The people shaping the AI tools and companies you use.
Meet the founders, operators, researchers, and investors whose decisions shape the tools and companies readers encounter every day.
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26 leaders to explore
#25Alexandr Wang
Founder, Scale AI
@alexandr_wang
Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI at 19, built it into the data-labeling and evaluation backbone of the frontier labs, then left in 2025 when Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale and made him its first Chief AI Officer. He now runs Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and CSO, Hugging Face
@Thom_Wolf
Thomas Wolf co-founded Hugging Face and, as chief science officer, created the Transformers library — the open-source package most machine-learning engineers use to load and run models. He now steers the company's research into small models and robotics.