hwang

@timhwang

high politics, secret exploration, distant warfare

Mike Solana

@micsolana

billionaire media tycoon and former mayor of san francisco. disinformation researcher. cmo @foundersfund. editor-in-chief @piratewires 🏴‍☠️

Shaun Maguire

@shaunmmaguire

Partner @sequoia // @caltech physics PhD // Views are my own

Nabeel S. Qureshi

@nabeelqu

make yourself proud

Danny Hernandez

@Hernandez_Danny

Measuring and forecasting AI progress @AnthropicAI.

uncatherio

@uncatherio

wholesomeness practitioner; user of words my more "work" account is @catherineols

Jarred Sumner

@jarredsumner

building @bunjavascript at @anthropicai. formerly: @stripe (twice) @thielfellowship. high school dropout. npm i -g bun

Vlad Tenev

@vladtenev

CEO and Co-Founder @RobinhoodApp 📈📱Executive Chairman and Co-Founder @HarmonicMath 👁️‍🗨️👨‍🏫

Keith Rabois

@rabois

entrepreneur, investor, contrarian

delian

@zebulgar

space drugs and arms @vardaspace | village idiot/partner @foundersfund | porthos @hillvalleyforum

Zachary Perret

@zachperret

Always learning. @Plaid CEO. 🚴‍♂️📚

Dylan Field

@zoink

eliminate the gap between imagination and reality

Matt Huang

@matthuang

founder @paradigm, founder @tempo, board member @stripe, building & investing at the frontier

Moxie Marlinspike

@moxie

Founder @signalapp

Semil

@semil

Investor via @HaystackVC focused on seed-stage investments // Venture Partner w/ @LightspeedVP

Jonathan Blow

@Jonathan_Blow

Designer/Programmer: Order of the Sinking Star, The Witness, Braid, “Jai” Programming Language. Wishlist the Future: https://store.steampowered.com/app/499170

Haseeb ＞|＜

@hosseeb

Managing partner @dragonfly_xyz. Let's think step by step.

Leo Polovets

@lpolovets

GP @HumbaVC ($250k-$1m checks in deep tech + critical sectors). Co-founder @SusaVentures. 🦍 Prev: Caltech; 2nd engineer at LinkedIn; Google

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy! R&D on tools for thought, with a focus on memory, reading, and attention. Currently working on @pico.

Eugene Wei

@eugenewei

Former product guy at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus. Blog at http://www.eugenewei.com

Devon ☀️

@devonzuegel

I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait. Prev @GitHub @NotionHQ @Affirm @StanfordReview. Now building @Esmeralda_Inst

JD Ross

@justindross

I take the side of people who build. Started WithCoverage to modernize insurance. Co-founded Opendoor $OPEN