VIBERS
People and companies to know in AI. Explore their work, ideas, and experience.
951Zhilin Yang
Zhilin Yang is founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi. His research contributions include equal-contributing authorship of XLNet and Transformer-XL and coauthorship of work scaling the Muon optimizer for language-model training.
Start with Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context
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952Xinyu Zhou
Xinyu Zhou is a Moonshot AI researcher whose published work includes scaling the Muon optimizer, sparse block attention for long contexts and Kimi-Audio. The Kimi-Audio report identifies him as a project lead and core contributor.
Start with MoBA: Mixture of Block Attention for Long-Context LLMs
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953Shitao Xiao
Shitao Xiao researches text embeddings and retrieval models. He is first author of RetroMAE and C-Pack and a coauthor of M3-Embedding, work that connects model pretraining with finding relevant passages across languages and document lengths.
Start with RetroMAE: Pre-Training Retrieval-oriented Language Models Via Masked Auto-Encoder
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954Zhang Hongjiang
Zhang Hongjiang is a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University’s Institute for AI Industry Research and a former chairman of BAAI. His career combines multimedia research with technology leadership at Microsoft and Kingsoft.
Start with Adaptive Content Delivery: A New Research Area in Media Computing
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955Huang Tiejun
Huang Tiejun is chairman of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and a professor at Peking University. His research connects visual information processing and neuromorphic computing, including the SpikeCV framework.
Start with SpikeCV: Open a Continuous Computer Vision Era
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956Wang Zhongyuan
Wang Zhongyuan is president of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence. His research covers knowledge-based language understanding and multimodal AI.
Start with An Inference Approach to Basic Level of Categorization
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957Cheng Yixiao
Cheng Yixiao is co-founder, executive director, chairman and CEO of Kuaishou. He launched the original GIF Kuaishou app in 2011 and now oversees a business spanning short-form video, commerce and AI services.
Start with Kuaishou fifteenth-anniversary AI strategy
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958Patrick Esser
Patrick Esser is a co-founder of Black Forest Labs and a computer-vision researcher. He co-authored Taming Transformers and Latent Diffusion Models, and helped develop the rectified-flow transformer approach used in high-resolution image generation.
Start with The researcher-to-founder journey
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959Andreas Blattmann
Andreas Blattmann is a co-founder and managing director of Black Forest Labs. His research spans controllable image-to-video generation, Latent Diffusion Models and Stable Video Diffusion.
Start with iPOKE
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960Liang Rubo
Liang Rubo, listed in English by ByteDance as Rubo Liang, is the company’s co-founder, chairman and CEO.
Start with ByteDance: founders and company journey
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961Louis Vichy
Louis Vichy is a co-founder of OpenRouter. His work connects model access and routing infrastructure with developer tools, following earlier projects in browser extensions, local inference and application engineering.
Start with Inside OpenRouter’s Tech Stack and Use of Effect
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962Adam Sypniewski
Adam Sypniewski is CTO of Deepgram, where he leads research and engineering for speech systems. His work connects machine-learning models with the runtime and computing infrastructure needed for responsive voice applications.
Start with Four Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Compelling Voice Experiences
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963Liang Wang
Liang Wang is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia working on retrieval, text matching and embeddings. He is first author of the E5 text-embedding paper and publishes models through the intfloat account.
Start with Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training
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964Yuxin Wu
Yuxin Wu builds foundation models at Moonshot AI. His earlier computer-vision work includes Group Normalization with Kaiming He, coauthorship of Momentum Contrast and creation of the Detectron2 library.
Start with Group Normalization
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965Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, which he founded as Facebook in 2004. He sets the company’s product and technology direction and has written about AI model releases, personal AI systems and immersive computing.
Start with Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
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966Gai Kun
Gai Kun is senior vice president of Kuaishou and head of its Kling AI Division. His public presentations address video-generation tools and the controls people need to turn a creative intention into a usable sequence.
Start with Kling AI 2.0 launch account
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967Pony Ma
Pony Ma, also known as Ma Huateng, co-founded Tencent and is its chairman and CEO. He leads the company’s strategy and management across communication, games, cloud and other technology businesses.
Start with Tencent 2022 ESG report: progress on all three fronts
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968Lei Jun
Lei Jun is the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi. His influence on AI comes through a company that combines consumer devices, operating systems, connected products and electric vehicles, providing channels for models to become everyday software features.
Start with Xiaomi 2026 chairman’s statement
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969Robin Li
Robin Li is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu. His career spans search engineering and the leadership of a company building AI models, cloud infrastructure, agent products and autonomous-driving services.
Start with Daily Active Agents at Baidu Create 2026
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970Eric Xu
Eric Yong Xu, also known as Xu Yong, is a co-founder of Baidu and founder and chairman of Yifang Capital. Trained in biology, he later worked across entrepreneurship, investment and educational philanthropy.
Start with Xu Family Foundation: education and research projects
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971Wang Xing
Wang Xing is Meituan’s founder, chairman and chief executive. His relevance to AI lies in directing a large real-world services platform that is applying language models and assistants to local commerce and delivery.
Start with Meituan 2025 annual report
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972Peter DeSantis
Peter DeSantis is an Amazon senior vice president overseeing its expansive AI models, custom silicon and quantum-computing organization. His work connects model development with the chips and cloud infrastructure needed to operate it.
Start with Five things to know about Peter DeSantis
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973Víctor Perez
Víctor Perez is co-founder and CEO of Krea, which develops generative models and tools for visual work. His research and product work centers on giving people more direct control over the images, scenes and edits they create.
Start with A New Krea
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974Zhang Peng
Zhang Peng is cofounder, CEO and general manager of Z.AI, the company previously known as Knowledge Atlas and Zhipu AI. He combines company leadership with research contributions to bilingual language models and cross-language knowledge graphs.
Start with GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-Trained Model
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975Li Juanzi
Li Juanzi, published as Juanzi Li, is a professor at Tsinghua and a cofounder of Z.AI. Her research connects knowledge graphs, language models and explainable question answering, including benchmarks that make reasoning steps and long-context understanding easier to examine.
Start with KQA Pro: A Dataset with Explicit Compositional Programs for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Base
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976Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, directing its Robot Learning Lab and co-directing BAIR. His research studies how robots learn from demonstrations and experience, alongside work applying AI to robotics and other disciplines.
Start with Apprenticeship learning and reinforcement learning
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977Rissa Cao
Rissa Cao is co-founder and CEO of Fish Audio. Her public writing and interviews focus on expressive voice generation, the product needs behind it and the company’s work with creators and enterprise customers.
Start with 5 Models, 22 People, 1 Year
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978Joëlle Pineau
Joëlle Pineau is chief AI officer at Cohere and a professor of computer science at McGill, currently on part-time leave. Her research addresses planning and learning with incomplete information, and her reproducibility work helps researchers describe how their machine-learning results were obtained.
Start with Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist
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979Bill Dally
Bill Dally is NVIDIA’s chief scientist and senior vice president of research. A computer architect and former Stanford computer-science chair, he has worked on interconnection networks, experimental parallel computers and efficient processing architectures, while leading NVIDIA Research since 2009.
Start with Bill Dally Caltech alumni interview
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980Shijia Liao
Shijia Liao is founder and chief scientist of Fish Audio. He works on speech-generation models and the training and inference systems that make expressive voice output controllable and practical to serve.
Start with How we made our text-to-speech API free
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981Yeyi Yun
Yeyi Yun is co-founder and president of MiniMax. Her work focuses on turning the company’s multimodal models into products and a global business, alongside responsibility for company operations.
Start with MiniMax AI Founder Day at GTC
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982Pengyu Zhao
Pengyu Zhao leads large-language-model research and engineering at MiniMax and serves as an executive director. His co-authored research includes long-context foundation models and verifiable logical-reasoning data for reinforcement learning.
Start with SynLogic code and data
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983Anna Veronika Dorogush
Anna Veronika Dorogush is founder and CEO of Recraft, an AI lab building image models and tools for visual creators. Previously she led the machine-learning tools team at Yandex and helped create CatBoost, an open-source gradient-boosting library for working with structured data and categorical features.
Start with CatBoost: gradient boosting with categorical features support
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984Yan Junjie
Yan Junjie is MiniMax’s founder, chairman, CEO and CTO, overseeing research strategy and company operations.
Start with The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence
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985Srikar Talluri
Srikar Talluri is a software engineer whose public work includes a transformer-based chess engine and a visualizer for matrix transformations. His professional profile describes work on fast model inference at Fireworks AI.
Start with Chessformer
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986Sao10K
Sao10K, who publishes as Sao, makes language-model merges and fine-tunes for creative writing and roleplay. The creator’s releases include Fimbulvetr, Stheno and Euryale.
Start with L3.3-70B-Euryale-v2.3
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987Undi95
Undi95 publishes open-weight model merges and local AI software. The creator’s work includes the ReMM model series and Hanami, a character-chat interface with inspectable prompts and local conversation files.
Start with Hanami
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988Biao Gong
Biao Gong researches multimodal generative models. He is a co-author of Ming-Omni and Ming-Lite-Uni, which combine visual understanding with image generation, and Framer, a system for creating motion between supplied images.
Start with Framer
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989Boyu Tian
Boyu Tian is a computer systems researcher working on infrastructure for AI agents. His research connects memory-system design with model serving and agent workloads, including concurrency control when many agents share limited accelerator memory.
Start with CONCUR
View profile →Yiran Suo
Yiran Suo co-authored ContextWeave, a benchmark of whether remembered experience helps agents continue real workflows. It extends memory evaluation beyond recalling a fact from a long prompt.
Start with ContextWeave
View profile →Maosen Zhou
Maosen Zhou is a co-author of research on tool-using agents, including WEFT, ContextWeave and the Nex-N1 report. These projects study how training environments, execution systems and memory affect an agent’s ability to complete longer tasks.
Start with WEFT
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992DoctorShotgun
DoctorShotgun is a public pseudonymous developer and language-model fine-tuner. Their work includes the Magnum-Diamond models for creative writing and practical guidance for running large mixture-of-experts models across CPU and GPU memory.
Start with Local MoE inference with CPU and GPU memory
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993lucyknada
lucyknada, who publishes as lucy, develops tools for working with local language models. Their repositories include a long-context retrieval test and a notebook for preparing quantized models in several formats.
Start with Detective Needle
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994Dhruv Bhatia
Dhruv Bhatia is a founding researcher at Morph, working on specialized models and inference for coding agents. His published work includes accounts of fast code-edit application and model-assisted code search.
Start with Fast Apply Makes Faster Agents
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995Fernando Fernandes Neto
Fernando Fernandes Neto researches efficient adaptation of language models. He co-authored Spectrum, which selects model layers for training, and work on transplanting tokenizers between models. Arcee AI also credits him on its foundation-model releases.
Start with Spectrum implementation
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996Gryphe
Gryphe, who publishes as Gryphe Padar, develops language-model merging tools and creative-writing models. Their work includes MythoMax, BlockMerge Gradient and MergeMonster, along with later fine-tunes and synthetic datasets.
Start with MergeMonster
View profile →Raven (rzvzn)
Raven, credited as rzvzn on Discord, trained Kokoro, an open-weight text-to-speech model. The original demo names Raven, and the model card credits the Discord handle. Public evidence supports this specific contribution; it does not establish a legal name or ownership of similarly named accounts.
Start with Kokoro
View profile →Jingxuan Xu
Jingxuan Xu is the first listed author of SWE-Compass, a benchmark that evaluates coding agents on tasks drawn from GitHub pull requests.
Start with SWE-Compass
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999Jian Yang
Jian Yang studies how language models write and evaluate code. He co-authored Qwen2.5-Coder at Alibaba and leads LoopCoder research at Beihang University.
Start with LoopCoder-v2
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