Profiles of the founders, researchers, and builders shaping the AI industry.
George Hotz jailbroke the iPhone at 17, reverse-engineered PlayStation, and now he's building a deep learning framework to break NVIDIA's stranglehold on AI. Classic Hotz.
As FTC Chair, Lina Khan launched the most aggressive regulatory campaign against AI companies in US history. Whether she succeeded depends on who you ask.
Percy Liang built HELM, the benchmark framework that shows how AI models actually perform — not how companies claim they do. Big Tech isn't thrilled.
Sarah Guo left Greylock to start Conviction, an AI-only venture fund. Her thesis: AI isn't a feature — it's the platform shift of the century. Her portfolio proves she might be right.
From Stanford's first massive AI course to Coursera, deeplearning.ai, and AI Fund — Andrew Ng has taught more people about AI than anyone alive. Here's how and why.
He raised $100M+, built Stable Diffusion into a cultural phenomenon, and then resigned under pressure. The cautionary tale of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI.
A year after leaving OpenAI as CTO, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has become the most scrutinized new AI lab in the field. Here's what's publicly known, who's there, and what their bet appears to be.
Cofounder of DeepMind, cofounder of Inflection AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI. Mustafa Suleyman's career is a roadmap through every major AI shift of the last 15 years — and a bet that consumer AI will look very different from the frontier race.
Tired of AI hype-bros and snake oil? We cut through the noise to bring you the *real* AI minds shaping 2026 – researchers, builders, and educators actually worth your time.
Don't dismiss Grok as just another AI chatbot. Elon Musk's xAI is playing a longer, bolder game, and its implications are far-reaching. Here's why.
Fei-Fei Li isn't just an AI pioneer; she's the architect of modern computer vision. From ImageNet's genesis to World Labs' spatial future, witness the Godmother's next bold move.
Zuckerberg ditched the metaverse for AI. Is Meta's open-source Llama a stroke of genius or a desperate gamble to dominate AI? Dive into the strategy.
Tired of AI gatekeepers? Andrej Karpathy cut through the BS. Discover how this Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla titan is democratizing AI knowledge, one brilliant, accessible lesson at a time.
Mira Murati was the CTO who launched ChatGPT, briefly became CEO during the chaos, then left OpenAI entirely. Her departure tells you everything about AI's power dynamics.
Yann LeCun thinks most of the AI industry is wrong — about AGI, about LLMs, about safety. He might be the most important voice of dissent in artificial intelligence.
Before ChatGPT, before deep learning hype, Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet — the dataset that made modern AI possible. Her story is more important than you think.
Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI, tried to fire Sam Altman, then left to build something even more ambitious. Inside SSI and the quest for safe superintelligence.
Demis Hassabis built DeepMind, won a Nobel Prize for AlphaFold, and now leads Google's entire AI effort. Here's why he might be the most important person in AI.
From OpenAI VP to Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei bet his career on the idea that the people most worried about AI should be the ones building it.
From a $40,000 startup in a Denny's booth to a $3 trillion AI empire. How Jensen Huang bet everything on a future nobody else could see — and won.
Board coups, billion-dollar power plays, and a relentless pursuit of AGI. Inside the mind of the man who wants to build God — and the chaos he leaves in his wake.