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People in AI news

205 people named in our events, posts and videos, grouped by what they do. Each group is sorted by the number of events that name them.

Lab leaders

33 people

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

72 events, 43 posts, 81 videos

Elon Musk

CEO, Tesla and SpaceX (including SpaceXAI / xAI)

44 events, 31 posts, 61 videos

Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder, Anthropic

42 events, 21 posts, 81 videos

Jensen Huang

Founder, president and CEO, NVIDIA

23 events, 11 posts, 28 videos

Demis Hassabis

Chair of Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist of Alphabet; CEO of Isomorphic Labs

21 events, 13 posts, 7 videos

Greg Brockman

President and co-founder, OpenAI

18 events, 15 posts, 12 videos

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

12 events, 17 posts, 15 videos

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google and Alphabet

10 events, 10 posts, 15 videos

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence (SSI)

10 events, 2 posts, 13 videos

Alexandr Wang

Chief AI Officer, Meta; head of Meta Superintelligence Labs

6 events, 12 posts, 15 videos

Koray Kavukcuoglu

SVP running Google DeepMind; Chief AI Architect, Google

5 events, 4 posts, 4 videos

Nat Friedman

Head of product, Meta Superintelligence Labs

4 events, 5 posts, 1 video

Clément Delangue

Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face (being acquired by NVIDIA)

4 events, 4 posts, 1 video

Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

4 events, 2 videos

Fidji Simo

Part-time advisor, OpenAI (former CEO of Applications / AGI Deployment)

4 events

Liang Wenfeng

Founder and CEO, DeepSeek; co-founder, High-Flyer

4 events

Tom Brown

Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic

2 events, 1 post, 5 videos

Arthur Mensch

Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI

2 events, 2 posts, 1 video

Yang Zhilin

Co-founder and CEO, Moonshot AI (Kimi)

2 events, 1 video

Mira Murati

Co-founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab

2 events

Rohit Prasad

CEO, Boston Dynamics (from Oct 7, 2026)

2 events

Guillaume Lample

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Mistral AI

1 event, 4 posts, 1 video

Marc Benioff

Chair and CEO, Salesforce

1 event, 2 posts, 3 videos

Researchers

80 people

Terence Tao

Professor of mathematics, UCLA

41 events, 27 posts, 27 videos

Geoffrey Hinton

University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

20 events, 1 post, 11 videos

Yoshua Bengio

Professor, Université de Montréal; founder of Mila and LawZero

18 events, 2 posts, 6 videos

Jacob Coxon

Former Anthropic pretraining researcher (resigned Sept 2026)

14 events, 5 posts, 51 videos

Levent Alpöge

Mathematician, member of technical staff, Anthropic

10 events, 7 posts, 19 videos

Daniel Kokotajlo

Executive director, AI Futures Project

8 events, 2 posts, 11 videos

Timothy Gowers

Professor, Collège de France and University of Cambridge

8 events, 5 posts, 4 videos

Thomas Bloom

Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Manchester; runs erdosproblems.com

8 events, 2 posts, 1 video

Alex Turner

Independent alignment researcher (left Google DeepMind, 2026)

7 events, 5 posts, 5 videos

Pushmeet Kohli

Chief Scientist, Google Cloud; VP of Research, Google DeepMind

7 events, 5 posts, 4 videos

Kevin Buzzard

Professor of pure mathematics, Imperial College London

7 events, 5 posts, 1 video

Scott Aaronson

Professor of computer science, UT Austin

7 events, 2 posts, 2 videos

Chris Olah

Co-founder and interpretability researcher, Anthropic

6 events, 2 posts, 9 videos

Andrej Karpathy

Pre-training researcher, Anthropic (Eureka Labs paused)

5 events, 8 posts, 5 videos

Jacob Tsimerman

AI-safety researcher, OpenAI (on leave from University of Toronto)

5 events, 1 post, 2 videos

Noam Shazeer

OpenAI (joined from Google, June 2026)

5 events, 1 post

Evan Hubinger

Alignment science lead, Anthropic

4 events, 2 posts, 16 videos

Daniel Litt

Assistant professor of mathematics, University of Toronto (visiting Harvard, fall 2026); commentator on AI and maths

4 events, 6 posts

Geoffrey Irving

Co-founder and chief scientist, Resolution; former chief scientist, UK AI Security Institute

4 events, 2 posts, 3 videos

Yann LeCun

Founder and chair, AMI Labs; professor, NYU

4 events, 4 videos

Paul Christiano

Founder and executive director, Alignment Research Center; OpenAI Foundation board member; senior technical advisor, NIST CAISI

4 events, 3 videos

John Jumper

Anthropic (joined from Google DeepMind, 2026)

4 events, 1 post

Neel Nanda

Mechanistic interpretability lead, Google DeepMind

3 events, 3 posts, 4 videos

Noam Brown

Researcher (reasoning), OpenAI

3 events, 3 posts, 4 videos

Nathan Lambert

Co-founder and executive director, Trillium Labs; author of Interconnects

3 events, 3 posts, 1 video

Shane Legg

Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind; co-leads the DeepMind Institute

3 events, 3 posts

Mark Chen

Chief Research Officer, OpenAI

3 events, 1 post, 1 video

Stuart Russell

Professor of computer science, UC Berkeley

3 events, 2 videos

Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs; to become AMD EVP and Chief Scientist

3 events, 1 video

Thomas Hales

Mathematician, University of Pittsburgh

3 events, 1 post

Benjamin Antieau

Mathematician (Northwestern); Executive Director, Hexagon Mathematics Foundation

3 events

Boaz Klartag

Mathematician, Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science

3 events

Jared Kaplan

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

2 events, 1 post, 3 videos

Jan Leike

Alignment research lead, Anthropic

2 events, 2 posts

Nicholas Carlini

Research scientist, Anthropic (Safeguards team)

2 events, 2 videos

Steven Strogatz

Mathematician and writer, Cornell University; Leiden Declaration signatory

2 events, 1 post, 1 video

Timnit Gebru

Founder and executive director, DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)

2 events, 2 videos

Toby Ord

Philosopher (Oxford), author of The Precipice

2 events, 1 post

Bill Peebles

Former head of Sora at OpenAI (left April 2026)

2 events

Ajeya Cotra

Risk assessment, METR

1 event, 2 posts, 6 videos

Sholto Douglas

Researcher (scaling RL), Anthropic

1 event, 1 post, 2 videos

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI; co-founder, Coursera; adjunct professor, Stanford

1 event, 1 post, 1 video

Graham Neubig

Associate professor, Carnegie Mellon LTI; co-founder and chief scientist, OpenHands

1 event, 1 post

Hanna Hajishirzi

VP at Microsoft AI; previously led Ai2's Olmo and Tulu open models

1 event, 1 post

John Schulman

Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab

1 event, 1 post

Shengjia Zhao

Chief Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs

1 event, 1 post

Tim Dettmers

Professor, Carnegie Mellon; research scientist, Ai2

1 event, 1 post

Tom Zick

Co-founder and president, Trillium Labs

1 event, 1 post

Alec Radford

Independent researcher (at OpenAI 2016-2024)

1 event

Anca Dragan

VP, AI Safety & Behavior, Google DeepMind

1 event

Brian Christian

Research fellow, Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), UC Berkeley; author of The Alignment Problem

1 event

Frances Arnold

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, Caltech

1 event

George Tsoukalas

Researcher, Google DeepMind; lead author of AlphaProof Nexus

1 event

Ion Stoica

Professor, UC Berkeley; co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale

1 event

Josh Alman

Computer scientist, Columbia University

1 event

Matei Zaharia

Co-founder and CTO, Databricks; professor, UC Berkeley

1 event

Matthew Schwartz

Theoretical physicist, Harvard University; visiting researcher at Anthropic (2026)

1 event

Paolo Benanti

Franciscan theologian and AI ethicist, Pontifical Gregorian University; Vatican AI adviser

1 event

Pieter Abbeel

Leads Amazon's Frontier Model Research group; professor, UC Berkeley

1 event

Richard Sutton

Professor, University of Alberta; co-founder, Oak Lab

1 event

Shing-Tung Yau

Director, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University; Fields medallist

1 event

Swarat Chaudhuri

Research scientist, Google DeepMind; co-corresponding author of AlphaProof Nexus

1 event

Toby Walsh

Scientia Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney

1 event

Nick Bostrom

Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative

13 videos

Bartosz Naskręcki

Mathematician; vice-dean, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań)

2 posts, 1 video

Sam Bowman

AI alignment researcher, Anthropic (on leave from NYU)

1 post, 2 videos

Max Tegmark

Professor of physics, MIT; president, Future of Life Institute

Engineers

12 people

Thibault Sottiaux

Leads core product and platform, OpenAI (previously led Codex)

6 events, 8 posts, 6 videos

Logan Kilpatrick

Product lead, Google AI Studio and Gemini API

3 events, 3 posts, 3 videos

Peter Steinberger

Builds personal agents at OpenAI; creator of OpenClaw

2 events, 4 posts, 1 video

Dave Orr

Head of Safeguards, Anthropic

1 event, 2 videos

Felix Rieseberg

Engineer, Anthropic (Claude desktop app and Cowork)

1 event, 2 posts

Tang Tan

Chief Hardware Officer, OpenAI (co-founder of io)

1 event

Boris Cherny

Creator and head of Claude Code, Anthropic

2 posts, 5 videos

Founders

25 people

Jeff Dean

Co-founder and CEO, Discovery Loop

4 events, 3 posts, 1 video

Sergey Brin

Co-founder, Google; works on Gemini at Google DeepMind

3 events, 3 videos

Emad Mostaque

Founder and former CEO of Stability AI (left 2024)

3 events, 2 posts

Misha Laskin

Co-founder and CEO, Reflection AI

3 events, 2 videos

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face

2 events, 4 posts

Sam Rodriques

Founder, FutureHouse and Edison Scientific

2 events, 2 posts

Scott Wu

Co-founder and CEO, Cognition

2 events, 1 post, 1 video

Jony Ive

Founder, LoveFrom; co-founder of io (acquired by OpenAI in 2025), leads design work on OpenAI devices

2 events

Brett Adcock

Founder and CEO, Figure AI; founder and CEO, Hark

1 event, 1 post, 2 videos

Alex Atallah

Co-founder and CEO, OpenRouter (acquired by Stripe, agreement Aug 2026)

1 event, 1 post

Ben Mann

Co-founder of Anthropic; co-leads Anthropic Labs

1 event, 1 video

Quoc Le

Co-founder, Discovery Loop

1 event, 1 post

Yin Qi

Chairman, StepFun

1 event, 1 video

David Silver

Founder and CEO, Ineffable Intelligence; professor, University College London

1 event

Eric Ho

CEO and co-founder, Goodfire

1 event

Jonathan Ross

Groq founder; joined Nvidia in the Dec 2025 licensing/acqui-hire deal

1 event

Investors

9 people

David Sacks

Co-chair, PCAST; general partner, Craft Ventures

13 events, 3 posts, 8 videos

Peter Thiel

Investor; co-founder and chairman of Palantir, co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund

6 events, 1 post, 1 video

Masayoshi Son

Founder, chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group; chairman of Stargate LLC

4 events

Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder and CEO, Social Capital; co-host of the All-In podcast

2 events, 3 posts, 2 videos

Martin Casado

General partner, Andreessen Horowitz; TypeSafe AI board member (Oct 2026)

1 event

Sean Parker

Investor and board chairman, Stability AI; Napster co-founder

1 event

Policy

29 people

Donald Trump

President of the United States

66 events, 22 posts, 72 videos

Michael Kratsios

Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

11 events, 2 videos

Jack Clark

Co-founder, Anthropic; author of Import AI

10 events, 2 posts, 9 videos

Gavin Newsom

Governor of California

10 events, 1 post, 1 video

Pete Hegseth

US Secretary of Defense

8 events, 4 posts, 13 videos

Jay Clayton

Director of National Intelligence; White House AI czar (chair of the 'Super Intelligence Force')

6 events, 3 posts, 8 videos

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China

6 events, 7 videos

Jason Kwon

Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAI

6 events, 3 videos

Andy Burnham

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

5 events, 1 post, 1 video

David Robinson

Former OpenAI safety lead (resigned Oct 2026); earlier OpenAI's head of policy planning

4 events, 3 posts, 3 videos

Sriram Krishnan

Former Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI (2025-June 2026)

4 events, 2 posts, 3 videos

Ted Lieu

US Representative, California's 36th district

4 events, 2 posts, 1 video

Ro Khanna

US Representative, California's 17th district

4 events

Dean Ball

Head of Strategic Futures, OpenAI

3 events, 2 videos

JD Vance

Vice President of the United States

2 events, 3 videos

Alex Bores

New York State Assemblymember (D); sponsor of the RAISE Act

2 events, 1 post, 1 video

Ted Cruz

US Senator from Texas; chair, Senate Commerce Committee

2 events, 2 videos

Arati Prabhakar

Former Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

1 event

Evan Solomon

Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation

1 event

Henna Virkkunen

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission

1 event

Jeff Bleich

Anthropic executive (described as special envoy by Reuters and general counsel by Forbes Australia); former US ambassador to Australia

1 event

Robbie Torney

Head of AI & Digital Assessments, Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute

1 event

Commentators

10 people

Simon Willison

Independent developer and blogger (simonwillison.net); co-creator of Django

31 events, 11 posts, 1 video

Zvi Mowshowitz

Writer, 'Don't Worry About the Vase'

25 events, 15 posts, 1 video

Gary Marcus

Cognitive scientist and author; professor emeritus, NYU

8 events, 12 posts, 3 videos

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Founder and research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

3 events, 4 posts, 15 videos

Kevin Roose

Tech journalist, The New York Times; author of 'The AGI Chronicles'

2 events, 4 posts, 1 video

Dylan Patel

Founder and chief analyst, SemiAnalysis

2 events

Ethan Mollick

Associate professor, Wharton School

1 event, 4 posts, 5 videos

roon

Pseudonymous AI commentator on X, widely reported to work at OpenAI (affiliation not stated in his bio)

2 posts, 4 videos

Other

7 people

Pope Leo XIV

Pope, head of the Catholic Church

8 events, 2 posts, 7 videos

Kevin Weil

Former CPO and head of OpenAI for Science (left April 2026)

5 events, 2 posts

Hock Tan

CEO, Broadcom

4 events, 3 posts, 1 video

Bill Gates

Co-founder, Microsoft; chair, Gates Foundation

3 events, 10 videos

Shyam Sankar

Chief Technology Officer, Palantir

1 event, 4 videos