Creators & Educators

Executive Director at EleutherAI

Stella Biderman directs EleutherAI, leading independent open-access research into mechanistic interpretability, training dynamics (Pythia suite), and evaluation safety.

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, Director of CRFM

Leads the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) and the Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) benchmark initiative.

Creator of PPO & Alignment Researcher at Anthropic

John Schulman co-founded OpenAI and invented Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), the core reinforcement learning algorithm powering ChatGPT. He currently conducts alignment research at Anthropic.

Partner at Decibel VC & Co-host of Latent Space

Alessio Fanelli invests in developer tools and AI infrastructure at Decibel VC, and co-hosts the influential technical AI podcast Latent Space.

Machine Learning Researcher and Academic Paper Reviewer

Provides rigorous line-by-line algorithmic dissections of frontier transformer papers, mathematical proofs, and model architectures.

Applied Scientist at Amazon & Systems Architecture Essayist

Eugene Yan writes widely referenced engineering essays on operationalizing LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendation systems, and model evaluation metrics.

Creator of TRL (Transformer Reinforcement Learning) at Hugging Face

Leandro von Werra is an ML engineer at Hugging Face who created the TRL library for fine-tuning language models with RLHF and DPO, powering thousands of community models.

OpenAI Researcher & Lead Author of Flan-T5

Hyung Won Chung is a machine learning researcher at OpenAI who led the instruction-tuning scaling work behind Flan-T5 and Flan-PaLM at Google Brain.

Founder of Ben's Bites

Daily curator tracking emerging AI software apps, GitHub releases, open-weights models, and venture funding for builders.

Director at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Moritz Hardt researches the mathematical foundations of fairness, algorithmic stability, and strategic classification in machine learning, co-authoring 'Patterns, Predictions, and Actions'.

Founder of AlphaSignal & AI Research Curator

Lior S. curates AlphaSignal, a weekly digest read by over 200,000 ML researchers summarizing breakthroughs in arXiv computer science and GitHub codebases.

Author of 'Atlas of AI' & Research Professor at USC Annenberg

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of artificial intelligence and its environmental, labor, and political consequences, authoring the influential book 'Atlas of AI'.