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• AAicha 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.
• AAidan GomezAidan Gomez is a Canadian computer scientist, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, and one of the eight authors of the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture.
• AAlexandr 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.
• AAmnon 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.
• AAshish VaswaniAshish Vaswani is a computer scientist best known as the first-listed author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. He also co-founded the AI companies Adept and Essential AI.
• BBernt 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.
• BBrett 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.
• CCao 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.
• CChelsea 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.
• CChris OlahChris Olah is a Canadian machine learning researcher and co-founder of Anthropic, known for work on mechanistic interpretability, the effort to understand the internal workings of neural networks.
• CChris 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.
• CClaude ShannonAmerican mathematician and electrical engineer whose 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" gave communication engineering a mathematical foundation.
• CConnor LeahyConnor Leahy is a German-American AI researcher and AI-safety advocate. He co-founded EleutherAI in 2020, co-founded the AI-safety company Conjecture, and in 2026 became US Director of the advocacy group ControlAI.
• DDaniela AmodeiDaniela Amodei is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Anthropic, where she serves as President and leads teams focused on AI safety and alignment. She previously worked at Stripe and OpenAI.
• DDario AmodeiDario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. He previously worked at OpenAI, where he was Vice President of Research and co-authored the GPT-2 paper and led the research for GPT-3.
• EElon 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.
• FFei-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.
• GGavin 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.
• GGeoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton is a computer scientist born in London whose research on neural networks, including back-propagation and deep convolutional networks, is central to deep learning. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• IIllia PolosukhinIllia Polosukhin is one of the eight authors of the 2017 Transformer paper and a co-founder of NEAR Protocol. A 2024 NEAR post identifies him as CEO of the NEAR Foundation.[^1][^3][^6]