Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
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157 people with a written entry and a dated role history, and 130 more from the research index, grouped by the camp their current work sits in. Type a name, an organization or a camp to filter.
Scale next-token prediction 52
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Sam Altman OpenAI, CEO -
Dario Amodei Anthropic, CEO and co-founder - IAIoannis Antonoglou Reflection AI, Co-founder and CTO
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Greg Brockman OpenAI, President and co-founder - NBNoam Brown OpenAI, Research scientist, reasoning
- MCMark Chen OpenAI, Chief research officer
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Jeff Dean Google DeepMind, Chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research -
Nat Friedman Meta, Co-lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs -
Aidan Gomez Cohere, Co-founder and CEO -
Demis Hassabis Google DeepMind, CEO and co-founder - TJTang Jie Z.ai (Zhipu), Co-founder; chief scientist
- YJYan Junjie MiniMax, Founder and CEO
- SKSham Kakade Harvard University, Professor; co-director, Kempner Institute
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Jared Kaplan Anthropic, Chief science officer and co-founder -
Andrej Karpathy Anthropic, Pretraining research - KKKoray Kavukcuoglu Google DeepMind, Chief AI architect, Google; CTO, Google DeepMind
- MLMisha Laskin Reflection AI, Co-founder and CEO
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Shane Legg Google DeepMind, Co-founder; chief AGI scientist - PLPercy Liang Stanford University, Professor; director, Center for Research on Foundation Models
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Christopher Manning Stanford University, Professor; director, Stanford AI Lab -
Arthur Mensch Mistral, CEO and co-founder -
Mira Murati Thinking Machines Lab, Founder and CEO -
Elon Musk xAI (SpaceX AI division), Founder; SpaceX CEO - COChris Olah Anthropic, Co-founder; interpretability lead
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Jakub Pachocki OpenAI, Chief scientist - ZPZhang Peng Z.ai (Zhipu), CEO
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Joëlle Pineau Cohere, Chief AI officer -
Christopher Ré Stanford University, Professor - JSJohn Schulman Thinking Machines Lab, Chief scientist
- NSNoam Shazeer Google DeepMind, Co-lead, Gemini
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Mustafa Suleyman Microsoft AI, CEO, Microsoft AI -
Ilya Sutskever Safe Superintelligence, Co-founder and chief scientist - AVAshish Vaswani NVIDIA, Nemotron open models
- OVOriol Vinyals Google DeepMind, VP of research; co-lead, Gemini
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Alexandr Wang Meta, Chief AI officer; leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and TBD Lab - LWLiang Wenfeng DeepSeek, Founder
- WZWojciech Zaremba OpenAI, Co-founder
- YZYang Zhilin Moonshot AI, Founder and CEO
- BZBarret Zoph Google DeepMind, VP of research (Gemini post-training)
- PAPierre Ablin Apple, Machine learning researcher paper
- RARishabh Agarwal Periodic Labs, Researcher; adjunct professor, McGill paper
- DADan Alistarh ISTA and Neural Magic, Professor paper
- BCBryan Catanzaro NVIDIA, VP, applied deep learning research paper
- DYDaniel Y. Fu UC San Diego and Together AI, Assistant professor; VP kernels paper
- JGJeff Gore MIT, Professor of physics paper
- DGDavid Grangier Apple, Machine learning researcher paper
- JHJoel Hestness Cerebras, Distinguished research scientist paper
- MJMartin Jaggi EPFL, Associate professor paper
- DJDaxin Jiang StepFun, Co-founder and CEO paper
- CPCengiz Pehlevan Harvard University, Associate professor paper
- ARAditi Raghunathan Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant professor paper
- AGAndrew Gordon Wilson New York University, Professor paper
World models 39
- OCOliver Cameron Odyssey, Co-founder and CEO
- JFJim Fan NVIDIA, Co-lead, GEAR lab
- RFRob Fergus Meta, Head of FAIR
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Sanja Fidler Veeda AI, Founder and CEO -
Pascale Fung AMI Labs, Co-founder and chief research and innovation officer - DHDanijar Hafner Embo, Co-founder (reported)
- JHJeff Hawke Odyssey, Co-founder and CTO
- AJAmit Jain Luma AI, Co-founder and CEO
- JJJustin Johnson World Labs, Co-founder
- AKAlex Kendall Wayve, CEO and co-founder
- ALAlexandre LeBrun AMI Labs, CEO
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Yann LeCun AMI Labs, Founder and executive chairman; JEPA - DLDean Leitersdorf Decart, Co-founder and CEO
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Fei-Fei Li World Labs, Co-founder and CEO -
Raquel Urtasun Waabi, Founder and CEO - PDPim de Witte General Intuition, Co-founder and CEO
- SXSaining Xie AMI Labs, Co-founder and chief science officer
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Eric Xing MBZUAI and Carnegie Mellon University, President; professor - MAMahmoud Assran Meta, Research scientist, FAIR paper
- RBRandall Balestriero Brown University, Assistant professor paper
- NBNicolas Ballas Meta AI Research, Research scientist paper
- ABAmir Bar Imperial College London and AMI Labs, Assistant professor paper
- ABAdrien Bardes AMI Labs, Member of technical staff paper
- JBJiang Bian XYZ AI Lab, Co-founder paper
- YDYilun Du Harvard University, Assistant professor paper
- CGChuang Gan UMass Amherst and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Assistant professor paper
- QGQuentin Garrido AMI Labs, Member of technical staff paper
- MGMicah Goldblum Columbia University, Assistant professor paper
- AGAbhishek Gupta University of Washington, Assistant professor paper
- MLMingsheng Long Tsinghua University, Associate professor paper
- IMIshan Misra Meta, Research scientist, FAIR paper
- LPLerrel Pinto New York University and Meta Superintelligence Labs, Assistant professor paper
- MRMichael Rabbat AMI Labs, VP, world models paper
- MRMengye Ren New York University, Assistant professor paper
- MSMax Simchowitz Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant professor paper
- KSKoustuv Sinha Meta, Research scientist paper
- GTGraham Taylor University of Guelph and Vector Institute, Professor paper
- PVPascal Vincent Meta, Research scientist, FAIR; professor, Université de Montréal paper
- YWYisen Wang Peking University, Assistant professor paper
Physics AI and AI for science 52
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Anima Anandkumar Accelerated Understanding, Co-founder - VBVik Bajaj Prometheus, Co-founder and co-CEO
- RBRegina Barzilay MIT, Professor; AI faculty lead, Jameel Clinic
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Jeff Bezos Prometheus, Co-founder and co-CEO - GCGerbrand Ceder UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor
- KCKyle Cranmer University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor; director, Data Science Institute
- EDEkin Dogus Cubuk Periodic Labs, Co-founder
- LFLiam Fedus Periodic Labs, Co-founder and CEO
- BJBenedikt Jenik Accelerated Understanding, Co-founder
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John Jumper Anthropic, AI for science -
George Em Karniadakis Brown University, Professor of applied mathematics -
Pushmeet Kohli Google DeepMind, VP of research; head of AI for Science - JKJoseph Krause Radical AI, Co-founder and CEO
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Kristin Persson UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor; director, Materials Project - SRSam Rodriques Edison Scientific, Co-founder and CEO
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Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge, Professor of applied mathematics -
Andrew M. Stuart Caltech, Bren Professor - MWMax Welling CuspAI, Co-founder
- AWAndrew White FutureHouse, Co-founder; head of science
- AWAlexander Wissner-Gross Physical Superintelligence, Co-founder and chief scientist
- JCJoshua C. Agar Drexel University, Assistant professor paper
- AAAlan Aspuru-Guzik University of Toronto, Professor; director, Acceleration Consortium paper
- JBJohannes Brandstetter JKU Linz, Associate professor paper
- MBMichael Bronstein University of Oxford, Professor paper
- MJMarkus J. Buehler MIT, Professor paper
- JDJérôme Darbon Brown University, Professor of applied mathematics paper
- MDMarc Deisenroth Google DeepMind and UCL, Research director; professor paper
- ABAmir Barati Farimani Carnegie Mellon University, Associate professor paper
- ITIan T. Foster Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, Distinguished fellow; professor paper
- RGRafael Gómez-Bombarelli Lila Sciences, Chief scientific officer, physical sciences paper
- TJTommi Jaakkola MIT, Professor paper
- SJShuiwang Ji Texas A&M University, Professor paper
- SVSergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee, Knoxville and PNNL, Professor; chief scientist, AI/ML for physical sciences paper
- SKSimon Kohl Latent Labs, Founder and CEO paper
- KKKarsten Kreis NVIDIA, Principal research scientist paper
- AKAditi Krishnapriyan UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Assistant professor paper
- PLPietro Liò University of Cambridge, Professor of computational biology paper
- SMSiddhartha Mishra ETH Zurich, Professor of applied mathematics paper
- DADavid A. Muller Cornell University, Professor; director, electron microscopy facility paper
- MNMathias Niepert University of Stuttgart, Professor, ML for simulation science paper
- SPShyue Ping Ong National University of Singapore, Professor paper
- YSYew-Soon Ong Nanyang Technological University and A*STAR, Professor; chief AI scientist paper
- PPParis Perdikaris University of Pennsylvania, Associate professor paper
- PSPhilippe Schwaller EPFL, Assistant professor paper
- PSPanos Stinis Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mathematician paper
- JTJian Tang Mila and HEC Montréal, Associate professor; founder, BioGeometry paper
- KTKoji Tsuda University of Tokyo, Professor paper
- RKRama K. Vasudevan Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Group leader, Data NanoAnalytics, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences paper
- AWAron Walsh Imperial College London and CuspAI, Chair in materials design; chief scientific officer, CuspAI paper
- KGKevin G. Yager Brookhaven National Laboratory, Group leader paper
- RYRunlong Yu University of Alabama, Assistant professor paper
- LZLinfeng Zhang DP Technology, Chief scientific officer paper
Learn from experience 34
- ABAndrew Barto University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor emeritus
- MBMichael Bowling Amii / University of Alberta, Professor, University of Alberta; Amii fellow
- EBEmma Brunskill Stanford University, Professor
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John Carmack Keen Technologies, Founder - JCJeff Clune University of British Columbia, Associate professor; Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute
- SHSara Hooker Adaption Labs, Co-founder and CEO
- KJKhurram Javed Oak Lab, Co-founder
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Michael Littman Brown University, Professor - MCMarlos C. Machado Amii / University of Alberta, Assistant professor, University of Alberta; Amii fellow
- PPPatrick Pilarski Amii / University of Alberta, Professor, University of Alberta; Amii fellow
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Doina Precup McGill University and Mila, Professor; Canada CIFAR AI Chair - SRSudip Roy Adaption Labs, Co-founder
- DSDavid Silver Ineffable Intelligence, Founder
- KSKenneth Stanley Lila Sciences, SVP of open-endedness
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Peter Stone UT Austin, Professor -
Richard Sutton Oak Lab, Co-founder - VWVincent Weisser Prime Intellect, Co-founder and CEO
- AWAdam White Amii / University of Alberta, Professor, University of Alberta; Amii fellow
- MWMartha White University of Alberta and RL Core, Associate professor; CEO
- DADavid Abel Google DeepMind, Research scientist paper
- PAPulkit Agrawal MIT, Associate professor paper
- DBDavide Bacciu University of Pisa, Professor paper
- ABAndré Barreto Google DeepMind, Research scientist paper
- ACAntoine Cully Imperial College London, Professor paper
- HVHado van Hasselt Google DeepMind, Research scientist paper
- JHJonas Hübotter ETH Zurich, PhD student paper
- GKGeorge Konidaris Brown University, Professor paper
- JLJoel Lehman Lila Sciences, Machine learning researcher paper
- RMRoberto Martín-Martín University of Texas at Austin, Assistant professor paper
- PMPiotr Miłoś University of Warsaw, Associate professor paper
- RPRazvan Pascanu Google DeepMind, Research scientist paper
- TRTim Rocktäschel UCL and Recursive, Professor of AI; co-founder paper
- BVBenjamin Van Roy Stanford University and Google DeepMind, Professor; research lead paper
- SSSatinder Singh Google DeepMind and University of Michigan, Research scientist; professor paper
Physical AI and robotics 52
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Pieter Abbeel Amazon AGI Lab, Fulfillment technologies and robotics (via Covariant hire) -
Brett Adcock Figure, Founder and CEO - BBBernt Bornich 1X, Founder and CEO
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Rodney Brooks Robust AI, Co-founder and CTO - JCJeff Cardenas Apptronik, Co-founder and CEO
- JFJim Fan NVIDIA, Co-lead, GEAR lab
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Chelsea Finn Physical Intelligence, Co-founder - PFPete Florence Generalist AI, Co-founder and CEO
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Dieter Fox NVIDIA, Senior director of robotics research - TGThéophile Gervet Genesis AI, Co-founder
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Ken Goldberg UC Berkeley, Professor - KHKarol Hausman Physical Intelligence, Co-founder and CEO
- WHWang He Galbot, Founder and CTO
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Jensen Huang NVIDIA, CEO and co-founder; GR00T -
Peggy Johnson Agility Robotics, CEO - LKLeslie Kaelbling MIT, Professor
- SLSergey Levine Physical Intelligence, Co-founder
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Jitendra Malik UC Berkeley, Professor - CPCarolina Parada Google DeepMind, VP and head of robotics
- DPDeepak Pathak Skild AI, Co-founder and CEO
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Marc Raibert RAI Institute, Founder and executive director -
Daniela Rus MIT CSAIL, Director - ZXZhou Xian Genesis AI, Co-founder and CEO
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Wang Xingxing Unitree, Founder and CEO - AZAndy Zeng Generalist AI, Co-founder
- PZPeng Zhihui AgiBot, Co-founder
- ADAaron D. Ames Caltech, Bren Professor paper
- AFAlan Fern Oregon State University, Professor paper
- YFYanwei Fu Fudan University, Professor paper
- BGBaining Guo Microsoft Research, Distinguished scientist paper
- SHSehoon Ha Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant professor paper
- SHSiyuan Huang Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence, Director, Center of Embodied AI and Robotics paper
- MHMarco Hutter ETH Zurich, Professor; director, ETH Center for Robotics paper
- TYTsung-Yi Lin NVIDIA, Research director paper
- ZLZiwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Associate professor paper
- AMAnirudha Majumdar Princeton University, Associate professor paper
- SNSuraj Nair Physical Intelligence, Member of technical staff paper
- JPJiangmiao Pang Shanghai AI Laboratory, Head, Embodied AI Center paper
- XBXue Bin Peng Simon Fraser University and NVIDIA, Assistant professor; research scientist paper
- IDIan D. Reid MBZUAI, Professor of computer vision paper
- GRGuanghui Ren AgiBot, Researcher paper
- MSMinjoon Seo KAIST, Associate professor paper
- GSGuanya Shi Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant professor paper
- SSShuran Song Stanford University, Assistant professor paper
- KSKoushil Sreenath UC Berkeley, Associate professor paper
- JTJie Tan Google DeepMind, Principal research scientist and director paper
- DWDonglin Wang Westlake University, Professor paper
- XWXiaolong Wang UC San Diego and Meta Superintelligence Labs, Associate professor; research director paper
- SZShanghang Zhang Peking University, Assistant professor paper
- ZZZhaoxiang Zhang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor paper
- HZHang Zhao Tsinghua University and Galaxea, Assistant professor; co-founder paper
- YZYuke Zhu University of Texas at Austin and NVIDIA Research, Associate professor; distinguished research scientist paper
Program search and other substrates 53
- AAAlexander Amini Liquid AI, Co-founder and chief science officer
- SBShumeet Baluja Poetiq, Co-founder and co-CEO
- EBEli Bingham Basis, Co-founder
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François Chollet Ndea, Co-founder - VCViviane Clay Thousand Brains Project, Executive director
- BCBenjamin Crouzier Tufa Labs, Founder
- KEKevin Ellis Cornell University, Assistant professor
- KFKarl Friston Verses, Chief scientist
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Zoubin Ghahramani Google DeepMind, VP of research, Google -
Ben Goertzel SingularityNET, Founder and CEO - DHDavid Ha Sakana AI, Co-founder and CEO
- RHRamin Hasani Liquid AI, Co-founder and CEO
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Jeff Hawkins Thousand Brains Project, Research adviser and board member -
Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto, Professor emeritus -
Sepp Hochreiter Johannes Kepler University Linz, Professor -
Llion Jones Sakana AI, Co-founder and CTO - SKSubbarao Kambhampati Arizona State University, Professor
- MKMike Knoop Ndea, Co-founder
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Gitta Kutyniok LMU Munich, Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of AI - MLMathias Lechner Liquid AI, Co-founder and CTO
- EMEmily Mackevicius Basis, Co-founder
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Gary Marcus New York University, Professor emeritus -
Melanie Mitchell Santa Fe Institute, Professor -
Judea Pearl UCLA, Professor -
Kaushik Roy Purdue University, Distinguished professor -
Daniela Rus Liquid AI, Co-founder
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Jürgen Schmidhuber KAUST AI Initiative, Director, AI Initiative - ZTZenna Tavares Basis, Co-founder and director
- JTJoshua Tenenbaum MIT, Professor of computational cognitive science
- GVGuillaume Verdon Extropic, Founder and CEO
- JAJacob Andreas MIT, Associate professor paper
- PBPeter Beerel University of Southern California, Professor paper
- CEChris Eliasmith University of Waterloo and Applied Brain Research, Professor; CTO paper
- JKJason K. Eshraghian UC Santa Cruz, Assistant professor paper
- THTiejun Huang Peking University and BAAI, Professor; dean, BAAI paper
- GIGiacomo Indiveri University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Professor; director, Institute of Neuroinformatics paper
- SKSundong Kim Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Assistant professor paper
- GLGuoqi Li Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor paper
- ZLZhouchen Lin Peking University, Professor paper
- PYPierre-Yves Oudeyer Inria, Research director; head, Flowers lab paper
- GPGang Pan Zhejiang University, Professor; director, State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence paper
- GPGiovanni Pezzulo National Research Council of Italy, Research director paper
- YPYewen Pu Nanyang Technological University, Assistant professor paper
- RPRajesh P. N. Rao University of Washington, Professor paper
- SRSebastian Risi IT University of Copenhagen and Sakana AI, Professor; research scientist paper
- ASAbhronil Sengupta Penn State University, Associate professor paper
- OSOsvaldo Simeone Northeastern University London, Professor paper
- ASArmando Solar-Lezama MIT, Distinguished Professor of Computing paper
- HTHuajin Tang Zhejiang University, Professor paper
- JTJulian Togelius New York University, Professor paper
- SYSungroh Yoon Seoul National University, Professor paper
- YZYi Zeng Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor; director, Brain-Inspired Cognitive Intelligence Lab paper
- FZFriedemann Zenke Friedrich Miescher Institute and University of Basel, Senior group leader paper
Outside the camps 5
- EMEmily M. Bender University of Washington, Professor of linguistics
- YBYoshua Bengio LawZero, Founder and scientific director
- MIMichael I. Jordan UC Berkeley and Inria, Professor
- ANAndrew Ng DeepLearning.AI and AI Fund, Founder
- SRStuart Russell UC Berkeley, Professor; director, Center for Human-Compatible AI