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Michael Seibel

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BIO

Partner Emeritus at YC - Retired.

#1068in/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%

Top followers

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.

Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang

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

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

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

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

Entrepreneur & Investor

Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

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

Jeff Bezos

@JeffBezos

Six thousand years ago, someone invented the plow, and we all got wealthier. A gentle reminder that all civilizational wealth is driven by invention.

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

ex-head of product @x

Animesh Garg

@animesh_garg

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

Smerity

@Smerity

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

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

Emmett Shear

@eshear

CEO of Softmax: Massively Multiplayer Learning Environments

Bret Taylor

@btaylor

Co-Founder @SierraPlatform. Board @OpenAI.

Michael Truell

@mntruell

Building @SpaceXAI

augustus odena

@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.

Chamath Palihapitiya

@chamath

Social Capital 8090 God is in the details.

Suhail

@Suhail

Starting something new. Past: CEO & Founder @mixpanel Pizzatarian, engineer, music maker

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

research lead @ openai

Ryan Petersen

@typesfast

Founder and CEO of Flexport. Tariff whisperer

Jack Altman

@jaltma

Partner @Benchmark. Previously founded Alt Cap and Lattice.

Kory Mathewson

@korymath

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

Meredith Whittaker

@mer__edith

President of @signalapp, Chief Advisor to @ainowinstitute (Also on Mastodon @mer__edith@mastodon.world, also on bsky @meredithmeredith.bsky.social)

Mo Bavarian

@mobav0

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

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

Co-founder & CEO @Coinbase. Creating more economic freedom in the world. Co-founder @researchhub @newlimit. Not investment advice.

Brad Lightcap

@bradlightcap

@OpenAI

Aman Sanger

@amanrsanger

Building @SpaceXAI | @cursor_ai founder

Drew Houston

@drewhouston

Founder/CEO of Dropbox · Board of directors at Meta

Rylan Schaeffer

@RylanSchaeffer

Creating something new. Ex-Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis

Jason Kwon

@jasonkwon

CSO @openai

Alex Albert

@alexalbert__

Research @AnthropicAI. Opinions are my own!

Ed H. Chi

@edchi

Research VP @ GoogleDeepMind. ACM Fellow.

Sherjil Ozair

@sherjilozair

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

Yuchen Jin

@Yuchenj_UW

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

Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

Prev. Grok 4.5/4.6 pretraining scaling @xAI; Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind

Patrick OShaughnessy

@patrick_oshag

building @psumvc @colossusmag hosting @investlikebest

Alexis Ross

@alexisjross

founding researcher @humansand | phd @MIT_CSAIL | formerly @allen_ai, @harvard '20

Michael Chang

@mmmbchang

Sora/Robotics @openai Pilates instructor at BODYROK Prev: Gemini+Project Astra @GoogleDeepMind, @LangChainAI, @MetaAI, @SchmidhuberAI PhD @berkeley_ai BS @MIT

Daniel Ek

@eldsjal

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