VIBERS

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

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Amu Varma

Amu Varma is a co-founder of Canopy Labs, which develops models for digital humans and speech. He contributes to Canopy’s Orpheus speech repository under the name Amartya Varma. His early public work with Elias Fizesan explored simulated interviews, making a conversational system people could practice pitching to.

Start with An interview-practice product

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Elias Fizesan

Elias Fizesan co-founded Canopy Labs with Amu Varma. His public work focuses on digital humans: combining a conversational interface with expressive speech, rather than treating text-to-speech as an isolated voice output.

Start with Orpheus TTS

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Yinghao Aaron Li

Yinghao Aaron Li researches speech synthesis and voice generation. He is the first author of StyleTTS 2 and DMOSpeech 2, and announced a move to Meta Superintelligence Labs after his doctoral work at Columbia.

Start with StyleTTS 2 implementation

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Piotr Dabkowski

ElevenLabs co-founder and CTO, with earlier public work on image-classifier explanations and Python tools for running JavaScript.

Start with Real Time Image Saliency for Black Box Classifiers

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105

Swami Sivasubramanian

AWS vice president leading Agentic AI and Emerging Technologies, with a research and product history spanning DynamoDB, SageMaker and Bedrock.

Start with Amazon’s DynamoDB, ten years later

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106

Nick Frosst

Nick Frosst is a Cohere co-founder whose research spans capsule networks, interpretable prediction and language models. Publishing as Nicholas Frosst, he helped develop ways to represent visual objects and expose how neural networks make predictions.

Start with Neural Additive Models

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107

Ivan Zhang

Ivan Zhang is a Cohere co-founder with a background in research infrastructure and software engineering. His published work includes unsupervised cipher learning, neural-network pruning and machine translation.

Start with Unsupervised Cipher Cracking Using Discrete GANs

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108

David Ha

David Ha is co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI. His research explores systems that learn representations, generate drawings and improve through interaction, including World Models and the Agentic Scientist.

Start with World Models

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109

Llion Jones

Llion Jones is co-founder and CTO of Sakana AI and a co-author of Attention Is All You Need, the paper that introduced the Transformer. His later research includes Continuous Thought Machines and hardware-efficient sparse language models.

Start with Continuous Thought Machines

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110

Ren Ito

Ren Ito is Sakana AI’s co-founder and chairman. His work connects the Tokyo research company with enterprise customers, finance and public institutions, drawing on earlier experience in diplomacy and international technology businesses.

Start with Sakana AI and MUFG partnership

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111

Dylan Fox

Dylan Fox is founder and CEO of AssemblyAI, a company that supplies speech models and developer infrastructure for voice applications. His writing emphasizes the gap between transcription benchmark scores and the errors that matter in working products.

Start with Beyond WER

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112

Scott Stephenson

Scott Stephenson is Deepgram’s CEO and co-founder. He moved from particle-physics research into building speech recognition and voice AI infrastructure.

Start with How to test automatic speech recognition providers

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113

Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun is executive chairman of AMI Labs and a professor at New York University. His research connects neural-network image recognition with systems that learn representations and models of the world.

Start with Gradient Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition

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114

Alexandr Wang

Alexandr Wang is Meta’s chief AI officer and a co-founder of Scale AI. His work spans the data infrastructure used to develop AI, leadership of Meta’s AI effort, and writing about national-security strategy.

Start with Alexandr Wang with David Senra

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115

Rohit Prasad

Rohit Prasad became CEO of Boston Dynamics in October 2026 after leading Alexa science and Amazon’s artificial general intelligence organization. His work connects conversational AI research with deployed products.

Start with Ambient intelligence and general AI

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116

Elon Musk

Elon Musk leads Tesla and SpaceX. His public work includes plans for electric transport, energy systems and spaceflight; SpaceX acquired the AI company xAI in February 2026.

Start with Master Plan, Part Deux

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117

Jimmy Ba

Jimmy Ba is a University of Toronto associate professor and co-author of Adam, Layer Normalization and Lookahead. A co-founder of xAI, he announced his departure in February 2026. His research studies how neural networks can learn more efficiently.

Start with Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization

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118

Robin Rombach

Robin Rombach is co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs. His co-authored work on latent diffusion and high-resolution image synthesis helped establish the technical foundation of Stable Diffusion. He advocates making visual AI technology available for others to build on.

Start with High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

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119

Cristóbal Valenzuela

Cristóbal Valenzuela is co-founder and CEO of Runway, which develops AI models and creative tools. His work combines software, media art and research, including the co-authored Soundify system for matching sound effects to video.

Start with Creative software 2.0

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120

Joshua Xu

Joshua Xu is co-founder and CEO of HeyGen, which makes tools for generating and translating video with AI avatars. His background combines robotics and computer vision with product engineering at Snap.

Start with HeyGen’s $0 to $1M ARR journey

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121

Wayne Liang

Wayne Liang is co-founder and chief innovation officer of HeyGen. His work connects interaction design with AI video and real-time avatars, focusing on how people express themselves and converse through generated media.

Start with The guide to launch a real-time avatar agent

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122

Alejandro Matamala Ortiz

Alejandro Matamala Ortiz is co-founder and chief innovation officer of Runway, where he leads Runway Labs. A designer and programmer, he works on interfaces and applications that make generative models useful for creative work.

Start with Runway: AI capabilities for creative platforms

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123

Diego Rodriguez Prado

Diego Rodriguez Prado is Krea’s co-founder and chief technology officer. He builds creative AI tools with Víctor Pérez, connecting generative models with interfaces that artists and design teams can control.

Start with Building AI tools with architects

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124

David Silver

David Silver is CEO of Ineffable Intelligence and a professor at University College London. Formerly the lead of DeepMind’s reinforcement-learning team, he led or co-led work including AlphaGo. He studies agents that improve by learning from experience.

Start with Reinforcement learning course

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125

Anna Goldie

Anna Goldie is founder and CEO of Ricursive Intelligence, an AI lab focused on chip design. She co-led AlphaChip at Google and has also worked on language-model research, including RAPTOR and multi-step reinforcement learning.

Start with A graph placement methodology for fast chip design

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126

Nathan Lambert

Nathan Lambert is a machine learning researcher and co-founder and executive director of Trillium Labs, a nonprofit supporting open frontier AI research. He writes Interconnects and the RLHF Book, connecting practical language-model training with public explanations of how it works.

Start with 5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)

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127

Peter Steinberger

Peter Steinberger created OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI agent, and joined OpenAI in February 2026 to work on agents. He previously founded PSPDFKit, the document-software company now called Nutrient.

Start with summarize

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128

Dylan Patel

Dylan Patel is the founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis, a research firm covering semiconductor supply chains and AI infrastructure. His reporting connects chip manufacturing, datacenter capacity and the cost of running AI models.

Start with Dylan Patel: Three bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

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129

Zara Zhang

Zara Zhang builds AI tools and writes about how people use them. Her public work includes a library of HTML presentation designs for coding agents.

Start with Frontend Slides

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130

Cole Medin

Cole Medin founded Dynamous, an AI education community, and publishes practical agent-development projects as coleam00. His tutorials cover context for coding agents, retrieval from documents and running AI tools locally.

Start with Context Engineering Intro

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131

Jiayuan (JY) Zhang

Jiayuan Zhang, also known as JY, founded Multica, a workspace for teams of people and coding agents. He publishes developer tools through the forrestchang account and writes about reading and software.

Start with Karpathy-inspired coding guidelines

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132

Jesse Vincent

Jesse Vincent founded and leads Prime Radiant, an applied AI lab, and created the Superpowers development workflow for coding agents. His earlier projects include Request Tracker, K-9 Mail and Keyboardio keyboards.

Start with Superpowers

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133

Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is an associate professor of management and co-director of the Generative AI Labs at Wharton. He studies how AI changes work and education and writes the One Useful Thing newsletter and Co-Intelligence.

Start with The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients

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134

Bellman

Bellman is the public handle of Yeachan Heo, an algorithmic trader who builds multi-agent orchestration tools. His projects include oh-my-codex for Codex CLI and oh-my-claudecode for Claude Code.

Start with oh-my-codex (OMX)

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135

Gergely Orosz

Gergely Orosz writes The Pragmatic Engineer and hosts its software-engineering podcast. A former Uber engineering manager, he explains how engineering teams build systems and how developers grow into senior technical roles.

Start with The Software Engineer’s Guidebook

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136

Jesse Duffield

Jesse Duffield created Lazygit and Lazydocker, terminal interfaces for Git and Docker. He is co-founder and CEO of Subble, a company that helps businesses identify unused or excessive software subscriptions.

Start with Lazygit

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137

Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka is a language-model research engineer and educator. His books and open-source implementations teach readers to build language models in Python and PyTorch, following earlier work as a statistics professor and at Lightning AI.

Start with Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

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138

花叔

花叔, known as Huashu or Alchain, is an independent AI-assisted product builder and educator. He publishes reusable agent skills and the Chinese-language Orange Book guides, and built the 小猫补光灯 lighting app.

Start with Orange Book series

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139

Matt Pocock

Matt Pocock is a developer educator who created Total TypeScript and now teaches AI engineering through AI Hero. His courses use practical coding exercises, drawing on his experience with the XState core team and developer advocacy at Vercel.

Start with Total TypeScript

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140

Kailash Nadh

Kailash Nadh is the CTO of Zerodha and a developer of open-source tools for newsletters, dictionaries and small web interfaces. He co-founded FOSS United to support free software communities in India.

Start with Listmonk

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141

Mario Zechner

Mario Zechner created libGDX and the Pi coding-agent toolkit. He joined Earendil in April 2026, bringing Pi into the company after years of work on game frameworks, compilers and developer tools.

Start with What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

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142

Affaan Mustafa

Affaan Mustafa co-leads compute trading at Jump Trading and created ECC, a toolkit of skills, memory and workflows for coding agents. He also created AgentShield, which checks agent configurations for security problems.

Start with Everything Claude Code

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143

Hamel Husain

Hamel Husain is a machine learning engineer and educator focused on evaluating AI products. He previously worked at Airbnb and GitHub, led the team behind CodeSearchNet, and teaches teams how to inspect failures and measure whether their systems improve.

Start with Your AI Product Needs Evals

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144

Laurie Voss

Laurie Voss is head of developer relations at Arize AI and a co-founder of npm, Inc. A web developer since 1996, he writes and speaks about developer tools, software careers and the practical engineering of AI systems.

Start with Stuff Everybody Knows Except You

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145

Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company exploring work with AI. He writes Chain of Thought, co-hosts The Every Podcast and previously co-founded Firefly, which was sold to Pegasystems in 2014.

Start with The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy.

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146

Thariq Shihipar

Thariq Shihipar is an engineer working on Claude Code at Anthropic. His earlier projects span game development, academic publishing and small AI tools, including One More Multiverse and PubPub.

Start with LLM-Powered Sorting with TrueSkill

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Roman Perepelitsa

Roman Perepelitsa develops Zsh shell tools including Powerlevel10k, zsh4humans and zsh-bench. His work concentrates on prompt responsiveness, useful defaults and measuring the delays people feel at a terminal.

Start with zsh-bench

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148

Shayan Rais

Shayan Rais is a software architect at Disrupt.com who publishes practical guides and example configurations for coding agents. His repositories cover Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI, including hooks, reusable instructions and agent workflows.

Start with Claude Code Best Practices Guide

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149

Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky writes Lenny’s Newsletter and hosts Lenny’s Podcast about product management, growth and careers. A former Airbnb product lead and Localmind co-founder, he combines practitioner interviews with advice for people building and leading products.

Start with How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast

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Theo Browne

Theo Browne, known as Theo or t3.gg, is a developer, video creator and founder of T3 Chat. His work includes the T3 Stack, a web-application starter, and products for file uploads, streaming and coding-agent interfaces.

Start with Create T3 App

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