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Alan Turing (1912–1954) was a British mathematician whose 1936 paper defined computation with an abstract machine. His 1950 paper proposed the imitation game, now called the Turing test, and he is counted among the founders of artificial intelligence.

German computer scientist and co-author, with Sepp Hochreiter, of the 1997 LSTM paper. He has directed the Swiss AI lab IDSIA since 1995 and has publicly argued that some contributions to AI deserve more credit.

German computer scientist who co-developed the long short-term memory (LSTM) network, a recurrent neural network design for learning from sequences such as text and speech. He led the xLSTM work in 2024.

British computer scientist born in 1976 who specialises in reinforcement learning. He led DeepMind's AlphaGo project, co-authored the 2013 deep Q-network paper and later founded Ineffable Intelligence.

Demis Hassabis is a British AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and was the last author of the 2016 AlphaGo paper. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on predicting protein structures.

Czech computer scientist and lead author of word2vec, the 2013 methods that learn word vectors from text. His later work includes the fastText library and research on mathematical models that grow in complexity.

Arthur 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.

Durk Kingma is a machine learning researcher and co-author of the variational autoencoder and the Adam optimizer; he has worked at OpenAI, Google Brain / DeepMind and Anthropic.

Bernt 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.

Koray Kavukcuoglu is a DeepMind computer scientist who co-authored the first deep Q-network paper and later, as Google DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect, fronted successive Gemini model launches.

Spanish computer scientist (born 1983) who co-invented sequence-to-sequence learning, led DeepMind's AlphaStar research group, and became a technical lead on Gemini before leaving to start Discovery Loop.

Emad 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.

Shane Legg is a New Zealand AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind, known for helping popularise the term "artificial general intelligence" and for leading the company's AGI safety work.

First 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.

Andreas 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.

Patrick 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.

French 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.

Thomas 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.

Clément 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.

Timothée Lacroix is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Mistral AI, and a co-author of the LLaMA paper and the Mistral 7B paper.

Guillaume 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.