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- Aicha 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.
- Anastasis 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.
- Chris 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.
- 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.
- Cristóbal 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.
- Daniela 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.
- Dario 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.
- David 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.
- Gavin 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.
- Geoffrey 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.
- Ilya SutskeverIsraeli-Canadian computer scientist born in 1986 who co-built AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI and served as its chief scientist, and later founded Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- Jack ClarkJack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, where he has led policy and later public-benefit work and, from March 2026, the Anthropic Institute. He is also a co-author of the GPT-3 paper.
- Jakub PachockiJakub Pachocki is OpenAI's chief scientist. He joined the company in 2017, led work on GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, and helped refocus its research on scaling deep learning systems.
- Jan LeikeJan Leike is an AI alignment researcher who joined Anthropic in May 2024 after leaving OpenAI, where he had co-led the superalignment project with Ilya Sutskever.
- Jared KaplanJared Kaplan is a physicist turned AI researcher who co-founded Anthropic and serves as its Chief Science Officer. He was first author of the 2020 paper “Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.”
- Jesse LevinsonJesse Levinson is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Zoox, the autonomous ride-hailing company acquired by Amazon, where he continued to lead after the deal.
- John SchulmanAmerican AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI, led its reinforcement-learning team and helped develop the training methods behind ChatGPT; he later moved to Anthropic and then became chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab.
- Kyle VogtKyle Vogt is identified in General Motors' March 2016 announcement as the founder of Cruise Automation, the San Francisco startup GM acquired; the company he founded later ran driverless passenger service in San Francisco until California regulators suspended its permits in October 2023.
- Lilian WengLilian Weng is an AI researcher whose main public writing is her blog Lil'Log, which has carried her learning notes since 2017. Chinese-language coverage describes her as a Peking University alumna and reports on her years at OpenAI and her later moves.
- Mustafa SuleymanMustafa Suleyman is a British AI entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI, and in 2024 became chief executive of Microsoft AI, leading its Copilot and in-house model work.