BROWSE THE MACHINE AGE CAST
AI RESEARCHERS
34 launched dossiers. Factual role labels can overlap: one person may appear in several useful lists.
RESEARCHERS
- Aidan GomezTRANSFORMER PAPER → COHERE
- Ajeya CotraPUTTING NUMBERS ON AI DOOM
- Andrej KarpathyVIBE CODING GOT ITS NAME HERE
- Andrew NgGOOGLE BRAIN → COURSERA → EVERYWHERE
- Anil SethCONTROLLED HALLUCINATION. BIOLOGY REQUIRED?
- Aravind SrinivasANSWERS FIRST. BLUE LINKS SECOND.
- Arthur MenschPARIS VS. SILICON VALLEY
- Binyuan HuiBUILT QWEN’S CODING MODELS
- Bowen YuTEACHING QWEN MANNERS
- Chris OlahOPEN THE BLACK BOX
- Dario AmodeiCLAUDE AND THE END TIMES
- David SilverALPHAGO → ALPHAZERO → INEFFABLE
- Daya GuoPUT DEEPSEEK ON THE CODING MAP
- Demis HassabisPROTEINS FIRST. AGI NEXT?
- Fei-Fei LiIMAGENET, NOW IN 3D
- Geoffrey HintonBUILT IT. WON NOBEL. GOT WORRIED.
- Guillaume LampleMETA OUT. MISTRAL IN.
- He KaimingResNet and MAE legend now grinding vision-first AGI at MIT
- Ilya SutskeverSUPERINTELLIGENCE, NO DISTRACTIONS
- Jacob CoxonEx-Anthropic researcher who told the NYC council under oath that AI companies are 'extremely reckless' with the most powerful technology ever built
- Jeff DeanGOOGLE'S BACKBONE, NOW GEMINI
- Jeremy HowardDEEP LEARNING WITHOUT THE IVORY TOWER
- Jingren ZhouMICROSOFT RESEARCH → QWEN
- John JumperALPHAFOLD. NOBEL.
- Junyang LinBILLION DOWNLOADS, THEN HE LEFT
- Lex FridmanTHREE HOURS LATER...
- Noam ShazeerTRANSFORMER → CHARACTER.AI → OPENAI
- Richard SocherThe NLP pioneer building AI that builds AI — Recursive's open-weight Flint is the first test case.
- Shane LeggDEEPMIND BEFORE GEMINI
- Stuart RussellAI TEXTBOOK, OFF SWITCH INCLUDED
- Thomas WolfHUGGING FACE, OPEN EVERYTHING
- Timothée LacroixBUILT MISTRAL’S TECH STACK
- Yann LeCunLLMS AREN'T THE ENDGAME
- Yoshua BengioGODFATHER BUILDS A SAFETY LAB