VIBERS

People and companies to know in AI. Explore their work, ideas, and experience.

901

Monglong

Monglong, known on GitHub as MongLong0214, develops tools for AI coding workflows. CommitLore preserves the reasoning behind repository decisions in Git, while other projects address model routing and agent control of music-production software.

Start with CommitLore – Git memory for decisions coding agents keep forgetting

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902

Gauthier Lechevalier

Gauthier Lechevalier is an engineer and maker building nff, a toolkit for coding agents working with embedded hardware. His projects connect software agents with firmware development, physical devices and feedback from the real world.

Start with nff

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903

ELIN

ELIN is the developer of Relay, an open-source interface for controlling AI coding agents running on a computer or server from another device.

Start with Control AI Agents on Your Old PC at Home from Any Device Anywhere

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904

Arthur Jean

Arthur Jean is a software engineer and founder of StriveX, building open-source tools for coding agents. His projects include the native Paneflow workspace, Rust Doctor, and tools for managing agent context. Previously, he developed internal applications at Avancial, an SNCF Group subsidiary.

Start with Rust Doctor, a code health scanner for Cargo workspaces

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905

Ivan Parfenchuk

Ivan Parfenchuk is a software developer who builds applications and developer tools. His work includes a DeepSeek Harness plugin for model-based verification, the Rately journaling app, and practical writing about building software with language models.

Start with LLM-as-a-Verifier Plugin for DeepSeek Harness

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906

Mark Cli

Mark Cli maintains oc through the only-cli developer account. The command-line tool turns web pages into compact text and numbered links, giving coding agents a smaller interface to read and navigate.

Start with Turning websites into micro CLIs for Claude Code to save on tokens

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907

Greendam

Greendam, known on GitHub as wdhwg001, develops csift, a tool for inspecting Claude Code session transcripts. The developer’s public projects also include a token-counting utility and an autosave tool for the SAI drawing application.

Start with Csift – the missing tool to sift your Claude Code sessions

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908

Rita Kozlov

Rita Kozlov leads developer-platform and AI product work at Cloudflare. Her career connects software engineering and customer-facing infrastructure work with the development of Workers, Pages and services for autonomous agents.

Start with Welcome to Agents Week — April 2026

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909

Kevin Weil

Kevin Weil is CEO of Warp Sciences, a company combining chemistry, AI and robotics to make molecules for drug research. He previously led product and science work at OpenAI and product teams at Instagram and Twitter.

Start with Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5

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910

Omar Sanseviero

Omar Sanseviero leads developer experience at Google DeepMind. He previously led platform and community work at Hugging Face, and writes tutorials explaining how to choose and run machine-learning models.

Start with LLM Evals and Benchmarking

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911

Jared Palmer

Jared Palmer is vice president of engineering at Cognition, the company behind the Devin software agent. He founded Turborepo and created developer tools including Formik, v0 and the AI SDK.

Start with Formik

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912

Justin Wang

Justin Wang is a Research Partner at Paradigm working on AI measurement and evaluation. His work includes EVMbench, research on model safeguards, and an interactive simulator of AI research and recursive self-improvement.

Start with RSI Simulator

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913

Ricardo Cabello

Ricardo Cabello, known as mr.doob, is the creator of Three.js, a JavaScript library for interactive 3D graphics on the web. His work also includes browser-based visual experiments and tools such as stats.js and frame.js.

Start with Three.js

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914

Benedict Brady

Benedict Brady is a member of technical staff at The Bot Company and the creator of Optimization Arena, now Paradigm Puzzles. He writes about evaluating agents, automated research and the engineering practices needed for long-running software tasks.

Start with Learnings from Optimization Arena

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915

zebleck

zebleck develops Tiny RTS, a browser-based real-time strategy game with multiplayer matches and community-made maps. The project’s creator also publishes its development history and identifies AI assistance in the game’s code.

Start with Tiny RTS

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916

Dhravya Shah

Dhravya Shah is the founder and CEO of Supermemory, which builds memory and context infrastructure for AI applications. His work spans agent memory, developer tools and open-source software. He previously worked on Workers AI and special projects at Cloudflare.

Start with Memory on the harness level

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917

Jatin Roy

Jatin Roy, known online as ajeebtech, is a developer and machine-learning researcher who builds consumer applications and tools. His work includes VODs Space for VALORANT match analysis, computer-vision tooling and research on financial and ESG time series.

Start with Vods Space

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918

Rob Hallam

Rob Hallam builds software products and publishes My First Dollar, a newsletter and interview series about building businesses. His Can I Vibecode It? project examines which subscription products might be replaceable with AI-assisted software.

Start with Can I Vibecode It?

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919

Stephanie Palazzolo

Stephanie Palazzolo reports on artificial intelligence and writes The Information’s AI Agenda newsletter. Her earlier work includes AI reporting at Business Insider and technology investment banking.

Start with How Is Anthropic So Efficient?

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920

Kim Isenberg

Kim Isenberg, known online as Chubby, is a technology analyst and co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Superintelligence. He publishes AI coverage and interviews about the companies, compute infrastructure and economic decisions shaping the field.

Start with Who controls your AI agents?

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921

Sasha Sheng

Sasha Sheng is a cofounder and COO of TypeSafe AI. Previously a research engineer at Meta and FAIR, she coauthored benchmarks that test how AI systems connect images, language and sound.

Start with Human-Adversarial Visual Question Answering

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922

Erik Gafni

Erik Gafni is a cofounder and CTO of TypeSafe AI. His earlier machine-learning work applied probabilistic models and neural networks to genetic diagnostics and blood-based cancer screening.

Start with COSMOS: Python library for massively parallel workflows

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923

Iryna Gurevych

Iryna Gurevych is a professor of natural language processing at TU Darmstadt and director of its UKP Lab. She co-authored Sentence-BERT and BEIR, research that connects language representations with practical search and evaluation.

Start with Sentence-BERT

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924

Igor Babuschkin

Igor Babuschkin is cofounder and CEO of River AI, which is developing personal AI that users can adapt and control. He previously cofounded xAI and contributed to DeepMind’s AlphaStar research.

Start with AlphaStar: Grandmaster level in StarCraft II

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925

Damai Dai

Damai Dai coauthored DeepSeekMoE and the DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 technical reports. His published work concerns efficient language-model architectures and training methods that develop reasoning through reinforcement learning.

Start with DeepSeekMoE

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926

Jeffrey Quesnelle

Jeffrey Quesnelle is co-founder and CTO of Nous Research. His research includes YaRN, a method for extending language-model context windows, and DeMo, an optimizer designed to reduce communication during distributed training.

Start with YaRN

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927

Karan Malhotra

Karan Malhotra is a co-founder of Nous Research who works on model behavior and agents. He created WorldSim.

Start with Hermes 4 Technical Report

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928

Zhou Yucong

Zhou Yucong leads MiniMax’s visual-model research and engineering and serves as an executive director.

Start with MiniMax H3 introduction

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929

Zhang Yiming

Zhang Yiming co-founded ByteDance in 2012, led it as CEO until 2021 and subsequently focused on strategy, culture and social responsibility.

Start with Nankai incoming-students address (2016)

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930

Xin Chen

Xin Chen is a senior research scientist and technical leader at ByteDance working on large-scale video generation, including Seedance. His earlier research connects human motion, 3D geometry and language-based generation.

Start with Paint3D

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931

Sébastien Bubeck

Sébastien Bubeck works on AI at OpenAI. A mathematician and machine-learning researcher, he studies optimization, online algorithms and how the components and training of large language models shape their capabilities.

Start with AI and the Future of Mathematics

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932

Aditya Grover

Aditya Grover is co-founder and CTO of Inception and an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA. His research connects generative models and reinforcement learning with applications in science; earlier work includes node2vec for learning representations of networks.

Start with node2vec

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933

Volodymyr Kuleshov

Volodymyr Kuleshov is a Cornell computer-science professor and co-founder and chief scientist of Inception. He studies generative models, uncertainty and applications in science, health and sustainability, including diffusion-based language models.

Start with Applied Machine Learning

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934

Ryan Teknium

Ryan Teknium, known online as Teknium, is a co-founder of Nous Research. His work includes open language models, training datasets and Hermes Agent, a terminal-based personal and coding agent.

Start with Hermes Agent

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935

Shivani Mitra

Shivani Mitra is a Nous Research co-founder and managing partner of Prometheia, an emerging-technology investment fund. Her work connects open AI, digital art and the organizations that support them.

Start with Surgathon

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936

Daya Guo

Daya Guo researches language models, code intelligence and reasoning. At DeepSeek from July 2023 to April 2026, he contributed to its coding, mathematics and reasoning models, including DeepSeek-Coder and DeepSeek-R1.

Start with DeepSeek-Coder

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937

Jingren Zhou

Jingren Zhou is Alibaba’s senior vice president, chief AI architect and head of its Tongyi Foundation Model Division. His research background connects distributed data processing, query optimization and large-scale AI infrastructure.

Start with SCOPE: Parallel Databases Meet MapReduce

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938

Haifeng Wang

Haifeng Wang is Baidu’s chief technology officer. A researcher in language technology, he has worked on machine translation, search and language models, and coauthored research in the ERNIE series.

Start with ERNIE 2.0

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939

Johnny Ho

Johnny Ho is Perplexity’s co-founder and chief strategy officer, leading product at the AI answer-engine company. His earlier work includes software engineering at Quora and high-frequency trading at Tower Research Capital.

Start with The Room Podcast: Johnny Ho

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940

Andy Konwinski

Andy Konwinski co-founded Laude, Databricks and Perplexity. A computer scientist and investor, he connects research in data systems and AI with open-source projects, startup formation and agent evaluation.

Start with Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing

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941

Wing Chan

Wing Chan is co-founder of Sourceful and Riverflow, where he leads research and development for image models and a visual-production platform. His guides focus on keeping product details consistent in generated ecommerce images.

Start with How to Keep Products Consistent in AI Images

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942

Oscar Vallance

Oscar Vallance is co-founder of Sourceful and Riverflow, where he leads operations and go-to-market work. He writes practical guides for building consistent brand campaigns with AI image and video tools.

Start with Riverflow NOCCIA Prompt Guide

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943

Eddie Wu

Eddie Wu is a cofounder, director and chief executive officer of Alibaba Group. His career spans the company’s early technology systems, payments, search and advertising, and its current strategy for AI models, chips and cloud infrastructure.

Start with Eddie Wu’s 2026 Apsara keynote

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944

Junyang Lin

Junyang Lin founded Pragmatik Labs to research agents for digital and physical environments. His earlier work with the Qwen team includes language-model training, multimodal systems and reinforcement-learning methods.

Start with Qwen3 Technical Report

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945

TheDrummer

TheDrummer is a pseudonymous software engineer and model creator working on language models for creative writing and roleplay. Releases include Cydonia and Rocinante, with instructions for running the models and choosing their conversation formats.

Start with Rocinante X12Bv1

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946

MarinaraSpaghetti

MarinaraSpaghetti, also known as Mari, publishes language-model merges and settings for creative conversations. NemoMix-Unleashed combines several Mistral Nemo derivatives and includes the merge configuration, prompting format and sampling recommendations.

Start with NemoMix-Unleashed12B

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947

Hong Liu

Hong Liu is an AI researcher working on language-model pretraining. He co-founded Voyage AI and previously led its research on embedding models and rerankers for semantic search.

Start with Sophia

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948

Tengyu Ma

Tengyu Ma is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford and MongoDB’s chief AI scientist. He founded Voyage AI, whose embedding and reranking technology became part of MongoDB through its 2025 acquisition.

Start with Sophia

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949

Kaidi Cao

Kaidi Cao is a member of technical staff at Anthropic, working on Claude’s agentic and tool-use capabilities. He previously co-founded Voyage AI and worked on embedding and reranking models for search.

Start with Label-Distribution-Aware Margin Loss

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950

Wu Zeming

Wu Zeming, listed by Alibaba as Zeming Wu, is the group’s chief technology officer and a member of its partnership committee. His work has included the technology infrastructure behind e-commerce, local services and the 11.11 shopping festival.

Start with HKUST–Alibaba joint-laboratory announcement

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