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- Aicha EvansAicha Evans is chief executive of Zoox, the autonomous ride-hailing company Amazon acquired, and stayed on to lead it as a standalone business after the deal.
- Amnon ShashuaAmnon Shashua is the founder of Mobileye, which grew out of his Hebrew University research into single-camera vehicle detection; he has led the company as chief executive since Intel acquired it in 2017.
- Anastasis GermanidisAnastasis Germanidis is a co-founder of Runway, the generative AI video company he started in 2018, and a co-author of the research behind Gen-1, Runway's video-to-video generation model.
- Andreas BlattmannAndreas Blattmann is a researcher on generative image models, second author of the latent diffusion paper behind Stable Diffusion, co-author of the Stable Diffusion 3 paper, and a 2024 co-founder of Black Forest Labs, which released the FLUX.1 models.
- Bernt Øyvind BørnichBernt Øyvind Børnich is CEO of 1X Technologies, the robotics company he founded in 2014 as Halodi Robotics; its work spans humanoid robots and the Revo1 servo motor.
- Brett AdcockBrett Adcock is a founder of several technology companies, including the recruiting platform Vettery, the electric aircraft maker Archer Aviation and the humanoid robotics company Figure AI, where he is chief executive.
- Cao XudongCao Xudong, a former Microsoft researcher, founded Momenta, a physical AI company, in 2016 and leads it as chief executive; he took it public in Hong Kong in 2026 and now points it toward robots.
- Chelsea FinnChelsea Finn is a computer scientist and assistant professor at Stanford University whose research spans meta-learning, deep reinforcement learning and robot learning; she is a co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
- Cheng YixiaoCheng Yixiao is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou, served as its chief product officer, and has been its chief executive officer since 2021 and chairman since 2023.
- Chris UrmsonChris Urmson is co-founder and chief executive officer of Aurora, the self-driving company he leads. Under him Aurora announced the acquisition of Uber's self-driving unit and put driverless commercial trucks on public roads.
- Clément DelangueClément Delangue is a French entrepreneur who co-founded Hugging Face in 2016 and runs it as CEO, leading its shift from a chatbot app to an open machine-learning platform and model hub.
- Cristóbal ValenzuelaCristóbal Valenzuela is a Chilean-born technologist and the co-founder and CEO of Runway, the New York company behind the Gen series of AI video models.
- David HolzDavid Holz is the founder of Midjourney, a San Francisco independent research lab whose text-to-image tool became one of the best-known AI art generators. He earlier co-founded the hand-tracking hardware company Leap Motion.
- Dowson TongSenior executive at Tencent: Senior Executive Vice President and head of the Cloud and Smart Industries Group since October 2018, previously president of the Social Network Group responsible for QQ, and chairman of Tencent Music Entertainment Group.
- Durk KingmaDurk Kingma is a machine learning researcher and co-author of the variational autoencoder and the Adam optimizer; he has worked at OpenAI, Google Brain / DeepMind and Anthropic.
- Eddie WuEddie Wu is a co-founder of Alibaba Group who has been its chief executive officer and a director since September 2023, after more than two decades in technical and business roles across Alipay, Alimama and Taobao.
- Elon MuskElon Musk is an entrepreneur who led SpaceX and Tesla, co-founded PayPal's predecessors and OpenAI, and founded xAI, the company behind the Grok models.
- Emad MostaqueEmad Mostaque is a British-Bangladeshi former hedge fund manager who founded Stability AI in 2019 and served as its CEO until he resigned in March 2024.
- Ian GoodfellowIan Goodfellow is a machine learning researcher and first author of the 2014 paper that introduced generative adversarial networks, which train a generator and a discriminator against each other. He has worked at OpenAI, Google Brain, Apple and Google DeepMind.
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang is a founder of NVIDIA and has served as its president, CEO and board member since the company was founded in 1993. NVIDIA credits the company's invention of the GPU and its work in accelerated computing to that era.