Insider has compiled a list of 100 people at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic
Amodei is the founder and CEO of Anthropic, a startup in the artificial intelligence field that Amazon recently invested over a billion dollars in. Amodei was the VP of research at OpenAI until he left in late 2020 to build “safer AI” and co-founded a competing company. Earlier this year, Anthropic released a massive model for the company named Claude 2. Google is also an investor in Anthropic.
Greg Brockman, OpenAI
Brockman is the president and co-founder of OpenAI. He was the CTO at Stripe until he left to co-found the AI company in 2015 with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others. In late 2022, ChatGPT from OpenAI revolutionized the artificial intelligence world and sparked a current explosion in AI. Earlier this year, the company released another model called GPT-4, which is considered the most powerful AI model to date. The company is valued at 90 billion dollars according to a Wall Street Journal report from September.
Clément Delangue, Hugging Face
Delangue wants to make artificial intelligence accessible to every company. He is the founder and CEO of Hugging Face, an open-source platform where scientists, researchers, and engineers build, train, and deploy AI models. Delangue envisions that AI will be open source like Red Hat and be profitable. The Hugging Face platform mainly relies on the free version but has a paid version mainly used by large companies. Investors include Amazon, Google, Nvidia, IBM, and Salesforce. It was recently valued at 4.5 billion dollars.
Aidan Gomez, Cohere
Gomez was a research intern at Google Brain in 2017 when he co-authored a research paper on training AI models to better understand language. This paper laid the foundation for the generative AI technology sweeping the business world today, including Generative Pre-trained Transformers or GPT. In 2019, Gomez co-founded Cohere, which has become a leading competitor to OpenAI, especially for enterprise companies as it promises to keep their data secure. In August, the Toronto-based startup raised 270 million dollars at a valuation estimated at around 2 billion dollars from a range of bank heads and large companies including Oracle, Nvidia, and Salesforce Ventures.
Robin Li, Baidu
Li is the founder of Baidu, the leading Chinese company in search and cloud. Since Baidu’s launch in 2000, he has directed Baidu’s investments towards artificial intelligence, with services ranging from content recommendation to self-driving. Baidu operates self-driving taxi services in four Chinese cities, and Li held the company’s developer conference in the Baidu application for the virtual world, XiRang, which is organized in collaboration between humans and robots. The vision was to develop artificial intelligence. Baidu’s cloud offers many AI services, such as PaddlePaddle, a deep learning platform used by millions of developers. Earlier this year, Baidu launched an AI-based chatbot in Chinese.
Mira Murati, OpenAI
Murati leads the technology team at OpenAI. She was a mechanical engineer and previously worked at Leap Motion and Tesla, where she worked on the Model X. Murati joined OpenAI in 2018 as a researcher and was promoted to CEO in 2022. She grew up in Albania, where she developed a passion for mathematics and sciences, which earned her a scholarship to study in Canada and eventually in the United States. Under her leadership at OpenAI, her teams released the popular ChatGPT chatbot, the image generator Dall-E, and many other AI products.
SarahNaji, Seek AI
Naji co-founded Seek AI in 2021. Her startup uses artificial intelligence to automate repetitive tasks for data science teams in companies. Naji previously worked on Wall Street at Citadel’s Ashler Capital. She describes herself as a “Quant,” someone who uses mathematical and statistical analysis to find great investment opportunities for investment firms. She is also a classical piano player and a skilled golfer.
Naveen Rao, Databricks
Rao had a big year. In July, Databricks acquired Rao’s AI platform for $1.3 billion, and Rao transitioned from CEO of a successful startup to Vice President of AI at a company nearing an initial public offering. Rao works as a design and verification engineer with a background in neuroscience, and he already has a long career. He started his first AI company, Nervana, which was sold to Intel in 2016 for $408 million. At Databricks, Rao oversees the company’s AI strategy and research and development, as well as leading efforts to enable AI and train large language models through data governance and machine learning solutions.
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Grammarly
Roy-Chowdhury became the CEO of Grammarly, a writing assistance tool, earlier this year after serving as Global Head of Product for over two years. He began leveraging generative AI tools by launching an AI assistant for the core Grammarly product. He performs classic generative AI tasks such as composing email messages and writing replies, but he also provides suggestions for rephrasing tone, helping writers achieve the desired level of formality or professional relevance. Roy-Chowdhury has been vocal since taking his position that AI should be regarded as “augmented intelligence” due to its ability to enhance human learning and productivity, not replace it.
Avita Sampson, Google
Excellent communication skills, technical expertise, and the ability to lead teams is a rare combination for a tech worker. For Sampson, User Experience Director for Machine Learning at Google, this is her “superpower.” She has spent her career working on “human-centered” projects, such as AI that everyday people can utilize and want to use. Sampson has been discussing responsible AI even before 2023. In 2017, while she was the Design Research Lead at IDEO, she helped create the first set of AI ethics principles within the design industry.
Silvio Savarese, Salesforce
If you haven’t heard the news, Salesforce is betting big on AI. This means Savarese, Salesforce’s scientific officer and executive vice president, is at the forefront. He was previously a computer science professor at Stanford University, leaving his tenured position to lead the scientific and strategic long-term direction of AI at one of the largest software companies in the world. Savarese has published over 350 scientific papers, cited more than 55,000 times by others.
Kevin Scott, Microsoft
Microsoft entered the public AI arena this year when Bing surpassed Google to become the first major search engine to integrate AI through a partnership with OpenAI. Scott, the CEO of Microsoft, marketed the partnership. He knew former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman from his attempt to hire him for one of his early startups, Loopt, and after Altman was appointed CEO, Scott began negotiating what would become an innovative merger. Scott is currently working on expanding generative AI technology into other Microsoft products.
KarenSimonyan, Inflection AI
Simonyan has conducted influential research in the field of machine learning that has been cited by thousands of other researchers over the past decade since his years at the University of Oxford. He launched Vision Factory, which was acquired by Google’s DeepMind in 2014. He remained in a lead scientist position heading a team that developed technologies such as AlphaZero, the AI that mastered the game of chess; and AlphaFold, which predicts protein structures. In June, his new startup, Inflection AI, founded in partnership with Reid Hoffman and DeepMind founder Mustafa Suleyman, raised $1.3 billion from Microsoft, Hoffman, Bill Gates, former Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, and Nvidia.
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Amazon Web Services
Bukovec came to technology through the Peace Corps. After a volunteer stint in Mali in the 1990s, Bukovec found her niche in product leadership, leading infrastructure and broadband startups in their early years. After nearly a decade at Microsoft, she became the Vice President of Technology at AWS, where she leads some of the earliest and largest data services in AWS, such as Amazon S3, helping organizations of all sizes and industries to work with jelly AI.
Dya Wyn, Amazon Web Services
As the General Manager of Responsible AI at AWS, Wyn helps customers utilize emerging and intelligent technologies in ways that align with their ethics and values. Wyn has worked in technology for over two decades and has been at AWS for 6 years. Her focus on responsible technology could not be more timely as she helps educate companies and governments on how to manage the potential risks of using AI.
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