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Noam Brown

@polynoamial

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series 🍓 reasoning models

Richard Socher

@RichardSocher

Building self-improving superintelligence CEO @recursive_si and @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Ex: Stanford Adj Prof, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

Teaching AI the joy of invention at @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @BOLD_Lab_AI, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

hardmaru

@hardmaru

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

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

@Tim_Dettmers

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

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.

Eric Jang

@ericjang11

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

Open model research, founder, director @trillium_labs. Prev. co-led Olmo at Ai2. Writes @interconnectsai, wrote http://posttrainingbook.com

Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

Always hungry for intelligence.

Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas

cofounder and ceo @perplexity_ai

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)

Matthew Johnson

@SingularMattrix

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

Danqi Chen @COLM 2026

@danqi_chen

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

Taco Cohen

@TacoCohen

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

Ethan Perez

@EthanJPerez

Alignment team lead at Anthropic

Rosanne Liu

@savvyRL

Cofounded & running @ml_collective. Weekly talks at Deep Learning Classics & Trends (DLCT). Research at Google DeepMind. DEI/DIA Chair of ICLR & NeurIPS.

Alex Dimakis

@AlexGDimakis

Professor, UC Berkeley, Founder @bespokelabsai

Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt

ML/AI research engineer. Ex stats professor. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/lZ5B)

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

Researcher @Microsoft | Prof @UWMadison (on leave) | babas of Inez Lily.

Adam D'Angelo

@adamdangelo

CEO of Quora, working on Poe: @poe_platform

Animesh Garg

@animesh_garg

Frontier AI & Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Autonomy. @GeorgiaTech. @microagi Prev @nvidia @UCberkeley @stanford @UofT

Aäron van den Oord

@avdnoord

GenMedia lead at DeepMind: Gemini Omni, Veo, Genie, Nano Banana. Research Scientist

martin_casado

@martin_casado

@ a16z

Irwan Bello

@IrwanBello

Supercomputers & Friends, AI & Science. Past: Founding team & Research Lead at @reflection_ai, @OpenAI, Founding team @character_ai, Google Brain

Simon Shaolei Du

@SimonShaoleiDu

Lead Scientist for Reasoning Models & Training at @Apodex_AI. Associate Professor @uwcse. Prev @xai. Postdoc @the_IAS. PhD in machine learning @mldcmu.

Songlin Yang

@SonglinYang4

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

Junyang Lin

@JustinLin610

building p7k @pragmatik_labs | ❤️ 🍵 ☕️

Alex Tamkin

@AlexTamkin

machine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp

Julien Chaumond

@julien_c

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

Danijar Hafner

@danijarh

Building general agents for the physical world. Prev @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley @UofT

Peter Steinberger 🦞

@steipete

Polyagentmorous ClawFather. Came back from retirement to mess with AI and help a lobster take over the world. @OpenClaw🦞 + @OpenAI

Jesse Dodge

@JesseDodge

Muse Glimmer in MSL at Meta, formerly OLMo at Ai2 Trying to add some sanity to the chaotic world of evals, especially across stages of training an llm 🏳️‍🌈

Kawin Ethayarajh

@ethayarajh

Assistant Professor of Applied AI @ChicagoBooth @UChicago. PhD @stanfordnlp.

Eric

@ericmitchellai

chatgpt posttraining @openai. building personal agi. I like ai and music and some other stuff

Roberta Raileanu

@robertarail

Open-Endedness Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Adjunct Faculty @bold_lab_ai. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton | IPhO | IOAA.

Drew Houston

@drewhouston

Founder/CEO of Dropbox · Board of directors at Meta

Andrew Carr 🤸

@andrew_n_carr

co-founder leading science @getcartwheel co-founder advisor @arcade_ai Past: Codex @OpenAI, Brain @GoogleAI, world ranked Tetris player

Yu Bai

@yubai01

Training Accelerations @OpenAI. Previously @SFResearch, PhD @Stanford.

Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)

@teortaxesTex

We're in a race. It's not USA vs China but humans and AGIs vs ape power centralization. @deepseek_ai stan #1, 2023–Deep Time «C’est la guerre.» ®1

James Campbell

@jam3scampbell

post training @OpenAI

Chenhao Tan

@ChenhaoTan

Professor @UChicagoCS @UChicago. Directing @ChicagoHAI, also part of @UChicagoCI. Email for Postdoc/PhD opportunities. https://chenhaot.com

Sherry Tongshuang Wu

@tongshuangwu

Assist. Prof @SCSatCMU , CS PhD @uwcse. HCI+AI, map general-purpose models to specific use cases! prev. intern @MSFTResearch @GoogleAI @Apple. She/her.

Victoria X Lin

@VictoriaLinML

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

Yuchen Jin

@Yuchenj_UW

Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.

Kyle Lo

@kylelostat

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

Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

Prev. Grok 4.5/4.6 pretraining scaling @xAI; Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind