Here we feature prominent researchers, leaders, and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence. We also have a special section for Women in AI.
Ashish Vaswani
Ashish Vaswani is a key figure in modern AI, best known for co-creating the Transformer, the architecture that unlocked today’s most powerful language models.
Sara Hooker
Sara Hooker is a machine learning researcher focused on interpretability, model efficiency, and expanding equitable access to AI, blending deep technical work with social impact.
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li is a pioneer in computer vision and human centered AI, whose research and leadership continue to guide the future of ethical, impactful artificial intelligence.
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt guided Google through its explosive growth, blending technical insight with steady leadership while championing AI, security, and forward looking tech policy.
Peter Norvig
A leading figure in AI, Peter Norvig has shaped modern research and education through influential work, widely used textbooks, and a commitment to practical, thoughtful innovation.
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a pioneering AI researcher known for shaping deep learning and cofounding OpenAI.
Sundar Pichai
A brief look at Sundar Pichai’s rise from product leader to CEO of Google and Alphabet, shaping the future of AI, search, and global digital access.
Charles Rosenberg
Charles Rosenberg is a Google AI leader known for advancing computer vision at scale and bringing powerful image recognition to real world products.
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a pioneering AI researcher and DeepMind cofounder, known for uniting neuroscience and computation to push the boundaries of artificial general intelligence.
Cassie Kozyrkov
Cassie Kozyrkov is a leading voice in decision intelligence and human centered AI, helping teams worldwide make clearer and more responsible data driven choices.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell is a pioneering researcher in ethical AI, focused on fairness, accountability, and building transparent systems that better reflect real people and real-world needs.
Llion Jones
Llion Jones is a key figure behind the transformer architecture, whose work reshaped AI and enabled the rise of today’s most powerful generative models.
Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin is a co founder of NEAR and a co author of the Transformer paper, influencing the direction of modern AI and the open web.
Blaise Agüera
A leading voice in AI research, exploring ethics, creativity, and the future of intelligence with a focus on transparency and responsible systems.
François Chollet
François Chollet is a pioneering deep learning researcher known for creating Keras and driving practical, human-aligned approaches to AI that focus on robustness and understanding intelligence.
Diederik Kingma
Diederik Kingma is a pioneer in generative AI, known for co creating the VAE and shaping core techniques that underpin today’s most advanced models.
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is a pioneer in deep learning, known for making complex neural network ideas accessible and shaping the modern AI ecosystem.
Wojciech Zaremba
Wojciech Zaremba is a cofounder of OpenAI known for breakthroughs in reinforcement learning and robotics that push machine intelligence forward.
We welcome suggestions to prioritize additions to this collection of great people.
Featured Legends of AI
We use the following prompt to create the basic outline for the profiles listed here (we use ChatGPT Atlas, supplemented with Perplexity information in recent news): Write a post about this person with an introduction paragraph, followed by details about this person, followed by a bullet list of key achievements. Do not include links in the copy. Insert a 1-sentence TL;DR at the beginning.
This is the current Sora prompt we use to create the profile images: Create a well-lit, well-composed color portrait photo of this person wearing a dark blue suit with a black cinema curtain background.
And this one for group shots: Create a well-lit, well-composed color group portrait photo of these people wearing dark blue clothes against a black cinema curtain background.
We also use NotebookLM for experimental infographics with the following prompt: Use #111111 as the background color, white as the main color, and #4d87ff as the accent color.