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Notion cofounder whose AI work spans early prototypes, repeated agent redesigns, and tools for evaluating and supervising automated work.
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Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette and LLM, Django co-creator, and a writer on language-model tools, prompt injection and AI-assisted software development.
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Joseph Nelson
Roboflow’s cofounder and CEO builds tools that connect computer vision models to useful applications, from correcting training labels to deploying systems that act on camera feeds.
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Nathan Lambert
Researcher and Interconnects author focused on open language models, post-training recipes, and the reward signals that shape AI assistants.
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CloudChef
An AI cooking company whose software-guided Palo Alto kitchen preceded its Zippy kitchen robotics platform.
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Lila Sciences
An AI research company combining scientific reasoning models with automated laboratories across biology, chemistry and materials science.
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