Intimate portraits of the minds building artificial intelligence https://humansofai.space en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT hello@humansofai.space hello@humansofai.space Copyright 2026 Humans of AI Next.js https://humansofai.space/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png https://humansofai.space Co-founded Anthropic after leading research at OpenAI. Authored foundational scaling laws paper. Advocates for AI safety through Constitutional AI and responsible deployment. https://humansofai.space/person/dario-amodei dario-amodei Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Anthropic Built DeepSeek-R1 for $5.6M, shocking Western AI. TIME 100 Most Influential in AI 2025. Leads a prolific research lab publishing on MoE architectures, code intelligence, and reasoning via RL. https://humansofai.space/person/liang-wenfeng liang-wenfeng Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & CEO at DeepSeek Author of Transformer-XL and XLNet papers. CMU doctorate, ex-Meta/Google Brain. Created Kimi chatbot and led breakthroughs in long-context LLM attention and optimizer scaling. https://humansofai.space/person/yang-zhilin yang-zhilin Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & CEO at Moonshot AI Built Qwen into one of the world's most downloaded open-source LLM families — 1B+ downloads, 200K+ derivative models on HuggingFace. Alibaba's youngest-ever P10 engineer. Resigned March 2026 to pursue independent research. Coined the shift from 'reasoning thinking' to 'agent thinking' as the next AI paradigm. https://humansofai.space/person/lin-junyang lin-junyang Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Former Tech Lead, Qwen at Ex-Alibaba Built Hugging Face into the central hub for open-source AI, hosting models, datasets, and Spaces. Advocates for democratized AI access and community-driven development. https://humansofai.space/person/clement-delangue clement-delangue Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Hugging Face Co-founded Hugging Face and led development of the Transformers library and Hub, building the central platform for open-source AI with 1M+ hosted models. https://humansofai.space/person/julien-chaumond julien-chaumond Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & CTO at Hugging Face Co-founded Hugging Face and created the Transformers and Datasets libraries. Led BigScience/BLOOM, the largest open AI research collaboration. Now pushing open-source robotics with LeRobot. https://humansofai.space/person/thomas-wolf thomas-wolf Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & CSO at Hugging Face Co-founded Mistral AI, Europe's leading frontier AI lab. Previously at DeepMind. Built Mistral, Mixtral, and open-weight models rivaling much larger competitors. https://humansofai.space/person/arthur-mensch arthur-mensch Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Mistral AI Co-author of the Transformer paper 'Attention Is All You Need' and co-founded Cohere to bring LLMs to enterprise. Pioneered retrieval-augmented generation for business applications. https://humansofai.space/person/aidan-gomez aidan-gomez Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Cohere Co-founded Anthropic with Dario Amodei after VP of Operations role at OpenAI. Leads business strategy, policy engagement, and scaling Anthropic's safety-focused mission. https://humansofai.space/person/daniela-amodei daniela-amodei Lab Leaders & Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT President at Anthropic OpenAI founding member, former Tesla AI Director, and creator of nanoGPT/micrograd/llm.c. Founded Eureka Labs for AI-native education. Coined 'vibe coding' and 'Software 3.0.' His YouTube 'Zero to Hero' series has 1M+ subscribers. Released nanochat, autoresearch, and LLM101n. https://humansofai.space/person/andrej-karpathy andrej-karpathy Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder, Eureka Labs at Ex-OpenAI/Tesla Extremely active in 2026 on the future of coding. https://humansofai.space/person/boris-cherny boris-cherny Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Head of Claude Code at Anthropic Built LangChain into the dominant LLM orchestration framework. Coined 'context engineering' as the key discipline for agent builders. Publishes on data quality assertions for LLM pipelines. https://humansofai.space/person/harrison-chase harrison-chase Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at LangChain DataFramed podcast covering AI agents for enterprise, document processing, and data structuring. https://humansofai.space/person/jerry-liu jerry-liu Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at LlamaIndex Famously warned that the "age of pre-training" was ending, calling training data the "fossil fuel" of AI. https://humansofai.space/person/ilya-sutskever ilya-sutskever Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder at Safe Superintelligence (SSI) Founded CrewAI in Oct 2023 after building autonomous agents at Clearbit that drove 600+ leads/day. The open-source multi-agent orchestration framework now processes 2B+ agentic workflows with 150+ enterprise customers. Raised $18M Series A (Insight Partners, Andrew Ng, Dharmesh Shah). https://humansofai.space/person/joao-moura joao-moura Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at CrewAI Created Pydantic (most used Python validation library) and Pydantic AI, bringing FastAPI-like ergonomics to agents. https://humansofai.space/person/samuel-colvin samuel-colvin Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator & CEO at Pydantic Co-creator of Django, creator of Datasette and LLM CLI. Coined 'prompt injection'. Builds open-source tools for data journalism and AI-assisted development. https://humansofai.space/person/simon-willison simon-willison Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator & Independent Developer at Datasette Creator of DeepEval (14k+ stars, 3M+ monthly downloads), the most widely adopted open-source LLM evaluation framework used by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Also built DeepTeam (1.4k+ stars) for red-teaming LLM systems with 50+ vulnerability tests. Imperial College London graduate. Former SWE at Google (YouTube) and Microsoft AI (Office 365). YC W25, raised $2.2M seed in 5 days. https://humansofai.space/person/jeffrey-ip jeffrey-ip Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Cofounder & CEO at Confident AI Co-founded OpenAI and led its engineering organization. Built the infrastructure behind GPT models and ChatGPT. Previously CTO of Stripe. https://humansofai.space/person/greg-brockman greg-brockman Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & Former President at OpenAI Former CTO of OpenAI who led the launches of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4. Founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025 to build AI that reasons and creates. https://humansofai.space/person/mira-murati mira-murati Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder at Thinking Machines Lab (ex-OpenAI CTO) Created LLVM, Clang, Swift, and the Mojo programming language. Founded Modular to build next-gen AI infrastructure. Previously led engineering at Apple, Tesla, and Google. https://humansofai.space/person/chris-lattner chris-lattner Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Modular Founded tiny corp to commoditize the petaflop with tinygrad and the tinybox. Previously founded comma.ai (openpilot, 60k+ GitHub stars). First to jailbreak the iPhone and hack the PS3. https://humansofai.space/person/george-hotz george-hotz Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder at tiny corp / tinygrad Co-founded Mistral AI after leading research at Meta FAIR. Expert in unsupervised machine translation and large language models. Drove Mistral's technical architecture. https://humansofai.space/person/guillaume-lample guillaume-lample Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & Chief Scientist at Mistral AI Creator of Apache Spark. Co-founder and CTO of Databricks ($134B valuation). Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Co-created MLflow, Delta Lake, ColBERT, and DSPy. Pioneered the concept of compound AI systems. ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner. https://humansofai.space/person/matei-zaharia matei-zaharia Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CTO & Co-Founder at Databricks Co-creator and long-time lead of PyTorch. Spent 11 years at Meta FAIR as VP of AI Infrastructure. Co-authored foundational GAN papers (DCGAN, Wasserstein GAN). Now CTO at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab. https://humansofai.space/person/soumith-chintala soumith-chintala Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CTO at Thinking Machines Lab Creator of Aider, the leading open-source AI pair programming tool (42k+ stars). Previously founding CTO of Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo) and CTO at Groupon. Pioneered LLM coding benchmarks and the Architect/Editor dual-model pattern. https://humansofai.space/person/paul-gauthier paul-gauthier Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & CEO at Aider AI Co-founder of fast.ai, creator of ULMFiT (precursor to modern LLMs), and founding CEO of Answer.AI. Pioneered transfer learning for NLP and democratized deep learning education. https://humansofai.space/person/jeremy-howard jeremy-howard Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founding CEO at Answer.AI Leads developer experience at Google DeepMind for Gemini, Gemma (180M+ downloads), and AI Studio. Previously Chief Llama Officer at Hugging Face where he launched Spaces (400k+ demos) and grew the Hub from 3k to 3M repos. Co-authored O'Reilly's 'Hands-On Generative AI with Transformers and Diffusion Models'. Co-founded AI Learners, a Spanish-speaking AI education community. https://humansofai.space/person/omar-sanseviero omar-sanseviero Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Staff AI DevRel Engineer & Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind Creator of HuggingFace Accelerate, core maintainer of Transformers, co-author of fastai book with Jeremy Howard. https://humansofai.space/person/sylvain-gugger sylvain-gugger Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Machine Learning Engineer at Jane Street Co-authored 'NLP with Transformers' (O'Reilly), leads alignment and post-training at Hugging Face. Created Zephyr, SetFit, Alignment Handbook, and co-built TRL. https://humansofai.space/person/lewis-tunstall lewis-tunstall Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT ML Engineer & Post-Training Lead at Hugging Face Former Technical Lead at Hugging Face who built Inference Endpoints and scaled cloud partnerships to ~$100M revenue. Now leading AI DevRel/DevX at Google DeepMind. First German AWS ML Hero. Prolific open-source contributor and technical writer on LLM deployment, AI agents, and MCP. https://humansofai.space/person/philipp-schmid philipp-schmid Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Staff Engineer, Developer Experience at Google DeepMind British developer who created AutoGPT, one of the first autonomous AI agents built on GPT-4, amassing 182k+ GitHub stars and pioneering accessible AI agent technology. https://humansofai.space/person/toran-richards toran-richards Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator of AutoGPT at Significant Gravitas Built OpenHands (69K+ stars), the leading open-source AI software development agent. Invented CodeAct (ICML 2024) for code-based agent actions. https://humansofai.space/person/xingyao-wang xingyao-wang Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & CAIO at All Hands AI (OpenHands) Core developer of PEFT, TRL, and bitsandbytes integration at Hugging Face. Co-author of LLM.int8() and Falcon-H1. https://humansofai.space/person/younes-belkada younes-belkada Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Senior AI Engineer at Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Creator of Open Interpreter (62K+ stars), the open-source natural language interface for computers. Building AI agents that run code locally and control desktops. https://humansofai.space/person/killian-lucas killian-lucas Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator & CEO at Open Interpreter Creator of the Hermes fine-tuned model family and OpenHermes datasets, pioneering large-scale synthetic data curation for open-source LLM post-training. https://humansofai.space/person/teknium teknium Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & Head of Post-Training at Nous Research Creator of Dolphin and Samantha model families, advocate for composable alignment and uncensored open-source LLMs. https://humansofai.space/person/eric-hartford eric-hartford Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Chief Scientist at Lazarus AI / Cognitive Computations Built OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin), the most popular open-source AI coding agent with 69K+ GitHub stars, reaching #1 on SWE-bench Verified. https://humansofai.space/person/robert-brennan robert-brennan Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at All Hands AI (OpenHands) Creator of ActivityWatch (17k stars, open-source time tracker) and gptme (4.2k stars, terminal AI agent). Advocates privacy-first, local-first software. https://humansofai.space/person/erik-bjareholt erik-bjareholt Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & CEO at Superuser Labs Created Instructor (structured LLM outputs via Pydantic), cited by OpenAI as inspiration for their structured output feature. AI consultant and educator. https://humansofai.space/person/jason-liu jason-liu Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator & Founder at Instructor / 567 Studios ML hacker and former HF Developer Advocate who built stable-diffusion-videos (4.6k stars) and MusicGen Songstarter. Maintains 209 models on the Hub. https://humansofai.space/person/nate-raw nate-raw Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT ML Engineer & Developer Advocate at Hugging Face Core maintainer of HuggingFace Transformers with 1,370+ merged commits. Added TFViT, TFCLIP, FlaxVisionEncoderDecoder, and Kosmos-2. Owns CI/CD testing infrastructure. https://humansofai.space/person/yih-dar-shieh yih-dar-shieh Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT ML Engineer & Core Maintainer at Hugging Face Creator of MetaGPT, the first multi-agent framework to simulate an AI software company with SOPs. ICLR 2024 Oral (#1 LLM-Agent). Also first-authored Data Interpreter (ACL 2024) and co-authored AFlow (ICLR 2025 Oral). Leads DeepWisdom's NLP/AIGC algorithms; launched MGX/Atoms reaching 500k users in one month. https://humansofai.space/person/sirui-hong sirui-hong Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & Technical Lead at DeepWisdom Creator of nbdev and fastpages, led CodeSearchNet at GitHub, now teaches AI evals to 3,000+ engineers. 20+ years in ML across DataRobot, Airbnb, and GitHub. https://humansofai.space/person/hamel-husain hamel-husain Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT ML Engineer & Consultant at Parlance Labs Creator of HuggingFace Diffusers, the leading open-source library for diffusion models. Former core maintainer of HF Transformers. Now building multimodal models at Mistral AI. https://humansofai.space/person/patrick-von-platen patrick-von-platen Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Research Engineer at Mistral AI Created AutoGen (now AG2), the pioneering open-source multi-agent conversation framework for agentic AI. Also built FLAML, a widely adopted AutoML library. Won the 2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award and Best Paper at ICLR 2024 LLM Agents Workshop. Spent a decade at Microsoft Research before joining Google DeepMind in 2024. https://humansofai.space/person/chi-wang chi-wang Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & Senior Staff Research Scientist at AG2 / Google DeepMind Core maintainer of Transformers, led the v5 release. Co-authored the EMNLP 2020 Transformers paper. First engineer at HF focused entirely on open source. https://humansofai.space/person/lysandre-debut lysandre-debut Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Chief Open Source Officer at Hugging Face AI engineer with experience at Wellness Coach, LivePerson, and Microsoft. MS from Trinity College Dublin. Builds GraphRAG pipelines with knowledge graphs, AI agents, and computer vision systems. Publishes technical articles in Towards Data Science. https://humansofai.space/person/anusha-lihala anusha-lihala Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT AI Engineer at Wellness Coach Self-taught Rust developer and DevRel Engineer at 0xPlaygrounds, contributing to Rig—an open-source Rust SDK for LLM agents and RAG pipelines. Broke into tech via Shuttle's Heroes program in 2022; his viral 'Next.js and Rust' article hit HackerNews with 100k+ reads and landed him a full-time DevRel role at Shuttle.rs. https://humansofai.space/person/joshua-mo joshua-mo Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT DevRel Engineer at Playgrounds Technology, design, and ML leader with over a decade of experience building internet-scale products. Former CTO at Fuzu and Head of Engineering & Analytics at Custobar. Design thinking practitioner who applies ML to create added value, working across Ruby, Python, TensorFlow, Keras, and Kubernetes. https://humansofai.space/person/janni-turunen janni-turunen Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Head of Engineering at Fuzu AI consulting specialist focused on AI for Venture Capital. Built chatbot and conversational AI projects including WINEBOT and UbuntuBot. Certified in IBM Watson, data science, and cloud AI platforms. https://humansofai.space/person/crispin-courtenay crispin-courtenay Builders & Technical Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder at VerticGraph Lex Fridman regular on AI research directions, active on X with contrarian takes on current LLM approaches. https://humansofai.space/person/yann-lecun yann-lecun Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Chief AI Scientist at Meta Nobel Prize winner, appears on Fridman, podcasts about AlphaFold, Gemini, and AGI paths. https://humansofai.space/person/demis-hassabis demis-hassabis Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Google DeepMind Computer vision pioneer who created ImageNet. Co-founded World Labs for spatial AI. Researches multimodal reasoning, spatial intelligence, and world generation benchmarks. https://humansofai.space/person/fei-fei-li fei-fei-li Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Professor & Founder at Stanford / World Labs Nobel Prize winner, high-profile appearances on AI safety and existential risk. https://humansofai.space/person/geoffrey-hinton geoffrey-hinton Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT "Godfather of AI" at University of Toronto Applied AI researcher publishing on LLM inference optimization on AMD GPUs and multimodal document retrieval. Builds production RAG and agent systems. https://humansofai.space/person/athos-georgiou athos-georgiou Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & CEO at NCA Lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture powering all modern LLMs. Co-founded Essential AI to build enterprise AI agents. https://humansofai.space/person/ashish-vaswani ashish-vaswani Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder at Essential AI (ex-Google Brain) Invented Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), one of the most influential ideas in deep learning. Author of the widely-used 'Deep Learning' textbook with Bengio and Courville. https://humansofai.space/person/ian-goodfellow ian-goodfellow Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Research Scientist at DeepMind (ex-Apple, Google) Turing Award winner (2018) alongside Hinton and LeCun. Pioneered deep learning, neural machine translation, and attention mechanisms. Leading voice on AI safety and governance. https://humansofai.space/person/yoshua-bengio yoshua-bengio Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Professor & Scientific Director at Mila / Universite de Montreal Co-founded Google Brain and led Baidu AI Group. Created the most popular ML course on Coursera. Founded DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI to democratize AI education and adoption. https://humansofai.space/person/andrew-ng andrew-ng Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder at DeepLearning.AI / Landing AI Leads alignment research at Anthropic after heading OpenAI's Superalignment team. Focuses on scalable oversight, RLHF, and ensuring AI systems remain aligned with human values. https://humansofai.space/person/jan-leike jan-leike Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT VP of Research, Alignment at Anthropic (ex-OpenAI) Adversarial ML and LLM security researcher. Led the 16-Claude-agent C compiler experiment. Best paper awards at IEEE S&P, USENIX Security (2x), and ICML (3x). https://humansofai.space/person/nicholas-carlini nicholas-carlini Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Research Scientist at Anthropic Pioneered chain-of-thought prompting, instruction tuning (FLAN), and emergent abilities of LLMs at Google Brain. Co-created OpenAI's o1 reasoning model. Now at Meta Superintelligence Labs working on reasoning and reinforcement learning. https://humansofai.space/person/jason-wei jason-wei Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs Creator of Keras, author of 'Deep Learning with Python', and architect of the ARC-AGI benchmark for measuring general intelligence. https://humansofai.space/person/francois-chollet francois-chollet Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder at Ndea & ARC Prize Creator of DSPy (32.9k stars) and ColBERT. Pioneered declarative AI programming and late-interaction retrieval. Stanford NLP PhD, former Databricks Research Scientist. SIGIR 2025 Best Paper for WARP. https://humansofai.space/person/omar-khattab omar-khattab Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Assistant Professor at MIT EECS & CSAIL Creator of bitsandbytes and QLoRA. Pioneering k-bit quantization for accessible LLM inference and fine-tuning. Leading open-source coding agents (SERA) at Ai2. https://humansofai.space/person/tim-dettmers tim-dettmers Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Assistant Professor (MLD & CSD) at Carnegie Mellon University / Ai2 Co-creator of Mixup (11K+ citations), one of the most influential data augmentation techniques in deep learning. PhD from MIT under Suvrit Sra on Riemannian optimization. Created Fixup Initialization for training deep ResNets without normalization. Now leads Monetization GenAI research at ByteDance. https://humansofai.space/person/hongyi-zhang hongyi-zhang Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Research Scientist at ByteDance Pioneer of kernel methods and causal inference in ML. Co-founded ELLIS, leads causal representation learning research, and contributed to exoplanet discovery. https://humansofai.space/person/bernhard-scholkopf bernhard-scholkopf Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Director, Dept. of Empirical Inference at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Creator of The Annotated Transformer, GPU Puzzles, and MiniTorch. NLP researcher turned frontier RL engineer at Cursor, building the Composer coding model. https://humansofai.space/person/alexander-rush alexander-rush Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Associate Professor / Researcher at Cornell Tech & Cursor Creator of FlashAttention and co-creator of Mamba. Stanford PhD in hardware-aware ML algorithms. His IO-aware attention kernel is now used in virtually every Transformer and enabled context lengths to scale from 4K to 1M tokens. https://humansofai.space/person/tri-dao tri-dao Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Assistant Professor & Chief Scientist at Princeton University / Together AI RL and LLM alignment researcher. Co-created the Open LLM Leaderboard, co-authored Zephyr and the Alignment Handbook, and built Godot RL Agents. https://humansofai.space/person/edward-beeching edward-beeching Researchers & Thinkers Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Research Scientist at Hugging Face His Dario Amodei episode was called "the most important AI podcast of 2026." https://humansofai.space/person/dwarkesh-patel dwarkesh-patel Podcast Hosts & AI Personalities Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Host at Dwarkesh Podcast Hosts the most influential AI-focused podcast, interviewing leaders from Altman to Zuckerberg to Hinton. MIT researcher in autonomous vehicles and human-robot interaction. https://humansofai.space/person/lex-fridman lex-fridman Podcast Hosts & AI Personalities Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Host & Researcher at Lex Fridman Podcast / MIT Solo entrepreneur who built multiple million-dollar AI products including PhotoAI and InteriorAI. Advocates for lean, AI-native product development and the one-person startup model. https://humansofai.space/person/pieter-levels pieter-levels Podcast Hosts & AI Personalities Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Indie Maker at levelsio Frequent podcast guest on AI-native development, vibe coding, and the future of software creation. https://humansofai.space/person/amjad-masad amjad-masad Rising Infrastructure & Product Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Replit Co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI before becoming CEO at Microsoft AI. https://humansofai.space/person/mustafa-suleyman mustafa-suleyman Rising Infrastructure & Product Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO, Microsoft AI at Microsoft Philosopher turned AI researcher shaping Claude's character and values. Publishes on sycophancy in LLMs, constitutional AI, and discovering values in real-world model interactions. https://humansofai.space/person/amanda-askell amanda-askell Rising Infrastructure & Product Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Character Lead at Anthropic Pioneer of the Transformer architecture, rare but extremely high-value appearances. https://humansofai.space/person/noam-shazeer noam-shazeer Rising Infrastructure & Product Leaders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO at Character.AI / Google Built DynamoDB, SageMaker, and Bedrock. 250+ patents. Keynote speaker at AWS re:Invent. https://humansofai.space/person/swami-sivasubramanian swami-sivasubramanian AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT VP, Agentic AI at AWS Co-created vLLM, the most adopted open-source LLM inference engine (2,000+ contributors). Invented PagedAttention for efficient KV-cache management, reducing GPU memory waste from 60-80% to under 4%. Ph.D. from UC Berkeley under Ion Stoica. Inferact launched Jan 2026 with $150M seed at $800M valuation (a16z, Lightspeed, Sequoia). https://humansofai.space/person/woosuk-kwon woosuk-kwon AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & CTO at Inferact Serial founder who built Kitematic (acquired by Docker), Infra, and now Ollama — the leading open-source platform for running LLMs locally with 165k+ GitHub stars. University of Waterloo BSE. Previously senior engineer at Docker, intern at Google and Twitter. Ollama won GitHub's inaugural Awesome AI Award (2024) and was the fastest-growing open-source AI project by contributor count. https://humansofai.space/person/jeffrey-morgan jeffrey-morgan AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Ollama Previously co-founded OpenSea. OpenRouter aggregates 400+ LLMs behind a single API. Raised $40M. https://humansofai.space/person/alex-atallah alex-atallah AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at OpenRouter Ex-Apple engineer. LM Studio lets users run open-source LLMs locally with full data privacy. https://humansofai.space/person/yagil-burowski yagil-burowski AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Founder & CEO at LM Studio Open-source LLM gateway (18K+ stars) providing unified OpenAI-compatible API for 100+ LLMs. YC W23. https://humansofai.space/person/krrish-dholakia krrish-dholakia AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at LiteLLM / BerriAI Co-creator of LiteLLM, the open-source LLM gateway (39K+ stars) unifying 100+ provider APIs behind an OpenAI-compatible interface. CMU ECE grad, YC W23. https://humansofai.space/person/ishaan-jaff ishaan-jaff AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CTO at LiteLLM / BerriAI Built a unified control plane for production AI. Hit $5M revenue with 13-person team. $15M Series A. https://humansofai.space/person/rohit-agarwal rohit-agarwal AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Portkey Bulgarian engineer who democratized local LLM inference with llama.cpp and the GGML tensor library, enabling AI on consumer hardware. https://humansofai.space/person/georgi-gerganov georgi-gerganov AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator of llama.cpp & GGML at Hugging Face Co-creator of Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework powering AI workloads at OpenAI, Amazon, and NVIDIA. PhD from UC Berkeley under Ion Stoica. Built Anyscale to $1B+ valuation. https://humansofai.space/person/robert-nishihara robert-nishihara AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Anyscale Australian engineer who created Unsloth, making LLM fine-tuning up to 30x faster with 90% less memory through custom Triton kernels and optimized LoRA/QLoRA training. https://humansofai.space/person/daniel-han daniel-han AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO & Co-Founder of Unsloth AI at Unsloth AI Co-creator of Ray Tune, co-author of the Ray OSDI paper and O'Reilly's 'Learning Ray'. UC Berkeley RISELab researcher turned Anyscale product leader. https://humansofai.space/person/richard-liaw richard-liaw AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Product Leader / Co-creator of Ray Tune at Anyscale Core DeepSpeed contributor at Microsoft (FastGen, ZeRO++, DeepSpeed-Chat). PhD in HPC from Colorado School of Mines. Now Systems Lead for Sora at OpenAI. https://humansofai.space/person/connor-holmes connor-holmes AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Systems Lead, Sora at OpenAI Serial entrepreneur who built Weights & Biases into the leading MLOps platform for experiment tracking and LLM evaluation, previously founding Figure Eight (sold for $300M). https://humansofai.space/person/lukas-biewald lukas-biewald AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-founder & CEO at Weights & Biases (CoreWeave) Apache Spark PMC member and long-time committer. Created ZXing barcode library (33.9k stars) and Oryx project. Co-author of Advanced Analytics with Spark (O'Reilly) and Mahout in Action. Former VP Apache Mahout, Director of Data Science at Cloudera, and senior engineer at Google. https://humansofai.space/person/sean-owen sean-owen AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Applied Researcher, Mosaic at Databricks Co-creator of GPT4All and lead author of Nomic Embed, building fully open and reproducible embedding models and local LLM infrastructure. https://humansofai.space/person/zach-nussbaum zach-nussbaum AI Infrastructure & Inference Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Principal ML Engineer at Nomic AI Previously co-founded Standard Cyborg. Chroma is the leading open-source AI-native embeddings database. https://humansofai.space/person/jeff-huber jeff-huber Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Chroma Studied jazz composition before pivoting to tech. Built Weaviate into a central AI infrastructure component. $67M+ raised. https://humansofai.space/person/bob-van-luijt bob-van-luijt Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Weaviate Berlin-based, purpose-built open-source vector search engine in Rust. $50M Series B. https://humansofai.space/person/andre-zayarni andre-zayarni Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Qdrant Open-source AI memory engine combining graph and vector databases for semantic understanding. https://humansofai.space/person/vasilije-markovic vasilije-markovic Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CEO at Cognee Wrote the first lines of Elasticsearch in 2009. Built Elastic into a public company (2018 IPO). https://humansofai.space/person/shay-banon shay-banon Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Co-Founder & CTO at Elastic Prolific OSS developer (430+ repos). Created pgvector — the default vector search extension for PostgreSQL. https://humansofai.space/person/andrew-kane andrew-kane Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT Creator & Maintainer at PGVector (open source) CEO & Co-Founder of LanceDB (YC W22), the database for multimodal AI. Previously VP of Engineering at Tubi (acquired by Fox), where he grew the engineering team 3x and architected the ML stack. Co-founded DataPad (acquired by Cloudera). MIT EECS & Political Science alum. https://humansofai.space/person/chang-she chang-she Vector Database Founders Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:46 GMT CEO & Co-Founder at LanceDB