AIFIRST AI People
Curated directory of widely known AI leaders and researchers, with official links.
Curated seed list, grows via the nightly pipeline.
Dario Amodei
Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and leads the company behind the Claude models.
anthropic.comDaniela Amodei
Co-founded Anthropic and runs its day-to-day operations as president.
anthropic.comDemis Hassabis
Co-founded DeepMind and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold.
deepmind.googleGeoffrey Hinton
Deep learning pioneer; 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
cs.toronto.edu/~hintonYoshua Bengio
2018 Turing Award laureate and a leading voice on AI safety research.
yoshuabengio.orgYann LeCun
Convolutional network pioneer, 2018 Turing Award; longtime chief AI scientist at Meta.
yann.lecun.comAndrej Karpathy
Former OpenAI founding member and Tesla AI director; known for hands-on AI education.
karpathy.aiIlya Sutskever
OpenAI co-founder who left in 2024 to start Safe Superintelligence Inc.
ssi.incMira Murati
Former OpenAI CTO; founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025.
thinkingmachines.aiMustafa Suleyman
DeepMind co-founder, later Inflection AI, now heads Microsoft's consumer AI.
microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-aiJensen Huang
Runs NVIDIA, whose GPUs power most modern AI training and inference.
nvidia.comFei-Fei Li
Created ImageNet and co-founded World Labs; co-directs Stanford HAI.
profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-liArthur Mensch
Former DeepMind researcher leading Europe's most prominent open-weight lab.
mistral.aiAidan Gomez
Co-author of the transformer paper 'Attention Is All You Need'; leads Cohere.
cohere.comClement Delangue
Leads Hugging Face, the main open hub for models, datasets and ML tooling.
huggingface.coAlexandr Wang
Founded Scale AI, a major data-labeling and evaluation provider for AI labs.
scale.comSundar Pichai
Oversees Google's AI push including Gemini and Google DeepMind.
blog.google