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People who shaped AI. Public professional records only.
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- Noam BrownNoam Brown is an AI researcher at OpenAI, listed on his homepage as working on reasoning, reinforcement learning, self-play and multi-agent AI. He is known for the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and for work on CICERO and reasoning models such as OpenAI o1.
- Noam ShazeerNoam Shazeer is an AI researcher who co-wrote the Transformer paper and was first author of the paper on sparsely gated mixture-of-experts layers. He co-founded Character.AI, returned to Google in 2024, and announced a move to OpenAI in 2026.
- Norbert WienerMathematician Norbert Wiener is widely considered the founder of cybernetics, the study of regulatory systems. His 1948 book Cybernetics treated feedback formally and framed control and communication as one problem for animals and machines.
- Ori GoshenOri Goshen is an Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded AI21 Labs in November 2017 with Yoav Shoham and Amnon Shashua and serves as its chief executive.
- Oriol VinyalsSpanish computer scientist (born 1983) who co-invented sequence-to-sequence learning, led DeepMind's AlphaStar research group, and became a technical lead on Gemini before leaving to start Discovery Loop.
- Patrick EsserPatrick Esser is a researcher on generative image and video models: a co-author of the latent diffusion paper that became the basis of Stable Diffusion, lead author of the Stable Diffusion 3 paper, and a 2024 co-founder of Black Forest Labs.
- Peng ZhihuiChinese engineer and technology communicator who worked on AI chips and algorithms at Huawei and co-founded the robotics company AgiBot, where he is president and chief technology officer.
- Percy LiangStanford computer science professor who directs the Center for Research on Foundation Models and works on making language models more open and more rigorously benchmarked.
- Pieter AbbeelPieter Abbeel is a UC Berkeley professor who directs the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-directs BAIR; his honors include the ACM Prize in Computing and IEEE Fellow status.
- Pony MaPony Ma is a co-founder of Tencent and serves as its chairman of the board and chief executive officer. He studied computer science at Shenzhen University and has spent his career in telecommunications and the internet industry.
- Quoc LeQuoc Le is a machine-learning researcher whose 2013 Stanford Ph.D. thesis was on scalable feature learning. He co-authored papers on large-scale unsupervised learning, sequence-to-sequence models, neural architecture search and EfficientNet; the sequence-to-sequence paper won a NeurIPS 2024 Test of Time award.
- Raj ReddyRaj Reddy is an Indian-born computer scientist who built the first system capable of continuous speech recognition and led major computing institutions at Carnegie Mellon University. He shared the 1994 ACM Turing Award with Ed Feigenbaum.
- Richard SuttonRichard Sutton is a computer scientist at the University of Alberta known for his work on reinforcement learning; he co-authored the field's standard textbook and shared the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Andrew Barto.
- Robin LiRobin Li (李彦宏) is a Chinese technologist and businessman who co-founded Baidu in 2000 and has been its chief executive since 2004. He is best known for the company's search business and its ERNIE AI models.
- Robin RombachFirst author of the latent diffusion paper that underlies Stable Diffusion, and later co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models.
- Rodney BrooksRodney Brooks (born 1954) is an Australian-born roboticist who promoted behaviour-based robotics and the subsumption architecture, directed MIT's AI Laboratory and CSAIL, and co-founded iRobot, Rethink Robotics and Robust.AI.
- Sam AltmanSam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. He ran the startup Loopt, was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and was removed as OpenAI’s CEO in 2023 before returning days later.
- Sam McCandlishSam McCandlish is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Anthropic, a co-author of influential work on scaling laws and GPT-3, and the company's first Responsible Scaling Officer.
- Satya NadellaSatya Nadella is the chief executive of Microsoft, who has led the company since 2014 and pushed it toward cloud computing and AI partnerships, including the 2019 deal with OpenAI.
- Sepp HochreiterGerman computer scientist who co-developed the long short-term memory (LSTM) network, a recurrent neural network design for learning from sequences such as text and speech. He led the xLSTM work in 2024.