The people shaping the AI tools and companies you use.

#13

Researcher

Yann LeCun

AI researcher and Turing Award winner

@ylecun

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Yann LeCun invented the convolutional neural network that modern computer vision is built on, shared the 2018 Turing Award, and spent 12 years as Meta's chief AI scientist. He left in November 2025 to found AMI Labs, a Paris-based startup building world models — his long-argued alternative to large language models.

#14

Operator

Alex Karp

Co-founder and CEO, Palantir

Palantir

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Alex Karp is the co-founder and CEO of Palantir — a philosophy PhD whose company nearly doubled revenue year over year, to $1.94 billion in a single quarter, on demand for its Artificial Intelligence Platform. He has run the company since founding it with Peter Thiel and others in 2003.

#15

Researcher

Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs

@drfeifei

Fei-Fei Li's ImageNet made a heretical claim stick: that data, not algorithms, was computer vision's real bottleneck — and AlexNet's 2012 breakthrough on her benchmark proved it. She now leads World Labs as co-founder and CEO, where the Marble model generates persistent, editable 3D worlds, alongside her Stanford professorship and co-directing role at Stanford HAI.

#16

Researcher

Jared Kaplan

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

Anthropic

Before Anthropic existed, Jared Kaplan wrote the scaling-laws paper showing model performance improves as a predictable function of compute, data, and parameters — the curve every frontier lab now budgets against. A Harvard-trained theoretical physicist who spent years on quantum gravity, he co-founded Anthropic and serves as its Chief Science Officer, where he helped create Constitutional AI.

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI

@AndrewYNg

Andrew Ng founded Google Brain, put the Stanford machine-learning course online that seeded Coursera, and now runs DeepLearning.AI alongside the venture studio AI Fund. His courses remain the default on-ramp for working engineers moving into machine learning.

#18

Researcher

Andrej Karpathy

Founder, Eureka Labs

@karpathy

'Software 2.0' — the claim that neural networks are replacing hand-written code — was Andrej Karpathy's phrase before it became industry consensus. An OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, he taught a generation of engineers through nanoGPT and nanochat, ran the education startup Eureka Labs for about 22 months, then joined Anthropic's pretraining team in May 2026.

#19

Founder

Michael Truell

Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)

@mntruell

Michael Truell co-founded Anysphere in 2022 with three MIT classmates and built Cursor, the AI-native code editor that forked Microsoft's own VS Code and sold it back to developers. The result: past $1 billion in annualized revenue within about three years and a $29.3 billion valuation.

#20

Researcher

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence

@ilyasut

Three eras of deep learning run through Ilya Sutskever: AlexNet, which proved neural networks worked; the GPT scaling bets he drove as OpenAI's chief scientist; and Safe Superintelligence, the lab he now runs as CEO on one premise — build safe superintelligence and ship nothing else first. He took the CEO seat after Meta hired away co-founder Daniel Gross.

#21

Operator

Mira Murati

Founder, Thinking Machines Lab

@miramurati

Mira Murati was OpenAI's chief technology officer through the ChatGPT era — and its interim CEO during the days after Sam Altman's ouster — before leaving to found Thinking Machines Lab. Her startup raised a $2 billion seed round, the largest on record, before shipping a product.

#22

Operator

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO, Microsoft AI

@mustafasuleyman

MSFT+6.68% today

Mustafa Suleyman is CEO of Microsoft AI, his third act after co-founding DeepMind and the assistant startup Inflection AI. Microsoft brought him aboard through a $650 million licensing deal that absorbed most of Inflection's staff, and has since narrowed his mandate to the part he cares most about: building Microsoft's own frontier models and its superintelligence effort.

#23

Founder

Clement Delangue

Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face

@ClementDelangue

Clement Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the platform where the open AI ecosystem hosts its models and datasets. Under him the company has pushed past hosting into hardware, selling the $70,000 Reachy 2 humanoid and a $299 desktop robot.

#24

Founder

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO, Cohere

@aidangomez

Aidan Gomez co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' — the paper that introduced the Transformer — as a Google Brain intern, then co-founded Cohere to sell language models to enterprises. Cohere's North platform now deploys AI agents inside banks, governments, and other buyers who keep data on their own infrastructure.