Researchers

A curated starting point: people and work worth tracking in frontier AI.

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Dario Amodei
Alignment, post-training, frontier LLMs
AnthropicFrontier labAlignmentPost-training

Leads one of the most influential frontier-model labs; key voice on alignment and safe deployment.

Jared Kaplan
Scaling laws, LLM training dynamics
AnthropicFrontier labScalingLLMs

Core contributor to modern scaling-law intuition used across frontier training and evaluation.

Jack Clark
AI policy, frontier-lab strategy, analysis
AnthropicIndustryPolicy

Bridges frontier labs and public understanding; consistently useful writing on what matters and why.

Amanda Askell
Alignment, behavior shaping, safety
AnthropicAlignmentPost-training

Works on practical alignment and steering of frontier models; useful lens for post-training tradeoffs.

Jan Leike
Alignment research, scalable oversight
AlignmentFrontier labRL

Prominent alignment researcher focused on making safety work scale with increasingly capable models.

Chris Olah
Mechanistic interpretability, visualization
InterpretabilityFrontier labSafety

Pushed interpretability forward with tools and approaches that shaped how people reason about neural nets.

Paul Christiano
Alignment theory, reward modeling
AlignmentRLHFSafety

Major influence on reward-modeling and oversight ideas that feed into modern post-training.

Ilya Sutskever
Deep learning, large-scale training
OpenAIFrontier labLLMs

Central figure in the modern deep-learning wave; shaped large-scale training culture and capability focus.

John Schulman
Reinforcement learning, post-training
OpenAIRLHFRL

Key contributor to practical RL algorithms and RLHF-era post-training used in modern assistants.

Alec Radford
Generative pretraining, multimodal models
OpenAILLMsVision-language

Drove several foundational generative-pretraining efforts that set patterns for modern foundation models.

Tom Brown
Large-scale language modeling
OpenAILLMsScaling

Helped establish the modern era of large-scale language modeling and the evaluation mindset around it.

Andrej Karpathy
Deep learning engineering, LLM education
IndustryEducationLLMs

Excellent at translating frontier ideas into practical intuition and tooling for builders.

Sandhini Agarwal
Instruction tuning and RLHF
OpenAIRLHFPost-training

Worked on instruction-following and RLHF practices that became the standard post-training recipe.

Pamela Mishkin
Instruction following, alignment
OpenAIPost-training

Contributed to post-training workflows and datasets powering instruction-following behavior.

Jeff Wu
Instruction following, post-training
OpenAIPost-training

Worked on instruction-following models and post-training practice that influenced the ecosystem.

Nicholas Carlini
Adversarial ML, security of deployed models
SecuritySafetyRed teaming

High-signal work on real failure modes: adversarial examples, extraction, and practical model security.

Demis Hassabis
Deep RL, scientific AI, leadership
DeepMindGeminiFrontier labRL

Built the organization behind many of the last decade’s most visible RL and scientific-AI breakthroughs.

David Silver
Deep RL, planning, games
DeepMindGeminiRLPlanning

Shaped modern deep RL in practice; a reliable anchor for understanding learning + search.

Koray Kavukcuoglu
Large-scale training, systems
DeepMindGeminiSystemsTraining

Leads work that makes large training runs possible and repeatable; crucial but often underappreciated layer.

Geoffrey Irving
Reasoning, verification, math
DeepMindGeminiMath reasoning

Strong signal in math/reasoning and verification-style approaches for reliability.

Oriol Vinyals
Sequence models, large-scale ML
DeepMindGeminiLLMs

Key figure in sequence modeling and large-scale ML; contributes to frontier model development.

Noam Shazeer
Transformers, Mixture-of-Experts, scaling
GeminiTransformersMoEScaling

One of the most important builders behind Transformers and MoE scaling that power modern LLMs.

Jeff Dean
ML systems, large-scale infrastructure
GoogleGeminiSystemsScaling

One of the most influential figures in ML systems; shaped the infrastructure that makes frontier training feasible.

Pushmeet Kohli
Robotics, vision, structured prediction
DeepMindRoboticsPerception

Bridges perception and action; useful pick for the robotics + foundation-model convergence.

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