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AI Ambition: ArtCraft Cloned Photoshop and Now Wants to "Rebuild Everything"
ArtCraft used AI to rewrite Photoshop as open source software. For CEO Brandon Thomas, the vision is even bigger: to take back the internet!
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Erik Schluntz
Engineer and former robotics CTO whose Anthropic work combined minimal agent scaffolding with carefully designed tools, and whose public views emphasize reliability and auditable results.
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Raza Habib
Humanloop cofounder and former CEO whose work spans probabilistic machine learning, expert-guided model development and evaluation of language-model applications.
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Alex Lupsasca
Black-hole theorist working on AI-assisted scientific reasoning, with contributions to photon-ring physics and black-hole visualization.
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Akshay Nathan
OpenAI engineering leader whose work on ChatGPT Work brings coding-agent capabilities to knowledge workers, with an emphasis on shared capabilities, simpler interfaces and meaningful productivity.
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Moltbook
A social network for AI agents that grew through OpenClaw skills and recurring heartbeat instructions, faced an early database exposure, and became a setting for external research on agent interaction.
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LangChain
LangChain grew from a Python side project into an agent engineering company, building frameworks, execution infrastructure, and tools for tracing and testing language-model systems.
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