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Author of The Illustrated Transformer, developer of Ecco, and coauthor of Hands-On Large Language Models, Jay Alammar explains how language models work and how developers can apply them.

Foundation Capital partner whose AI investment work emphasizes decision traces, domain expertise, and learning from enterprise workflows.

Identified in November 2025 as a Google Labs product lead working on Jules, Borovik described building autonomous coding agents and simplifying their architecture as models improved.

AI researcher and systems engineer whose work spans model distillation, distributed computing and Google's Gemini effort; a cofounder of Discovery Loop.

Chroma founder who, as CEO in August 2025, advocated retrieval infrastructure, context engineering and practical evaluation for reliable AI applications.

Former Windsurf CEO and participant in its combination with Cognition, where he is listed as President of New Enterprise.

Amplitude cofounder and former chief architect whose work spans behavioral analytics infrastructure, AI-assisted analysis, and experiments with self-improving products.

NVIDIA cofounder and chief executive whose public AI views emphasize inference, agent deployment, and the coexistence of open and proprietary models.

Researcher, educator and entrepreneur whose work spans transfer learning, practical deep-learning education and tools for building with AI.

AI researcher and Infinity founder whose work includes automated algorithm generation, immersive information retrieval, calibration and learned optimizers.

Boltz cofounder and CTO working on molecular design models, with earlier research in language-model compression.

LlamaIndex creator and cofounder whose work spans retrieval, LLM application tooling and document infrastructure for agents.

Morph Labs founder and neural theorem-proving researcher whose work spans formal mathematics, language models and branching environments for AI agents.

Abundant cofounder and SWE-Marathon coauthor focused on evaluating and training AI agents for sustained technical work.

Creator-chatbot entrepreneur whose work combines human persona emulation, digital-content sales and modular language-model workflows.

AI interpretability researcher working on language-model failure modes, interpretable activation dictionaries, and scientific discovery from predictive models.

Tsinghua professor and Z.ai co-founder whose collaborative work spans academic knowledge graphs, GLM language models and post-training research.

NVIDIA researcher and GEAR co-leader working on embodied agents, from Minecraft skill learning to robot reward design and generalist control.

Linux Foundation CEO whose AI work centers on neutral governance and institutional support for shared software and standards.

Hornet CEO and former Vespa chief scientist whose published work examines hybrid ranking, long-document retrieval, and the importance of strong search baselines.

Software engineer whose AI work spans natural-language analytics at Amplitude and developer applications of audio models at ElevenLabs.

AI evaluation researcher whose work at METR examines the gap between benchmark performance and useful software development.

Machine-learning researcher whose collaborative work spans empirical scaling laws, open language models, and practical methods for transferring hyperparameters across model sizes.

AI red teamer and prompt engineer whose work spans open-source security communities, structured prompting, and AI risk assessment.

AI software-engineering researcher and coauthor of SWE-bench, SWE-agent, CodeClash and ProgramBench, studying how agents build software and collaborate with people.

AI researcher and Databricks chief AI scientist whose work spans sparse neural networks, efficient model training, and practical evaluation.

Computer scientist and Simile co-founder whose research develops language-model agents that simulate human behavior, from a virtual town to models grounded in real people's lives.

SemiAnalysis technical staff member leading ClusterMAX research into the reliability, security and cost of GPU cloud clusters.

Cognitive scientist and AI researcher whose work and public views examine cognitive architectures, self-organizing intelligence, and artificial selfhood.

Materials scientist and Radical AI co-founder whose approach joins AI discovery with robotic experiments and a goal of bringing new materials into commercial products.