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- Alec RadfordAlec Radford is a machine learning researcher who worked at OpenAI from 2016 to 2024. He was first author of the GPT-2, CLIP and Whisper papers, and lead author of the 2018 paper that introduced the GPT approach.
- Alexandr WangAmerican entrepreneur born in 1997 who co-founded Scale AI, a data-labelling and model-evaluation company, and became Meta's chief AI officer and leader of Meta Superintelligence Labs in 2025.
- 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.
- Andrew Chi-Chih YaoAndrew Chi-Chih Yao is a computer scientist born in Shanghai who won the 2000 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, and later founded Tsinghua University's Yao Class and IIIS.
- Arthur SamuelAmerican electrical engineer who built one of the first checkers-playing programs and, in a 1959 paper, helped name the field now called machine learning.
- 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.
- Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and electrical engineer whose 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" gave communication engineering a mathematical foundation.
- 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 BakerProtein scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, known for computational protein design: he designed a protein unlike any in nature in 2003 and received one half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- David RumelhartDavid Rumelhart (1942–2011) was an American cognitive psychologist. His 1986 work with colleagues helped bring back-propagation and neural-network models to a wide audience.
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis is a British AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and was the last author of the 2016 AlphaGo paper. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on predicting protein structures.
- Fei-Fei LiStanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet, the large-scale image dataset and challenge that gave data-driven computer vision a common benchmark, and has led AI research in both academia and industry.
- Gavin NewsomAmerican politician born in San Francisco in 1967; founder of the PlumpJack Group, former mayor of San Francisco, and California's 40th governor, who has both signed and declined to sign frontier-AI legislation.
- 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.
- Jiang DaxinJiang Daxin is founder and CEO of the Chinese AI company StepFun and a former Microsoft global vice president. He argues that scaling laws set the ceiling on model intelligence and that unifying multimodal understanding and generation is the path to AGI.
- John J. HopfieldAmerican physicist born in 1933 who invented the Hopfield network in 1982, a model that stores and recalls patterns using ideas from spin physics, and who received half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- John JumperAmerican scientist (born 1985) who worked on AlphaFold at Google DeepMind and shared half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for protein structure prediction.
- Joseph WeizenbaumBerlin-born American computer scientist who wrote ELIZA, an early program that held a written conversation with a user, and later published an influential critique of artificial intelligence.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl is a computer scientist and statistician who invented Bayesian networks and their main inference algorithms, and later built a mathematical framework for causal inference from data. He received the 2011 ACM Turing Award.