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People who shaped AI. Public professional records only.
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- Sergey LevineSergey Levine is a computer scientist who studies how robots can learn control behaviour from data. He is a professor at UC Berkeley and a co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
- Shane LeggShane Legg is a New Zealand AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind, known for helping popularise the term "artificial general intelligence" and for leading the company's AGI safety work.
- Shun-ichi AmariShun-ichi Amari (born 1936) is a Japanese mathematical engineer who founded information geometry and built theoretical foundations for machine learning and neural networks; he received the 2025 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology.
- Su HuaSu Hua is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou in 2011 and later stepped down as CEO, remaining involved in board leadership during the transition.
- Sundar PichaiIndian-born American executive who rose from leading Google Chrome and Android to become CEO of Google and then Alphabet, and who has overseen the company's push into AI, including Bard and Google DeepMind.
- Sun JianSun Jian was a computer-vision scientist who spent 13 years at Microsoft, co-created ResNet, and later became chief scientist at Megvii. He died aged 45 after a sudden illness in June 2022.
- Tang JieTang Jie is a Chinese computer scientist listed as a founder of Zhipu AI and its chief scientist, and a Tsinghua professor who created the AMiner academic database and co-authored the GLM pretraining work behind Zhipu's models.
- Tang XiaoouTang Xiaoou (1968–2023) was a Chinese computer vision researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and co-founder and chairman of SenseTime, one of China's best-known AI companies.
- Thomas WolfThomas Wolf is a co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, and the first author of the 2019 paper that introduced the company's open-source Transformers library to researchers and practitioners.
- Timothée LacroixTimothée Lacroix is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Mistral AI, and a co-author of the LLaMA paper and the Mistral 7B paper.
- Tomáš MikolovCzech computer scientist and lead author of word2vec, the 2013 methods that learn word vectors from text. His later work includes the fastText library and research on mathematical models that grow in complexity.
- Tom BrownTom Brown is an AI researcher listed among the co-founders of Anthropic and the first author of the 2020 paper that introduced GPT-3, one of the most widely cited demonstrations of few-shot learning in large language models.
- Wang HaifengWang Haifeng is Baidu's chief technology officer, an ACL and IEEE Fellow, and the first-listed author of the ERNIE technical reports behind the company's foundation models.
- Wang JianWang Jian is the founder of Alibaba Cloud and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was previously a Zhejiang University psychology professor and Microsoft Research Asia executive, and directs Zhijiang Laboratory.
- Wang XiaochuanChinese computer scientist and entrepreneur who built Sogou Search and the Sogou input method, led Sogou as CEO through its New York listing, and later founded the AI company Baichuan.
- Wang XingxingWang Xingxing (born 1990) is the founder and chief executive of Unitree, the robotics company behind the AlienGo and Go1 quadruped robots and the H1 humanoid robot.
- Wojciech ZarembaWojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist who co-founded OpenAI in 2015. He later led teams working on GPT models, GitHub Copilot and Codex.
- Wu YonghuiWu Yonghui is an AI researcher who spent nearly two decades at Google, worked on Google Brain and became a vice president of research at Google DeepMind, before joining ByteDance's Seed large-model team in 2025.
- Xiaodong HeXiaodong He is a JD.com vice president, deputy managing director of JD AI Research, and an IEEE Fellow. He works on conversational AI, including question answering, emotion detection, and public-service hotlines.
- Xu LiXu Li is a co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of SenseTime, the Chinese artificial intelligence company he helped start in 2014. He studied computer science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.