AI Rankings · Digg

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The Digg AI rankings track people actively involved in artificial intelligence across research, startups, investing, engineering, and media. It's built from the X social graph, using roughly 9 million follow relationships to map how the AI community connects.

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

RESEARCH ENGINEER1310 AI 1000 followers10.000 gravity

I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.

Jeff Dean

@JeffDean

RESEARCH ENGINEER1193 AI 1000 followers9.329 gravity

Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research. Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigta...

Sam Altman

@sama

FOUNDER1039 AI 1000 followers9.261 gravity

AI is cool i guess

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

FOUNDER640 AI 1000 followers8.500 gravity

http://Terafab.ai

Ilya Sutskever

@ilyasut

FOUNDER1092 AI 1000 followers8.398 gravity

SSI @SSI

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

ACADEMIC1030 AI 1000 followers8.222 gravity

Professor at NYU & Executive Chairman at AMI Labs. Ex-Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Aw...

Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis

FOUNDER1053 AI 1000 followers7.610 gravity

Nobel Laureate. Co-Founder & CEO @GoogleDeepMind - working on AGI. Solving disease @IsomorphicLabs. Trying to understand the fundamental nature of ...

Geoffrey Hinton

@geoffreyhinton

AI SAFETY968 AI 1000 followers7.337 gravity

deep learning

Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian

RESEARCHER947 AI 1000 followers7.126 gravity

Co-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction

#10

Andrew Ng

@AndrewYNg

FOUNDER926 AI 1000 followers6.972 gravity

Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. #ai #machinelearning, #deeplearning #MOOCs

#11

Oriol Vinyals

@OriolVinyalsML

RESEARCH ENGINEER886 AI 1000 followers6.699 gravity

VP of Research & Deep Learning Lead, Google DeepMind. Gemini co-lead. Past: AlphaStar, AlphaFold, AlphaCode, WaveNet, seq2seq, distillation, TF.

#12

Greg Brockman

@gdb

FOUNDER908 AI 1000 followers6.636 gravity

President & Co-Founder @OpenAI

#13

Fei-Fei Li

@drfeifei

FOUNDER860 AI 1000 followers6.307 gravity

Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, #AI #SpatialIntelligence #GenAI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare

#14

Bill Gates

@BillGates

POLICY570 AI 1000 followers6.197 gravity

Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests.

#15

Hugo Larochelle

@hugo_larochelle

RESEARCHER721 AI 1000 followers6.166 gravity

Mila Scientific Director. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex. Father of 4. // Directeur scientifique à Mila. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex...

#16

Chelsea Finn

@chelseabfinn

ACADEMIC818 AI 1000 followers6.151 gravity

Asst Prof of CS & EE @Stanford Co-founder of Physical Intelligence @physical_int PhD from @Berkeley_EECS, EECS BS from @MIT

#17

hardmaru

@hardmaru

FOUNDER856 AI 1000 followers6.123 gravity

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

#18

Pieter Abbeel

@pabbeel

ACADEMIC784 AI 1000 followers6.062 gravity

Berkeley & Amazon

#19

Jürgen Schmidhuber

@SchmidhuberAI

ACADEMIC540 AI 1000 followers5.933 gravity

Introduced basics of: P & T in ChatGPT, very deep learning, meta learning, neural distillation, GANs, etc. Co-authored most-cited AI paper of 20th ...

#20

Chris Olah

@ch402

AI SAFETY852 AI 1000 followers5.901 gravity

Reverse engineering neural networks at @AnthropicAI. Previously @distillpub, OpenAI Clarity Team, Google Brain. Personal account.

#21

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

RESEARCH ENGINEER885 AI 1000 followers5.897 gravity

Recently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

#22

Kyunghyun Cho

@kchonyc

ACADEMIC745 AI 1000 followers5.875 gravity

a mediocre combination of a mediocre scientist and a mediocre advisor at @nyuniversity (@CILVRatNYU)

#23

Christopher Manning

@chrmanning

ACADEMIC757 AI 1000 followers5.854 gravity

Founder @stanfordnlp & cs224n—Senior Fellow @StanfordHAI—Prof. CS & Linguistics @Stanford—GP @aixventureshq—MTS @moonlake—Australian🇦🇺—Do #NLProc &...

#24

Miles Brundage

@Miles_Brundage

AI SAFETY855 AI 1000 followers5.840 gravity

AI policy researcher, @lfschiavo wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI (https://www.averi.org/), Substacker, views ...

#25

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

OPEN SOURCE812 AI 1000 followers5.834 gravity

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

#26

Nando de Freitas

@NandoDF

RESEARCHER763 AI 1000 followers5.816 gravity

I seek to understand intelligence and awareness, and build AI aligned with compassion, freedom, universal human empowerment, and progress in law & ...

#27

Jack Clark

@jackclarkSF

AI SAFETY816 AI 1000 followers5.778 gravity

@AnthropicAI, ONEAI OECD, co-chair @indexingai, writer @ http://importai.net Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed system...

#28

Russ Salakhutdinov

@rsalakhu

ACADEMIC683 AI 1000 followers5.713 gravity

UPMC Professor of Computer Science @ CMU, President Elect ICML Board, Ex-VP of Research @ Meta (Multimodal LLMs, AI Agents), ex-Director of AI at ...

#29

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

RESEARCH ENGINEER787 AI 1000 followers5.535 gravity

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o3 / o1 / 🍓 reasoning models

#30

Sergey Levine

@svlevine

ACADEMIC725 AI 1000 followers5.452 gravity

Associate Professor at UC Berkeley Co-founder, Physical Intelligence

#31

Lilian Weng

@lilianweng

AI SAFETY771 AI 1000 followers5.414 gravity

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab @thinkymachines; Ex-VP, AI Safety & robotics, applied research @OpenAI; Author of Lil'Log

#32

Paul Graham

@paulg

FOUNDER658 AI 1000 followers5.257 gravity

#33

Eric Jang

@ericjang11

RESEARCH ENGINEER742 AI 1000 followers5.221 gravity

#34

Jan Leike

@janleike

AI SAFETY718 AI 1000 followers5.184 gravity

AI research @AnthropicAI. Previously OpenAI & DeepMind. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes. Opinions aren't my employer's.

#35

Christian Szegedy

@ChrSzegedy

RESEARCHER677 AI 1000 followers5.154 gravity

#deeplearning, #ai research scientist. Opinions are mine.

#36

Mira Murati

@miramurati

FOUNDER721 AI 1000 followers5.095 gravity

Now building @thinkymachines. Previously CTO @OpenAI

#37

Wojciech Zaremba

@woj_zaremba

AI SAFETY678 AI 1000 followers5.084 gravity

AI resilience at OpenAI Foundation Co-Founder of OpenAI https://woj.world

#38

AK

@_akhaliq

CREATOR710 AI 1000 followers5.083 gravity

AI research paper tweets, ML @Gradio (acq. by @HuggingFace 🤗) dm for promo ,submit papers here: https://huggingface.co/papers/submit

#39

Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

RESEARCHER635 AI 1000 followers5.072 gravity

@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.

#40

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI SAFETY710 AI 1000 followers5.046 gravity

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

#41

Percy Liang

@percyliang

RESEARCH ENGINEER712 AI 1000 followers4.997 gravity

professor of computer science @Stanford @stanfordnlp, co-founder of @togethercompute, creator of http://marin.community, co-founder of @simile_ai, ...

#42

roon

@tszzl

RESEARCHER684 AI 1000 followers4.996 gravity

fellow creators the creator seeks

#43

Quoc Le

@quocleix

RESEARCHER623 AI 1000 followers4.989 gravity

Google Fellow

#44

Alec Radford

@AlecRad

RESEARCH ENGINEER671 AI 1000 followers4.982 gravity

#45

Sara Hooker

@sarahookr

RESEARCHER777 AI 1000 followers4.981 gravity

Building intelligence that evolves @adaption_ai. Built @Cohere_Labs, @GoogleBrain, @GoogleDeepmind. ML Efficiency, Multimodal\lingual.

#46

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

RESEARCH ENGINEER744 AI 1000 followers4.960 gravity

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st ...

#47

Sundar Pichai

@sundarpichai

EXECUTIVE554 AI 1000 followers4.937 gravity

CEO, Google and Alphabet

#48

François Chollet

@fchollet

OPEN SOURCE741 AI 1000 followers4.935 gravity

Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

#49

Mark Chen

@markchen90

RESEARCH ENGINEER596 AI 1000 followers4.889 gravity

Chief Research Officer at @OpenAI. Coach for the USA IOI Team.

#50

Thomas G. Dietterich

@tdietterich

RESEARCHER570 AI 1000 followers4.853 gravity

Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Oregon State Univ.; Former President, Assoc. for the Adv. of Artificial Intelligence; Robust AI & Comput. Susta...

#51

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

ACADEMIC678 AI 1000 followers4.849 gravity

Professor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷

#52

Thomas Wolf

@Thom_Wolf

FOUNDER749 AI 1000 followers4.832 gravity

Co-founder at @HuggingFace - moonshots - angel

#53

David Duvenaud

@DavidDuvenaud

AI SAFETY643 AI 1000 followers4.781 gravity

Machine learning prof @UofT. Former team lead at Anthropic. Working on generative models, inference, & latent structure.

#54

Sebastien Bubeck

@SebastienBubeck

RESEARCHER603 AI 1000 followers4.776 gravity

I work on AI at OpenAI. Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.

#55

Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

RESEARCH ENGINEER688 AI 1000 followers4.764 gravity

Researcher at Cursor https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp

#56

Roger Grosse

@RogerGrosse

AI SAFETY523 AI 1000 followers4.745 gravity

#57

𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫

@gwern

CREATOR540 AI 1000 followers4.740 gravity

Internet besserwisser; pedantic, mean reply guy. 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘶! (Follow requests ignored due to terrible UI.)

#58

Richard Socher

@RichardSocher

FOUNDER615 AI 1000 followers4.728 gravity

CEO @recursive_si CEO @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Before: Stanford Adj Prof in AI/NLP, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind

#59

Zoubin Ghahramani

@ZoubinGhahrama1

ACADEMIC555 AI 1000 followers4.714 gravity

VP Research, Google DeepMind, ex-head of Google Brain. Professor at University of Cambridge. Machine Learning Researcher. ex-Chief Scientist & VP o...

#60

Sander Dieleman

@sedielem

RESEARCHER566 AI 1000 followers4.695 gravity

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen, Veo). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal...

#61

Jason Wei

@_jasonwei

RESEARCHER633 AI 1000 followers4.684 gravity

ai researcher @meta superintelligence labs, past: openai, google 🧠

#62

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

EXECUTIVE637 AI 1000 followers4.649 gravity

http://nat.org

#63

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

FOUNDER545 AI 1000 followers4.619 gravity

@Stripe CEO, @ArcInstitute cofounder.

#64

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

CREATOR653 AI 1000 followers4.605 gravity

Host of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ

#65

Dan Roy

@roydanroy

ACADEMIC561 AI 1000 followers4.577 gravity

@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.

#66

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

INVESTOR608 AI 1000 followers4.564 gravity

You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser. That loser attitude, that loser premise makes no sense to me.

#67

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

@jaschasd

RESEARCHER593 AI 1000 followers4.545 gravity

Member of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.

#68

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

RESEARCH ENGINEER576 AI 1000 followers4.541 gravity

@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain

#69

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

RESEARCH ENGINEER617 AI 1000 followers4.535 gravity

Gemini/Veo Thinking, Senior Staff AE @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, Google Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opin...

#70

Amanda Askell

@AmandaAskell

AI SAFETY577 AI 1000 followers4.509 gravity

Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.

#71

Liam Fedus

@LiamFedus

FOUNDER601 AI 1000 followers4.505 gravity

Building industrial-scale science at @periodiclabs Past: VP of Post-Training @OpenAI; Google Brain

#72

Shakir Mohamed

@shakir_za

RESEARCHER517 AI 1000 followers4.500 gravity

ML with Social Purpose. @shakir@mas.to | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈🌍

#73

Yee Whye Teh

@yeewhye

ACADEMIC495 AI 1000 followers4.486 gravity

Find me @yeewhye@sigmoid.social Professor at @OxCSML, @oxfordstats and Research Director at @GoogleDeepMind. All opinions are my own.

#74

Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

CREATOR480 AI 1000 followers4.476 gravity

Host of Lex Fridman Podcast. Interested in robots and humans.

#75

Jakub Pachocki

@merettm

RESEARCH ENGINEER400 AI 1000 followers4.466 gravity

OpenAI

#76

Jeremy Howard

@jeremyphoward

FOUNDER662 AI 1000 followers4.463 gravity

🇦🇺 Co-founder: @AnswerDotAI/@FastDotAI ; Prev: Professor@UQ; @kaggle founding president; founder @fastmail/@enlitic/… https://jeremy.fast.ai/

#77

Ben Poole

@poolio

RESEARCHER537 AI 1000 followers4.437 gravity

research scientist at google brain. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

#78

Max Welling

@wellingmax

ACADEMIC513 AI 1000 followers4.412 gravity

#79

James Bradbury

@jekbradbury

RESEARCH ENGINEER585 AI 1000 followers4.396 gravity

Compute at @AnthropicAI! Previously JAX, TPUs, and LLMs at Google, MetaMind/@SFResearch, @Stanford Linguistics, @Caixin.

#80

Shane Legg

@ShaneLegg

AI SAFETY503 AI 1000 followers4.395 gravity

Chief AGI Scientist & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind Work website: http://www.deepmind.com Personal blog: http://www.vetta.org

#81

Ryan Adams

@ryan_p_adams

ACADEMIC493 AI 1000 followers4.383 gravity

Machine Learning Researcher, CS Professor (@PrincetonCS), Dad, Woodworker

#82

Aleksander Madry

@aleks_madry

AI SAFETY499 AI 1000 followers4.371 gravity

OpenAI and MIT faculty (on leave)

#83

Luke Metz

@Luke_Metz

RESEARCH ENGINEER526 AI 1000 followers4.357 gravity

OpenAI Previously: Thinking Machines, Google Brain

#84

Joshua Achiam

@jachiam0

AI SAFETY556 AI 1000 followers4.352 gravity

Freedom, flourishing, and abundance. Chief Futurist @openai. Main author of http://spinningup.openai.com

#85

Ben Recht

@beenwrekt

ACADEMIC542 AI 1000 followers4.332 gravity

optimization. machine learning. uc berkeley. I blog at https://argmin.substack.com/ The world won't end.

#86

John Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack

RESEARCH ENGINEER541 AI 1000 followers4.311 gravity

AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace

#87

Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

RESEARCH ENGINEER537 AI 1000 followers4.264 gravity

post-training lead at xAI. ex-google

#88

Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

RESEARCH ENGINEER490 AI 1000 followers4.263 gravity

CEO and co-founder of Core Automation former VP of RL @ OpenAI : reasoning models, o3, o1, GPT4, ChatGPT, Codex, RL for robots cautious AI optimist

#89

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

ACADEMIC525 AI 1000 followers4.231 gravity

Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www

#90

Satya Nadella

@satyanadella

EXECUTIVE439 AI 1000 followers4.227 gravity

Chairman and CEO at Microsoft

#91

Dumitru Erhan

@doomie

RESEARCHER448 AI 1000 followers4.214 gravity

Co-lead of Veo @GoogleDeepMind. Senior Research Director.

#92

Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang

FOUNDER564 AI 1000 followers4.205 gravity

chief ai officer @meta, founder @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time

#93

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

ACADEMIC541 AI 1000 followers4.198 gravity

Co-Founder @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @UCL_DARK, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

#94

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

ACADEMIC530 AI 1000 followers4.192 gravity

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

#95

Lucas Beyer (bl16)

@giffmana

RESEARCHER569 AI 1000 followers4.171 gravity

Researcher (now: Meta. ex: OpenAI, DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian. Anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/giffmana ✗DMs →...

#96

rohan anil

@_arohan_

RESEARCH ENGINEER509 AI 1000 followers4.154 gravity

member of technical staff & co-founder of @coreautoai - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

#97

Ferenc Huszár

@fhuszar

ACADEMIC451 AI 1000 followers4.105 gravity

Founder & Supreme Leader of Technical Staff at Reasonable. Professor on leave from @Cambridge_CL. Alum of @Twitter, Magic Pony, @Balderton

#98

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

@ESYudkowsky

AI SAFETY401 AI 1000 followers4.096 gravity

The original AI alignment person. Understanding the reasons it's difficult since 2003. This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud ...

#99

Mustafa Suleyman

@mustafasuleyman

EXECUTIVE492 AI 1000 followers4.075 gravity

CEO, @MicrosoftAI | Author: The Coming Wave | Past: Co-founder, @InflectionAI & @GoogleDeepMind

#100

Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

RESEARCH ENGINEER549 AI 1000 followers4.057 gravity

@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence.

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