People

Co-creator and lead maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, David Soria Parra builds shared infrastructure for connecting AI applications to tools and data.

Creator of OpenCode and Zen, focused on terminal-based AI coding, model choice, and the quality of inference deployments.

Search engineer and AI investor, from Glean’s founding team and Glean Assistant to early-stage investing at Menlo Ventures.

DeepMind founder and AI researcher recognized for AlphaFold, with a career spanning game development, cognitive neuroscience and AI for scientific discovery.

HumanLayer founder and author of 12-Factor Agents, focused on context management, human oversight, and reliable AI-assisted software development.

HubSpot’s co-founder and CTO, creator of Agent.ai, and an advocate for practical, composable AI workflows.

Founder and CEO of Supermemory, working on persistent AI memory and the choices that determine what agents remember, retrieve and forget.

Anthropic’s first technical product manager, whose work spans Claude model releases and the incubation of developer tools and agent capabilities.

AI researcher and entrepreneur building agents that act across screens, with a focus on reliability, human approval, and consumer access.

AI application development, auditable agent architectures, and selective use of autonomous coding tools.

Developer and product leader working on OpenAI’s developer experience and SDKs, with contributions to TypeScript agents, gpt-oss integration, and AI coding workflows.

President of SemiAnalysis and semiconductor investment writer whose AI analysis emphasizes agent workflows and the continued role of expert judgment.

Dropbox co-founder whose personal AI experiments informed a shift toward search and organizing cloud content, alongside consequential staffing and platform decisions.

Machine learning researcher and coauthor of the variational autoencoder, Adam optimizer, Glow, and Variational Diffusion Models.

AI practitioner and writer whose work combines hands-on business automation, specialized GPT workflows, and explanations of AI-assisted software security.

Figma co-founder whose AI strategy emphasizes design judgment, visual exploration, and connections between design and code.

SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel connects chips, software and supply chains to the practical economics of building and serving AI.

Poolside cofounder whose work combines code-model research, engineering systems for rapid experimentation, and advocacy for open weights and research.

Materials scientist and Periodic Labs co-founder combining crystal prediction, synthesis and experimental characterization.

Technology entrepreneur and investor involved in AI financing, company incubation, and public discussions of how AI products create value.

An open language-model researcher whose SmolLM work connects small-model training, reasoning and practical reuse of intermediate checkpoints.

xAI cofounder and historical OpenAI co-chair whose Tesla autonomy plan paired fleet learning with a public argument about deployment and validation.

Neo4j co-founder and CEO advocating graphs, shared ontologies, and persistent context for AI systems.

Economist and data science leader whose work at Stripe spans payments foundation models, agentic commerce, and the practical decisions behind AI adoption.

Anthropic interpretability researcher and machine learning author who builds tools for tracing model computation and testing internal mechanisms.

Factory co-founder whose work centers on coding-agent harnesses, automated software validation, and organization-wide autonomy.

Creator of SudoLang, author of Composing Software, and advocate for structured pseudocode in AI-driven development.

StackBlitz founder and Bolt co-founder focused on AI app building, enterprise context, and security within the development workflow.

Toko co-founder and CTO, building AI conversation practice for language learners, with earlier work in algorithmic accountability and fairness.

Modal’s co-founder and CEO works on making cloud computation easier to develop and scale. His earlier contributions include Spotify recommendation infrastructure, the similarity-search library Annoy, and the batch workflow engine Luigi.