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Who founded and leads the companies on this ledger, and where they worked before. Professional facts only, each tied to a public source.
Where they came from
| Google DeepMind | 24 | |
| OpenAI | 19 | |
| Stanford University | 11 | |
| 9 | ||
| Anthropic | 7 | |
| Google Brain | 6 | |
| Meta | 6 | |
| Stability AI | 5 |
Number of people on this ledger with a sourced previous affiliation at each organisation. A person can count for more than one.
Directory
| Role | Before | Profiles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhinav Gupta | Co-founder | Skild AI | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Abidur Chowdhury | Director of Design | Hark | Apple | — |
| Aditya Grover | Co-Founder | Inception | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Adnan Esmail | Co-founder | Physical Intelligence | — | XLinkedIn |
| Aidan Gomez | Co-founder & CEO | Cohere | Google Brain | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Aidan Smith | Co-founder | Flapping Airplanes | Neuralink | — |
| Alex Bridgland | Founding Member of Technical Staff | Latent Labs | — | LinkedInScholar |
| Alexander Amini | Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer | Liquid AI | MIT | XLinkedInScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Alexander Rives | Co-founder & Chief Scientist (left) | EvolutionaryScale | Meta | |
| Alexandre LeBrun | Co-founder & CEO | AMI Labs | Nabla, Meta FAIR | — |
| Alexandre Passos | Team member (researcher) | Periodic Labs | OpenAI | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Alexey Dosovitskiy | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | — | Scholar |
| Aliisa Rosenthal | Director | Core Automation | — | |
| Amnon Shashua | Co-founder & CEO | doubleAI | Mobileye, AI21 Labs | XLinkedInSite |
| Andi Peng | Co-founder | humans& | Anthropic | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Andreas Blattmann | Co-founder | Black Forest Labs | Stability AI | XScholarHugging Face |
| Andrew Barry | Co-founder | Generalist | Boston Dynamics | |
| Andrew Beam | Chief Technology Officer | Lila Sciences | — | XScholarSite |
| Andrew Tulloch | Co-founder (departed) (left) | Thinking Machines Lab | — | — |
| Andrew White | Co-founder & CTO | Edison Scientific | — | XLinkedInScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Andrew Wooten | Co-founder & Chief Product Officer | Rhoda AI | — | XLinkedIn |
| Andy Zeng | Co-founder | Generalist | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Anna Goldie | Co-founder & CEO | Ricursive Intelligence | Google Brain, Anthropic | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Arthur Mensch | Co-founder & CEO | Mistral AI | — | XLinkedInScholar |
| Asher Spector | Co-founder | Flapping Airplanes | Stanford University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ashish Vaswani | Founder & CEO | Essential AI | — | |
| Azalia Mirhoseini | Co-founder & CTO | Ricursive Intelligence | Google Brain, Anthropic | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Barret Zoph | Co-founder & former CTO (left) | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI | XScholarSite |
| Behnam Neyshabur | Co-founder & CEO | Mirendil | Anthropic, Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ben Chess | Supercomputing lead | Magic | OpenAI | — |
| Ben Mildenhall | Co-founder | World Labs | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ben Spector | Co-founder & CEO | Flapping Airplanes | Stanford University | — |
| Ben Wolf | Chief Medical Officer | Isomorphic Labs | — | — |
| Beren Millidge | Co-Founder and Chief Scientist | Zyphra | — | XScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Brett Adcock | Founder & CEO | Hark | Figure AI, Archer | XLinkedIn |
| Brian Ichter | Co-founder | Physical Intelligence | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Burkay Gur | Co-founder | fal | Coinbase, Oracle | XLinkedInGitHub |
| Caiming Xiong | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | — | X |
| Carina Hong | Founder & CEO | Axiom Math | Stanford University | XLinkedIn |
| Chad Edwards | CEO and Co-Founder | CuspAI | Quantinuum, Google, BASF | X |
| Changan Chen | Co-founder & Chief Research Officer | Rhoda AI | — | XScholarSite |
| Chelsea Finn | Co-founder | Physical Intelligence | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Christoph Lassner | Co-founder | World Labs | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ci Chu | Chief Discovery Officer | Xaira Therapeutics | — | XLinkedInScholar |
| Cyprien de Masson d'Autume | Co-founder | Reka | — | — |
| Dan Balsam | Co-founder & CTO | Goodfire | RippleMatch | XLinkedInScholar |
| Dan Biderman | Co-founder & CEO | Engram | Stanford University AI Lab | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Dani Yogatama | Co-founder & CEO | Reka | — | XLinkedInScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Daniel Gross | Co-founder; former CEO (left) | Safe Superintelligence | Apple | — |
| Daniel Levy | Co-founder & President | Safe Superintelligence | OpenAI | XLinkedInSite |
| Daniela Rus | Co-founder | Liquid AI | MIT CSAIL | |
| Dave Yuan | Head of Platform | Latent Labs | — | |
| David Baker | Co-founder | Xaira Therapeutics | University of Washington | LinkedInScholarSite |
| David Ha | Co-founder & CEO | Sakana AI | Stability AI, Google Brain | ScholarHugging FaceSite |
| David Silver | Founder & CEO | Ineffable Intelligence | Google DeepMind, University College London | |
| Dean Leitersdorf | Co-founder & CEO | Decart | — | X |
| Debbie Law | Chief Scientific Officer | Xaira Therapeutics | — | |
| Deepak Pathak | Co-founder & CEO | Skild AI | — | XScholarSite |
| Demis Hassabis | Founder & CEO | Isomorphic Labs | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Devansh Pandey | Co-founder | Standard Intelligence | — | |
| Dhruv Malhotra | Co-founder & Chief Product Officer | Deep Cogito | ||
| Dillon Rolnick | CEO | Nous Research | — | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Diogo Almeida | Co-founder & CEO | TypeSafe AI | OpenAI | XScholarSite |
| Drishan Arora | Co-founder & CEO | Deep Cogito | XLinkedInHugging Face | |
| Eddie Zhang | Co-founder | Isara | OpenAI | — |
| Edward Hughes | Co-founder & Chief Scientist | Inherent | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Eiso Kant | Co-CEO & Co-founder | Poolside | Athenian | XLinkedInHugging Face |
| Ekin Dogus Cubuk | Co-founder | Periodic Labs | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholar |
| Eric Chan | Co-founder & Chief Scientist | Rhoda AI | World Labs | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Eric Ho | Co-founder & CEO | Goodfire | RippleMatch | LinkedInScholar |
| Eric Steinberger | Co-founder & CEO | Magic | — | XLinkedInScholar |
| Eric Toberer | Team member (materials scientist) | Periodic Labs | — | |
| Eric Zelikman | Co-founder | humans& | xAI | XLinkedIn |
| Erik Gafni | Co-founder | TypeSafe AI | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Fei-Fei Li | Co-founder & CEO | World Labs | Stanford University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Gabriel Suissa | Co-founder | Fundamental | — | XLinkedIn |
| Gal Beniamini | Co-founder | doubleAI | Weizmann Institute of Science | X |
| Galen Mead | Co-founder | Standard Intelligence | — | — |
| Geoffrey von Maltzahn | Co-founder & CEO | Lila Sciences | Flagship Pioneering | XLinkedInScholar |
| Georges Harik | Co-founder | humans& | XLinkedIn | |
| Gordon Wetzstein | Co-founder & Scientific Advisor | Rhoda AI | Stanford University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Gorkem Yurtseven | Co-founder | fal | Amazon | X |
| Guillaume Lample | Co-founder & Chief Science Officer | Mistral AI | Meta | XLinkedInScholarHugging Face |
| Harsh Mehta | Co-founder & CTO | Mirendil | Anthropic | XLinkedInScholar |
| Hatem Helal | Founder | Potential Sciences | Graphcore | LinkedInScholar |
| Henry Gasztowtt | Co-founder | Isara | University of Oxford | — |
| Hetu Kamisetty | Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer | Xaira Therapeutics | Meta, Institute for Protein Design | — |
| Ian Fischer | Co-founder & co-CEO | Poetiq | Google DeepMind | X |
| Igor Babuschkin | Co-founder & CEO | River AI | xAI, OpenAI, Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ilhan Scheer | CEO | Aleph Alpha | fable+ | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Ilhan Scheer | Chief Operating Officer (designate, effective on deal close) (left) | Cohere | Aleph Alpha | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Ilya Sutskever | Co-founder & CEO | Safe Superintelligence | OpenAI | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ioannis Antonoglou | Co-founder | Reflection AI | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholar |
| Ivan Zhang | Co-founder | Cohere | — | XScholarSite |
| Jack Dent | Co-founder | Chai Discovery | Stripe | XLinkedInScholar |
| Jack Morris | Team member | Engram | — | XLinkedIn |
| Jacques Boitreaud | Co-founder | Chai Discovery | — | LinkedInScholar |
| Jagdeep Singh | Co-founder & CEO | Rhoda AI | — | XLinkedIn |
| Jason Ma | Co-founder | Dyna Robotics | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Jason Warner | Co-CEO & Co-founder | Poolside | GitHub | XHugging Face |
| Jeff Bezos | Co-founder & co-CEO | Project Prometheus | Amazon | — |
| Jeff Clune | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | — | XScholarSite |
| Jeff Dean | Co-founder & CEO | Discovery Loop | XLinkedInScholar | |
| Jeffrey Quesnelle | Co-founder | Nous Research | — | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Jeremy Fraenkel | Co-founder & CEO | Fundamental | — | XLinkedIn |
| Jerry Tworek | Co-founder & CEO | Core Automation | OpenAI | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Jessy Lin | Team member | Engram | — | XLinkedInSite |
| Jiang Daxin | Founder | StepFun | Microsoft Research Asia | Scholar |
| Joelle Pineau | Chief AI Officer | Cohere | — | |
| John Schulman | Co-founder & Chief Scientist | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI, Anthropic | XScholarSite |
| Jonas Andrulis | Founder (left) | Aleph Alpha | — | |
| Joon Sung Park | Co-founder & CEO | Simile | Stanford University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Josh Albrecht | Co-founder & CTO | Imbue | — | XLinkedInSite |
| Josh Tobin | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | OpenAI | XScholar |
| Joshua Meier | Co-founder | Chai Discovery | Absci, Meta (Facebook) AI research, OpenAI | XLinkedInScholar |
| Julia Villagra | Executive officer | Core Automation | — | XLinkedIn |
| Justin Johnson | Co-founder | World Labs | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Kaloyan Aleksiev | Co-founder | Inherent | Reka AI, Microsoft | XLinkedIn |
| Kanjun Qiu | Co-founder & CEO | Imbue | — | ScholarSite |
| Karan Malhotra | Co-founder | Nous Research | — | |
| Karol Hausman | Co-founder & CEO | Physical Intelligence | XLinkedInScholarSite | |
| Ken Ono | Founding Mathematician | Axiom Math | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Krithik Puthalath | Founder and CEO | Zyphra | — | |
| Lachy Groom | Co-founder | Physical Intelligence | — | |
| Lainie Yallen | Co-founder | Simile | Hebbia, Inovia Capital | |
| Laurent Solly | COO | AMI Labs | Meta | XLinkedIn |
| Liam Fedus | Co-founder | Periodic Labs | OpenAI | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Liang Wenfeng | Founder | DeepSeek | High-Flyer | X |
| Linden Li | Co-founder | Applied Compute | OpenAI | XLinkedInSite |
| Lindon Gao | Co-founder & CEO | Dyna Robotics | Caper AI | XLinkedIn |
| Llion Jones | Co-founder & CTO | Sakana AI | Google Research | XLinkedInScholarHugging Face |
| Louis Kirsch | Co-founder | Inherent | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Ludovico Mitchener | Head of Applied AI | Edison Scientific | — | XLinkedInScholarHugging Face |
| Luke Metz | Co-founder (departed) (left) | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Manuel Yves Galliker | Founder & CEO | Enact Intelligence | Physical Intelligence, 1X Technologies | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Marc Tessier-Lavigne | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | Xaira Therapeutics | Stanford University, Genentech | |
| Mateusz Malinowski | Research leadership | Reka | Google DeepMind | XHugging Face |
| Mathias Lechner | Co-founder & CTO | Liquid AI | MIT | XHugging Face |
| Matt Clifford | Adviser | Inherent | Entrepreneurs First | |
| Matthew McPartlon | Co-founder | Chai Discovery | — | LinkedInScholar |
| Max Jaderberg | President | Isomorphic Labs | DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Max Welling | CTO and Co-Founder | CuspAI | Microsoft Research, Qualcomm, University of Amsterdam | LinkedInScholar |
| MeeLan Lee | Co-founder | Unconventional AI | — | |
| Michael Bernstein | Co-founder | Simile | Stanford University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Michael Carbin | Co-founder | Unconventional AI | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Michael Rabbat | Co-founder & VP of World Models | AMI Labs | — | LinkedInScholar |
| Michael Skarlinski | Head of Platform | Edison Scientific | FutureHouse | XLinkedIn |
| Michaela Hinks | Head of Science | Edison Scientific | — | XLinkedInHugging Face |
| Mikel Artetxe | Co-founder | Reka | — | XScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Mikołaj Bińkowski | Research leadership | Reka | Google DeepMind | |
| Miles Congreve | Chief Scientific Officer | Isomorphic Labs | Sosei Heptares | XLinkedInScholar |
| Mira Murati | Co-founder & CEO | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI | X |
| Misha Laskin | Co-founder & CEO | Reflection AI | Google DeepMind | XLinkedIn |
| Molly Gibson | Co-founder & President | Lila Sciences | Generate:Biomedicines, Flagship Pioneering | XLinkedInScholar |
| Moritz Baier-Lentz | Founding member | General Intuition | Lightspeed Venture Partners | |
| Moshe Shalev | Co-founder & Chief Product Officer | Decart | IDF Unit 8200 | XLinkedIn |
| Naveen Rao | Co-founder & CEO | Unconventional AI | Databricks, MosaicML, Nervana Systems | XLinkedIn |
| Nick Frosst | Co-founder | Cohere | — | XLinkedInHugging FaceSite |
| Niki Parmar | Executive Officer and Director | Essential AI | — | LinkedInScholar |
| Noah Goodman | Co-founder | humans& | Stanford | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Noam Wies | Co-founder | doubleAI | Orcam | XLinkedInScholar |
| Noubar Afeyan | Board member | Lila Sciences | Flagship Pioneering | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Or Sharir | Co-founder | doubleAI | AI21 Labs | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Oriol Vinyals | Co-founder | Discovery Loop | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Pascale Fung | Co-founder & Chief Research & Innovation Officer | AMI Labs | — | XLinkedIn |
| Patrick Esser | Co-founder | Black Forest Labs | Stability AI | XHugging FaceGitHub |
| Percy Liang | Co-founder | Simile | Stanford University | XScholarSite |
| Pete Florence | Co-founder | Generalist | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Phil Blunsom | Chief Technology Officer | Cohere | — | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Pim de Witte | Co-founder & CEO | General Intuition | Medal | XSite |
| Pratyush Kumar | Co-founder | Sarvam AI | AI4Bharat | XLinkedIn |
| Qi Liu | Co-founder | Reka | — | XScholarSite |
| Quan Vuong | Co-founder | Physical Intelligence | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Quoc Le | Co-founder | Discovery Loop | XScholarSite | |
| Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli | CSO, Physical Sciences | Lila Sciences | — | LinkedInScholar |
| Ramin Hasani | Co-founder & CEO | Liquid AI | Vanguard, MIT | LinkedInScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Ren Ito | Co-founder | Sakana AI | Mercari, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Reto Spörri | Co-CEO (left) | Aleph Alpha | — | — |
| Rhythm Garg | Co-founder | Applied Compute | OpenAI | XLinkedIn |
| Richard Socher | Co-founder & CEO | Recursive Superintelligence | Salesforce, You.com | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Robert Lange | Founding team member | Sakana AI | Google DeepMind | XScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Robin Rombach | Co-founder & CEO | Black Forest Labs | Stability AI | XScholarHugging Face |
| Rohan Anil | Co-founder & director | Core Automation | Google DeepMind, Anthropic | XScholar |
| Ryan Teknium | Co-founder | Nous Research | — | — |
| Sabri Eyuboglu | Co-founder & CTO | Engram | Stanford University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Saining Xie | Co-founder & Chief Science Officer | AMI Labs | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Sam Rodriques | Co-founder & CEO | Edison Scientific | FutureHouse, Francis Crick Institute | XLinkedInSite |
| Samuel Weinbach | Co-founder & Co-Chief Research Officer | Aleph Alpha | — | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Samuel Weinbach | Chief Research Officer (designate, effective on deal close) (left) | Cohere | Aleph Alpha | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Sanjay Ghemawat | Co-founder | Discovery Loop | LinkedInScholar | |
| Sara Archour | Co-founder | Unconventional AI | — | — |
| Sara Hooker | Co-founder & CEO | Adaption Labs | Cohere, Google DeepMind / Google Brain | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Sasha Sheng | Co-founder | TypeSafe AI | Meta | |
| Sashikumar Sreedharan | President, Chief Business Officer and board member | Sarvam AI | Google Cloud India, Microsoft India | — |
| Saurabh Singh | Founding Research Scientist | Poetiq | — | XScholarSite |
| Scott Linderman | Team member | Engram | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Sebastian De Ro | Co-founder | Magic | — | XLinkedIn |
| Sergey Levine | Co-founder | Physical Intelligence | — | XScholarSite |
| Shai Shalev-Shwartz | Co-founder & CTO | doubleAI | Mentee Robotics | X |
| Shayan Salehian | Founding team member | Mirendil | xAI | |
| Shivani Mitra | Co-founder | Nous Research | — | |
| Shubho Sengupta | Chief Technology Officer | Axiom Math | Meta (Facebook AI Research), NVIDIA | |
| Shumeet Baluja | Co-founder & co-CEO | Poetiq | Google DeepMind, Jamdat Mobile | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Simon Kohl | Founder & CEO | Latent Labs | Google DeepMind | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Soumith Chintala | CTO | Thinking Machines Lab | — | XScholarSite |
| Stefano Ermon | Co-Founder & CEO | Inception | Stanford University | XScholarSite |
| Sudip Roy | Co-founder | Adaption Labs | Cohere, Google | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Takuya Akiba | Founding team member | Sakana AI | Preferred Networks, Stability AI | XLinkedInScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Tantum Collins | Co-founder | Inherent | Google DeepMind, Biden White House | XLinkedIn |
| Tara Rezaei | Founding team member | Mirendil | OpenAI | XLinkedInSite |
| Théophile Gervet | Co-founder | Genesis AI | Mistral AI | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Tim Rocktäschel | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | Google DeepMind, UCL | XScholarSite |
| Tim Shi | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | — | XScholarSite |
| Timothée Lacroix | Co-founder & CTO | Mistral AI | — | LinkedInHugging Face |
| Tom McGrath | Co-founder & Chief Scientist | Goodfire | Google DeepMind | |
| Tony Kulesa | Head of GTM | Edison Scientific | Pillar VC | XLinkedInSite |
| Tudor Achim | Co-Founder and CEO | Harmonic | Helm.ai | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Vik Bajaj | Co-founder & co-CEO | Project Prometheus | Verily, Foresite Labs | XLinkedIn |
| Vivek Raghavan | Co-founder | Sarvam AI | AI4Bharat | XLinkedIn |
| Vlad Tenev | Co-Founder and Executive Chairman | Harmonic | Robinhood | XLinkedIn |
| Volodymyr Kuleshov | Co-Founder | Inception | — | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Wu Yuxin | Co-founder | Moonshot AI | — | ScholarSite |
| Xiang Deng | Co-founder | NeoCognition | — | ScholarSite |
| Yair Alon | Founding Research Scientist | Poetiq | — | LinkedInScholarSite |
| Yan Junjie | Founder, Chairman, CEO & CTO | MiniMax | SenseTime | Scholar |
| Yang Zhilin | Founder and CEO | Moonshot AI | Meta AI, Google Brain | — |
| Yann LeCun | Co-founder & Chairman (executive chair) | AMI Labs | Meta | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Yash Patil | Co-founder & CEO | Applied Compute | OpenAI | XLinkedInSite |
| Yi Tay | Co-founder | Reka | — | — |
| Yoav Levine | Co-founder | doubleAI | AI21 Labs | XLinkedInScholar |
| York Yang | Co-founder | Dyna Robotics | Caper AI | XLinkedIn |
| Yu Gu | Co-founder | NeoCognition | — | XLinkedInScholar |
| Yu Su | Co-founder & CEO | NeoCognition | Ohio State University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Yuandong Tian | Co-founder | Recursive Superintelligence | Meta FAIR | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Yuchen He | Co-founder | humans& | xAI | XLinkedInScholar |
| Yujin Tang | Founding team member | Sakana AI | Google Brain, Google DeepMind | LinkedInScholarHugging FaceSite |
| Yun Yeyi | Executive Director | MiniMax | — | |
| Zhang Peng | Co-founder & CEO | Zhipu AI | — | — |
| Zhou Xian | Co-founder & CEO | Genesis AI | Carnegie Mellon University | XLinkedInScholarSite |
| Zhou Xinyu | Co-founder | Moonshot AI | — | — |