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technology, science, venture capital // what does the future look like?

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Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

I like training large deep neural nets.

Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian

Co-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction

JF

#31

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

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 intern.

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Gemini/Omni Thinking, Senior Staff AE @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, Google Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

Liam Fedus

@LiamFedus

Building industrial-scale science at @periodiclabs Past: VP of Post-Training @OpenAI; Google Brain

Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang

chief ai officer @meta, founder @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time

Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

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

augustus odena

@gstsdn

Something new. Previously: AI research at TBD Labs / Meta; cofounder at @AdeptAILabs; Invented Scratchpad / Chain-of-Thought; Google Brain

Bob McGrew

@bobmcgrewai

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

Richard Ngo

@RichardMCNgo

natural philosopher

Rohan Pandey

@khoomeik

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

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur & Investor

near

@nearcyan

perhaps of the past, but greener pastures may still await us

Vinod Khosla

@vkhosla

entrepreneurship zealot, grounded technology possibilist, believer in the power of ideas, passionate about sustainability & impact

rapha

@rapha_gl

making models programmable @ openai

Mo Bavarian

@mobav0

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

Reid Hoffman

@reidhoffman

Co-Founder, LinkedIn. Investor. MSFT Board Member. Building an LLM to discover cures for cancer: @manas_co. Most importantly: Proud American.

Sherjil Ozair

@sherjilozair

prometheus | founder @GeneralAgentsCo | previously autopilot @tesla, deep learning @googledeepmind, phd http://mila.quebec, cs @iitdelhi

Jiajun Wu

@jiajunwu_cs

Assistant Professor at @Stanford CS

Rafael Rafailov @ NeurIPS

@rm_rafailov

I work on RL at @thinkymachines. Previously at @StanfordAILab @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley

Yu Su

@ysu_nlp

co-founder @NeoCognition | prof. @osunlp | sloan fellow | building towards abundance of specialized intelligence

Chelsea Sierra Voss

@csvoss

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

Daniel Levy

@daniellevy__

cofounder at @ssi

Ethan Caballero

@ethanCaballero

ML @Mila_Quebec ; previously @GoogleDeepMind

Jason Kwon

@jasonkwon

CSO @openai

Palmer Luckey

@PalmerLuckey

I am a technology enthusiast, writer, and modder. Founder of @ModRetro, @Oculus VR, and @Anduriltech. Keeping American superheroes safe with autonomous systems.

Russell Kaplan

@russelljkaplan

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

Chenlin Meng

@chenlin_meng

Co-founder & CTO @pika_labs | ex @StanfordAILab @Stanford | Hiring: Head of Engineering and Senior Engineer

Carina Hong

@CarinaLHong

@axiommathai : https://axiommath.ai/careers

Robert Nishihara

@robertnishihara

Co-founder @anyscalecompute. Co-creator of @raydistributed. Previously PhD ML at Berkeley.

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan @CVPR2026

@keerthanpg

Mother of robots. Research Lead Gemini Robotics @GoogleDeepmind. Author of "AI for Robotics" book. Opinions my own.

william

@wgussml

Project Prometheus, prev cofounder @generalagents, OpenAI, helped build copilot & MineRL, creator of ell

Brad Lightcap

@bradlightcap

@OpenAI

david rein

@idavidrein

Research Scientist @METR_Evals. Formerly: early employee @cohere, made GPQA @nyuniversity

William MacAskill

@willmacaskill

Consider donating 10% to effective charities: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge Or a career for impact: http://80000hours.org My research: http://forethought.org

Alexey Guzey

@alexeyguzey

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

Matt Shumer

@mattshumer_

Investor in @GroqInc @Etched @Rork @DaytonaIO @OpenRouter + more. Prev: CEO @HyperWriteAI, @OthersideAI Try: http://agent-s.app Press: mattshumermedia@gmail.com

Ross

@rpoo

Caitlin Kalinowski

@kalinowski007

Builder-strategist in physical AI. Boards: Axon, Institute of Contemporary Art SF.

Joshua Kushner

@JoshuaKushner

🤓

Anne Ouyang

@anneouyang

Building @Standard_Kernel, CS PhD student @Stanford | prev: cuDNN @Nvidia, M.Eng, B.S. in CS @MIT | efficient scalable self-improving AI systems | 🌽KernelBench

Abhi Venigalla

@ml_hardware

Researcher @Databricks. Former @MosaicML, @CerebrasSystems. Addicted to all things compute.

Maksym Andriushchenko

@maksym_andr

Principal investigator @ELLISInst_Tue & @MPI_IS, mentor @MATSprogram, PhD from @EPFL, past works: AgentHarm, HalluHard, Claudini, PostTrainBench, InferenceBench

Sonia Joseph

@soniajoseph_

interpretable video world models @AIatMeta

José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente

@ArtirKel

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

Rob Wiblin

@robertwiblin

Host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: http://80000hours.org/podcast/

Marc Benioff

@Benioff

ceo@salesforce.com chair@time.com

Kevin Scott

@kevin_scott

Chief Technology Officer @Microsoft; Host of #BehindTheTech podcast http://aka.ms/AA9tss9; Author of "Reprogramming the American Dream"

Matt Clifford

@matthewclifford

Co-founder @join_ef; Chair @ARIA_Research; Make Britain Rich Again.

Avi Singh

@avisingh599

Gemini RL @GoogleDeepMind. Previously worked on RL for robots. Ask for my strava and goodreads :)