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    Sam Shleifer

    Sam Shleifer

    899Following120Top Followers3.9KTotal Followers

    BIO

    Founding Team Thinking Machines. Previously @c.ai. I like zsh aliases, audiobooks, and running. This does not reflect the opinions of my future self.

    #1951in/Tech
    @sam_shleifer
    @sshleifer

    Vibe and topics

    Based on 157 recent X posts · click a vibe for evidence

    Vibe
    Informing
    Informing28.5%
    Teaching17.9%
    Humorous13.9%
    Announcing10.9%
    Supportive10.9%
    Hopeful10.3%
    Provocative4.5%
    Banter2.3%
    Other1%
    Topics
    Coding Tools
    Coding Tools28.5%
    HuggingFace Transformers18.5%
    NLP Research Papers18.2%
    PyTorch Engineering17.7%
    Model Distillation6.6%
    Machine Translation6%
    NLP Summarization4.6%

    Top followers

    Sasha Rush
    #19

    Sasha Rush

    @srush_nlp

    Researcher, Programmer https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp

    John Schulman
    #36

    John Schulman

    @johnschulman2

    @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

    Mira Murati
    #46

    Mira Murati

    @miramurati

    Now building @thinkymachines. Previously CTO @OpenAI

    Jason Wei
    #48

    Jason Wei

    @_jasonwei

    ai researcher @meta, past: openai, google 🧠

    Soumith Chintala
    #57

    Soumith Chintala

    @soumithchintala

    Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

    Tim Dettmers
    #62

    Tim Dettmers

    @Tim_Dettmers

    Creator of bitsandbytes. Professor @CarnegieMellon and Research Scientist @allen_ai . I blog about deep learning and PhD life at http://timdettmers.com.

    Eric Jang
    #68

    Eric Jang

    @ericjang11

    Luke Zettlemoyer
    #77

    Luke Zettlemoyer

    @LukeZettlemoyer

    Susan Zhang
    #80

    Susan Zhang

    @suchenzang

    Always hungry for intelligence.

    Barret Zoph
    #97

    Barret Zoph

    @barret_zoph

    VP Research GoogleDeepmind Past: - VP & GM Enterprise (@openai) - CTO & Co-Founder TML (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai

    Liam Fedus
    #99

    Liam Fedus

    @LiamFedus

    Building industrial-scale science at @periodiclabs Past: VP of Post-Training @OpenAI; Google Brain

    rohan anil
    #100

    rohan anil

    @_arohan_

    co-founder, board @coreauto - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

    Sholto Douglas
    #101

    Sholto Douglas

    @_sholtodouglas

    Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

    Logan Kilpatrick
    #106

    Logan Kilpatrick

    @OfficialLoganK

    Member of technical staff, working on Gemini, @GoogleAIStudio, the Gemini API, & Kaggle. My views!

    Matthew Johnson
    #121

    Matthew Johnson

    @SingularMattrix

    Researcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).

    Danqi Chen @COLM 2026
    #127

    Danqi Chen @COLM 2026

    @danqi_chen

    Associate professor @princetonPLI @PrincetonCS Previously: @thinkymachines @facebookai, @stanfordnlp, @Tsinghua_Uni

    Eric Wallace
    #135

    Eric Wallace

    @Eric_Wallace_

    research @openai

    Taco Cohen
    #140

    Taco Cohen

    @TacoCohen

    Slop janitor & post-trainologer at Meta / FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.

    Jason Weston
    #145

    Jason Weston

    @jaseweston

    Senior Director & RS @Meta + Visiting Prof NYU | OG in LLMs | Pretrain+Finetune in 2008+ | 157k+ citations | Current: Self-Improving & Co-Improving AI

    Luke Metz
    #155

    Luke Metz

    @Luke_Metz

    Meta Previously: Thinking Machines, OpenAI, Google Brain

    Riley Goodside
    #183

    Riley Goodside

    @goodside

    Mostly screenshots of chatbots. Formerly: Google DeepMind, Scale.

    Jack Rae
    #189

    Jack Rae

    @jack_w_rae

    Distinguished Scientist @ Meta LLMs (e.g. Gopher, Chinchilla, Gemini, Muse) Compression & RL ☯️ Past: Google, OpenAI, Quora

    Rowan Zellers
    #194

    Rowan Zellers

    @rown

    multimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. http://rowanzellers.com (he/him)

    Horace He
    #197

    Horace He

    @cHHillee

    @thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale

    Noam Shazeer
    #210

    Noam Shazeer

    @NoamShazeer

    Engineer

    Chip Huyen
    #227

    Chip Huyen

    @chipro

    @aisysbooks @goodailist AI Engineering: https://amazon.com/dp/1098166302 Designing MLSys: http://amazon.com/dp/1098107969 Reading @chipslib

    Ashish Vaswani
    #231

    Ashish Vaswani

    @ashVaswani

    Smerity
    #267

    Smerity

    @Smerity

    ML x science. Founding Member of Technical Staff at @PrometheusInc. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11. 🇦🇺 in SF.

    near
    #270

    near

    @nearcyan

    where

    Michael Truell
    #312

    Michael Truell

    @mntruell

    Building @SpaceXAI

    Songlin Yang
    #327

    Songlin Yang

    @SonglinYang4

    pretraining @thinkymachines. Prev. PhD @MIT_CSAIL. INTP 🐱. she/her/hers.

    Mike Lewis
    #333

    Mike Lewis

    @ml_perception

    Llama3 pre-training lead. Partially to blame for things like the Cicero Diplomacy bot, BART, RoBERTa, attention sinks, kNN-LM, top-k sampling & Deal Or No Deal.

    Julien Chaumond
    #342

    Julien Chaumond

    @julien_c

    Co-founder and CTO at @huggingface 🤗. ML/AI for everyone, building products to propel communities fwd. @Stanford + @Polytechnique

    Omer Levy
    #347

    Omer Levy

    @omerlevy_

    AI Researcher at Google DeepMind

    Vered Shwartz
    #357

    Vered Shwartz

    @VeredShwartz

    Assistant Professor @UBC_CS & @VectorInst working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/. 🦋: @veredshwartz.bsky.social

    rapha
    #404

    rapha

    @rapha_gl

    research lead @ openai

    Alex Graveley
    #412

    Alex Graveley

    @alexgraveley

    Co-creator GitHub Copilot, Perplexity Computer & Comet, Dropbox Paper. 2x CEO of Hackpad and Minion AI. Thruhiker. Survivor 🎗️

    Sebastian Gehrmann
    #437

    Sebastian Gehrmann

    @sebgehr

    Head of Responsible AI, CTO office @Bloomberg. Formerly LLM evals @ Google / PhD @ Harvard. views my own

    Rylan Schaeffer
    #480

    Rylan Schaeffer

    @RylanSchaeffer

    Creating something new. Ex-Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis

    Ari Holtzman
    #485

    Ari Holtzman

    @universeinanegg

    Asst Prof @UChicagoCS & @DSI_UChicago, leading Conceptualization Lab http://conceptualization.ai Minting new vocabulary to conceptualize generative models.

    Machel Reid
    #493

    Machel Reid

    @machelreid

    research @googledeepmind ♊️

    Stephen Roller
    #497

    Stephen Roller

    @stephenroller

    MTS @thinkymachines. previously pre-training @googledeepmind, @character_ai, and @aiatmeta.

    Siddharth Karamcheti
    #549

    Siddharth Karamcheti

    @siddkaramcheti

    Assistant Professor @GeorgiaTech / @ICatGT. Autonomy Research Lead @WaldenRobotics. I like robots, learning, and people.

    Victoria X Lin
    #563

    Victoria X Lin

    @VictoriaLinML

    MTS @thinkymachines | Native Multimodal Intelligence Prev: @AIatMeta @SFResearch • PhD @uwcse

    Abigail See
    #574

    Abigail See

    @abigail_e_see

    Research Scientist @DeepMind. Formerly @stanfordnlp, #CS224n, #AlexaPrize. I aim to communicate technical concepts accessibly. she. http://abigailsee.com 🌈

    Kyle Lo
    #585

    Kyle Lo

    @kylelostat

    language models, mts @MicrosoftAI, prev co-lead of Olmo @allen_ai, @uwcse, he/him, http://kylelo.bsky.social🧋

    Kevin Kwok
    #593

    Kevin Kwok

    @kevinakwok

    Yizhong Wang
    #597

    Yizhong Wang

    @yizhongwyz

    Researcher at ByteDance Seed, Incoming Asst Prof @UTAustin. Agent training, agents for science discovery.

    Peter Henderson
    #598

    Peter Henderson

    @PeterHndrsn

    Assistant Professor @ Princeton (RL+strategic decision-making+Law). Prev: Stanford (JD+PhD); Mila; FAIR; Amazon; Cal Supreme Court. Views are all only my own.

    Gabriel Ilharco
    #603

    Gabriel Ilharco

    @gabriel_ilharco

    AI Research Scientist