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• 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.
• AAndreas 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.
• 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.
• DDavid 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.
• EEmad 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• NNorbert WienerMathematician Norbert Wiener is widely considered the founder of cybernetics, the study of regulatory systems. His 1948 book Cybernetics treated feedback formally and framed control and communication as one problem for animals and machines.
• PPatrick EsserPatrick Esser is a researcher on generative image and video models: a co-author of the latent diffusion paper that became the basis of Stable Diffusion, lead author of the Stable Diffusion 3 paper, and a 2024 co-founder of Black Forest Labs.
• RRobin RombachFirst author of the latent diffusion paper that underlies Stable Diffusion, and later co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models.
• TThomas 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.
• WWojciech 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.
• ZZhou ZhihuaZhou Zhihua is a Chinese computer scientist at Nanjing University who works on ensemble learning, weakly supervised learning and multi-label learning. He founded the LAMDA institute there, serves as a university vice president, and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025.