Creators & Educators

Technical Lead at Hugging Face & Open Source Educator

Philipp Schmid is a Technical Lead at Hugging Face authoring practical open-source guides on fine-tuning LLMs with LoRA/QLoRA, deploying via TGI and vLLM, and optimizing inference.

Open Source AI Agent Developer

Zack Wittman develops open-source developer tooling, CLI assistants, and agent memory management libraries across GitHub.

Philosopher & AI Alignment Researcher at Anthropic

Amanda Askell is an ethicist and alignment researcher at Anthropic who designs Claude's system prompts, character alignment, and philosophical principles.

Co-founder of EleutherAI & Large Scale Training Engineer

Sid Black co-founded EleutherAI and led distributed high-performance model training for GPT-NeoX-20B and open dataset compilation with The Pile.

Research Scientist at ServiceNow & Co-lead of BigCode StarCoder

Harm de Vries leads open-access code LLM research at ServiceNow and co-directed the BigCode Project, delivering the StarCoder and StarCoder2 family of open coding models.

Machine Learning Engineer & Co-author of NLP with Transformers

Lewis Tunstall is a leading machine learning engineer at Hugging Face, creator of datasets and alignment recipes, and co-author of the definitive O'Reilly book on Transformers.

Co-founder & CTO of Hugging Face

Julien Chaumond is the CTO and Co-founder of Hugging Face, leading the systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, and developer platform for global open-source AI.

Co-founder of Artificial Analysis

George Cameron co-founded Artificial Analysis, engineering objective automated testing rigs measuring API performance, cold-start latency, and price-to-performance frontiers across cloud providers.

CEO of OthersideAI & Creator of HyperWrite

Matt Shumer is an entrepreneur building personal AI agents, writing assistants with HyperWrite, and open-source models including Reflection Llama.

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI

Mark Chen is the Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, having led the research behind Codex, multimodal vision in GPT-4V, and inference-time reasoning architectures like OpenAI o1.

Chief AI Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face

Margaret Mitchell is an AI researcher focusing on algorithmic transparency, model documentation (Model Cards), and ethical data curation, serving as Chief AI Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face.

Curators of Minimalist Micro-Agent Architectures

Smol AI Lab builds small, understandable, hackable frameworks for prompt caching, local vector indexing, and autonomous coding agents.