Databasesectie · 36 records
Mensen
The founders, researchers and executives shaping AI and its infrastructure — with the companies, papers and ideas they are connected to.
Veldnotities
Instellingen bouwen de machines, maar een verrassend kleine groep mensen bepaalt de richting. Volg de verbindingen op deze pagina's — wie wat heeft opgericht, wie waar vertrok — en de stamboom van de industrie tekent zichzelf.
Begin met deze drie
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Jensen Huang
Dertig jaar van een Denny's-hokje naar het middelpunt van de wereldeconomie.
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Lisa Su
De turnaround-artiest die het geloofwaardige alternatief bouwde.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Bouwde het vakgebied, won de Nobelprijs, en werd vervolgens zijn luidste waarschuwing.
Founders & executives
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Jensen Huang
Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA — the defining executive of the AI era.
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Sam Altman
OpenAI's CEO — the industry's chief fundraiser, evangelist and lightning rod.
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Dario Amodei
Anthropic's CEO — scaling believer, safety insister, essayist of both.
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Elon Musk
xAI, Tesla, OpenAI co-founder turned rival — the industrialist of the race.
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Lisa Su
AMD's chair and CEO — architect of one of tech's great turnarounds.
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Aidan Gomez
'Attention Is All You Need' co-author; Cohere's CEO.
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Alexandr Wang
Scale AI's founder, now leading Meta Superintelligence Labs.
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Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity's CEO — taking the answer-engine fight to Google.
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Arthur Mensch
Mistral's co-founder-CEO — Europe's frontier standard-bearer.
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Bill Gates
Microsoft's founder — and, via TerraPower, a nuclear player in the AI power story.
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Brett Adcock
Figure's founder — humanoids on an automotive schedule.
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C.C. Wei
TSMC's chairman and CEO through the AI supercycle.
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Daniela Amodei
Anthropic's co-founder and president — the operator of the safety lab.
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Greg Brockman
OpenAI co-founder and president — the engineer of its scaling machine.
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Jim Keller
The industry's legendary chip architect — now open-sourcing the stack at Tenstorrent.
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Jonathan Ross
Started Google's TPU as a side project; founded Groq to beat it.
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Larry Ellison
Oracle's founder — late to cloud, early to the AI compute trade.
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Liang Wenfeng
DeepSeek's founder — the quant who embarrassed the compute maximalists.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta's founder — open-weights strategist turned superintelligence spender.
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Masayoshi Son
SoftBank's founder — a career of all-in bets, now all on AI.
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Mira Murati
Former OpenAI CTO; founder of Thinking Machines Lab.
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Morris Chang
Founder of TSMC — inventor of the foundry model itself.
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Satya Nadella
Microsoft's CEO — the OpenAI bet and the Jevons argument.
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Sundar Pichai
Alphabet's CEO — steering the only full-stack AI company.
Researchers
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Demis Hassabis
DeepMind's founder-CEO — chess prodigy, Nobel laureate, AGI's steady hand.
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Geoffrey Hinton
The 'godfather of AI' — Nobel laureate turned risk whistleblower.
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Ilya Sutskever
AlexNet co-author, OpenAI's scientific soul, now betting everything on SSI.
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Alan Turing
The founder of the question — computation, and whether machines can think.
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Andrej Karpathy
The field's teacher — OpenAI founding member, Tesla Autopilot lead, YouTube professor.
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Andrew Ng
Educator of the field — Google Brain founder, Coursera co-founder, pragmatist voice.
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Chris Olah
Interpretability's founding figure — Anthropic co-founder.
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Fei-Fei Li
ImageNet's creator — the data insight that started the deep-learning era — now World Labs' founder.
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Jeff Dean
Google's chief scientist — the systems engineer behind TPUs and Gemini's lineage.
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Noam Shazeer
Transformer co-author, MoE pioneer — bought back by Google for $2.7B.
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Yann LeCun
CNN pioneer, Meta's longtime chief scientist — the loyal opposition to LLM orthodoxy.
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Yoshua Bengio
The most-cited AI scientist — now building the safety case full time.