Here we feature prominent researchers, leaders, and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence. We also have a special section for Women in AI.
Sam Altman
A central figure in modern AI, known for driving rapid progress while pushing for responsible development and global access to powerful models.
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a pioneering AI researcher known for shaping deep learning and cofounding OpenAI.
Peter Thiel
A brief look at Peter Thiel’s role in shaping modern tech and AI, from founding PayPal to driving bold ideas through Palantir and forward-thinking investments.
Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is a leading figure in AI, known for shaping transformative technologies and pushing the field toward a more capable and responsible future.
Jessica Livingston
A cofounder of Y Combinator, Jessica Livingston has shaped the startup ecosystem and helped support early founders behind some of today’s leading AI companies, influencing how breakthrough ideas in the field take root.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur and investor whose work spans LinkedIn, Greylock, and a deep focus on shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
Alec Radford
Alec Radford is known for influential work on generative models, helping push AI from early neural nets to powerful systems that create text, images, and ideas.
Igor Babuschkin
A leading engineer behind xAI’s early breakthroughs, known for shaping reliable large language models and advancing the frontier of open AI research.
Mira Murati
Mira Murati has been a central figure in advancing modern AI, guiding OpenAI through rapid growth with a focus on safety, innovation, and real world impact.
Jakub Pachocki
Jakub Pachocki is a key voice in today’s AI landscape, shaping breakthroughs in deep learning and steering research that influences how modern AI systems are built.
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.
Pamela Vagata
A leader in scalable deep learning systems, known for driving breakthroughs in training efficiency and shaping the future of modern AI.
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is a pioneer in deep learning, known for making complex neural network ideas accessible and shaping the modern AI ecosystem.
Vicki Cheung
Vicki Cheung is known for her work in distributed computing and AI systems engineering, driving reliable large scale training while advocating for inclusive and ethical tech.
Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell is a roboticist and entrepreneur whose engineering work helped shape modern startups and the early foundations of OpenAI.
John Schulman
A leading researcher behind PPO and key advances in reinforcement learning, known for shaping modern AI training methods and driving progress at OpenAI.
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.