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“Creating @thinkymachines | @UofT @stanfordAILab @VectorInst
Yangjun Ruan is a PhD candidate at University of Toronto, visiting scholar at Stanford AI Lab, and Vector Institute affiliate. He researches scaling laws, LLM agents, and alignment. Tagged Researcher as his primary identity is academic AI paper output rather than faculty, founding, or safety specialization.
John Schulman
@johnschulman2
Recently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music
Jason Wei
@_jasonwei
ai researcher @meta superintelligence labs, past: openai, google 🧠
Mira Murati
@miramurati
Now building @thinkymachines. Previously CTO @OpenAI
Dan Roy
@roydanroy
@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.
Barret Zoph
@barret_zoph
@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain
Zico Kolter
@zicokolter
Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.
Sander Dieleman
@sedielem
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen, Veo). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal account).
Roger Grosse
@RogerGrosse
Horace He
@cHHillee
@thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale
Matthew Johnson
@SingularMattrix
Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).
Jason Weston
@jaseweston
Senior Director & RS @Meta + Visiting Prof NYU | OG in LLMs | Pretrain+Finetune in 2008+ | 148k+ citations | Current: Self-Improving & Co-Improving AI
Ashish Vaswani
@ashVaswani
Danqi Chen
@danqi_chen
Associate professor @princetonPLI @PrincetonCS MoTS @thinkymachines Previously: @facebookai, @stanfordnlp, @Tsinghua_Uni
Tom Goldstein
@tomgoldsteincs
Professor at UMD. AI security & privacy, algorithmic bias, foundations of ML. Follow me for commentary on state-of-the-art AI.
Eric Zelikman
@ericzelikman
cofounder & ceo @humansand - building ai for humans // was lgtm-ing @xAI, phd-ing @stanford
Dimitris Papailiopoulos
@DimitrisPapail
Researcher @MSFTResearch, AI Frontiers | Prof @UWMadison (on leave) | babas of Inez Lily.
rishi
@RishiBommasani
Economic impacts of AI; AI policy & governance @StanfordHAI Previous: Stanford CS PhD w/ @percyliang @jurafsky, Cornell CS
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu
@Yuhu_ai_
know thyself. co-founder @xai.
Ahmad Beirami
@abeirami
stealth // ex Gemini RL+Inference @GoogleDeepMind // Chat AI @AIatMeta // RL Agents @EA // ML+Information Theory @MIT+@Harvard+@GeorgiaTech
Songlin Yang
@SonglinYang4
pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. she/her/hers
Shunyu Yao
@ShunyuYao12
Language agents
Chris J. Maddison
@cjmaddison
ML faculty @UofT
Yann Dubois
@yanndubs
Posttraining @OpenAI | PhD @StanfordAILab
Quanquan Gu
@QuanquanGu
Professor @UCLA, Pretraining and Scaling at ByteDance Seed | Recent work: Seed2.0, SeedFold | Opinions are my own
Jimmy Ba
@jimmybajimmyba
100x | pumping MPI up co-founder @xai | @uoft
Preetum Nakkiran
@PreetumNakkiran
Mirendil
Stephen Roller
@stephenroller
MTS @thinkymachines. previously pre-training @googledeepmind, @character_ai, and @aiatmeta.
Dylan HadfieldMenell
@dhadfieldmenell
Associate Prof @MITEECS working on value (mis)alignment in AI systems; Safety & Alignment Advisor at http://Character.AI; @dhadfieldmenell@bsky.social; he/him
Ananya Kumar
@ananyaku
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
Yi Ma
@YiMaTweets
Chair Prof. in AI, HKU; Visiting Prof. of EECS, UCB For a Unified Theory of Intelligence: https://ma-lab-berkeley.github.io/deep-representation-learning-book/
Pavel Izmailov
@Pavel_Izmailov
Researcher @AnthropicAI 🤖 Assistant Professor @nyuniversity 🏙️ Previously @OpenAI #StopWar 🇺🇦
Kai-Wei Chang
@kaiwei_chang
Associate Professor @UCLAengineering/@UCLA. Area: #NLProc/#ML/#AI http://kwchang.net
Weijia Shi
@WeijiaShi2
PhD student @uwnlp | Prev @allen_ai @MetaAI @CS_UCLA | 🏠 http://weijiashi.notion.site
Yu Bai
@yubai01
Training Accelerations @OpenAI. Previously @SFResearch, PhD @Stanford.
Ruiqi Zhong
@ZhongRuiqi
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines. Human+AI collaboration. Scalable Oversight. Explainability. Prev @AnthropicAI PhD UC Berkeley'25; Columbia'19
Nelson Liu
@nelsonfliu
@OpenAI, tweets auto-deleted periodically.
Yao Fu
@Francis_YAO_
Scaling @xAI. Previously Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind
Rylan Schaeffer
@RylanSchaeffer
AI RS @ Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, Meta, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis
Guodong Zhang
@Guodzh
Maybe the real AGI was the friends we made along the way.
Kevin Lu
@_kevinlu
Research @thinkymachines
Ethan Caballero
@ethanCaballero
ML @Mila_Quebec ; previously @GoogleDeepMind
Weiyan Shi
@shi_weiyan
Prof @Northeastern | MIT TR-35 | #AI2050 Early Career Fellow | Prev @Columbia @StanfordNLP | Co-created CICERO | human-AI co-evolution + AI safety
Hailey Schoelkopf
@haileysch__
hillclimbing towards generality @anthropicai | prev @AiEleuther | views my own
Jeremy Bernstein
@jxbz
🧪 @thinkymachines ✍️ anon feedback @ http://admonymous.co/jxbz
Xiang Lisa Li
@XiangLisaLi2
PhD student at Stanford
Ricky T. Q. Chen
@RickyTQChen
Research Scientist. Meta. I build simplified abstractions of the world through the lens of dynamics and flows.
Chenlin Meng
@chenlin_meng
Co-founder & CTO @pika_labs | ex @StanfordAILab @Stanford | Hiring: Head of Engineering and Senior Engineer
Aryaman Arora
@aryaman2020
member of technical staff @stanfordnlp
Jiayi Pan
@jiayi_pirate
Research | Prev @xAI @Berkeley_AI | Views Are My Own
Jeremy Cohen
@deepcohen
Research fellow at Flatiron Institute, working on understanding optimization in deep learning. Previously: PhD in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon.