Creators & Educators

Partner at AI Grant, Investor, and Entrepreneur

Former Y Combinator partner and Apple AI director, partnering with Nat Friedman to invest in foundational model and infrastructure startups.

Cognitive Scientist, Author & Founder of Geometric Intelligence

Gary Marcus is a scientist and best-selling author known for analytical critique of pure statistical LLMs, advocating for neurosymbolic architectures that combine deep learning with symbolic logic.

Creator of Two Minute Papers and Computer Graphics Researcher

Produces beloved visual summaries of groundbreaking computer vision, rendering, physics simulation, and machine learning research papers.

Co-inventor of Transformers & Google DeepMind VP

Noam Shazeer co-authored the seminal 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need', invented multi-query attention, co-founded Character.ai, and rejoined Google DeepMind as Vice President.

Nobel Laureate in Physics & Turing Award Winner

Geoffrey Hinton is widely recognized as the 'Godfather of Deep Learning'. Co-inventor of backpropagation, Boltzmann machines, and AlexNet, honored with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Solo Founder of Photo AI, Interior AI, and Nomad List

Prolific indie developer pioneering bootstrapped generative AI products, computer vision workflows, and autonomous business models.

CEO and Co-founder of Replit

Creator of Replit and Replit Agent, standardizing browser-based software development, serverless deployment, and autonomous engineering agents.

CEO of Conjecture & Co-founder of EleutherAI

Connor Leahy co-founded EleutherAI where he created GPT-Neo and GPT-J, and now leads Conjecture developing scalable alignment protocols and mechanistic interpretability tools.

Co-founder & Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face

Thomas Wolf is the CSO and Co-founder of Hugging Face. He initiated the Transformers library and co-founded the BigScience research workshop that created the BLOOM model.

Co-director of Stanford HAI & Founder of World Labs

Dr. Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet, which catalyzed modern computer vision and deep learning. She co-directs Stanford HAI and founded World Labs to build Large World Models (LWMs).

Research Director at Google DeepMind & Reasoning Pioneer

Denny Zhou leads reasoning and logic research at Google DeepMind, pioneering Self-Consistency in chain-of-thought prompting and algorithmic verification in LLMs.

Assistant Professor at CMU & Co-creator of Mamba Architecture

Albert Gu is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University whose pioneering work on State Space Models (S4, S5, Mamba) presents the leading linear-time alternative to Transformers.