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Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian

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

Sam Altman

@sama

AI is cool i guess

FL

#12

Fei-Fei Li

@drfeifei

Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, #AI #SpatialIntelligence #GenAI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare

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.

François Chollet

@fchollet

Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

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.

Sebastien Bubeck

@SebastienBubeck

I work on AI at OpenAI. Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

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

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

@jaschasd

Member of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.

Liam Fedus

@LiamFedus

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

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

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

Paul Graham

@paulg

Max Welling

@wellingmax

Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang

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

Natasha Jaques

@natashajaques

Assistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.

Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas

CEO @perplexity_ai

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

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab Part time @humansand LLMs for Humans

Rosanne Liu

@savvyRL

Mom. Cofounded & running @ml_collective. Co-host of Deep Learning Classics & Trends. Research at Google DeepMind. DEI/DIA Chair of ICLR & NeurIPS.

Eric Horvitz

@erichorvitz

Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft

Azalia Mirhoseini

@Azaliamirh

Founder @RicursiveAI, Asst. Prof. of CS at Stanford. Prev: DeepMind, Anthropic, Brain. Co-Creator of MoEs, AlphaChip, Test Time Scaling.

Satya Nadella

@satyanadella

Chairman and CEO at Microsoft

Stephanie Chan

@scychan_brains

Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Artificial & biological brains 🤖 🧠 Societal impacts of AI + Science of AI. Views are my own.

Leopold Aschenbrenner

@leopoldasch

http://situational-awareness.ai

Shunyu Yao

@ShunyuYao12

Language agents

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur & Investor

Dawn Song

@dawnsongtweets

Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, co-Director of Berkeley RDI Center; Building safe, secure, decentralized AI; Serial entrepreneur

near

@nearcyan

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

Jure Leskovec

@jure

Professor of #computerscience @Stanford; Co-founder at http://Kumo.AI #machinelearning #graphs.

Dhruv Batra

@DhruvBatra_

Co-founder & Chief Scientist @yutori_ai. Prev: Senior Director leading FAIR Embodied AI @MetaAI and Professor @GeorgiaTech.

hattie

@oh_that_hat

Building friendly AI.

Vinod Khosla

@vkhosla

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

Danijar Hafner

@danijarh

Building AI that autonomously understands and interacts with the world. Previous: @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley @UofT

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.

Jiajun Wu

@jiajunwu_cs

Assistant Professor at @Stanford CS

Zhou Yu

@Zhou_Yu_AI

Founder of http://Arklex.ai, Associate Professor at Columbia. Making ai agent design and deployment easy, safe, and fast! Forbes 30 under 30.

Sam Schoenholz

@sschoenholz

@openai previously: @thinkymachines, google brain.

Dean W. Ball

@deanwball

Leap into the boundless and make it your home

Csaba Szepesvari

@CsabaSzepesvari

"If there is not folly in the world, then the world itself is folly. You must understand that mistakes are not always regrets." - Paul Tobin, Bandette🤠

Jiahui Yu

@jhyuxm

Lead Multimodal @Meta Superintelligence Lab. Previously led Perception @OpenAI; co-led Gemini Multimodal @GoogleDeepMind.

Roberta Raileanu

@robertarail

Open-Ended Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Honorary Lecturer @UCL. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton.

Kory Mathewson

@korymath

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

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

Dr. Joy Buolamwini

@jovialjoy

Founder Algorithmic Justice League @AJLUnited | http://instagram.com/poetofcode -Bestselling Author of Unmasking AI 📚 Read Here: http://www.unmasking.ai

elvis

@omarsar0

Building self-improving AI @dair_ai • Prev: Meta AI | PhD • Learn about AI Agents for FREE here: https://academy.dair.ai/courses/elements-of-ai-agents

Sang Michael Xie

@sangmichaelxie

self-improving @OpenAI. Prev: PhD @StanfordAILab, @GoogleAI Brain/DeepMind, @Meta GenAI

Kenneth Stanley

@kenneth0stanley

SVP of Open-Endedness @LilaSciences. Prev: Maven CEO, Lead@OpenAI, Uber AI, prof@UCF. NEAT,HyperNEAT,novelty search, POET. Book:Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned