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Michael Seibel

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BIO

Partner Emeritus at YC - Retired.

#1030in/Tech

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Teaching

Teaching21.5%

Informing15.4%

Supportive14.9%

Provocative14.7%

Hopeful12%

Announcing11.2%

Humorous7.8%

Other2.7%

Topics

Founder Advice

Founder Advice33.3%

YC Startups18.7%

SF Public Policy17%

California Politics10.9%

AI Research Tools7.7%

Series A Funding6.9%

GovTech Startups5.7%

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Sam Altman

@sama

AI is cool i guess

Paul Graham

@paulg

#49

Richard Socher

@RichardSocher

Building self-improving superintelligence CEO @recursive_si and @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Ex: Stanford Adj Prof, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind

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.

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

Sharing AI research. Early work on AI (GPT-J, scaling, MoE). Ex ML PhD (GT) & Google.

Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang

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

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

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

Elad Gil

@eladgil

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Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

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Jeff Bezos

@JeffBezos

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Balaji

@balajis

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

Aaron Levie

@levie

ceo @box - your business lives in content. unleash it with AI

Leopold Aschenbrenner

@leopoldasch

http://situational-awareness.ai

Greg Yang

@TheGregYang

xai cofounder. fighting lyme

Adam D'Angelo

@adamdangelo

CEO of Quora, working on Poe: @poe_platform

Nikita Bier

@nikitabier

head of product @x, advisor @solana, venture partner @lightspeedvp, ex-founder @gasappteam (acq by discord), ex-founder @thetbhapp (acq by facebook)

Smerity

@Smerity

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

Animesh Garg

@animesh_garg

Foundation Models for Generalizable Autonomy in Robotics. Reinforcement Learning. Faculty in AI Robotics @GeorgiaTech. Prev @nvidia @UCberkeley @stanford

Emmett Shear

@eshear

CEO of Softmax: Massively Multiplayer Learning Environments

near

@nearcyan

allow yourself to introspect and realize what was lost: twitter will never return to what it once was. close your phone; think about how you now spend your life

Bret Taylor

@btaylor

Co-Founder @SierraPlatform. Board @OpenAI.

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@gstsdn

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

David Luan

@jluan

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

Michael Truell

@mntruell

Building @cursor_ai

Chamath Palihapitiya

@chamath

God is in the details.

Suhail

@Suhail

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Brian Chesky

@bchesky

Airbnb

Ari Morcos

@arimorcos

CEO and Co-founder @datologyai working to make it easy for anyone to make the most of their data. Former: RS @AIatMeta (FAIR), RS @DeepMind, PhD @PiN_Harvard.

Keith Rabois

@rabois

entrepreneur, investor, contrarian

rapha

@rapha_gl

making models programmable @ openai

Ryan Petersen

@typesfast

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Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

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Kory Mathewson

@korymath

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Jack Altman

@jaltma

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Mo Bavarian

@mobav0

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Meredith Whittaker

@mer__edith

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Brad Lightcap

@bradlightcap

@OpenAI

Drew Houston

@drewhouston

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Aman Sanger

@amanrsanger

@cursor_ai founder

Alex Albert

@alexalbert__

Research @AnthropicAI. Opinions are my own!

Jason Kwon

@jasonkwon

CSO @openai

Ed H. Chi

@edchi

Research VP @ GoogleDeepMind. ACM Fellow.

Rylan Schaeffer

@RylanSchaeffer

AI RS @ Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, Meta, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis

Sherjil Ozair

@sherjilozair

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Patrick OShaughnessy

@patrick_oshag

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Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

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@Yuchenj_UW

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Alexis Ross

@alexisjross

currently @humansand | phd-ing @MIT_CSAIL & working towards personalized AI tutors | formerly @allen_ai, @harvard '20

Daniel Ek

@eldsjal

Father, Principal @ PM - Trying to build things that matter | Founder of Spotify and Neko Health

Emily Chang

@emilychangtv

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