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- Aidan 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.
- Ali 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.
- Arthur MenschArthur Mensch is a French AI researcher who worked at DeepMind before co-founding Mistral AI in 2023, where he serves as chief executive. He is a co-author of the Chinchilla scaling paper and the Mistral 7B paper.
- Ashish 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.
- Clément 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.
- Connor 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.
- Emad 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.
- Guillaume LampleGuillaume Lample is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mistral AI. He was the last of 14 authors on the LLaMA paper and co-authored the Mistral 7B paper.
- Illia 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]
- Jacob 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.
- Jakob 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]
- Julien 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.
- Liang WenfengLiang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer and founded the AI company DeepSeek in 2023. He is the corresponding author of the DeepSeek-R1 paper published in Nature in 2025.
- Llion 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.
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook. He recruited the founding researchers of Facebook AI Research in 2013 and announced Meta Superintelligence Labs in 2025.
- Nat 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.
- Niki ParmarNiki Parmar is one of the eight authors of "Attention Is All You Need", the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, and is named in Google's own account of that work.
- Noam ShazeerNoam Shazeer is an AI researcher who co-wrote the Transformer paper and was first author of the paper on sparsely gated mixture-of-experts layers. He co-founded Character.AI, returned to Google in 2024, and announced a move to OpenAI in 2026.
- Percy LiangStanford computer science professor who directs the Center for Research on Foundation Models and works on making language models more open and more rigorously benchmarked.
- Thomas 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.