Creators & Educators

Founder of Air Street Capital, Author of State of AI Report

Venture capitalist and researcher publishing the definitive annual State of AI Report benchmarking compute scaling, talent, and geopolitical policies.

Co-founder of Artificial Analysis

Alex Tamblyn co-founded Artificial Analysis, establishing the premier independent benchmark for LLM inference latency, throughput (tokens/sec), pricing index, and output quality.

CEO and Co-founder of LangChain

Creator of the LangChain framework and LangSmith observability platform, pioneering modular tool abstractions and production LLM orchestration.

Assistant Professor at Princeton & Creator of FlashAttention

Tri Dao is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University who invented FlashAttention and FlashAttention-2, reducing attention computation from quadratic to linear memory, and co-created Mamba.

Princeton Professor & Author of 'AI Snake Oil'

Arvind Narayanan is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University examining the societal limitations, privacy vulnerabilities, and overhyped capabilities of predictive AI systems.

CEO of Microsoft AI & Co-founder of DeepMind

Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI, previously co-founding DeepMind and Inflection AI. He is the author of the best-selling book 'The Coming Wave'.

Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Stanford Adjunct Professor

Co-founder of Coursera and former head of Google Brain and Baidu AI. Has taught over eight million students global machine learning fundamentals.

Partner at AI Grant, Former CEO of GitHub

Prominent technology investor and founder backing premier AI startups, developer tooling, and the Vesuvius Challenge scroll unwrapping initiative.

Founder of Alignment Research Center (ARC)

Paul Christiano created Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) during his tenure at OpenAI. He now directs the Alignment Research Center evaluating model autonomy and catastrophic risks.

CEO and Founder of Vercel

Creator of Next.js, v0, and the AI SDK, revolutionizing modern frontend web infrastructure, streaming UI generation, and developer experience.

Author of 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' & AI Systems Engineer

Chip Huyen is an engineer and best-selling author specializing in production machine learning systems, real-time ML pipelines, and LLM evaluation architectures.

Founder of Eureka Labs, Former Director of AI at Tesla, OpenAI Founding Member

Pioneering computer scientist and educator known for neural network deep-dives (micrograd, nanoGPT) and democratizing deep learning from first principles.