Artificial intelligence

Yann LeCun

French-American AI pioneer who invented convolutional neural networks

Born 1959

Marvin Minsky

Co-founder of MIT’s artificial intelligence laboratory and a founding father of AI

1927 – 2016

Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT

Born 1985

Peter Norvig

Google’s former director of research and co-author of the leading AI textbook

Born 1956

Mira Murati

Former OpenAI CTO and founder of Thinking Machines Lab

Born 1988

Eric Schmidt

CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and later CEO of Relativity Space

Born 1955

Andrew Ng

AI educator who co-founded Google Brain and Coursera

Born 1976

Jim Keller

Chip architect behind AMD’s Zen, Apple’s A-series and Tesla’s self-driving chip

Jensen Huang

Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the AI boom

Born 1963

Richard S. Sutton

Canadian-American scientist who founded modern reinforcement learning

Nat Friedman

Former GitHub CEO who launched Copilot and now leads product at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Born 1977

Dario Amodei

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind Claude

Born 1983

Alan Turing

Mathematician who founded computer science and helped break the Enigma code

1912 – 1954

John McCarthy

Computer scientist who coined the term “artificial intelligence” and invented Lisp

1927 – 2011

Yoshua Bengio

Canadian deep-learning pioneer and one of the “godfathers of AI”

Born 1964

Stuart Russell

Berkeley professor who co-wrote the leading AI textbook and campaigns for safe AI

Ray Kurzweil

Inventor and futurist known for predicting the technological singularity

Born 1948

Herbert A. Simon

Nobel-winning economist and AI pioneer who studied how people make decisions

1916 – 2001

Geoffrey Hinton

“Godfather of AI” and Nobel laureate who made neural networks work

Born 1947

Emad Mostaque

Founder of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion

Daniela Amodei

Co-founder and president of Anthropic

Ashish Vaswani

Lead author of the transformer paper “Attention Is All You Need”

Arkady Volozh

Founder of Yandex, Russia’s search giant, and CEO of Nebius

Born 1964

Andrew Barto

Co-founder of modern reinforcement learning