AI Experts (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# AI Experts (MoC) Notable people to follow in the AI space; researchers, founders, engineers, educators, and writers shaping the field and worth keeping on the radar. See also: [[AI (MoC)]], [[People (MoC)]], [[Artificial Intelligence (AI)]]. ## Writers & Educators - [[Simon Willison]] — long-form AI commentary; excellent signal-to-noise - [[Andrew Ng]] — deeplearning.ai, Coursera, AI Fund, ex Google Brain, ex Baidu - [[Matt Pocock]] — AI Hero, developer-focused AI education - [[Steve Yegge]] — long-form essays on agentic engineering - [[Addy Osmani]] — Google, writes on AI and developer experience - [[Andrej Karpathy]] — deep tutorials on [[Neural Networks (NNs)]] and [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] ## Researchers & Scientists - [[Geoffrey Hinton]] — "Godfather of deep learning", Turing Award - [[Yann LeCun]] — Chief AI Scientist at Meta / AMI Labs - [[Fei-Fei Li]] — Stanford, co-founder Stanford HAI, ImageNet - [[Yejin Choi]] — NLP, common-sense reasoning; MacArthur Fellow - [[Regina Barzilay]] — MIT, AI in healthcare and drug discovery - [[Cynthia Breazeal]] — MIT Media Lab, social robotics - [[Priya Donti]] — MIT, Climate Change AI - [[Jeff Dean]] — Google DeepMind & Google Research, Gemini lead ## Founders & Lab Leaders - [[Demis Hassabis]] — CEO, Google DeepMind - [[Sam Altman]] — CEO, [[OpenAI]] - [[Dario Amodei]] — CEO, [[Anthropic]] - [[Elon Musk]] — xAI - [[Jensen Huang]] — CEO, NVIDIA - [[Liang Wenfeng]] — Founder, [[Deepseek]] - [[Alexandr Wang]] — Meta Superintelligence Lab (ex Scale AI) - [[Nat Friedman]] — Meta Superintelligence Lab (ex GitHub CEO) - [[David Holz]] — Founder, [[Midjourney]] - [[Alex Blania]] — Co-founder & CEO, Tools for Humanity (Worldcoin) ## Anthropic team - [[Boris Cherny]] — Creator of [[Claude Code]] - [[Thariq Shihipar]] — [[Claude Code]] team - [[Cat Wu]] — [[Claude Code]] team - [[Kashyap Murali]] — Engineer, [[Anthropic]] - [[Amanda Askell]] — Philosophy / AI ethics, Claude's character - [[Amol Avasare]] — Head of Growth, [[Anthropic]] - [[Kyle Fish]] — AI welfare researcher, [[Anthropic]] - [[Christian Ryan]] — Product Engineer, Applied AI team, [[Anthropic]] ## OpenAI & adjacent - [[Jakub Pachocki]] — Chief Scientist, [[OpenAI]] - [[Daniel Kokotajlo]] — AI Futures Project (ex [[OpenAI]]) - [[Edwin Arbus]] — [[Cursor.com]] (ex [[OpenAI]], Stripe) ## Google AI - [[Josh Woodward]] — VP, Google Gemini app and Labs - [[Jeff Dean]] — Google DeepMind & Google Research - [[Alexandre Moufarek]] — Director, Inception at [[Google DeepMind]] (SIMA 2, Genie 3, Project Astra, Gemini) ## Open-source & tooling - [[Georgi Gerganov]] — llama.cpp, ggml / GGUF format ## Reference - [TIME — The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2025/) ## Notes   - [[Addy Osmani]] - [[Alex Blania]] - [[Alexandr Wang]] - [[Alexandre Moufarek]] - [[Amanda Askell]] - [[Amol Avasare]] - [[Andrej Karpathy]] - [[Andrew Ng]] - [[Boris Cherny]] - [[Cat Wu]] - [[Christian Ryan]] - [[Clement Delangue]] - [[Cynthia Breazeal]] - [[Daniel Kokotajlo]] - [[Dario Amodei]] - [[David Holz]] - [[Deli Chen]] - [[Demis Hassabis]] - [[Edwin Arbus]] - [[Elon Musk]] - [[Fei-Fei Li]] - [[Geoffrey Hinton]] - [[Georgi Gerganov]] - [[Jakub Pachocki]] - [[Jeff Dean]] - [[Jensen Huang]] - [[Josh Woodward]] - [[Julien Chaumond]] - [[Kashyap Murali]] - [[Kyle Fish]] - [[Li Juanzi]] - [[Liang Wenfeng]] - [[Matt Pocock]] - [[Matt Van Horn]] - [[Nat Friedman]] - [[Priya Donti]] - [[Regina Barzilay]] - [[Romain Huet]] - [[Sam Altman]] - [[Simon Willison]] - [[Steve Yegge]] - [[Tang Jie]] - [[Thariq Shihipar]] - [[Thomas Wolf]] - [[Walden Yan]] - [[Yann LeCun]] - [[Yejin Choi]]  ## Quotes