100 PEOPLE IN GLOBAL AI

Frank Blackwood

Chief Scientist

World AI Organization

Frank Blackwood serves as Chief Scientist of the World AI Organization, where he leads global research initiatives on safe and beneficial artificial intelligence. With over two decades of experience spanning academic research, policy advisory, and industry practice, Frank has shaped AI governance frameworks adopted by multiple international bodies. He is a frequent contributor to Nature and Science, and has testified before the UN on AI safety and equitable access. His work focuses on aligning advanced AI systems with human values, ensuring that the transformative power of artificial intelligence serves all of humanity.

Robin Li

李彦宏

Co-founder & CEO

Baidu

Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, leading the company's transformation into an AI-first platform anchored by the Ernie large model family and Apollo autonomous driving stack.

Pony Ma

马化腾

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Tencent

Founder of Tencent, steering one of China's largest internet conglomerates and its Hunyuan large model and cloud-AI ecosystem.

Zhang Yiming

张一鸣

Founder

ByteDance

Founder of ByteDance, the company behind Douyin and TikTok and a major force in recommendation AI, multimodal models, and Doubao.

Lei Jun

雷军

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Xiaomi

Founder of Xiaomi, driving a 'Human × Car × Home' AI strategy across smartphones, IoT, and electric vehicles.

Wang Chuanfu

王传福

Founder, Chairman & CEO

BYD

Founder of BYD, the world's largest new-energy vehicle maker, pushing intelligent driving and embodied AI at industrial scale.

Zhou Hongyi

周鸿祎

Founder & Chairman

360 Group

Founder of 360, an outspoken voice on AI safety in China and architect of 360's large-model and AI search products.

Kai-Fu Lee

李开复

Chairman & CEO

Sinovation Ventures / 01.AI

Founder of Sinovation Ventures and 01.AI, longtime AI scientist and investor shaping China's foundation-model landscape.

Wang Xiaochuan

王小川

Founder & CEO

Baichuan AI

Sogou founder turned LLM entrepreneur, leading Baichuan AI's open and closed large language models.

Yang Zhilin

杨植麟

Founder & CEO

Moonshot AI

Founder of Moonshot AI, creator of the Kimi assistant and a leading researcher on long-context language models.

Wang Huiwen

王慧文

Founder

Light Years Beyond

Meituan co-founder who launched Light Years Beyond, an early flagship of China's large-model startup wave.

Zhang Peng

张鹏

CEO

Zhipu AI

CEO of Zhipu AI, commercializing the GLM and ChatGLM series spun out of Tsinghua's KEG lab.

Tang Jie

唐杰

Professor & Co-founder

Tsinghua University / Zhipu AI

Tsinghua professor and Zhipu AI co-founder, principal researcher behind the GLM family of large language models.

Yin Qi

印奇

Co-founder & CEO

Megvii

Co-founder and CEO of Megvii, a pioneer of computer vision and AIoT systems in China.

Xu Li

徐立

Co-founder & CEO

SenseTime

Co-founder and CEO of SenseTime, leading its SenseNova large-model platform and AI infrastructure business.

Zhu Long

朱珑

Founder & CEO

YITU Technology

Founder of YITU Technology, working on visual intelligence, healthcare AI, and domain-specific large models.

Yu Kai

余凯

Founder & CEO

Horizon Robotics

Founder of Horizon Robotics, designing edge AI chips and autonomous driving compute platforms for global automakers.

Harry Shum

沈向洋

Founding Chairman

IDEA Research

Former Microsoft EVP and Founding Chairman of IDEA, advancing foundation model research and AI talent ecosystems in the Greater Bay Area.

Zhang Yaqin

张亚勤

Chair Professor & Dean

Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua

Former president of Baidu and dean of Tsinghua AIR, focused on autonomous driving, life sciences, and AI industry transfer.

Qi Lu

陆奇

Founder & CEO

MiraclePlus (奇绩创坛)

Veteran technologist who led Microsoft, Yahoo, and Baidu AI; now mentors China's next generation of AI founders through MiraclePlus.

Wang Jian

王坚

Founder

Alibaba Cloud

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and founder of Alibaba Cloud, architect of City Brain and a long-time advocate for compute as infrastructure.

Joe Tsai

蔡崇信

Chairman

Alibaba Group

Chairman of Alibaba Group, steering the group's AI-first strategy, Qwen open models, and global cloud investments.

He Xiaopeng

何小鹏

Founder, Chairman & CEO

XPeng Motors

Founder of XPeng, pushing end-to-end autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, and flying cars.

Li Xiang

李想

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Li Auto

Founder of Li Auto, building intelligent EVs powered by in-house large models and an AI agent strategy.

Yan Junjie

闫俊杰

Founder & CEO

MiniMax

Founder of MiniMax, building multimodal foundation models and consumer AI products such as Talkie and Hailuo.

Dai Wenyuan

戴文渊

Founder & CEO

4Paradigm

Founder of 4Paradigm, pioneering enterprise AutoML platforms and the Shichuang large-model decision stack.

Zhou Ming

周明

Founder

Langboat Technology

Former deputy managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, now leading Langboat's vertical-domain large language models.

Yan Shuicheng

颜水成

Chief Scientist

Kunlun Tech / Skywork AI

IEEE/ACM Fellow and chief scientist driving Kunlun's Skywork foundation models and multimodal research.

Fei-Fei Li

李飞飞

Professor & Co-founder

Stanford University / World Labs

Co-director of Stanford HAI, creator of ImageNet, and co-founder of World Labs working on spatial intelligence.

Andrew Yao

姚期智

Dean, IIIS

Tsinghua University

Turing Award laureate and dean of Tsinghua's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, mentor to a generation of Chinese AI researchers.

Gao Wen

高文

Academician & Professor

Peking University / Pengcheng Lab

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, leader of the Pengcheng Lab and China's open-source AI infrastructure initiatives.

Weinan E

鄂维南

Academician & Professor

Peking University

Mathematician and academician advancing AI for science, machine-learning-based scientific computing, and large-model evaluation.

Qi Yuan

漆远

Dean

Shanghai Academy of AI for Science / Fudan University

Former chief AI scientist at Ant Group, now leading interdisciplinary AI-for-science research in Shanghai.

Zhu Xiaohu

朱啸虎

Managing Partner

GSR Ventures

Outspoken venture investor focused on practical applied AI, SaaS, and the commercialization path of generative AI in China.

Neil Shen

沈南鹏

Founding & Managing Partner

HongShan (Sequoia China)

Founding partner of HongShan, one of Asia's most influential venture investors backing leading AI infrastructure and model companies.

Zhang Lei

张磊

Founder & CEO

Hillhouse Capital

Founder of Hillhouse, a long-term investor across technology, healthcare, and AI-native enterprises.

Bob Xu

徐小平

Founder

ZhenFund

Founder of ZhenFund, an early-stage investor backing AI founders across language models, robotics, and consumer AI.

Justin Yifu Lin

林毅夫

Honorary Dean

National School of Development, Peking University

Leading development economist and former World Bank chief economist, framing the macro implications of China's AI-driven new productive forces.

Zhu Min

朱民

Chair

National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua

Former deputy managing director of the IMF, analyzing how AI reshapes global growth, finance, and geopolitics.

Huang Qifan

黄奇帆

Distinguished Professor

Fudan University

Former mayor of Chongqing and influential economist on industrial policy, digital economy, and AI manufacturing upgrades.

Qian Yingyi

钱颖一

Honorary Dean

Tsinghua School of Economics and Management

Renowned economist and educator, writing on AI, education reform, and the future of human capital in the intelligent era.

Liang Wenfeng

梁文锋

Founder & CEO

DeepSeek

Founder of DeepSeek, pioneering high-efficiency open-source reasoning models that reset the global cost-performance frontier.

Wang Xingxing

王兴兴

Founder & CEO

Unitree Robotics

Founder of Unitree, leading low-cost humanoid and quadruped robotics manufacturing at global scale.

Jack Ma

马云

Co-founder

Alibaba Group

Founder of Alibaba and a vocal advocate for AI-era entrepreneurship, education and small-business empowerment.

Richard Liu

刘强东

Founder & Chairman

JD.com

Founder of JD.com, driving AI-native supply chain, logistics automation and JoyAI large model platform.

Colin Huang

黄峥

Founder

Pinduoduo

Founder of PDD Holdings, applying recommendation and agentic AI to global e-commerce at hyper-scale.

Wang Xing

王兴

Founder & CEO

Meituan

Founder of Meituan, deploying AI across local services, autonomous delivery, and the LongCat large model.

Zhang Hongjiang

张宏江

Chairman

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

Chairman of BAAI, shaping China's open foundation-model ecosystem and AI talent infrastructure.

Yi Ma

马毅

Professor & Director

University of Hong Kong

Director of HKU's IDS, working on principled deep learning, white-box transformers, and intelligence theory.

Song Han

韩松

Associate Professor

MIT

MIT professor pioneering efficient deep learning, model compression, and the systems behind on-device LLMs.

Chen Tianqi

陈天奇

Assistant Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Creator of XGBoost, TVM, and MLC-LLM, advancing open compilers and runtimes for large model deployment.

Jia Yangqing

贾扬清

Founder & CEO

Lepton AI

Creator of Caffe and former Alibaba VP, now building cloud-native AI infrastructure at Lepton AI.

Li Mu

李沐

Founder

Boson AI

Co-author of MXNet and 'Dive into Deep Learning', building voice and agent foundation models at Boson AI.

Alec Radford

Research Scientist

OpenAI

Lead researcher behind GPT, CLIP and Whisper — among the most influential builders of modern foundation models.

Jared Kaplan

Co-founder & Chief Science Officer

Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic and lead author of the neural scaling laws underpinning modern LLM training.

Dawn Song

宋晓冬

Professor

UC Berkeley

Berkeley professor and MacArthur Fellow leading research on AI safety, privacy, and trustworthy machine learning.

Percy Liang

Associate Professor & Director

Stanford CRFM

Director of Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models, co-creator of HELM and AlpacaEval.

Chris Ré

Professor

Stanford University

MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of Snorkel and Together AI, advancing data-centric AI and efficient architectures.

Christopher Manning

Professor & Director

Stanford AI Lab

Director of Stanford AI Lab and a founding figure of modern NLP, shaping the GloVe and Stanford CoreNLP era of language AI.

Pieter Abbeel

Professor & Co-founder

UC Berkeley / Covariant

Berkeley robot-learning pioneer and Covariant co-founder, bringing foundation models to industrial robotics.

Sergey Levine

Associate Professor

UC Berkeley

Leading researcher in deep reinforcement learning and robot foundation models, co-founder of Physical Intelligence.

Chelsea Finn

Assistant Professor

Stanford University

Stanford roboticist and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, pioneering meta-learning and general-purpose robot policies.

Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

CMU professor and former Apple director of AI research, foundational contributor to deep generative models.

Richard Sutton

Distinguished Research Scientist

Keen Technologies / University of Alberta

2024 Turing Award laureate and father of reinforcement learning, author of the 'Bitter Lesson'.

David Silver

Principal Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

Lead researcher behind AlphaGo, AlphaZero and MuZero — defining figure of deep reinforcement learning.

Shane Legg

Co-founder & Chief AGI Scientist

Google DeepMind

Co-founder of DeepMind and one of the earliest researchers to formalize artificial general intelligence.

Koray Kavukcuoglu

CTO

Google DeepMind

CTO of Google DeepMind, leading research engineering behind Gemini and the next generation of multimodal models.

Jeff Clune

Professor & Senior Research Advisor

University of British Columbia / DeepMind

Researcher on open-ended learning, AI-generating algorithms, and quality-diversity methods toward general AI.

Richard Socher

Founder & CEO

You.com

Former Salesforce chief scientist, now leading You.com's AI-native search and productivity agents.

Andrew Feldman

Co-founder & CEO

Cerebras Systems

CEO of Cerebras, building the world's largest wafer-scale AI accelerator and fastest inference cloud.

Naveen Rao

VP of AI

Databricks

Founder of Nervana and MosaicML, now leading Databricks' generative AI platform and open model strategy.

Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder & CEO

Databricks

Co-founder and CEO of Databricks, defining the modern data + AI lakehouse and open model ecosystem.

Matei Zaharia

Co-founder & CTO

Databricks

Creator of Apache Spark, co-founder of Databricks and MLflow, leading open infrastructure for AI.

Amjad Masad

Founder & CEO

Replit

Founder of Replit, building AI-native software creation agents and a global developer platform.

Scott Wu

Co-founder & CEO

Cognition AI

CEO of Cognition AI, creators of Devin — pioneering autonomous software-engineering agents.

Varun Mohan

Co-founder & CEO

Codeium / Windsurf

CEO of Codeium and Windsurf, building agentic coding assistants and IDEs for enterprise developers.

Anton Osika

Co-founder & CEO

Lovable

Co-founder of Lovable, the fastest-growing AI app builder turning natural language into production software.

Michael Truell

Co-founder & CEO

Anysphere (Cursor)

Co-founder of Anysphere, building Cursor — the leading AI-first IDE used by millions of developers.

Harrison Chase

Co-founder & CEO

LangChain

Creator of LangChain and LangGraph, defining the open framework layer for LLM application development.

Jerry Liu

Co-founder & CEO

LlamaIndex

Co-founder of LlamaIndex, building the leading open-source data framework for retrieval-augmented generation.

Ben Firshman

Co-founder & CEO

Replicate

Co-founder of Replicate, the largest open-model hosting platform and Cog standard for ML deployment.

Dylan Field

Co-founder & CEO

Figma

CEO of Figma, embedding generative AI design into the world's most-used product design platform.

Tobi Lütke

Founder & CEO

Shopify

Founder of Shopify, leading an AI-first transformation of e-commerce tooling and operator productivity.

Patrick Collison

Co-founder & CEO

Stripe

Co-founder of Stripe, powering payments for OpenAI, Anthropic and the long tail of the AI economy.

Brian Chesky

Co-founder & CEO

Airbnb

CEO of Airbnb, rebuilding the company as an AI-native consumer platform with founder-mode operations.

Marc Benioff

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Salesforce

Founder of Salesforce, championing the Agentforce platform and enterprise AI labor revolution.

Jensen Huang

黄仁勋

Founder, Chairman & CEO

NVIDIA

Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, supplier of the compute fabric powering virtually every frontier AI lab.

Morris Chang

张忠谋

Founder

TSMC

Founder of TSMC, the indispensable foundry manufacturing the leading-edge silicon behind global AI.

C. C. Wei

魏哲家

Chairman & CEO

TSMC

CEO of TSMC, scaling advanced-node and CoWoS capacity to meet exploding AI compute demand.

Young Liu

劉揚偉

Chairman

Foxconn (Hon Hai)

Chairman of Foxconn, building global AI server and humanoid-robot manufacturing capacity.

Lip-Bu Tan

陳立武

CEO

Intel

CEO of Intel, leading the company's pivot to AI-era foundry and accelerator strategy.

Rene Haas

CEO

Arm Holdings

CEO of Arm, whose architecture underpins AI compute from edge devices to hyperscale data centers.

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Y Combinator Continuity

Managing partner backing AI-native scale-ups and a key operator behind YC's growth-stage strategy.

Garry Tan

President & CEO

Y Combinator

CEO of Y Combinator, accelerator behind a generation of AI-native startups and open ecosystem builders.

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder & General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

Co-founder of a16z, one of the most prolific AI investors backing model labs, infra, and consumer AI.

Masayoshi Son

孫正義

Chairman & CEO

SoftBank Group

Founder of SoftBank, deploying historic capital across Arm, OpenAI partnerships, and global AI infrastructure.

Daisuke Okanohara

岡野原大輔

Co-founder & Representative Director

Preferred Networks

Co-founder of Preferred Networks, Japan's leading deep-learning company spanning robotics, drug discovery and LLMs.

Ken Sakamura

坂村健

Professor & Founder

TRON Project / INIAD, Toyo University

Architect of the TRON OS family and a leading voice on Japan's AI, IoT and open computing strategy.

Brian Kim

김범수

Founder

Kakao

Founder of Kakao, leading Korea's AI services platform and KoGPT family of Korean large language models.

Lee Hae-jin

이해진

Founder & GIO

Naver

Founder of Naver, behind the HyperCLOVA X sovereign Korean LLM and Asia-Pacific AI cloud strategy.

Jay Y. Lee

이재용

Executive Chairman

Samsung Electronics

Chairman of Samsung, driving HBM memory, foundry and on-device AI critical to the global AI supply chain.

Chey Tae-won

최태원

Chairman

SK Group

Chairman of SK Group, whose SK hynix dominates HBM supply for NVIDIA-class AI accelerators.

Kazuo Ueda

上田和男

Founder

Sakana AI

Founder backing Sakana AI, Japan's leading research-driven foundation-model lab inspired by nature.

David Ha

Co-founder & CEO

Sakana AI

Co-founder of Sakana AI, former Google Brain Tokyo lead, pioneering evolutionary and nature-inspired AI.

Llion Jones

Co-founder & CTO

Sakana AI

Co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need' and co-founder of Sakana AI building novel foundation-model architectures.

Arthur Mensch

Co-founder & CEO

Mistral AI

Co-founder of Mistral AI, Europe's flagship open-weight foundation-model lab.

Guillaume Lample

Co-founder & Chief Scientist

Mistral AI

Co-founder and chief scientist of Mistral AI, lead author of the LLaMA paper while at Meta.

Yann LeCun (FR)

Chief AI Scientist

Meta

Turing Award laureate and Meta's chief AI scientist, championing open research and world-model architectures.

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder & CSO

Hugging Face

Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, steward of the world's largest open AI community.

André Saraiva

Researcher

OpenAI

OpenAI multimodal researcher behind DALL·E and image generation systems used worldwide.

Jonas Andrulis

Founder & CEO

Aleph Alpha

Founder of Aleph Alpha, Europe's leading sovereign enterprise LLM company.

Richard Socratic Zhao

Founder & CEO

Stability AI (interim)

Open-source generative imaging leadership steering Stable Diffusion's enterprise commercialization.

Joelle Pineau

VP of AI Research

Meta FAIR

Head of Meta FAIR, McGill professor, and a leading voice for reproducible and open AI research.

Doina Precup

Research Team Lead

Google DeepMind Montréal

McGill professor and DeepMind Montréal lead, advancing reinforcement learning and AI for science.

Yejin Choi

Professor

Stanford University

MacArthur Fellow and leading researcher on commonsense reasoning, neuro-symbolic AI and language models.

Ed Felten

Co-founder & Chief Scientist

Offchain Labs

Former US Deputy CTO and Princeton professor, shaping AI, crypto and technology policy.

Miriam Vogel

President & CEO

EqualAI

Chair of the US National AI Advisory Committee, driving responsible AI policy and governance.

Rumman Chowdhury

CEO

Humane Intelligence

Pioneer of algorithmic auditing and red-teaming, US Science Envoy for AI.

Timnit Gebru

Founder & Executive Director

DAIR Institute

Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute, leading independent ethics-first AI research.

Kate Crawford

Senior Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research

Author of 'Atlas of AI' and one of the most cited researchers on AI's social, political, and environmental impact.

Stephen Wolfram

Founder & CEO

Wolfram Research

Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, providing the symbolic computation backbone for many LLM tools.

Marc Andreessen

Co-founder & General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

Netscape co-founder and a16z general partner; lead author of 'Why AI Will Save the World' and one of the most influential AI capital allocators.

Martin Casado

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

a16z infra GP leading the firm's AI infrastructure and enterprise practice, ex-founder of Nicira.

Sarah Guo

Founder & Managing Partner

Conviction

Founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture firm investing across foundation models, dev tools, and applied AI.

Elad Gil

Solo Capitalist

Independent

One of the most active solo investors in AI, backing Perplexity, Character.AI, Harvey, Mistral and many more.

Vinod Khosla

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Sun Microsystems co-founder and Khosla Ventures founder; earliest institutional backer of OpenAI.

Samir Kaul

Founding Partner

Khosla Ventures

Founding partner at Khosla Ventures driving deep-tech and AI investments across science and industry.

Peter Thiel

Co-founder

Founders Fund

PayPal and Palantir co-founder; Founders Fund leads contrarian bets across defense AI, infra and frontier labs.

Brian Singerman

Partner

Founders Fund

Founders Fund partner, early backer of breakout AI and deep-tech companies.

Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

PayPal Mafia operator-investor backing AI-native consumer, fintech and vertical SaaS founders.

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder & Partner

Greylock / Inflection AI

LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, OpenAI/Inflection co-founder — a defining AI ecosystem builder.

Saam Motamedi

General Partner

Greylock

Greylock GP leading the firm's AI thesis, backing Adept, Cresta, Snorkel and more.

Alfred Lin

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner and former Zappos COO; backs AI-native marketplaces, agents and infrastructure.

Pat Grady

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia growth partner and co-author of 'Generative AI's Act II'; investor in OpenAI, Harvey, Glean.

Sonya Huang

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner leading the firm's generative-AI practice and co-author of seminal 'Generative AI' essays.

Doug Leone

Senior Partner

Sequoia Capital

Long-time Sequoia leader; backed Google, NVIDIA and many of today's AI compute giants.

Roelof Botha

Senior Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia senior steward, ex-PayPal CFO, leading the firm's AI-era investment strategy.

Bill Gurley

General Partner (Emeritus)

Benchmark

Legendary Benchmark partner and influential commentator on AI markets, regulation and platform power.

Peter Fenton

General Partner

Benchmark

Benchmark GP backing open-source and AI-native developer platforms.

Miles Grimshaw

General Partner

Benchmark

Benchmark GP investing in AI-first SaaS and data infrastructure.

Rick Yang

Partner

NEA

NEA partner backing AI infrastructure, applied AI and consumer companies.

Ann Miura-Ko

Co-founder & Partner

Floodgate

Floodgate co-founder and Stanford lecturer, early-stage investor in AI startups.

Mike Maples Jr.

Co-founder & Partner

Floodgate

Floodgate co-founder and 'Pattern Breakers' author backing AI-native breakouts.

Josh Kushner

Founder & Managing Partner

Thrive Capital

Thrive founder and major OpenAI backer, building one of the most concentrated AI portfolios in venture.

Philippe Laffont

Founder

Coatue Management

Coatue founder leading large-scale AI infrastructure, semiconductor and foundation-model investments.

Dan Rose

Chairman

Coatue Ventures

Coatue Ventures chairman and former Facebook executive backing AI-native consumer and enterprise companies.

Chase Coleman

Founder

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global founder; major crossover investor in AI infrastructure and applied AI scale-ups.

Scott Shleifer

Partner

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global partner directing large-scale growth investments across global AI companies.

Brad Gerstner

Founder & CEO

Altimeter Capital

Altimeter founder, host of BG2 Pod, and one of the most influential public-market AI investors.

Gavin Baker

Managing Partner & CIO

Atreides Management

Atreides CIO and prolific commentator on AI compute, semis and hyperscaler capex cycles.

Cathie Wood

Founder, CEO & CIO

ARK Invest

Founder of ARK Invest, publishing the most-read public research on AI, robotics and exponential technologies.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder & CEO

Social Capital

Social Capital founder and All-In Podcast co-host, backing AI-native growth and infrastructure plays.

David Sacks

Founder & General Partner

Craft Ventures

Craft Ventures founder, US 'AI & Crypto Czar', and All-In Podcast co-host shaping AI policy and capital.

Jason Calacanis

Founder

LAUNCH / Inside.com

Prolific angel investor and All-In Podcast co-host, backing dozens of early-stage AI startups.

Naval Ravikant

Co-founder

AngelList

AngelList co-founder, prolific seed investor and philosopher-investor of the AI era.

Balaji Srinivasan

Angel Investor

Independent

Former a16z GP and Coinbase CTO; prolific writer and angel investor at the intersection of AI and crypto.

Fred Wilson

Co-founder & Partner

Union Square Ventures

USV co-founder and long-time AVC blogger backing AI-native consumer and infrastructure companies.

Albert Wenger

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures

USV managing partner and author of 'World After Capital' on AI's impact on labor and economy.

Rebecca Kaden

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures

USV managing partner investing in AI-native consumer and education companies.

Jason Droege

Partner

Benchmark

Benchmark partner, former Uber Eats founder, backing AI-native consumer and marketplaces.

Matt Turck

Managing Director

FirstMark Capital

FirstMark MD, author of the MAD (ML/AI/Data) Landscape and Data Driven NYC organizer.

Shervin Pishevar

Co-founder

Sherpa Capital / Hyperloop One

Veteran investor backing AI-native marketplaces, defense AI and frontier infrastructure.

Nat Friedman

Co-founder

AI Grant / NFDG

Former GitHub CEO and AI Grant co-founder, leading the most-watched AI angel collective with Daniel Gross.

Daniel Gross

Co-founder

AI Grant / NFDG

Andromeda compute cluster builder and AI Grant co-founder, prolific backer of AI founders.

Lachy Groom

Solo Capitalist

Independent

Solo capitalist and former Stripe executive backing AI-native developer and infrastructure companies.

Oren Zeev

Founding Partner

Zeev Ventures

Solo capitalist behind Houzz, Audible and Tipalti, increasingly active in AI-native software.

Shaun Maguire

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia partner backing SpaceX, Watershed and frontier defense, science and AI companies.

Ian Hathaway

Partner

Haystack

Haystack partner investing at the seed stage in AI infrastructure and applied AI startups.

Semil Shah

General Partner

Haystack

Haystack GP and prolific seed investor across AI, fintech and consumer software.

Rajeev Misra

Founder & CEO

One Investment Management

Founder of One IM and architect of SoftBank Vision Fund; deploying global capital into AI infrastructure.

Masayoshi Son

孫正義

Chairman & CEO

SoftBank Group

SoftBank founder, anchor investor in Arm, OpenAI and Stargate AI infrastructure programs.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan

Governor

Public Investment Fund (PIF)

Head of Saudi Arabia's PIF, anchoring HUMAIN and sovereign AI infrastructure across the Gulf.

Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Managing Director & CEO

Mubadala Investment Company

CEO of Mubadala, deploying UAE sovereign capital into G42, AI compute and global AI champions.

Peng Xiao

Group CEO

G42

Group CEO of G42, anchoring the UAE's sovereign AI strategy from Falcon LLMs to gigawatt compute clusters.

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Chairman

G42 / MGX

Chairman of G42 and MGX, the UAE's AI-focused sovereign investment vehicle.

Lim Chow Kiat

CEO

GIC

CEO of Singapore's GIC, a leading sovereign LP in global AI infrastructure and venture funds.

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara

CEO

Temasek Holdings

Temasek CEO directing capital into AI, semiconductors and sustainable compute.

Nicolai Tangen

CEO

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)

Head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest equity owner of leading AI public companies.

Kathy Xu

徐新

Founder & Managing Partner

Capital Today

Founder of Capital Today; backed JD.com, Meituan and a generation of Chinese consumer-AI leaders.

Jixun Foo

符绩勋

Managing Partner

GGV Capital / Granite Asia

Managing partner at GGV/Granite Asia, leading cross-border AI, mobility and enterprise investments.

Hans Tung

童士豪

Managing Partner

Notable Capital

Notable Capital (formerly GGV US) managing partner, early backer of Xiaomi, ByteDance and global AI startups.

Anna Fang

方爱之

CEO & Partner

ZhenFund

CEO of ZhenFund, leading China's most active seed fund into AI agents, robotics and consumer AI.

Allen Zhu

朱啸虎

Managing Partner

GSR Ventures

Managing partner at GSR Ventures and outspoken voice on China's applied-AI commercialization.

Fu Sheng

傅盛

Founder & Chairman

Cheetah Mobile / OrionStar

Cheetah Mobile founder turned AI investor and builder, leading OrionStar service-robot platform.

JP Gan

甘剑平

Founding Partner

Ince Capital

Founding partner of Ince Capital, formerly Qiming, investing in China's AI infrastructure and SaaS.

Gary Rieschel

Founding Managing Partner

Qiming Venture Partners

Founder of Qiming Venture Partners and a leading cross-Pacific investor in AI, semis and healthcare.

William Bao Bean

General Partner

Orbit Startups / SOSV

SOSV/Orbit GP backing early-stage AI startups across emerging markets and Greater China.

Lee Kai-Fu Investor

Chairman & CEO

Sinovation Ventures

Chairman of Sinovation Ventures, backing China's leading AI-first startups including 01.AI portfolio companies.

Tu Hongtao

涂鸿涛

Partner

Hillhouse Capital

Hillhouse partner directing late-stage AI infrastructure and life-science investments in Asia.

Miao Zhenjiang

缪振江

Partner

Source Code Capital

Source Code Capital partner backing Chinese AI infrastructure, robotics and applied AI.

Cao Yi

曹毅

Founding Partner

Source Code Capital

Founder of Source Code Capital, early backer of ByteDance and many Chinese AI platform companies.

Fang Aizhi

方爱之

CEO

Real Fund (真成投资)

CEO of Real Fund investing in Chinese AI, robotics and frontier-tech founders.

Wu Shichun

吴世春

Founding Partner

Plum Ventures (梅花创投)

Founder of Plum Ventures, prolific Chinese early-stage investor across AI, robotics and SaaS.

Jiang Tao

蒋涛

Founder

CSDN / Boolan

Founder of CSDN and Boolan, leading angel investor in Chinese AI developer-tools companies.

Yang Jianbo

杨剑波

Managing Partner

Lightspeed China Partners

Lightspeed China partner backing AI infrastructure, foundation models and applied AI in Greater China.

Cyrus Shao

邵俊

Founding Partner

Detong Capital Partners

Founder of Detong Capital, investor in Chinese AI software, semiconductors and digital health.

STEVEN HOFFMAN

Captain Hoff — Founder & CEO

Founders Space

Known worldwide as Captain Hoff, Steven Hoffman is the founder and CEO of Founders Space, one of the world's leading startup accelerators and venture builders. A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and Silicon Valley veteran, he has mentored hundreds of AI and deep-tech founders across the US, China, Europe, and Eurasia. He is the author of bestsellers Make Elephants Fly, Surviving a Startup, and The Five Forces, and a frequent keynote speaker on AI, innovation, and the future of entrepreneurship.

LI XIAOHUA

李晓华

Founder & CEO

DeepCloud AI

Founder of DeepCloud AI, a Beijing-based startup building enterprise LLM infrastructure. Previously led AI strategy at a top Chinese cloud provider and is a frequent speaker on China-US tech dynamics.

LIN WEI

林威

AI Infrastructure Investor

Meridian Capital

Two-decade investor across public and private AI infrastructure. Tracks the GPU supply chain from TSMC to the datacenter, and writes on the macro forces shaping compute markets.

MARCUS CHO

Founder

Inflection Labs

Builder of large-scale AI training clusters. Previously led platform engineering at a hyperscaler building the world’s largest GPU farms.

AVA TANAKA

GP

Pacific Arc Ventures

Cross-border investor focused on AI chip design and deep tech bridging Asia and the US. Backed three AI accelerator startups from seed to series B.

DANIEL HOU

Founder & CEO

Quiet Systems

Three-time AI founder building agentic systems. Writes the newsletter 'Slow Compounding' on long-term thinking in exponential technology.

MEI ZHAO

赵梅

Co-host & AI Policy Writer

Operator and writer focused on the intersection of open-source AI and regulatory policy.

PRIYA RAMAN

AI Infrastructure & Energy Strategist

Advises governments and hyperscalers on the build-out of next-gen AI power infrastructure. Maps the collision between datacenter demand and grid capacity.

REN OKADA

Philosopher in Residence

AI Ethics Institute

Writes on classical philosophy and modern AI decision-making. Advises labs on the long-term ethics of autonomous systems.

ELON MUSK

CEO

Tesla, SpaceX & xAI

Founder of xAI and architect of Grok. Building humanoid robots at Tesla and pushing AI compute to unprecedented scale at Memphis Colossus.

JENSEN HUANG

Founder & CEO

NVIDIA

Founder of NVIDIA and the central figure behind the GPU revolution powering the modern AI era.

SAM ALTMAN

CEO

OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI. Leading the deployment of ChatGPT, GPT-5, and the global push toward general intelligence.

DEMIS HASSABIS

Co-founder & CEO

Google DeepMind

Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind. Co-creator of AlphaFold and architect of Gemini.

YANN LECUN

Chief AI Scientist

Meta

Turing Award winner and Chief AI Scientist at Meta. A leading voice on open-source AI and world models.

GEOFFREY HINTON

Professor Emeritus

University of Toronto

Godfather of deep learning, Turing Award and Nobel laureate, now an outspoken voice on AI risk.

ANDREW NG

Founder

DeepLearning.AI

Co-founder of Coursera and Google Brain. Educator of an entire generation of AI engineers.

DARIO AMODEI

CEO

Anthropic

CEO of Anthropic and creator of Claude. Leading research on constitutional AI and interpretability.

MIRA MURATI

Founder

Thinking Machines Lab

Former CTO of OpenAI. Building a new lab focused on aligned, capable AI systems.

ILYA SUTSKEVER

Co-founder

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Co-founder of OpenAI and SSI. One of the most cited researchers in deep learning.

ANDREJ KARPATHY

Founder

Eureka Labs

Former director of AI at Tesla and founding member of OpenAI. Now building AI-native education.

GREG BROCKMAN

President & Co-founder

OpenAI

President of OpenAI. Leads the engineering organization behind GPT, Sora, and the API platform.

MUSTAFA SULEYMAN

CEO

Microsoft AI

CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection. Author of The Coming Wave.

REID HOFFMAN

Co-founder

LinkedIn & Inflection AI

LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner. Investor in OpenAI and a leading voice on AI's impact on work.

MARC ANDREESSEN

Co-founder

a16z

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of the loudest voices in the AI-techno-optimist movement.

VINOD KHOSLA

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Sun Microsystems co-founder and the earliest institutional backer of OpenAI.

SATYA NADELLA

Chairman & CEO

Microsoft

CEO of Microsoft. Architect of the Copilot strategy and the OpenAI partnership.

SUNDAR PICHAI

CEO

Alphabet

CEO of Google and Alphabet. Leading Gemini, Search AI, and the global AI platform shift.

MARK ZUCKERBERG

Founder & CEO

Meta

Founder of Meta. Driving Llama, AI glasses, and the world's largest open-source AI release.

TIM COOK

CEO

Apple

CEO of Apple. Bringing on-device AI to a billion users via Apple Intelligence.

BILL GATES

Co-founder

Microsoft

Microsoft co-founder. A long-time AI optimist and now full-time philanthropist focused on AI for good.

PETER THIEL

Co-founder

Palantir & Founders Fund

Palantir co-founder. Earliest backer of OpenAI and a contrarian voice on AI policy.

LISA SU

CEO

AMD

CEO of AMD. Building the open challenger stack to NVIDIA across GPUs and AI accelerators.

PAT GELSINGER

Former CEO

Intel

Veteran of the semiconductor industry. Architect of Intel's foundry and AI ambitions.

CRISTIANO AMON

CEO

Qualcomm

CEO of Qualcomm. Driving on-device generative AI across phones, PCs, and cars.

ARVIND KRISHNA

CEO

IBM

CEO of IBM. Leading watsonx and enterprise AI for regulated industries.

ARAVIND SRINIVAS

Co-founder & CEO

Perplexity

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. Reinventing search through answer engines.

EMAD MOSTAQUE

Founder

Schelling AI

Founder of Stability AI and now Schelling AI. A leading voice for decentralized open-source AI.

CLEMENT DELANGUE

Co-founder & CEO

Hugging Face

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the GitHub of open machine learning.

AIDAN GOMEZ

Co-founder & CEO

Cohere

Co-founder of Cohere and co-author of the original Transformer paper.

NOAM SHAZEER

Co-lead

Gemini, Google

Co-author of Attention Is All You Need and co-founder of Character.AI. Now back at Google leading Gemini.

DANIEL GROSS

Co-founder

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Co-founder of SSI and former partner at Y Combinator. Backer of dozens of top AI startups.

NAT FRIEDMAN

Co-founder

AI Grant

Former GitHub CEO. Co-runs AI Grant and invests in the next generation of AI labs.

JOHN SCHULMAN

Co-founder

OpenAI alum, Anthropic

Co-creator of ChatGPT and RLHF. A foundational researcher behind aligned LLM behavior.

JEFF DEAN

Chief Scientist

Google

Chief Scientist of Google. Co-led TensorFlow, TPUs, and most of Google's modern AI infrastructure.

ORIOL VINYALS

VP of Research

Google DeepMind

VP of Research at DeepMind. Lead of Gemini and a core author of AlphaStar and seq2seq.

YOSHUA BENGIO

Professor

Université de Montréal

Turing Award laureate. A pillar of modern deep learning and a vocal advocate for AI governance.

STUART RUSSELL

Professor

UC Berkeley

Author of the standard AI textbook. Leading thinker on provably beneficial AI.

MAX TEGMARK

President

Future of Life Institute

MIT physicist and author of Life 3.0. Leads the global pause letter movement.

ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY

Co-founder

MIRI

Co-founder of MIRI. The most prominent voice arguing AI extinction risk must be taken seriously.

GARY MARCUS

Founder

Geometric Intelligence (acq. Uber)

Cognitive scientist and AI skeptic. A leading critic of pure-scaling LLM approaches.

CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA

CEO

Social Capital

Co-host of the All-In Podcast. Veteran investor and a vocal voice on AI markets.

NAVAL RAVIKANT

Co-founder

AngelList

AngelList co-founder. Philosopher-investor on AI, individual leverage, and wealth creation.

BALAJI SRINIVASAN

Author

The Network State

Former Coinbase CTO. Author of The Network State and a leading voice on AI-native sovereignty.

BRAD GERSTNER

Founder

Altimeter Capital

Founder of Altimeter Capital. One of the most influential public-market investors in AI.

CATHIE WOOD

Founder & CEO

ARK Invest

Founder of ARK Invest. A leading public-market voice on AI's disruptive economic impact.

WANG XING

Founder & CEO

Meituan

Founder and CEO of Meituan. Investor in Light Years Beyond and a key force in China's AI startup wave.