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Shawn Chan

Cross-border investor whose public work on financial AI centers on traceable evidence, consistent numbers and accountable investment decisions.

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Shawn Lewis

Weights & Biases cofounder and former CTO, now leading AI software-platform efforts at CoreWeave.

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Sherwin Wu

OpenAI API engineering leader whose public work spans function calling, agent evaluation, developer platforms and reliability.

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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.

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Shopify

A commerce platform extending its merchant tools into AI assistance, automated experimentation, simulated shopping and agent-driven commerce.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Shreya Shankar

Computer science researcher working on data management for AI systems, document-processing pipelines, and evaluation aligned with human judgment.

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Shunyu Yao

Language-agent researcher whose work connects reasoning, interaction, interface design and reliable evaluation.

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Sid Bendre

Oleve co-founder whose work spans shared AI infrastructure, agents for consumer-app operations, and production feedback for learning tools.

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Simile AI

An AI company building simulations of human behavior for product testing and business decisions, with roots in generative-agent research.

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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.

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Simon Last

Notion cofounder whose AI work spans early prototypes, repeated agent redesigns, and tools for evaluating and supervising automated work.

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Simon Willison

Creator of Datasette and LLM, Django co-creator, and a writer on language-model tools, prompt injection and AI-assisted software development.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Snipd

A Zurich podcast-app company using AI to capture, retrieve, and guide listeners through spoken knowledge.

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SoftBank

SoftBank Group’s AI activities span OpenAI investment, infrastructure financing, enterprise agents and semiconductor ownership, alongside edge-AI development by SoftBank Corp.

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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.

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Soham Ganatra

Composio cofounder focused on how AI agents authenticate, use software tools, and improve their interactions with external systems.

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Solomon Hykes

Docker’s creator, whose work at Dagger applies containerized execution to coding agents and software delivery.

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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.

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Soumith Chintala

PyTorch co-founder, AI infrastructure engineer, and robotics researcher whose work emphasizes accessible tools, user feedback, and practical applications.

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SpaceX

SpaceX expanded into AI models, coding agents and compute services in 2026, alongside its established spacecraft and launch-vehicle work.

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SpaceXai

The AI organization following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, developing Grok models and agents alongside the Colossus compute infrastructure.

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SpaceXAI

The organization behind Grok combines model development, persistent work agents and Colossus compute infrastructure, following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI in February 2026.

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Speak

An AI language-learning company built around spoken practice, combining its own teaching systems with speech recognition and conversational models.

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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.

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