VIBERS
People and companies to know in AI. Explore their work, ideas, and experience.
201Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng is an AI researcher, educator and entrepreneur who founded DeepLearning.AI and co-founded Coursera. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford and leads AI ventures, following earlier research leadership at Google Brain and Baidu.
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202Ali Farhadi
Ali Farhadi is a computer-vision researcher, University of Washington professor and corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft Superintelligence. He previously led the Allen Institute for AI. His research connects visual understanding with methods for running neural networks more efficiently.
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203Oren Etzioni
Oren Etzioni is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and University of Washington professor emeritus. He was the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI and founded TrueMedia.org to address manipulated media. His research helped establish open information extraction from web text.
Start with Open Information Extraction from the Web
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204Peter Clark
Peter Clark is interim CEO and a senior research director at the Allen Institute for AI. He studies machine reasoning and automated scientific discovery, co-leading Asta after earlier work on science-question answering and systems that expose their reasoning.
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205Paul Allen
Paul Allen (1953–2018) co-founded Microsoft and founded the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2014. His role in AI was institution-building and funding: creating a home for sustained research and public scientific resources.
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206Benji Taylor
Benji Taylor is a design leader at SpaceX, leading design for X, and a creator of interface tools including Agentation and Liveline. He previously led design at Base and founded Los Feliz Engineering, the company behind Honk and Family, before its acquisition by Aave Labs.
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207Farza
Farza builds HeyClicky, a desktop AI companion that can see the screen and guide a person through a task. He previously founded buildspace, a community and school for people working on their own ideas, and publishes smaller tools such as Freewrite and Stupid Emails.
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208Alex Cheema
Alex Cheema co-founded EXO Labs, which builds software for running AI models across clusters of ordinary computers. His background combines physics at Oxford with distributed systems and trading infrastructure.
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209Rhys Sullivan
Rhys Sullivan founded Executor, an integration layer that gives AI agents a shared connection to external tools. His projects span agent infrastructure, web applications and earlier gameplay engineering.
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210Manav Arya Singh
Manav Arya Singh builds open-source developer tools and studies computer science at BITS Pilani’s Dubai campus. His work combines interface design with tools that turn a website, codebase or agent session into reusable development material.
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211Abhigyan Patwari
Abhigyan Patwari builds tools for understanding codebases, including GitNexus and Prowl. His GitHub biography describes him as a computer science student and AI engineer interested in how systems work.
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212Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie co-founded Box and has served as its chief executive and a board member since April 2005. He leads the company behind its enterprise content-management platform.
Start with Aaron Levie on Cloud Giants
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213Felix Rieseberg
Felix Rieseberg is an engineer at Anthropic who has led engineering for Claude.ai, Cowork and Code Desktop. He is also an Electron co-maintainer and builds open-source desktop applications and tools for learning how software works.
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214Corey Haines
Corey Haines is a marketer and software builder who runs Conversion Factory and writes SwipeFiles. He also created Marketing Skills for AI Agents, a library that gives coding assistants structured marketing workflows.
Start with Marketing Skills for AI Agents
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215Eric Davis
Eric Davis is a systems architect at Broadcom and an open-source developer publishing as insanum. His terminal tools connect everyday work, including notes and calendars, to keyboard-driven interfaces and scripts.
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216Nico Bailon
Nico Bailon builds tools for AI coding agents and works as a senior agent engineer at Pika Labs. His open-source work includes Visual Explainer and extensions that help Pi delegate work, communicate between sessions and expose its activity.
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217Jan Čurn
Jan Čurn co-founded and leads Apify, a platform for collecting web data and running browser automation. His earlier research studied how a network of sensors can combine uncertain information without becoming falsely confident.
Start with The Apify origin story
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218Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai is a computer scientist and co-founder of Gitar, an AI code-review company acquired by Sonar in May 2026. His work spans language runtimes, developer infrastructure and checking the software that AI agents produce.
Start with Welcoming Gitar to Sonar
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219Tejas Kumar
Tejas Kumar is an AI engineer at IBM, the author of Fluent React and host of the ConTejas Code podcast. He explains how web and AI systems work through books, code-based articles and conference talks.
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220Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad founded and leads Replit, a browser-based software development platform. His earlier work at Codecademy and Facebook focused on the tools that let people learn programming and build JavaScript software.
Start with Replit is not an IDE
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221Eric Zakariasson
Eric Zakariasson works on AI at SpaceX after an early role at Cursor. He builds developer tools and writes practical accounts of running, supervising and designing coding-agent workflows.
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222Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is a general partner at Playground Global and Gloo’s executive chairman and head of technology. His engineering and executive career includes Intel, VMware and EMC, spanning processor architecture, enterprise computing and technology investment.
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223Christopher Harrison
Christopher Harrison is a senior developer advocate at GitHub and a technical educator known as GeekTrainer. His recent guides explain how to give coding agents useful project context and turn routine maintenance into reviewable workflows.
Start with GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
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224Uday Kiran Medisetty
Uday Kiran Medisetty is a vice president and distinguished engineer at Uber. His work connects the company’s long-running infrastructure and developer platforms with its newer systems for coding agents.
Start with Uber’s AI infra, from the inside
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225Nick Nisi
Nick Nisi is a staff engineer and engineering manager on WorkOS’s developer-experience and AI team. He builds internal systems for using coding agents and teaches developer tooling through talks, workshops and community events.
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226Dax Raad
Dax Raad builds OpenCode, an open-source coding agent, and has worked on SST and OpenAuth. His developer tools emphasize practical interfaces while allowing developers to choose their infrastructure and model providers.
Start with Reclaiming Authentication with OpenAuth
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227Anjney Midha
Anjney Midha founded AMP, which coordinates compute for independent AI teams, and is a venture partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Before investing in AI infrastructure, he built computer-vision and developer-platform businesses at Ubiquity6 and Discord.
Start with The Need for an Independent AI Grid
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228Avi Chawla
Avi Chawla writes Daily Dose of Data Science, a publication teaching data science, machine learning and AI engineering through short explanations and visual guides. His recent work covers the practical behavior of language-model systems, including caching and evaluation.
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229Anastasis Germanidis
Anastasis Germanidis is a co-founder and co-CEO of Runway, an AI research company developing generative video and interactive world models. His work combines machine learning with tools for artists, filmmakers and simulated environments.
Start with Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
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230Steve Yegge
Steve Yegge is an independent engineering adviser, programmer and writer. He created Beads and Gas Town, tools for giving coding agents durable memory and coordinating their work, after a career building developer infrastructure at Amazon, Google and Sourcegraph.
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231Ido Salomon
Ido Salomon builds tools for connecting AI agents to documentation, interactive interfaces and other agents. He created MCP-UI with Liad Yosef, develops GitMCP and builds AgentCraft, an interface that presents agent coordination through real-time strategy game controls.
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232Diogo Almeida
Diogo Almeida is a founder and CEO of TypeSafe AI. Previously at OpenAI and Google Brain, he co-authored the InstructGPT paper and GPT-4 technical report. His current work focuses on models that return structured decisions directly to software.
Start with Introducing System One Models & Jev
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233Alex Albert
Alex Albert works at Anthropic on making Claude useful to developers and users. His public work includes prompt engineering, developer education and research communication. He previously created JailbreakChat, a collection of prompts that tested chatbot restrictions.
Start with Introducing Contextual Retrieval
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234Elie Bakouch
Elie Bakouch works on language-model training and autonomous AI research at Prime Intellect, after contributing to the SmolLM series at Hugging Face. His published work spans distributed pretraining, agent evaluation and persistent research-agent environments.
Start with Measuring Autonomous AI Research
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235Simone Avogadro
Simone Avogadro maintains open-source tools that connect AI coding assistants with existing software and documents. His projects include an Android reverse-engineering skill and a server for reading files stored in Google Drive.
Start with Android Reverse Engineering Skill
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236Yishen Tu
Yishen Tu builds open-source tools for Obsidian, the note-taking application that stores a user’s notes as files. Tu’s Claudian plugin brings coding agents into that workspace so they can work directly with a notes vault.
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237Alejandro AO
Alejandro AO is a developer advocate at Hugging Face and an educator who teaches developers to build AI applications. His tutorials connect practical agent programming with the tools, datasets, and open models developers use underneath it.
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238Peter Yang
Peter Yang writes Behind the Craft, a newsletter and interview series about using AI and building products. He also publishes open-source skills that help people edit AI-generated work and give coding agents precise feedback.
Start with Human Review
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239Theo Jaffee
Theo Jaffee is a co-founder and host of MTS, a media company covering artificial general intelligence and the changes around it. He writes news digests and longer essays and previously worked on a16z’s new media team.
Start with 8/26: Ox Alpha Reveal
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240Rob Pruzan
Rob Pruzan builds developer tools at Zenbu. His terminal-browser and terminal-code projects put a graphical browser and VS Code inside a terminal, keeping an application preview and its coding agent in the same workspace.
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241David Haz
David Haz is a creative developer and designer who makes reusable components for animated web interfaces. He created React Bits and Canvas UI, libraries that let developers inspect working effects and bring editable source into their own projects.
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242Louis Arge
Louis Arge builds software for learning, agent collaboration, and information access. His open-source projects include a PostgreSQL desktop client and a messaging layer that lets separate Claude Code sessions discover and contact each other.
Start with Claude Peers MCP
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243Will Brown
Will Brown leads Applied Research at Prime Intellect, building infrastructure for training and evaluating language-model agents, including Verifiers and the Environments Hub.
Start with Verifiers v1
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244Alderik
Alderik builds AI-assisted software and tools for discovering, deploying, and maintaining it. Public projects include SelfStack, a personal application server, VibeLeaderboard, and reusable agent workflows for deployment, design, and operations.
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245Aaron Elijah Mars
Aaron Elijah Mars builds autonomous-agent software and infrastructure. He founded Aeon, a framework for scheduled agent work, and MiroShark, a system for running large-scale simulations with language-model agents.
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246Joel Hooks
Joel Hooks co-founded egghead.io and builds tools and platforms for developer educators. His current work spans Badass Courses, the Course Builder ecosystem, and JoelClaw, a personal system of durable agent workflows.
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247Hassan El Mghari
Hassan El Mghari, known online as nutlope, leads Developer Experience at Together AI. He builds open-source AI applications and teaches developers through working examples, including RoomGPT, LlamaCoder, and the Hallmark design skill.
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248Elvis Sun
Elvis Sun builds open-source AI tools for public relations and media research. After eight years working on Firebase at Google, he now publishes Newsjack and other products for finding journalists, tracking coverage, and planning outreach.
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249Shreya Shankar
Shreya Shankar is a computer scientist who builds systems for reliable, economical processing of documents with language models. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon and developed DocETL during her Berkeley PhD. She also teaches AI evaluation with Hamel Husain.
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250Martin Casado
Martin Casado leads infrastructure investing as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded Nicira and helped develop software-defined networking, which makes network behavior programmable rather than tied to individual pieces of hardware.
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