Berkeley & Amazon
John Schulman
@johnschulman2
RESEARCHERRecently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music
Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
RESEARCHERMicrosoft CVP & CIFAR Fellow. Prev. Prof @ Oxford & DeepMind — AlphaGo-tuning AlphaCode Gato ReST SSM-Gemma Imagen Veo Genie MAI-voice MAI-Image MAI-Transcribe
Soumith Chintala
@soumithchintala
FOUNDERBuilding new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
Noam Brown
@polynoamial
RESEARCHERResearching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o3 / o1 / 🍓 reasoning models
Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
RESEARCHERNVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.
Alexandr Wang
@alexandr_wang
FOUNDERchief ai officer @meta, founder @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time
Jerry Tworek
@MillionInt
RESEARCHERCEO and co-founder of Core Automation | former VP of RL @ OpenAI | reasoning models, o3, o1, GPT4, ChatGPT, Codex, RL for robots | cautious AI optimist
Tim Rocktäschel
@_rockt
RESEARCHERProfessor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @UCL_DARK, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford
Catherine Olsson
@catherineols
ENGINEERHanging out with Claude, improving its behavior, and building tools to support that @AnthropicAI 😁 prev: @open_phil @googlebrain @openai (@microcovid)
Jacob Andreas
@jacobandreas
RESEARCHERTeaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www
Aran Komatsuzaki
@arankomatsuzaki
RESEARCHERSharing AI research. Early work on AI (GPT-J, LAION, scaling, MoE). Ex ML PhD (GT) & Google.
Edward Grefenstette
@egrefen
RESEARCHERFR/US/GB AI/ML Person, Director of Research at @GoogleDeepMind, Honorary Professor at @UCL_DARK, @ELLISforEurope Fellow. All posts are personal.
Smerity
@Smerity
RESEARCHERML x society. Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11. 🇦🇺 in SF.
Irwan Bello
@IrwanBello
RESEARCHERSupercomputers & Friends, AI & Science. Founding team & Research Lead at @reflection_ai. Past: @OpenAI, Founding team @character_ai, Google Brain
sarah guo
@saranormous
INVESTORstartup investor/helper, founder @conviction. accelerating AI adoption, interested in progress. tech podcast: @nopriorspod
Jakob Foerster
@j_foerst
RESEARCHERAssociate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @FLAIR_Ox. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.
Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
RESEARCHERResearch @allen_ai, reasoning, open models, RL(VR/HF)... Contact via email. Writes @interconnectsai, @readsail Wrote The RLHF Book, 🏔️🏃♂️
Jason Weston
@jaseweston
RESEARCHERSenior Director & RS @Meta + Visiting Prof NYU | OG in LLMs | Pretrain+Finetune in 2008+ | 147k+ citations | Current: Self-Improving & Co-Improving AI
Marc G. Bellemare
@marcgbellemare
RESEARCHERCSO & co-founder, Reliant AI. Ex RL research lead at Google Brain, DeepMind. Known for Atari 2600 RL benchmark, Distributional RL (MIT Press 2023).
Brandon Amos
@brandondamos
RESEARCHER🧙 RL @Reflection_AI past: @MetaAi @GoogleDeepmind @SCSatCMU @Cornell_Tech
swyx 🇸🇬
@swyx
CREATORachieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @temporalio - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod
Bill Gurley
@bgurley
INVESTORFounder/President @p3institute Author: Runnin' Down a Dream, pre-order link below! VC @benchmark Trustee @sfiscience
Saining Xie
@sainingxie
RESEARCHERcofounder & chief science officer at @amilabs | faculty @nyu_courant | prev: @googledeepmind @meta (FAIR) @ucsandiego | ynwa
Yuandong Tian
@tydsh
RESEARCHERco-founder of Stealth Startup. ex-Meta FAIR Director. ex-Google. Reasoning, Optimization and Understanding LLM. Novelist in spare time. PhD in @CMU_Robotics.
Kyle Cranmer
@KyleCranmer
RESEARCHERDirector Data Science Institute @UWMadison @datascience_uw. EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science. same handle @sigmoid.social and bsky
Stephen Roller
@stephenroller
RESEARCHERMoTS @thinkymachines. previously pre-training @googledeepmind, @character_ai, and @aiatmeta.
Danijar Hafner
@danijarh
RESEARCHERBuilding AI that autonomously understands and interacts with the world. Previous: @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley @UofT
Max Schwarzer
@max_a_schwarzer
RESEARCHERDoing RL @AnthropicAI. Formerly VP of Research, Head of Post-Training @OpenAI. PhD with Aaron Courville and Marc Bellmare at Mila.
Rishabh Agarwal
@agarwl_
RESEARCHERReinforcement Learner @periodiclabs, Adjunct Prof at McGill. Ex Meta, DeepMind, Brain, @iitbombay. NeurIPS Best Paper, On-Policy Distillation
Alexis Conneau
@alex_conneau
RESEARCHERCo-founder and CEO http://waveforms.ai (@WaveFormsAI) - Ex @OpenAI GPT-4o/AVM Audio Research Lead - #Her #TARS - Ex @AIatMeta, @Polytechnique (X11)
Ofir Nachum
@ofirnachum
RESEARCHERResearch at @OpenAI. Previously at @GoogleAI on the Brain Team. Doing work on #ReinforcementLearning and #MachineLearning
Ilya Kostrikov
@ikostrikov
RESEARCHERPre-Training Researcher @OpenAI, previously: RL/post-training @OpenAI, Postdoc at UC Berkeley @berkeley_ai, Researcher at Google Brain, PhD in CS @CILVRatNYU
Patrick Hsu
@pdhsu
RESEARCHER@ArcInstitute co-founder, @BerkeleyBioE professor, @ThriveCapital investor | biology and ML research | 🇨🇦 prev @harvard @broadinstitute, Fast Grants
Abhishek Gupta
@abhishekunique7
RESEARCHERAssistant Professor at University of Washington. I like robots, and reinforcement learning. Previously: post-doc at MIT, PhD at Berkeley
heiner
@HeinrichKuttler
ENGINEERex @xAI, @InflectionAI, @AIatMeta, @DeepMind, @Google, @LMU_Muenchen, PhD math-ph. Opinions my own. (Can be yours for a small fee.)
Alex Graveley
@alexgraveley
ENGINEERCo-creator Perplexity Computer, GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper. 2x CEO. Thruhiker. Survivor 🎗️
Lerrel Pinto
@LerrelPinto
RESEARCHERMaking robots more dexterous, robust and general. Co-founder of Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI)
Aditya Grover
@adityagrover_
RESEARCHERCTO & Co-Founder @_inception_ai. AI Prof @UCLA. CS PhD @Stanford. Denoising intelligence.
Brenden Lake
@LakeBrenden
RESEARCHERAssociate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology @ Princeton. Posts are my views only
Markus Wulfmeier
@m_wulfmeier
RESEARCHERChief Scientist #Nomagic - Prev. AI & Robotics @GoogleDeepMind @oxfordrobots @berkeley_ai @ETH @MIT - European @ELLISforEurope
Eugene Vinitsky 🦋
@EugeneVinitsky
RESEARCHERThis account only exists so no on else can occupy it. Please contact through other means. Lab website: http://emerge-lab.github.io
Andrew Davison
@AjdDavison
RESEARCHERFrom SLAM to Spatial AI; Professor of Robot Vision, Imperial College London; Director of the Dyson Robotics Lab; Co-Founder of Slamcore. FREng, FRS.
Peter Chen
@peterxichen
ENGINEERBuilding general purpose robotics at Amazon FAR. Previously Covariant CEO and Co-Founder, @OpenAI, @UCBerkeley PhD.
Amy Zhang
@yayitsamyzhang
RESEARCHERECE prof. at UT Austin. Works in state abstractions and generalization in RL. Recruiting PhD students for Fall 26.
Jelani Nelson
@minilek
RESEARCHERProfessor and Department Chair @Berkeley_EECS. Research Scientist (part-time) @GoogleResearch. Founder @addiscoder. Posts are personal views. 🇻🇮🇺🇸🇪🇹
Sherry Yang
@sherryyangML
RESEARCHERStaff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind; Assistant Professor @NYU_Courant. Previously Post-Doc @Stanford, PhD @UCBerkeley, M.Eng. / B.S. @MIT.
Matt Shumer
@mattshumer_
INVESTORInvestor in @GroqInc @Etched @Rork @DaytonaIO @OpenRouter + more. Prev: CEO @HyperWriteAI, @OthersideAI Try: http://agent-s.app Press: mattshumermedia@gmail.com
Laurens van der Maaten
@lvdmaaten
RESEARCHERMember of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Ex-Meta. t-SNE. Llama 3. DenseNet. Web-scale weakly supervised vision. CrypTen.
Pavel Izmailov
@Pavel_Izmailov
RESEARCHERResearcher @AnthropicAI 🤖 Assistant Professor @nyuniversity 🏙️ Previously @OpenAI #StopWar 🇺🇦
Roberta Raileanu
@robertarail
RESEARCHEROpen-Ended Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. Honorary Lecturer @UCL. ex @Meta | @NYU | @Princeton.
Armand Joulin
@armandjoulin
RESEARCHERdistinguished scientist, @googledeepmind. ex director of emea at @metaai. led a few open projects: llama, fasttext, dino, and now gemma.
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
@jm_alexia
RESEARCHERAI Researcher 🐱💻 2025 ARC Prize Winner I build generative AI for images, videos, text, tabular data, weights, molecules, and video games.
Chenlin Meng
@chenlin_meng
FOUNDERCo-founder & CTO @pika_labs | ex @StanfordAILab @Stanford | Hiring: Head of Engineering and Senior Engineer
Rafael Rafailov @ NeurIPS
@rm_rafailov
RESEARCHERI work on RL at @thinkymachines. Previously at @StanfordAILab @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley
Mike Lewis
@ml_perception
RESEARCHERLlama3 pre-training lead. Partially to blame for things like the Cicero Diplomacy bot, BART, RoBERTa, attention sinks, kNN-LM, top-k sampling & Deal Or No Deal.
Michael Chang
@mmmbchang
RESEARCHERAmplify human creativity with Sora @openai Prev: Gemini and Project Astra @GoogleDeepMind, @LangChainAI, @MetaAI, @SchmidhuberAI PhD @berkeley_ai BS @MIT
Ross Wightman
@wightmanr
ENGINEERAI / Computer Vision. Ex head of Software, Firmware Engineering at a Canadian 🦄. Building AI systems or investing in startups that do it better.
Jack Parker-Holder
@jparkerholder
RESEARCHERCo-lead of Genie 3 and World Models team lead @GoogleDeepMind, Honorary Associate Professor @UCL_DARK. Dad (🧒👶🐶), CFC fan, BJJ. Views are my own :)
Siddharth Karamcheti
@siddkaramcheti
RESEARCHERIncoming Assistant Professor @GeorgiaTech / @ICatGT / @GTrobotics. Prev: PhD from @StanfordAILab @stanfordnlp. I like robots, language, and people.
Michela Paganini
@WonderMicky
RESEARCHERStaff Research Scientist @DeepMind | LLMs, Evals & Model Understanding | Previously: @facebookAI | @Yale Physics PhD | @CERN | @BerkeleyLab | @UCBerkeley
Rianne van den Berg
@vdbergrianne
RESEARCHERPrincipal research manager at Microsoft Research Amsterdam. Formerly at Google Brain and University of Amsterdam. PhD in condensed matter physics.
Jacob Jackson
@jbfja
FOUNDER@cursor_ai, created https://same.energy, started @SupermavenAI and @Tabnine, formerly @OpenAI
Marco Mascorro
@Mascobot
INVESTORrewarding compounding curiosity | roboticist | Prev: Partner @a16z, cofounder @Fellow_AI
Bo Dai
@daibond_alpha
RESEARCHERAssistant Professor at @gtcse, Research Scientist at @GoogleDeepMind | ex @googlebrain
Vikash Kumar
@Vikashplus
RESEARCHERBuilding Human-embodied Intelligence. CEO @MyoLabAI | Sr. research scientist @OpenAI @GoogleAI @AIatMeta | @berkeley_ai @UWcse #MuJoCo | Ad. Prof. @CMU_Robotic
Nan Rosemary Ke
@rosemary_ke
RESEARCHERStaff Research Scientist @Google_Deepmind. PhD at @MILA. Attending Neurips 2025!
Alex Rives
@alexrives
RESEARCHERAI for scientific discovery. Head of Science, Biohub. Founder and scientific director of the ESM project.
Stephanie Zhan
@stephzhan
INVESTORGP @Sequoia, investing in AI, from company formation. 1st partner to @linear @mach_industries @middeskhq @reflection_ai @ricursiveai @skildai @tavus
Ben Hamner
@benhamner
FOUNDERSumble co-founder and CTO. Learning high-quality, structured data about the world. Formerly @kaggle
Toby Shevlane
@tshevl
RESEARCHER@_Mantic_AI cofounder & CEO, on a mission to solve forecasting. Prev: research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, PhD at @UniofOxford.
Peter J. Liu
@peterjliu
RESEARCHERBuilding @getcompoundai (hiring: http://twentylabs.ai/careers). Was Research Scientist @ Google Brain / DeepMind, language model research. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Kevin Rose
@kevinrose
INVESTORbuilding at @basic_in_ | Podcasts: The Kevin Rose Show, Random Show w/ @tferriss. | Ex: @google, Board of Directors: @ouraring, @hodinkee
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
CREATORWriting @Pragmatic_Eng, the #1 software engineering newsletter on Substack. Author of @EngGuidebook. Formerly Uber & Skype.
Chubby♨️
@kimmonismus
CREATORDream realized! Turned my love for AI into a career - sharing daily. Get my newsletter (225k+ subs): 🔗 https://linktr.ee/kimmonismus //📧 kim@getsuperintel.com
Jerry Liu
@jerryjliu0
FOUNDERParsing the world's hardest PDFs @llama_index. cofounder/CEO Careers: https://www.llamaindex.ai/careers Enterprise: https://www.llamaindex.ai/contact
andrew gao
@itsandrewgao
ENGINEER@cognition @stanford; prev @sequoia @LangChain @pika_labs; Z Fellow 🇺🇸; views my own
Jerry Wei
@JerryWeiAI
RESEARCHERAligning AIs at @AnthropicAI ⏰ Past: @GoogleDeepMind, @Stanford, @Google Brain
Aaron Defazio
@aaron_defazio
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs working on optimization algorithms. Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team
Abhi Venigalla
@ml_hardware
RESEARCHERResearcher @Databricks. Former @MosaicML, @CerebrasSystems. Addicted to all things compute.
Rylan Schaeffer
@RylanSchaeffer
RESEARCHERAI RS @ Meta TBD. On-Leave from Stanford w/ @sanmikoyejo. Prev @ Gemini, Meta, MIT, Harvard, Uber, UCL, UC Davis
Ashvin Nair
@ashvinair
RESEARCHERRL foundations @cursor_ai. Prev: o1, o3, Code Interpreter @openai, 9 years learning to poke by poking at UC Berkeley