The wiki
A field guide to the people, organizations, and ideas in our reporting.
Shawn Chan
Cross-border investor whose public work on financial AI centers on traceable evidence, consistent numbers and accountable investment decisions.
Shawn Lewis
Weights & Biases cofounder and former CTO, now leading AI software-platform efforts at CoreWeave.
Sherwin Wu
OpenAI API engineering leader whose public work spans function calling, agent evaluation, developer platforms and reliability.
Shipping agents means building the application around them
Durable workflows, streaming interfaces, operational context, and external security controls turn an agent loop into a usable application.
Shopify
A commerce platform extending its merchant tools into AI assistance, automated experimentation, simulated shopping and agent-driven commerce.
Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: What Happens After Code Gets Cheap
Shared experiments, deliberate code review, simulated shoppers and specialized models show what it takes to turn abundant generation into useful work.
Shrestha Basu Mallick
Product leader whose work spans Gemini developer tools, search grounding and real-time applications; identified at Google Cloud Next 2026 as Gemini Enterprise’s quality lead.
Shreya Rajpal
Creator of Guardrails and co-founder of Guardrails AI, Shreya Rajpal develops ways to specify, validate and test language-model behavior in real applications.
Shreya Shankar
Computer science researcher working on data management for AI systems, document-processing pipelines, and evaluation aligned with human judgment.
Shunyu Yao
Language-agent researcher whose work connects reasoning, interaction, interface design and reliable evaluation.
Sid Bendre
Oleve co-founder whose work spans shared AI infrastructure, agents for consumer-app operations, and production feedback for learning tools.
Simile AI
An AI company building simulations of human behavior for product testing and business decisions, with roots in generative-agent research.
Simon Hørup Eskildsen
Co-founder of turbopuffer, whose search architecture grew from the cost of AI retrieval at Readwise and years of infrastructure work at Shopify.
Simon Last
Notion cofounder whose AI work spans early prototypes, repeated agent redesigns, and tools for evaluating and supervising automated work.
Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette and LLM, Django co-creator, and a writer on language-model tools, prompt injection and AI-assisted software development.
Simulation Fidelity and GPU Efficiency — Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3 examines why simulated materials data can miss experimental needs, how training accommodates laboratory timescales, and why better GPU utilization could free money for lab work.
Simulation’s scaling bet: learning how people actually behave
Human simulation combines personal histories, observed choices, and controlled experiments to model how people respond—and help decision makers explore what to do next.
Slack
Salesforce’s workplace messaging platform has expanded from channels and search into generative summaries, personal AI assistance, and a shared interface for third-party agents.
Snipd
A Zurich podcast-app company using AI to capture, retrieve, and guide listeners through spoken knowledge.
SoftBank
SoftBank Group’s AI activities span OpenAI investment, infrastructure financing, enterprise agents and semiconductor ownership, alongside edge-AI development by SoftBank Corp.
Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer
Foundation models let developers begin with trained capabilities, then build the data connections, infrastructure and interfaces that make them useful. A 2023 view of the engineering role emerging around that change.
Soham Ganatra
Composio cofounder focused on how AI agents authenticate, use software tools, and improve their interactions with external systems.
Solomon Hykes
Docker’s creator, whose work at Dagger applies containerized execution to coding agents and software delivery.
Sophia Yang
AI developer relations leader and educator whose work includes building Mistral’s developer community, Mixtral coauthorship, and teaching practical uses of language models.
Soumith Chintala
PyTorch co-founder, AI infrastructure engineer, and robotics researcher whose work emphasizes accessible tools, user feedback, and practical applications.
SpaceX
SpaceX expanded into AI models, coding agents and compute services in 2026, alongside its established spacecraft and launch-vehicle work.
SpaceXai
The AI organization following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, developing Grok models and agents alongside the Colossus compute infrastructure.
SpaceXAI
The organization behind Grok combines model development, persistent work agents and Colossus compute infrastructure, following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI in February 2026.
Speak
An AI language-learning company built around spoken practice, combining its own teaching systems with speech recognition and conversational models.
Speak: Building an AI Tutor Around the Learner
Fast speaking drills, adaptive curricula, and patient turn detection show what it takes to turn capable models into a language tutor.
Public beta. Model source and teaching reviews passed; human editorial review is pending. Original articles and recordings remain separate.

