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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.
• 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.
• AAnastasis 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• AAndrew BartoAndrew G. Barto is a computer scientist who helped establish reinforcement learning as a general framework and shared the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Richard Sutton.
• 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.
• BBrad LightcapBrad Lightcap is an OpenAI executive who served as chief financial officer and then chief operating officer, later overseeing business strategy, partnerships, infrastructure and global deployment before leaving the company in 2026.
• 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.
• CCheng 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.
• 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.
• CChristopher ManningChristopher Manning is a Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science, former SAIL director, and former ACL president, recognized with fellowships and academy memberships.
• 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.
• CCristóbal 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.
• 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.
• DDaniel GrossDaniel Gross co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. with Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy and served as its chief executive until early July 2025, when he moved to Meta's newly launched Meta Superintelligence Labs.