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• 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.
• AAli FarhadiAli Farhadi (born 1982) is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Washington who served as chief executive of the Allen Institute for AI from 2023 to 2026, a period that included fully open releases of the OLMo, Molmo and Tülu models.
• AAndrej KarpathyAI researcher and educator, born in Bratislava and raised partly in Toronto, who co-founded OpenAI, led AI at Tesla, taught Stanford's CS231n course, and later joined Anthropic's pre-training team.
• 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.
• CClaude ShannonAmerican mathematician and electrical engineer whose 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" gave communication engineering a mathematical foundation.
• CClément 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.
• 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.
• HHarry ShumHarry Shum is a computer scientist who spent most of his career at Microsoft, helping found Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing and later leading the company's AI and Research group. He is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow recognised for computer vision and graphics.
• 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]
• JJacob DevlinJacob Devlin is a research scientist and first author of BERT, a language model Google introduced in 2018 that reads text in both directions. He earlier worked on neural machine translation at Microsoft Research.
• JJakob UszkoreitJakob Uszkoreit is one of the eight authors of “Attention Is All You Need” and the founder of Inceptive, a company using AI to design biological molecules.[^1][^4]
• JJohn McCarthyJohn McCarthy (1927–2011) was an American computer scientist. His 1955 proposal is credited with coining the term “artificial intelligence”, he organised the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, and he created the LISP programming language.
• JJudea 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.
• JJulien ChaumondFrench entrepreneur who co-founded Hugging Face in 2016 and serves as its CTO, building the platform where open models and datasets are shared and speaking publicly for open-source AI.
• KKaiming HeKaiming He is a computer-vision and deep-learning researcher, first author of the 2015 ResNet paper that introduced residual connections, now a tenured associate professor at MIT.
• LLlion JonesLlion Jones is one of the eight authors of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" and a co-founder and CTO of Sakana AI.
• NNat FriedmanNat Friedman is a technology executive who led Xamarin as CEO, became CEO of GitHub after Microsoft acquired it, and later joined Meta to help lead Meta Superintelligence Labs.