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Young AI companies need enormous resources before they have mature businesses. Whether that capital sustains an application ecosystem or finances its competitors remains an open question.

The Allen Institute for AI is a Seattle nonprofit whose work spans open language models, multimodal systems, scholarly discovery and AI-assisted science.

AI Engineer’s London conference operation, combining technical programming on agents, models and infrastructure with open conference-data interfaces.

A smol.ai weekday AI roundup that moved from a Buttondown MVP to a searchable archive and joined Latent Space in 2026.

Modal cofounder whose work spans AI infrastructure, agent execution environments, and human-in-the-loop data labeling.

Founder of marimo, a reactive Python programming environment, and contributor to machine-learning systems, optimization software, and vector embedding research.

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.

Researcher and coauthor of DCGAN, GPT, GPT-2 and Whisper, with recent work on filtering learned capabilities and studying language models trained on historical text.

Kernel Labs founder whose AI work includes agent workflows, product commentary, open-source podcast tooling and earlier Latent Space interviews.

OpenRouter CEO and co-founder whose AI work includes model routing, browser-based model access and research on AI usage.

Software engineer publishing tools for AI-assisted code visualization, specification-driven development, and terminal coding.

Researcher working on training-data curation, open reasoning models, and generative methods for learning and reconstruction from incomplete measurements.

Cofounder of Good Start Labs and co-creator of AI Diplomacy, exploring games as environments for evaluating and training AI agents.

GitHub Copilot’s founding architect and Minion’s founder, whose work explores how AI can suggest code, operate browsers and ask users for missing information.

Systems researcher working on self-modifying AI agents, AI-driven discovery, and the limits of software verification.

Morning Brew co-founder and Tenex managing partner focused on AI adoption, content distribution, and outcome-based engineering compensation.

Black-hole theorist working on AI-assisted scientific reasoning, with contributions to photon-ring physics and black-hole visualization.

AgentOps co-founder focused on making AI agents observable, debuggable, and usable in production.

AI researcher who founded and led Meta’s ESM protein-modeling project, co-founded EvolutionaryScale, and became Biohub’s head of science.

AI evangelist, ThursdAI host, and Targum founder whose work includes weekly AI discussions, video translation, and an initiative to make MCP tools traceable.

MIT researcher studying GPU code generation and the design of language-model harnesses, including Recursive Language Models.

From GPU kernels to recursive language models, the researcher asks how a system’s structure changes what its components can accomplish.

OpenAI’s Codex product lead in January and February 2026, whose work spans AI coding workflows and interfaces that make AI output easier to use, inspect, and correct.

Raindrop co-founder and chief operating officer focused on production agent failures, debugging workflows, and evaluation that reflects users’ experience.

Outset Capital cofounder and managing partner whose work spans AI-company operations, founder resources, and public conversations about AI.

Ali Taha works on model performance at Baseten, with technical writing on low-precision image inference, Blackwell GPU kernels, and the growing overlap between training and serving models.

Cosine co-founder whose work on Genie centers on training models to navigate codebases, reconstruct engineering decisions and learn from failed repairs.

Agent-security practitioner, OWASP contributor, and co-founder of Insecure Agents whose work connects security standards with developer practice.

Software engineer and UX designer whose AI work includes ProductStudio, collaborative research on controllable image generation, and shared inventorship on privacy-sensitive training systems.

Cursor cofounder Aman Sanger connects model capability, inference economics and editor design to the practical work of writing software.