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Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

723

Danny Wyatt

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

724

Daphne Ippolito

Pathways-scale language modeling (PaLM)

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Co-authored PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

725

Dario Amodei

Alignment, post-training, frontier LLMs

Anthropic

A high-signal figure for understanding the frontier model era because his work sits at the intersection of scaling, post-training, and deployment-risk framing.

Post-Training & Alignment Reinforcement Learning Anthropic company

726

Dario de Cesare

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

727

Dasha Valter

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

728

Dave Cummings

Code-focused LLMs and evaluation (Codex)

Evaluation & Benchmarks Code Models Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

Co-authored the Codex evaluation paper: an early anchor for code LLM capability measurement.

729

Dave Willner

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

730

David Adkins

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Open Models OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models

731

David Atkinson

Open, fully-documented language models (OLMo)

AI2

Co-authored OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models.

732

David Bridson

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

733

David Dohan

Pathways-scale language modeling (PaLM)

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Co-authored PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

734

David Esiobu

Open-weight chat and foundation models (Llama 2)

Open Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Co-authored Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

735

David Farhi

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

736

David Gaddy

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

737

David Greene

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

738

David J Fleet

Text-to-image diffusion with strong language understanding (Imagen)

Diffusion & Generative Media Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding

Co-authored Imagen: a milestone for photorealistic text-to-image diffusion models.

739

David Madras

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

740

David Majercak

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

741

David Medina

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

742

David Mély

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

743

David Miller

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

744

David Reid

Open language models from Google (Gemma)

Open Models Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Co-authored Gemma: open models based on Gemini research and technology.

745

David Reitter

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

746

David Schnurr

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

747

David Silver

Deep RL, planning, games

Multimodal Systems & Infrastructure Reinforcement Learning Deep reinforcement learning

A central figure in modern reinforcement learning whose work turned deep RL from an exciting idea into a line of systems that repeatedly reset expectations.

748

David Soergel

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

749

David Steiner

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

750

David Tian

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

751

David Vilar

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

752

David Weinberger

Open language models (Gemma 2)

Open Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Co-authored Gemma 2: improving open language models at a practical size.

753

David Xu

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

754

Davide Testuggine

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

755

Dawei Jia

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

756

Dawn Bloxwich

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

757

Dawn Drain

Alignment via AI feedback (Constitutional AI)

Anthropic

Useful for the seam between Anthropic’s earlier alignment papers and its later audit-oriented safety work, where interpretability and evaluation start feeding into deployment practice.

Post-Training & Alignment Evaluation & Benchmarks Reinforcement Learning Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

758

Dawn Song

Broad capability evaluation (MMLU)

Co-authored MMLU: a widely used benchmark for general LLM capability across many subjects.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding

759

Daya Guo

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Open Models Qwen Technical Report

760

Dayiheng Liu

Open-weight LLMs (Qwen)

Qwen

Co-authored the Qwen Technical Report.

761

Dayou Du

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

762

Dee Cattle

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

763

Deeni Fatiha

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

764

Deep Ganguli

Alignment via AI feedback (Constitutional AI)

Anthropic

Important because his work sits near the point where technical alignment, evaluation practice, and the public case for safer frontier-model deployment meet.

Post-Training & Alignment Evaluation & Benchmarks Systems & Infrastructure Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback

765

Deepak Narayanan

Holistic evaluation of language models (HELM)

Co-authored HELM: a framework for evaluating language models across many axes beyond raw accuracy.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

766

Deepak Sharma

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

767

Dejian Yang

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

768

Deli Chen

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

769

Delia David

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

770

Demis Hassabis

Deep RL, scientific AI, leadership

Multimodal Systems & Infrastructure Reinforcement Learning Google DeepMind

Important both as a researcher and as an institution builder whose long-running agenda tied deep RL, multimodal systems, and scientific AI into one coherent lab strategy.

771

Denese Owusu-Afriyie

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

772

Denis Kocetkov

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

773

Denis Teplyashin

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

774

Denis Vnukov

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

775

Dennis Duan

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

776

Dennis Tu

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

777

Denny Jin

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

778

Denny Zhou

Pathways-scale language modeling (PaLM)

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Co-authored PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

779

Derek Chen

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

780

Derek Cheng

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

781

Derik Clive

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

782

Dessie Petrova

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

783

Devendra Sachan

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

784

Devendra Singh Chaplot

Mixture-of-experts LLMs

Mistral

A useful person to follow if you care about the bridge between embodied-agent research and modern open-weight language-model systems, rather than treating those worlds as separate.

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Agents & Reasoning Mistral 7B

785

Devi Parikh

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

786

Dharshan Kumaran

Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

Reinforcement Learning Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

787

Dhruv Choudhary

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

788

Dhruv Mahajan

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Agents & Reasoning ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

789

Dian Yu

Reasoning + acting for LLM agents (ReAct)

Co-authored ReAct: a simple, high-leverage template for tool-using LLM agents.

790

Diana Acosta-Navas

Holistic evaluation of language models (HELM)

Co-authored HELM: a framework for evaluating language models across many axes beyond raw accuracy.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

791

Diana Avram

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

792

Diana Gage Wright

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

793

Diana Liskovich

Open-weight chat and foundation models (Llama 2)

Open Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Co-authored Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

794

Diana Mincu

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

795

Diane Wu

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

796

Didem Foss

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Diffusion & Generative Media Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

797

Diederik P. Kingma

Optimization and generative modeling

A foundational figure in generative modeling whose work helped make variational methods and optimization defaults practical for modern deep learning.

798

Diego de las Casas

Compute-optimal scaling for LLM training

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

A useful profile for the DeepMind researchers who helped carry the lab’s language-model program from scaling-law work into Gemini rather than appearing only on the final product layer.

799

Diego Garcia-Olano

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

800

Diego Perino

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

801

Dieuwke Hupkes

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

802

Dilara Soylu

Holistic evaluation of language models (HELM)

Co-authored HELM: a framework for evaluating language models across many axes beyond raw accuracy.

803

Dimitris Paparas

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

804

Dimitris Tsipras

Holistic evaluation of language models (HELM)

Co-authored HELM: a framework for evaluating language models across many axes beyond raw accuracy.

805

Dimple Vijaykumar

Open language models (Gemma 2)

Open Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Co-authored Gemma 2: improving open language models at a practical size.

806

Dinghua Li

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

807

Dingkang Wang

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Open Models Agents & Reasoning Phi-4 Technical Report

808

Dingli Yu

Small-model reasoning and capability (Phi-4)

Co-authored the Phi-4 Technical Report.

809

Diogo Almeida

Instruction-following via RLHF (InstructGPT)

Post-Training & Alignment Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Co-authored the InstructGPT paper that set the standard instruction-tuning + RLHF recipe.

810

Dipanjan Das

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

811

Dirk Groeneveld

Open, fully-documented language models (OLMo)

AI2

Co-authored OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models.

Open Models OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models

812

Dirk Weissenborn

Vision Transformers (ViT)

Co-authored ViT: a turning point for transformers in vision.

Vision & Robotics An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale

813

Disha Shrivastava

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

814

Divya Pitta

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

815

Divyashree Shivakumar Sreepathihalli

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

816

Dmitry Abulkhanov

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

817

Dmitry Lepikhin

Efficient MoE scaling (GLaM)

Co-authored GLaM: an influential MoE scaling reference in large language modeling.

Systems & Infrastructure GLaM: Efficient Scaling of Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts

818

Dominik Grewe

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

819

Dominik Lorenz

Latent diffusion for high-res generation

Co-authored Latent Diffusion Models: the foundation behind Stable Diffusion-style pipelines.

Diffusion & Generative Media High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

820

Dominik Paulus

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

821

Dominik Rabiej

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

822

Dominika Rogozińska

Open language models (Gemma 2)

Open Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Co-authored Gemma 2: improving open language models at a practical size.

823

Dong Chen

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

824

Dong Li

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

825

Dongdong Chen

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

826

Donghan Yu

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

827

Dongjie Ji

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

828

Dongwoo Kim

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

829

Dongxu Li

Bootstrapped vision-language pretraining (BLIP)

Co-authored BLIP: a high-impact recipe for unified vision-language understanding and generation.

Multimodal BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

830

Dor Muhlgay

Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)

AI21

A strong long-tail researcher page because his public profile explicitly points to factual knowledge and grounding, which are much more useful signals than another generic AI21/Jamba placeholder.

Systems & Infrastructure Dor Muhlgay

831

Dor Zimberg

Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)

AI21

A useful page for the enterprise-facing side of AI because his work sits closer to platform engineering and authentication infrastructure than to model papers, which helps explain how AI21 made its model stack usable in production environments.

Systems & Infrastructure AI21 Labs customer story

832

Doug Fritz

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

833

Doug Reid

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)