The wiki
A field guide to the people, organizations, and ideas in our reporting.
Loïc Houssier
Engineering leader whose work at Superhuman combines AI email development with bottom-up adoption of AI tools and qualified measures of team throughput.
Long Context, Working Agents, and Learning in Public — Part 2 of 3
Part 2 of the January–February 2024 recap: Gemini’s million-token context, prompt transparency, anniversary demos of Lindy, RWKV, Pixee, and Julius, and listeners on evaluation and technical community.
Loubna Ben Allal
Hugging Face researcher working on open foundation models, educational training data, and the SmolLM family.
Louis Knight-Webb
Bloop co-founder whose work moved from AI code search to planning and reviewing coding agents, and whose public arguments examine what improving models leave for application builders.
Luca Antiga
PyTorch contributor and Lightning AI CTO whose work spans inspectable model optimization, open-source developer tools, and medical imaging.
Luca Soldaini
Machine learning researcher focused on language-model data, former Olmo co-lead at Ai2, and co-leader of the Dolma open pretraining corpus.
Lucas Beyer
Multimodal AI researcher and contributor to SigLIP and PaliGemma, whose career spans robotic perception, Google Brain, OpenAI and Meta.
Lucas Palma
Product security practitioner who argues that reusable AI instructions belong in the software supply chain, with review before distribution and approval enforced at execution.
Lukas Petersson
Andon Labs cofounder and researcher studying how autonomous AI agents manage businesses, reason about physical spaces, and coordinate robots.
Making Research Accessible, Making AI Interfaces Useful — Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3 of Latent Space’s January–February 2024 recap closes with listener questions about research coverage, AI user experience, and organizing a community around working demos.
Making Transformers Sing: Suno’s Bet on Audio Tokens and Musical Participation
Learning to represent sound lets Suno reuse transformer machinery for music. The harder questions are how to generate fast enough for listening, give people useful control, and judge whether a song moves them.
Malte Ubl
Software engineer and Vercel CTO in 2025–26 whose public work addresses agent reliability, evaluation and security, following a career building web frameworks at Google.
Marc Andreessen
Mosaic cocreator, Netscape cofounder and venture investor advocating AI development, coding agents and technological acceleration.
Mark Bissell
Interpretability engineer and researcher whose Goodfire work spans concept-based image editing, research agents, and tools for understanding and controlling models.
Mark Chen
OpenAI researcher whose work includes Codex, DALL·E 2 and GPT-4 vision leadership, appointed Chief Research Officer in March 2025.
Mark Huang
Gradient co-founder and contributor to its long-context Llama 3 models, whose public views emphasize empirical evaluation and useful enterprise AI.
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta founder whose AI strategy emphasizes developer control, personal agents, and scientific tools built with Priscilla Chan through Biohub.
Martin Casado
Infrastructure investor, networking researcher, and developer whose AI work spans product tooling, compute economics, and generative 3D.
Mary Rose Cook
AI engineer working on Notion’s agent and creator of tools that combine AI-generated code, direct manipulation and automated verification.
Matan Grinberg
Factory co-founder focused on practical autonomy in software engineering, developer ownership, and organization-wide outcomes.
Matei Zaharia
Databricks cofounder and CTO, Berkeley computer scientist, and contributor to open-source data infrastructure and compound AI systems.
Matt Bornstein
AI and data investor at a16z whose work includes LLM application architecture, practical open-model projects, and support for open source developers.
Matt Fredrikson
Gray Swan cofounder and Carnegie Mellon professor working on adversarial attacks, agent security, and enforceable safeguards for AI systems.
Matt Pocock
AI engineering educator and creator of Skills for Real Engineers, a collection of small, composable tools for planning, testing and designing software with coding agents.
Matt Redmond
Co-developer of Hex’s failure-funnel evaluation framework, with public work on diffusion-model quantization and relational-database modeling.
Matthew McPartlon
Chai Discovery co-founder and research leader whose public technical views emphasize simpler models, scalable learning and controllable molecular design.
Matthias Wagner
Flux cofounder whose public explanations of AI hardware design emphasize circuit context, engineer judgment, and user-controlled workflow memory.
Max Krieger
Max Krieger’s AI interface work includes Seemixer’s approach to programming by pointing and delve’s approach to exploring generated content.
Max Welling
Machine-learning researcher whose joint work spans variational autoencoders, symmetry-aware networks and graph convolutions, and whose materials-discovery work emphasizes practical impact and gradual automation.
Mayo Oshin
AI engineer and educator associated with a PDF-chatbot project and coauthor of Learning LangChain with Nuno Campos.
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