AI FOUNDERS

49 launched dossiers. Factual role labels can overlap: one person may appear in several useful lists.

FOUNDERS

Aaron Levie1,000 AGENTS PER HUMAN
Aidan GomezTRANSFORMER PAPER → COHERE
Alexandr WangSCALE → DEFENSE → META
Andrew NgGOOGLE BRAIN → COURSERA → EVERYWHERE
Aravind SrinivasANSWERS FIRST. BLUE LINKS SECOND.
Arkady VolozhYANDEX → NEBIUS → GIGAWATTS
Arthur MenschPARIS VS. SILICON VALLEY
Bill GatesWHERE ARE THE BRAKES?
Brett AdcockTHE FIGURE FOUNDER WHO JUST LAUNCHED A PERSONAL AI CALLED HARK.
Chase LochmillerSTRANDED GAS → STARGATE
Chris OlahOPEN THE BLACK BOX
Clément DelangueTHE 🤗 MODEL BAZAAR
Dario AmodeiCLAUDE AND THE END TIMES
David SilverALPHAGO → ALPHAZERO → INEFFABLE
Demis HassabisPROTEINS FIRST. AGI NEXT?
Elon MuskGROK, FEUDS, SUPERCOMPUTERS
Fei-Fei LiIMAGENET, NOW IN 3D
George HotzIPHONE HACKER VS. THE WORLD
Greg BrockmanOPENAI'S ENGINE ROOM
Guillaume LampleMETA OUT. MISTRAL IN.
Ilya SutskeverSUPERINTELLIGENCE, NO DISTRACTIONS
Jack ClarkREPORTED ON AI. THEN BUILT ANTHROPIC.
Jack DorseyTWITTER, BITCOIN, DECENTRALIZE EVERYTHING
Jeff BezosCLOUD MONEY, ROBBER-BARON ENERGY
Jensen HuangLEATHER JACKET, ALL THE CHIPS
Jeremy HowardDEEP LEARNING WITHOUT THE IVORY TOWER
Jerry KaplanTHE TABLET LOST. HE STAYED.
Larry EllisonDATABASE BARON. NOW STARGATE.
Liang WenfengHEDGE FUND → DEEPSEEK
Mark ZuckerbergZUCK'S AI TALENT SHOPPING SPREE
Masayoshi SonGIANT CHECKS. SUPERINTELLIGENCE.
Micha KaufmanAI IS COMING FOR MY JOB TOO
Mike IntratorPOOL-TABLE GPU → COREWEAVE
Mira MuratiONE GIGAWATT FOR A STARTUP
Mustafa SuleymanDEEPMIND → INFLECTION → MICROSOFT
Noam ShazeerTRANSFORMER → CHARACTER.AI → OPENAI
Peter ThielPAYPAL. PALANTIR. FACEBOOK. NOW, THE ANTICHRIST.
Pieter LevelsAI APPS, NO TEAM REQUIRED
Ray Kurzweil2045 OR BUST
Richard SocherThe NLP pioneer building AI that builds AI — Recursive's open-weight Flint is the first test case.
Sam AltmanFIRED. BACK IN FIVE DAYS.
Shane LeggDEEPMIND BEFORE GEMINI
Steve JobsEXILED. RETURNED. IPHONE.
Theo BrowneFIVE DAYS → T3 CHAT
Thomas WolfHUGGING FACE, OPEN EVERYTHING
Timothée LacroixBUILT MISTRAL’S TECH STACK
Tristan HarrisTHE SOCIAL DILEMMA, NOW WITH AI
Wes CumminsNORTH DAKOTA POWER → AI FACTORIES
Yoshua BengioGODFATHER BUILDS A SAFETY LAB