I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.
John Schulman
@johnschulman2
RESEARCHERRecently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music
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.
Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
RESEARCHER@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.
Barret Zoph
@barret_zoph
RESEARCHER@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain
John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack
ENGINEERAGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace
Sander Dieleman
@sedielem
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen, Veo). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal account).
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
Joshua Achiam
@jachiam0
RESEARCHERFreedom, flourishing, and abundance. Chief Futurist @openai. Main author of http://spinningup.openai.com
Jack Rae
@jack_w_rae
RESEARCHERDistinguished Scientist @ Meta LLMs (e.g. Gopher, Chinchilla, Gemini) Compression & RL ☯️ Past: Google, OpenAI, Quora
Zico Kolter
@zicokolter
RESEARCHERProfessor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.
Bob McGrew
@bobmcgrewai
EXECUTIVELearning new things. Former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, early exec at Palantir, early employee at Paypal.
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)
Aidan Clark
@_aidan_clark_
RESEARCHERQualitative Mathematics @OpenAI Ex: @DeepMind Hae sententiae verbaque mihi soli sunt
Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
RESEARCHERScaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter
Matthew Johnson
@SingularMattrix
RESEARCHERResearcher at Google Brain. I work on JAX (https://github.com/google/jax).
Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
RESEARCHER@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence.
Chelsea Sierra Voss
@csvoss
ENGINEERengineeress ✨ Member of Technical Staff @openai // serious play // past @pilothq, @sendwaveapp, @khanacademy, CS/math @MIT, 2x IBO gold
Joanne Jang
@joannejang
EXECUTIVEtrying to automate myself @coreautoai // prev: model behavior & labs @openai
Smerity
@Smerity
RESEARCHERML x society. Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11. 🇦🇺 in SF.
David Dohan
@dmdohan
RESEARCHERreducing perplexity @openai | past: probabilistic programs, proteins, science & reasoning @ google brain 🧠
Prafulla Dhariwal
@prafdhar
RESEARCHERTechnical fellow @OpenAI. Co-creator of GPT-4o, GPT-3, DALL-E 2, Jukebox, Glow, PPO. Previously @MIT '17
Aäron van den Oord
@avdnoord
RESEARCHERLead of the GenMedia team working on Veo, Imagen, Genie, Nano Banana, ... Research Scientist @ DeepMind
sarah guo
@saranormous
INVESTORstartup investor/helper, founder @conviction. accelerating AI adoption, interested in progress. tech podcast: @nopriorspod
Horace He
@cHHillee
ENGINEER@thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale
Taco Cohen
@TacoCohen
RESEARCHERSlop janitor & post-trainologer at Meta / FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.
Leo Gao
@nabla_theta
RESEARCHERworking on AGI alignment. prev: GPT-Neo, the Pile, LM evals, RL overoptimization, scaling SAEs to GPT-4, interp via circuit sparsity. EleutherAI cofounder.
David Luan
@jluan
EXECUTIVEretired!! former cofounder of @adeptailabs, vp engineering @openai and @amazon, and @google LLMs lead. all about type II fun.
will depue
@willdepue
RESEARCHERretired ex @openai (posttraining o3/4o, sora 1 & 2, pretraining moonshots)
Rosanne Liu
@savvyRL
RESEARCHERMom. Cofounded & running @ml_collective. Co-host of Deep Learning Classics & Trends. Research at Google DeepMind. DEI/DIA Chair of ICLR & NeurIPS.
augustus odena
@gstsdn
RESEARCHERSomething new. Previously: AI research at TBD Labs / Meta; cofounder at @AdeptAILabs; Invented Scratchpad / Chain-of-Thought; Google Brain
Brandon Amos
@brandondamos
RESEARCHER🧙 RL @Reflection_AI past: @MetaAi @GoogleDeepmind @SCSatCMU @Cornell_Tech
Mo Bavarian
@mobav0
RESEARCHERScaling up RL at OpenAI 🍓 Optimization and long context research before. Math PhD, MIT.
Tejas Kulkarni
@tejasdkulkarni
RESEARCHERScientist @GoogleDeepMind. ex CEO @CSM_ai. Interested in AGI, Brain and AI creativity. PhD @mitbrainandcog
Saining Xie
@sainingxie
RESEARCHERcofounder & chief science officer at @amilabs | faculty @nyu_courant | prev: @googledeepmind @meta (FAIR) @ucsandiego | ynwa
Phillip Isola
@phillip_isola
RESEARCHERAssociate Professor in EECS at MIT, trying to understand intelligence.
Scott Gray
@scottgray76
ENGINEERGPU Geek at @OpenAI. I have a long standing interest in neuroscience and its application to machine learning. He/Him.
Deepak Pathak
@pathak2206
RESEARCHERCo-Founder & CEO @SkildAI, Faculty @CarnegieMellon. PhD @UCBerkeley; BTech @IITKanpur I study topics in AI (robotics, machine learning & computer vision).
Arvind Neelakantan
@arvind_io
RESEARCHERResearch Scientist, @GoogleDeepMind Past: @AIatMeta , @OpenAI, @Google Brain PhD @UMassAmherst
Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.
@iScienceLuvr
RESEARCHERCEO @SophontAI | Founder @MedARC_AI | PhD at 19 (2023) | ex Research Director Stability AI | Biomed. engineer @ 14 | TEDx talk➡https://bit.ly/3tpAuan
Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
RESEARCHERdescending cross-entropy to ascend entropy @PeriodicLabs || prev research @OpenAI @CarnegieMellon '23
Rowan Zellers
@rown
RESEARCHERmultimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. http://rowanzellers.com (he/him)
Jon Barron
@jon_barron
RESEARCHERPrincipal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Synthesized views are my own.
Danijar Hafner
@danijarh
RESEARCHERBuilding AI that autonomously understands and interacts with the world. Previous: @GoogleDeepMind @UCBerkeley @UofT
Rishabh Agarwal
@agarwl_
RESEARCHERReinforcement Learner @periodiclabs, Adjunct Prof at McGill. Ex Meta, DeepMind, Brain, @iitbombay. NeurIPS Best Paper, On-Policy Distillation
Dylan HadfieldMenell
@dhadfieldmenell
RESEARCHERAssociate Prof @MITEECS working on value (mis)alignment in AI systems; Safety & Alignment Advisor at http://Character.AI; @dhadfieldmenell@bsky.social; he/him
Stella Biderman @ ICLR
@BlancheMinerva
RESEARCHEREnsuring that tech companies don't have a monopoly on being able to do research on cutting edge AI @AiEleuther. She/her
Ludwig Schmidt
@lschmidt3
RESEARCHERAssistant professor at @Stanford and member of the technical staff at @AnthropicAI.
Omar Khattab
@lateinteraction
RESEARCHERAsst professor @MIT CSAIL @nlp_mit. Research includes http://ColBERT.ai, http://DSPy.ai (@DSPyOSS), RLMs, and GEPA. Prev: CS PhD @StanfordNLP. Research @Databricks.
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
Rui Shu
@_smileyball
RESEARCHERI draw smileyball http://instagram.com/smiley._.ball Writing organic artisanal handcrafted code @OpenAI Previously doing the same @Stanford
Jiahui Yu
@jhyuxm
RESEARCHERLead Multimodal @Meta Superintelligence Lab. Previously led Perception @OpenAI; co-led Gemini Multimodal @GoogleDeepMind.
Zhiqing Sun
@EdwardSun0909
RESEARCHERAgents @Meta MSL TBD Lab. previously posttraining research @OpenAI train LLMs to do things: deep research, chatgpt agent, etc. CS PhD @LTIatCMU
Adam.GPT
@TheRealAdamG
EXECUTIVEGTM at @OpenAI. Senior token slinger. A fan of NY sports, memes, tech & nice people. NJ. My opinions are my own.
Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc
@apples_jimmy
CREATORWagmi. 2025. As featured in Bloomberg. As quoted by Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis. As mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast💺
Brandon McKinzie
@mckbrando
RESEARCHERresearch @OpenAI | prev: multimodal @Apple, physics/cs @UCBerkeley
Alex Tamkin
@AlexTamkin
RESEARCHERmachine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp
Evan Morikawa
@E0M
ENGINEER🤖 @Generalistai. Prev: led eng at @openai. Launched & scaled ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL·E, APIs. Dir Eng @Nylas, Co-Founder @Proximate, @OlinCollege alum.
Kenneth Stanley
@kenneth0stanley
RESEARCHERSVP of Open-Endedness @LilaSciences. Prev: Maven CEO, Lead@OpenAI, Uber AI, prof@UCF. NEAT,HyperNEAT,novelty search, POET. Book:Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Alex Graveley
@alexgraveley
ENGINEERCo-creator Perplexity Computer, GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper. 2x CEO. Thruhiker. Survivor 🎗️
Dan Roberts
@danintheory
RESEARCHERScientist @OpenAI. Prev. co-founder @diffeo, acquired by @salesforce // co-authored The Principles of Deep Learning Theory // studied gravity.
Jong Wook Kim 💟
@_jongwook_kim
RESEARCHERMember of Technical Staff @OpenAI; previously at @nyuMARL, @SpotifyResearch, @pandoramusic, @kakaocorpglobal, and @NCSOFT
dr. jack morris
@jxmnop
RESEARCHERresearch // language models, information theory, science of AI // formerly @cornell
Rivers Have Wings
@RiversHaveWings
ENGINEERAI/generative artist. Writes her own code. Absolute power is a door into dreaming.
Jun-Yan Zhu
@junyanz89
RESEARCHERAssistant Professor at Generative Intelligence Lab @CMU_Robotics @CarnegieMellon. Understanding and creating pixels.
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
Gretchen Krueger
@GretchenMarina
POLICYOver at Bluesky. Researcher affiliated w @BKCHarvard, Volunteer @evitable. Previously @openai @ainowinstitute. Views mine. #justdontbuildagi #talktomenotchatgpt
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.
Simon Kornblith
@skornblith
RESEARCHERresearcher/engineer @AnthropicAI | former @GoogleDeepMind @mitbrainandcog @zotero | @simonster@sigmoid.social
Caglar Gulcehre
@caglarml
RESEARCHERScientist MAI, Prof @ EPFL, Ex-research scientist @ DeepMind, MSR, IBM Socials: https://bsky.app/profile/caglarai.bsky.social, http://mastodon.social/@caglarml
Steven Adler
@sjgadler
RESEARCHERAI safety researcher (ex-OpenAI: danger evals, AGI readiness, etc), writing at https://clear-eyed.ai
raulpuri.eth
@TheRealRPuri
ENGINEERAI @ hrooeu sjmrtPectPs | past: OpenAI - ChatGPT Multimodal, Her, 4o, GPT4V, 4, 3.5, Codex | NVIDIA - megatron, language | 🐻
Jacob Jackson
@jbfja
FOUNDER@cursor_ai, created https://same.energy, started @SupermavenAI and @Tabnine, formerly @OpenAI
Ishaan Gulrajani
@__ishaan
RESEARCHERHi! I’m a machine learning researcher @openai. Previously @stanford @facebook @google @mila_quebec
fraser
@Fraser
INVESTORvc at @sparkcapital past: head of product at @openai; co-founder/ceo of an AI startup that was acquired by Airbnb
Omar Sanseviero
@osanseviero
ENGINEERDeveloper Experience Lead at @GoogleDeepMind Building Gemini API, Gemma, AI Studio and more AI products. My views ex-Chief Llama Officer @huggingface 🇵🇪🇲🇽
Arash Vahdat
@ArashVahdat
RESEARCHERResearch Director, leading fundamental generative AI research (GenAIR) @nvidia research, views are my own.
Cheng Lu
@clu_cheng
RESEARCHERResearch @Meta MSL TBD Lab. Previously pretraining & multimodal @OpenAI. PhD @Tsinghua_Uni. Interested in scalable machine learning.
Lili Yu
@liliyu_lili
RESEARCHERMTS @thinkymachines ｜Multimodal: Megabyte, Chameleon, Transfusion, MOT, LLMFusion ｜Ex: RS @physical_int @AIatMeta (FAIR) , Phd @MIT
Pranav Shyam
@recurseparadox
RESEARCHERresearch scientist at google deepmind. ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ. past: generative models @openai
Stanislas Polu
@spolu
ENGINEERco-founder+engineer(https://dust.tt); alumni(https://openai.com, https://stripe.com, https://stanford.edu, https://polytechnique.edu);
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. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
william
@wgussml
ENGINEERcofounder @ Project Prometheus, prev cofounder @generalagents, OpenAI, helped build copilot & MineRL, creator of ell
Michelle Fradin
@michelle_fradin
EXECUTIVEmaking helpful machines @OpenAI, investing in friends, previously @Sequoia, @Lawrencetheband fan
Reiner Pope
@reinerpope
FOUNDERCEO and founder, @MatXComputing, developing high throughput chips tailored for LLMs
Vedant Misra
@vedantmisra
RESEARCHERASI @DeepMind | @OpenAI (Reasoning / Algorithms Lead) | @HubSpot (ML Labs) | Founder/CEO Kemvi (acq HubSpot) | Physics @Columbia | Husband and Dad
Abhi Venigalla
@ml_hardware
RESEARCHERResearcher @Databricks. Former @MosaicML, @CerebrasSystems. Addicted to all things compute.
Ben Newhouse
@newhouseb
ENGINEERmember of technical staff @openai, cofounder @aidkit_tech, former head of sync @dropbox, cofounded bubbli (acquired by dropbox), previously made yelp monocle.
Jason Phang
@zhansheng
RESEARCHERFoundations at @OpenAI. PhD @NYUDataScience, @AiEleuther, 🇸🇬. Prev: @Google, @Microsoft
Giambattista 'Gb' Parascandolo
@giambattista92
RESEARCHERresearch fellow at @OpenAI for reasoning prev also @DeepMind, Google X, @MPI_IS, @ETH
Aliisa
@aliisarosenthal
EXECUTIVEformer head of sales @openai, current investor @acrewcapital. fine-tuning two small models with @hodgessam.
Ashvin Nair
@ashvinair
RESEARCHERRL foundations @cursor_ai. Prev: o1, o3, Code Interpreter @openai, 9 years learning to poke by poking at UC Berkeley
Jonathan Raiman
@jonathanrraiman
RESEARCHER❤️ training deep nets :) AI research on large generative models, RL, OpenAI Five @openai and PrefixRL @Nvidia Hopper co-creator