Professional directory · November 3, 2026

AI researchers and engineers — profiles and lab history

284 independently identified people across 35 AI labs and engineering groups. 266 people have current listings; 29 former listings stay visible. Explore LinkedIn, X, GitHub, Hugging Face, Bluesky, and professional sites. An X account is optional.

Former marks a past lab relationship when supported. Older uncertain associations explicitly say Former listing · Affiliation unconfirmed. Current roles and historical records are counted separately.

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266

people with current lab listings

former listings retained

labs and engineering groups

Identity, current affiliation, role, and evidence date are separate. Followers and verification badges are optional X enrichment.

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Current teams and former listings.

OpenAI

26 current · 5 former

Adam Lerer

Current

X @adamlerer

3,294 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Alex Beutel

Current

X @alexbeutel

1,632 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Alex Zielenski

Current

X @alexzielenski

2,497 X followersLab GitHub membership

Chao Sun

Current

X @sunchao

201 X followersLab GitHub membership

Gillian K. Hadfield

Current

X @ghadfield

6,574 X followersVerified on XORCID / Wikidata

Grant Birkinbine

Current

X @grantbirki

24 X followersLab GitHub membership

Greg Brockman

Current

X @gdb

1,078,708 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jakub Pachocki

Current

X @merettm

96,837 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jason Liu

Current

X @jxnlco

139,722 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

JonLuca De Caro

Current

X @jonluca

1,398 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Kazuhiro Sera

Current

X @seratch

1,666 X followersLab GitHub membership

Keyan Zhang

Current

X @keyanzhang

5,293 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Leonardo Di Donato

Current

X @leodido

2,807 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Łukasz Kaiser

Current

X @lukaszkaiser

14,139 X followersVerified on XORCID / Wikidata

Mark Chen

Current

X @markchen90

83,979 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Mark Handley

Current

X @MarkJHandley

10,990 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Nikunj Handa

Current

X @nikunjhanda

4,821 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Noam Brown

Current

X @polynoamial

182,387 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Peter Bakkum

Current

X @pbbakkum

6,094 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Sam Altman

Current

X @sama

6,404,828 X followersVerified on XPublic record (maintainer override)

Steven Heidel

Current

X @stevenheidel

29,032 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Suyash Shringarpure

Current

LinkedIn X @suyashss

196 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Vibhor Chhabra

Current

X @vibhor_chhabra

4,084 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Vikash Kumar

Current

X @talk_2_vikash

X stats unavailableORCID / Wikidata

Wojciech Zaremba

Current

X @woj_zaremba

168,597 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Zijie J. Wang

Current

X @jay4w

1,200 X followersORCID / Wikidata, Lab GitHub membership

Alec Radford

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @AlecRad

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

72,890 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Public record (maintainer override)

Barret Zoph

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @barret_zoph

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

28,882 X followersVerified on XHistorical: X bio (lower confidence)

Ethan Shaotran

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @eshaotran

Historical index association came from public OpenAI GitHub membership; employment at OpenAI was never independently established.

1,094 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Ian Goodfellow

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @goodfellow_ian

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

383,900 X followersVerified on XHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Kenneth O. Stanley

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @kenneth0stanley

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

17,145 X followersVerified on XHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Google DeepMind

35 current · 8 former

Abhinav Gupta

Current

X @backpropper

1,696 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Allan Dafoe

Current

X @allandafoe

4,593 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Anders Søgaard

Current

X @soegaarducph

X stats unavailableORCID / Wikidata

Barret Zoph

Current

X @barret_zoph

28,882 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Charles Sutton

Current

X @randomlywalking

16,935 X followersLab GitHub membership

Conglong Li

Current

X @conglongli

531 X followersLab GitHub membership

Dan Zheng

Current

X @dancherp

1,195 X followersLab GitHub membership

Demis Hassabis

Current

X @demishassabis

1,957,115 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Dorsa Sadigh

Current

X @dorsasadigh

12,310 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Eric Wieser

Current

X @ericwieser

387 X followersLab GitHub membership

Fabian Pedregosa

Current

X @fpedregosa

7,143 X followersLab GitHub membership

Felix G.

Current

X @felixaxelgimeno

87 X followersLab GitHub membership

Gabriela Surita

Current

X @gssurita

251 X followersLab GitHub membership

Howard Zhou

Current

X @howardzzh

144 X followersLab GitHub membership

Jacob Kelly

Current

X @jacobjinkelly

1,468 X followersLab GitHub membership

John Aslanides

Current

X @john_aslanides

596 X followersLab GitHub membership

Koray Kavukcuoglu

Current

X @koraykv

47,230 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Lora Aroyo

Current

X @laroyo

3,343 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Luke Marris

Current

X @marrisluke

348 X followersLab GitHub membership

Maarten Grootendorst

Current

X @maartengr

10,308 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Marcus Hütter

Current

X @mhutter42

5,079 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Matej Balog

Current

X @matejbalog

1,062 X followersLab GitHub membership

Milind Tambe

Current

X @milindtambe_ai

7,945 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Mohit Shridhar

Current

X @mohito1905

1,719 X followersLab GitHub membership

Pushmeet Kohli

Current

X @pushmeet

29,924 X followersVerified on XORCID / Wikidata

Raia Hadsell

Current

X @RaiaHadsell

11,018 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Roy Frostig

Current

X @froystig

1,582 X followersLab GitHub membership

Ryan Mullins

Current

X @ryanmullins

X stats unavailableLab GitHub membership

Saran Tunyasuvunakool

Current

X @saran__t

325 X followersLab GitHub membership

Shane Legg

Current

X @ShaneLegg

86,746 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Steven Bohez

Current

X @sbohez

131 X followersLab GitHub membership

Tianlin Liu

Current

X @tianlinliu0121

424 X followersLab GitHub membership

Varun Mohan

Current

X @_mohansolo

58,988 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Yee Whye Teh

Current

X @yeewhye

26,071 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Zixian Cai

Current

X @caizixian

204 X followersLab GitHub membership

Chelsea Finn

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @chelseabfinn

Historical DeepMind association came from academic co-authorship. Former DeepMind employment is unconfirmed; the current Physical Intelligence listing is separate.

105,999 X followersVerified on XHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Jeff Dean

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @JeffDean

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

533,262 X followersVerified on XHistorical: X bio (lower confidence)

Lucia Specia

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @lspecia

Academic collaboration does not establish past DeepMind employment. This archived index association remains unconfirmed.

2,325 X followersHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Nathaniel D. Daw

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @nathanieldaw

Academic co-authorship with DeepMind researchers does not establish past DeepMind employment. Archived association is unconfirmed.

7,000 X followersHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Neil D. Lawrence

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

Bluesky X @lawrennd

Cambridge holds a DeepMind-funded professorship. An endowed chair is not evidence of past DeepMind employment.

38,059 X followersHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Sagalpreet Singh

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @realsagalpreet

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

553 X followersHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Sergey Levine

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @svlevine

Historical DeepMind association came from academic co-authorship. Former DeepMind employment is unconfirmed; the current Physical Intelligence listing is separate.

141,332 X followersVerified on XHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Shirley Ho

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @cosmo_shirley

Academic co-authorship with DeepMind researchers does not establish past DeepMind employment. Archived association is unconfirmed.

4,743 X followersVerified on XHistorical: ORCID / Wikidata

Mistral AI

10 current · 0 former

Alex Kulikov

Current

X @alexeyqu

10 X followersLab GitHub membership

Arthur Mensch

Current

X @arthurmensch

90,481 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Filippo Vicentini

Current

X @philipVinc

494 X followersLab GitHub membership

Guillaume Lample

Current

X @GuillaumeLample

51,419 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Hugo Cisneros

Current

X @cisne_hug

108 X followersLab GitHub membership

Laurence Aitchison

Current

LinkedIn X @laurence_ai

1,616 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Raquel Barbadillo

Current

X @rbarbadillo

947 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Sacha Froment

Current

X @sfroment42

147 X followersLab GitHub membership

Stanislas

Current

X @fuolpit

2,266 X followersLab GitHub membership

Timothée Lacroix

Current

X @tlacroix6

4,558 X followersPublic record (maintainer override)

Anthropic

30 current · 1 former

Alex Tamkin

Current

X @alextamkin

10,394 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Alexander Sax

Current

X @iamsashasax

1,255 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Amanda Askell

Current

X @amandaaskell

114,684 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Andrej Karpathy

Current

X @karpathy

4,398,149 X followersVerified on XPublic record (maintainer override)

Anton Bakhtin

Current

X @anton_bakhtin

1,899 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Chris Gorgolewski

Current

X @chrisgorgo

8,104 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Chris Olah

Current

X @ch402

163,148 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Craig Citro

Current

X @craigcitro

1,707 X followersWikidata employer claim

Daniela Amodei

Current

X @DanielaAmodei

31,845 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Dario Amodei

Current

X @DarioAmodei

861,330 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

David G. Robinson

Current

X @drob

48,346 X followersWikidata employer claim

Esin Durmus

Current

X @esindurmusnlp

5,594 X followersWikidata employer claim

Ethan Perez

Current

X @ethanjperez

26,120 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Evan Hubinger

Current

X @evanhub

62,024 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Jack Clark

Current

X @jackclarksf

154,704 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Jack W Lindsey

Current

X @jack_w_lindsey

20,045 X followersWikidata employer claim

Jaehoon Lee

Current

X @hoonkp

1,227 X followersWikidata employer claim

Javier Rando

Current

X @javirandor

4,108 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Joshua Batson

Current

X @thebasepoint

6,391 X followersWikidata employer claim

Levent Alpöge

Current

X @__alpoge__

52,829 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Matt Legrand

Current

X @insprd

530 X followersWikidata employer claim

Mitchell Wortsman

Current

X @mitchnw

1,915 X followersWikidata employer claim

Niki Parmar

Current

X @nikiparmar09

17,285 X followersWikidata employer claim

Omkhar Arasaratnam

Current

X @omkhar

315 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Pavel Izmailov

Current

X @pavel_izmailov

10,508 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Ruiqi Gao

Current

X @RuiqiGao

14,889 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Sam McCandlish

Current

X @samsamoa

3,550 X followersWikidata employer claim

Samuel R. Bowman

Current

X @sleepinyourhat

73,526 X followersORCID / Wikidata

Tom B. Brown

Current

X @nottombrown

48,179 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Xiaoyi Zhang

Current

X @xiaoyiz_uw

6,460 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Mrinank Sharma

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @mrinanksharma

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

40,569 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Wikidata employer claim

DeepSeek

4 current · 2 former

Deli Chen

Current

X @victor207755822

34,728 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Runxin Xu

Current

X @pigjunebaba

7,361 X followersWikidata employer claim

Zhenda Xie

Current

X @zdaxie

863 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Zhihong Shao

Current

X @zhs05232838

10,432 X followersWikidata employer claim

Daya Guo

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @guodaya

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

6,644 X followersHistorical: Wikidata employer claim

Fuli Luo

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @_luofuli

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

87,368 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Wikidata employer claim

xAI

19 current · 2 former

Akshey D

Current

X @aksheyd

4,877 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Anish Athalye

Current

X @anishathalye

4,572 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Benson Liu

Current

X @bliutech

582 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Daniel Imms

Current

X @tyriar

5,031 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

David Gomes

Current

X @davidgomes

6,504 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Eric Zakariasson

Current

X @ericzakariasson

97,649 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Fatih Arslan

Current

X @fatih

58,724 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Ian Huang (Shaoru)

Current

X @shaoruu

32,001 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

lauren

Current

X @poteto

222,417 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Lingxi Li

Current

X @lingxi

17,315 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Manash Pratim Das

Current

X @manash_pratimd

206 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Milosz Jankiewicz

Current

X @jaaneek

5,860 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Qian

Current

X @sivil_taram

5,731 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Sam Kottler

Current

X @samkottler

5,272 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Sebastian Aarnio

Current

X @aarniodev

429 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Shawn Thapa

Current

X @thapa_shawn

88 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Swan

Current

X @nullswan

752 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Vineeth Sendilraj

Current

X @vineethsendil

3,407 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Yagiz Nizipli

Current

X @yagiznizipli

25,299 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Igor Babuschkin

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @ibab

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

111,867 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Wikidata employer claim

Yuhuai (Tony) Wu

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @yuhu_ai_

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

55,706 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Wikidata employer claim

Cursor (Anysphere)

8 current · 7 former

Benson Liu

Current

X @bliutech

582 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Dan Perks

Current

X @danperks_

X stats unavailableLab GitHub membership

Daniel Imms

Current

X @tyriar

5,031 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Federico Cassano

Current

X @ellev3n11

8,629 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Irfan Sharif

Current

Website X @irfansharifm

X stats unavailableLab GitHub membership

Michael Truell

Current

X @mntruell

234,549 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

ola

Current

X @olaogn

24 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Parker Smith

Current

X @parkersm1th

X stats unavailableLab GitHub membership

Anish Athalye

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @anishathalye

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

4,572 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

David Gomes

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @davidgomes

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

6,504 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Eric Zakariasson

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @ericzakariasson

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

97,649 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Ian Huang (Shaoru)

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @shaoruu

Former Cursor affiliation; current SpaceXSI work is recorded separately under xAI.

32,001 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Lingxi Li

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @lingxi

Former Cursor affiliation retained with corrected self-linked X account @lingxi. The old lilingxi01 value was a GitHub login, not the X account.

17,315 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Sam Kottler

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @samkottler

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

5,272 X followersHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Vineeth Sendilraj

Former listing

Affiliation unconfirmed

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @vineethsendil

Historical Cursor GitHub membership was recorded, but past Cursor employment is not independently established. The current xAI record is separate.

3,407 X followersVerified on XHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Moonshot AI (Kimi)

1 current · 0 former

Yu Zhang

Current

X @yzhang_cs

8,367 X followersLab GitHub membership

Qwen (Alibaba)

1 current · 0 former

易良 (yiliang)

Current

GitHub X @yiliang114

298 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Tencent Hunyuan

4 current · 0 former

Can Xu

Current

X @CanXu20

1,483 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Qingfeng Sun

Current

X @victorsungo

930 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Tianyu Pang

Current

X @TianyuPang1

2,336 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Zhaopeng Tu

Current

X @tuzhaopeng

2,892 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

ByteDance Seed

6 current · 2 former

Ceyuan Yang

Current

X @CeyuanY

2,242 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Donny Y. Chen

Current

X @donydchen

326 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Hanshi Sun

Current

X @preminstrel

173 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Jiazhan Feng

Current

X @Jiazhan_Feng

124 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Wenzhen Zheng

Current

Website

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Yi Zhou

Current

X @dugu9sword

271 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jean-François Ton

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @jeanfrancois287

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

1,554 X followersHistorical: X bio (lower confidence)

Zaixiang Zheng

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @zaixiang_zheng

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

583 X followersVerified on XHistorical: X bio (lower confidence)

Xiaomi MiMo

5 current · 0 former

Dawei Zhu

Current

X @dwzhu128

1,518 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Dong Zhang

Current

X @dongzha35524835

703 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Fuli Luo

Current

X @_LuoFuli

87,368 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Lei Li

Current

X @_TobiasLee

6,642 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Shuhuai Ren

Current

X @RenShuhuai

700 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Midjourney

1 current · 0 former

Seb

Current

X @sebn_law

944 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Runway

6 current · 0 former

Brannon Dorsey

Current

X @brannondorsey

1,838 X followersLab GitHub membership

Bryan Loh

Current

X @_bryanisms

292 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Cristóbal Valenzuela

Current

X @c_valenzuelab

51,570 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Jacob Jonsson

Current

X @jonssonjacob

11 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Pi Esposito

Current

X @piesposi_to

1,505 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Yining Shi

Current

X @yining_shi

2,755 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Microsoft AI

1 current · 0 former

Mustafa Suleyman

Current

X @mustafasuleyman

1,171,784 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

MiniMax

2 current · 0 former

Pengyu Zhao

Current

X @zpysky1125

3,020 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

RyanLee

Current

GitHub X @RyanLeeMiniMax

12,075 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Meta AI (FAIR)

13 current · 1 former

Alexander Holden Miller

Current

X @alex_h_miller

1,169 X followersLab GitHub membership

Alexandr Wang

Current

X @alexandr_wang

835,001 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Aygün

Current

X @aygayd

274 X followersLab GitHub membership

Danning Xie

Current

X @danning_x

610 X followersLab GitHub membership

Darius Feher

Current

X @darius_feher

35 X followersLab GitHub membership

Felicity Liao

Current

X @liaoaporia

12 X followersLab GitHub membership

Jacob Kahn

Current

X @jacob_d_kahn

348 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Karen Hambardzumyan

Current

X @mahnerak

440 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Nikita Lutsenko

Current

X @NSUnimplemented

674 X followersLab GitHub membership

Rohit Patel

Current

X @_Rohit_Patel_

173 X followersLab GitHub membership

Thomas Scialom

Current

X @ThomasScialom

8,158 X followersWikidata employer claim

Tristan Rice

Current

X @rice_fry

5,680 X followersLab GitHub membership

Zilin Xiao

Current

X @ZilinXiao2

252 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Junlin Han

Former

Reviewed 2026-10-27 · Evidence

X @han_junlin

Former lab affiliation retained after departure or move; this is not a current role.

1,433 X followersHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

2 current · 1 former

Jie Tang

Current

X @jietang

78,181 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Current

X @zRdianjiao

4,701 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Chao Gong

Former

Reviewed 2026-11-03 · Evidence

X @akgongchao

The current X bio identifies the Z.ai developer affiliation as former.

4 X followersHistorical: Lab GitHub membership

Thinking Machines Lab

9 current · 0 former

Eric Zhang

Current

X @ekzhang1

24,215 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Horace He

Current

X @cHHillee

54,949 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

John Schulman

Current

X @johnschulman2

83,003 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Martin Ziqiao Ma

Current

X @ziqiao_ma

5,397 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Mira Murati

Current

X @miramurati

1,036,508 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Neal Wu

Current

X @neal_wu

17,459 X followersVerified on XLab GitHub membership

Rowan Zellers

Current

X @rown

15,350 X followersVerified on XWikidata employer claim

Sean DuBois

Current

X @_pion

3,025 X followersLab GitHub membership

Yujia Bao

Current

X @yujia_bao

579 X followersLab GitHub membership

Inception

3 current · 0 former

Harley Wiltzer

Current

LinkedIn Website

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Samar Khanna

Current

Website X @samar_a_khanna

X stats unavailableX bio (lower confidence)

Siddhant Kharbanda

Current

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Cohere

5 current · 0 former

Aidan Gomez

Current

X @aidangomez

43,622 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Alejandro R. Salamanca

Current

X @alexrs95

1,018 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Marzieh Fadaee

Current

X @mziizm

2,540 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Mehrnaz Mofakhami

Current

X @mhrnz_m

1,284 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Nils Reimers

Current

X @Nils_Reimers

15,737 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

5 current · 0 former

Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Current

X @mbodhisattwa

2,688 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Dirk Groeneveld

Current

X @mechanicaldirk

1,026 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Iz Beltagy

Current

X @i_beltagy

1,754 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jae Sung Park

Current

X @jjaesungpark

449 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Rose Hendrix

Current

X @rosemhendrix

96 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Hugging Face

5 current · 0 former

Edward Beeching

Current

X @edwardbeeching

2,563 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Leandro von Werra

Current

X @lvwerra

13,342 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Lewis Tunstall

Current

X @_lewtun

20,896 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Quentin Gallouédec

Current

X @QGallouedec

4,701 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Thomas Wolf

Current

X @Thom_Wolf

136,039 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

NVIDIA Research

12 current · 0 former

Jim Fan

Current

X @DrJimFan

602,990 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Julius Berner

Current

X @julberner

1,411 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Karsten Kreis

Current

X @karsten_kreis

3,649 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Morteza Mardani

Current

X @MardaniMorteza

2,085 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Or Litany

Current

X @orlitany

2,801 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Ruben Ohana

Current

X @oharub

1,072 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Seul Lee

Current

X @SeulLee05

258 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Tingwu Wang

Current

X @TingwuWang

1,434 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Tomas Geffner

Current

X @tomasgeffner

465 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Yogesh Balaji

Current

X @yogeshbalaji95

296 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Yuke Zhu

Current

X @yukez

24,541 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Zuobai Zhang

Current

X @Oxer22

992 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Sakana AI

7 current · 0 former

Edoardo Cetin

Current

X @edo_cet

566 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Kosuke Nakago

Current

X @corochann

1,608 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Masaya Ohagi

Current

X @OM60486933

389 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Robert Tjarko Lange

Current

X @RobertTLange

10,340 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Rujikorn (Tan) Charakorn

Current

X @tan51616

407 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Stefania Druga

Current

X @Stefania_druga

13,445 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Takuya Akiba

Current

X @iwiwi

25,155 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Nous Research

5 current · 0 former

Dakota Mahan

Current

X @dmayhem93

2,203 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jai Suphavadeeprasit

Current

X @JSupa15

1,120 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jeffrey Quesnelle

Current

X @theemozilla

13,659 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Teknium

Current

X @Teknium

134,956 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Théo Gigant

Current

X @gigant_theo

1,103 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Prime Intellect

9 current · 0 former

Cooper Miller

Current

Website GitHub X @kcoopm

342 X followersVerified on XProfessional profile (self-declared)

Daniel Auras

Current

X @rasdani_

1,883 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Johannes Hagemann

Current

X @johannes_hage

11,062 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Kevin Thomas

Current

LinkedIn Website

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Mika Senghaas

Current

X @mikasenghaas

1,822 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Parker Pettit

Current

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Sami Jaghouar

Current

X @samsja19

9,291 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Sebastian Müller

Current

X @omouamoua

4,075 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Seth Karten

Current

Website X @sethkarten

4,371 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

StepFun

2 current · 0 former

Zhewei Huang

Current

X @hzwer

242 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Zili Wang

Current

X @ZiliWang8

38 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Ant Group AGI (InclusionAI)

2 current · 0 former

Haoxing Chen

Current

X @Chenhaoxing249

28 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Junbo (Jake) Zhao

Current

X @jakezhao001

282 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Cognition

9 current · 0 former

Andrew Gao

Current

LinkedIn X @itsandrewgao

43,807 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Eric Lu

Current

LinkedIn Website

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Jared Palmer

Current

X @jaredpalmer

113,685 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jared Zoneraich

Current

LinkedIn Website X @imjaredz

X stats unavailableProfessional profile (self-declared)

Merlijn Vos

Current

LinkedIn GitHub X @Murderlon

250 X followersVerified on XProfessional profile (self-declared)

Mokshit Jain

Current

LinkedIn Website GitHub X @Mokshit06

2,642 X followersVerified on XProfessional profile (self-declared)

Mrinal Mohit

Current

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Scott Wu

Current

X @ScottWu46

153,004 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

strellic

Current

Website GitHub X @strellic

1,457 X followersVerified on XProfessional profile (self-declared)

Perplexity AI

2 current · 0 former

Paul Fryzel

Current

X @paulfryzel

399 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Zibi Braniecki

Current

X @zbraniecki

2,936 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Liquid AI

5 current · 0 former

Aditya Tadimeti

Current

X @TadimetiAditya

198 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Jimmy T. H. Smith

Current

X @jimmysmith1919

675 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Jonathan Buchanan

Current

X @jbuchananr

323 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Leonie Monigatti

Current

Hugging Face Website X @helloiamleonie

21,464 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Maxime Labonne

Current

X @maximelabonne

45,124 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Black Forest Labs

4 current · 0 former

Hila Chefer

Current

X @hila_chefer

4,654 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

nousr

Current

X @nousr_

1,411 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Stephen Batifol

Current

GitHub X @stephenbtl

X stats unavailableProfessional profile (self-declared)

Sumith Kulal

Current

X @sumith1896

1,271 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Physical Intelligence

8 current · 0 former

Chelsea Finn

Current

X @chelseabfinn

105,999 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Danny Driess

Current

Website X @DannyDriess

4,198 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Karl Pertsch

Current

LinkedIn Website X @KarlPertsch

4,680 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Kevin Black

Current

X @kvablack

3,722 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Liyiming Ke

Current

X @xkelym

1,660 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Michael Equi

Current

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Sergey Levine

Current

X @svlevine

141,332 X followersVerified on XX bio (lower confidence)

Suraj Nair

Current

X @SurajNair_1

3,316 X followersX bio (lower confidence)

Lila Sciences

2 current · 0 former

Atul Mistry

Current

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

Tommaso Biancalani

Current

Professional profile · X not requiredProfessional profile (self-declared)

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Every profile and affiliation status.

Full roster: 284 people, 297 listings

Name	Lab / recorded association	Status	Professional profiles	Evidence	Current role / source	Previously at	X followers
Irfan Sharif	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Modal Labs, Cockroach Labs, LinkedIn, Amazon, Shopify	—
Samar Khanna	Inception	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Aurora	—
Siddhant Kharbanda	Inception	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Harley Wiltzer	Inception	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—
Wenzhen Zheng	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	StepFun, Meituan (intern), Langboat Technology (intern)	—
Stephen Batifol	Black Forest Labs	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Suyash Shringarpure	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	196
Gillian K. Hadfield	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,574
Alex Beutel	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,632
Łukasz Kaiser	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	14,139
Zijie J. Wang	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Intern at Google AI, Apple, Microsoft Research	1,200
Adam Lerer	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,294
Vikash Kumar	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Alex Zielenski	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	2,497
Peter Bakkum	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,094
Grant Birkinbine	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	24
JonLuca De Caro	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,398
Keyan Zhang	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	5,293
Nikunj Handa	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,821
Kazuhiro Sera	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Slack (SDK & DevRel team), SmartNews (VP of Engineering)	1,666
Steven Heidel	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	29,032
Chao Sun	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	201
Noam Brown	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	182,387
Jason Liu	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	139,722
Mark Chen	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	83,979
Greg Brockman	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,078,708
Sam Altman	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,404,828
Leonardo Di Donato	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	2,807
Wojciech Zaremba	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	168,597
Jakub Pachocki	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	96,837
Vibhor Chhabra	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Shopify, Square	4,084
Mark Handley	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	10,990
Milind Tambe	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	7,945
Anders Søgaard	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Pushmeet Kohli	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	29,924
Allan Dafoe	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,593
Marcus Hütter	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	5,079
Lora Aroyo	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	3,343
Yee Whye Teh	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	26,071
Dorsa Sadigh	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	12,310
John Aslanides	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	596
Charles Sutton	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics), as academic	16,935
Abhinav Gupta	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,696
Zixian Cai	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	204
Conglong Li	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Microsoft (DeepSpeed team)	531
Dan Zheng	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,195
Eric Wieser	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	387
Fabian Pedregosa	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	7,143
Roy Frostig	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,582
Felix G.	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	87
Gabriela Surita	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	251
Jacob Kelly	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Vector Institute, DeepGenomics	1,468
Howard Zhou	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	144
Luke Marris	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	348
Tianlin Liu	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	424
Maarten Grootendorst	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	10,308
Matej Balog	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,062
Ryan Mullins	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Saran Tunyasuvunakool	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	325
Steven Bohez	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	131
Mohit Shridhar	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,719
Demis Hassabis	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,957,115
Shane Legg	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	86,746
Koray Kavukcuoglu	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	47,230
Raia Hadsell	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	11,018
Barret Zoph	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	OpenAI (VP & GM Enterprise; VP Research, Post-Training); Co-Founder & CTO, Thinking Machines Lab; Research Scientist, Google Brain	28,882
Varun Mohan	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	58,988
Sacha Froment	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	147
Stanislas	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	2,266
Guillaume Lample	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Meta AI (FAIR)	51,419
Arthur Mensch	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	90,481
Timothée Lacroix	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,558
Raquel Barbadillo	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Tinybird	947
Alex Kulikov	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	10
Hugo Cisneros	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Inicio	108
Filippo Vicentini	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	494
Laurence Aitchison	Mistral AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,616
Chris Olah	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Distill, OpenAI (Clarity Team), Google Brain	163,148
David G. Robinson	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	48,346
Levent Alpöge	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	52,829
Craig Citro	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Google Colab, Google BigQuery, SageMath	1,707
Joshua Batson	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, MIT (Math)	6,391
Jack W Lindsey	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Columbia University Center for Theoretical Neuroscience	20,045
Sam McCandlish	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,550
Niki Parmar	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	17,285
Amanda Askell	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	114,684
Tom B. Brown	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	48,179
Ethan Perez	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	26,120
Evan Hubinger	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	MIRI, OpenAI, Google, Yelp, Ripple	62,024
Pavel Izmailov	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	OpenAI	10,508
Esin Durmus	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	5,594
Alex Tamkin	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	PhD, Stanford AI Lab / Stanford NLP	10,394
Jaehoon Lee	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,227
Mitchell Wortsman	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	University of Washington (Computer Science & Engineering)	1,915
Jack Clark	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	OpenAI, Bloomberg, The Register	154,704
Ruiqi Gao	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Google Brain / Google DeepMind	14,889
Anton Bakhtin	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Meta AI (FAIR), Google	1,899
Xiaoyi Zhang	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,460
Andrej Karpathy	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,398,149
Dario Amodei	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	861,330
Daniela Amodei	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	OpenAI, Stripe	31,845
Alexander Sax	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Meta, Berkeley EECS, Stanford	1,255
Matt Legrand	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	530
Samuel R. Bowman	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	73,526
Javier Rando	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,108
Chris Gorgolewski	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	8,104
Omkhar Arasaratnam	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	315
Runxin Xu	DeepSeek	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	7,361
Zhihong Shao	DeepSeek	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	10,432
Deli Chen	DeepSeek	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	BS and MS, Peking University	34,728
Zhenda Xie	DeepSeek	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	863
Akshey D	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,877
Yagiz Nizipli	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	25,299
Manash Pratim Das	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	206
Milosz Jankiewicz	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	5,860
Sebastian Aarnio	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	429
Qian	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	TikTok, Sea AI Lab	5,731
Vineeth Sendilraj	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,407
Fatih Arslan	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean	58,724
lauren	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Cursor (Anysphere), Meta, Netflix	222,417
Swan	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Nomi (YC X25), Escape (YC W23)	752
Shawn Thapa	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Tesla AI, Amazon	88
Benson Liu	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	582
Lingxi Li	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	17,315
Anish Athalye	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	MIT CSAIL (PhD)	4,572
David Gomes	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Cursor, Neon, SingleStore	6,504
Eric Zakariasson	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Cursor	97,649
Sam Kottler	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Cursor, PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean, Red Hat	5,272
Ian Huang (Shaoru)	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Cursor	32,001
Michael Truell	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	234,549
Federico Cassano	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	8,629
Dan Perks	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Benson Liu	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	582
Parker Smith	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
ola	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	24
Daniel Imms	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Microsoft (VS Code / GitHub Copilot), AWS	5,031
Daniel Imms	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Microsoft (VS Code / GitHub Copilot), AWS	5,031
Yu Zhang	Moonshot AI (Kimi)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	8,367
易良 (yiliang)	Qwen (Alibaba)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Tencent	298
Qingfeng Sun	Tencent Hunyuan	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Peking University, Microsoft	930
Zhaopeng Tu	Tencent Hunyuan	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,892
Can Xu	Tencent Hunyuan	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Founder, WizardLM_AI	1,483
Tianyu Pang	Tencent Hunyuan	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Sea AI Lab	2,336
Jiazhan Feng	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	124
Donny Y. Chen	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	PhD, Monash University	326
Ceyuan Yang	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,242
Yi Zhou	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	271
Hanshi Sun	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	173
Dong Zhang	Xiaomi MiMo	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	703
Shuhuai Ren	Xiaomi MiMo	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	700
Lei Li	Xiaomi MiMo	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,642
Dawei Zhu	Xiaomi MiMo	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Microsoft, Google Cloud (intern)	1,518
Fuli Luo	Xiaomi MiMo	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	DeepSeek	87,368
Seb	Midjourney	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	944
Brannon Dorsey	Runway	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,838
Bryan Loh	Runway	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	292
Cristóbal Valenzuela	Runway	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	51,570
Jacob Jonsson	Runway	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	11
Pi Esposito	Runway	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,505
Yining Shi	Runway	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,755
Mustafa Suleyman	Microsoft AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Co-founder, Inflection AI & Google DeepMind	1,171,784
RyanLee	MiniMax	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	12,075
Pengyu Zhao	MiniMax	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	3,020
Thomas Scialom	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	8,158
Alexander Holden Miller	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,169
Tristan Rice	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	5,680
Darius Feher	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	35
Aygün	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Turkcell	274
Jacob Kahn	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	348
Karen Hambardzumyan	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	440
Zilin Xiao	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	252
Rohit Patel	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	173
Felicity Liao	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	12
Danning Xie	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	PyTorch, AWS	610
Nikita Lutsenko	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	674
Alexandr Wang	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	835,001
zR	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	4,701
Jie Tang	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	78,181
Chao Gong	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4
Mira Murati	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	OpenAI (CTO)	1,036,508
Horace He	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	PyTorch (Meta)	54,949
Martin Ziqiao Ma	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	5,397
Rowan Zellers	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	15,350
Eric Zhang	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Modal (founding engineer)	24,215
Neal Wu	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	stealth company, Cognition, Ramp, Google Brain	17,459
Sean DuBois	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,025
Yujia Bao	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	579
John Schulman	Thinking Machines Lab	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	83,003
Aidan Gomez	Cohere	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	43,622
Nils Reimers	Cohere	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Hugging Face	15,737
Marzieh Fadaee	Cohere	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,540
Mehrnaz Mofakhami	Cohere	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Researcher at Mila; Visiting Researcher at ServiceNow Research	1,284
Alejandro R. Salamanca	Cohere	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,018
Iz Beltagy	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	UTCompSci (PhD)	1,754
Rose Hendrix	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	96
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Google, Microsoft Research, Meta	2,688
Dirk Groeneveld	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,026
Jae Sung Park	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	449
Thomas Wolf	Hugging Face	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	136,039
Leandro von Werra	Hugging Face	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	13,342
Lewis Tunstall	Hugging Face	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	20,896
Quentin Gallouédec	Hugging Face	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	4,701
Edward Beeching	Hugging Face	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,563
Jim Fan	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	602,990
Yuke Zhu	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	24,541
Seul Lee	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	258
Julius Berner	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Research intern at Meta AI and NVIDIA	1,411
Karsten Kreis	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	3,649
Morteza Mardani	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,085
Tomas Geffner	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Intern at DeepMind, VantAI, Microsoft Research, and Amazon AWS	465
Yogesh Balaji	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	296
Ruben Ohana	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Flatiron Institute, Polymathic AI, ENS Ulm	1,072
Or Litany	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,801
Tingwu Wang	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,434
Zuobai Zhang	NVIDIA Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	992
Masaya Ohagi	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	389
Kosuke Nakago	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,608
Robert Tjarko Lange	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Google DeepMind (SR & Intern)	10,340
Edoardo Cetin	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Meta AI (FAIR), Twitter (Cortex), Toyota, Goldman Sachs (internships)	566
Stefania Druga	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Google DeepMind, MIT	13,445
Rujikorn (Tan) Charakorn	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	407
Takuya Akiba	Sakana AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	25,155
Jeffrey Quesnelle	Nous Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	13,659
Teknium	Nous Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Stability AI	134,956
Dakota Mahan	Nous Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	2,203
Jai Suphavadeeprasit	Nous Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	1,120
Théo Gigant	Nous Research	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Université Paris-Saclay / CentraleSupélec (PhD)	1,103
Johannes Hagemann	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	11,062
Sami Jaghouar	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	9,291
Mika Senghaas	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,822
Sebastian Müller	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,075
Daniel Auras	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,883
Zhewei Huang	StepFun	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	242
Zili Wang	StepFun	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	38
Haoxing Chen	Ant Group AGI (InclusionAI)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	28
Junbo (Jake) Zhao	Ant Group AGI (InclusionAI)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	NYU, Meta, NVIDIA	282
Jared Palmer	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Microsoft (VP Product), Vercel (VP of AI)	113,685
Scott Wu	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	153,004
Zibi Braniecki	Perplexity AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Amazon, Mozilla	2,936
Paul Fryzel	Perplexity AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	399
Maxime Labonne	Liquid AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	45,124
Jimmy T. H. Smith	Liquid AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Stanford	675
Aditya Tadimeti	Liquid AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	198
Leonie Monigatti	Liquid AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	21,464
Jonathan Buchanan	Liquid AI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	323
Hila Chefer	Black Forest Labs	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Google DeepMind, Meta AI	4,654
nousr	Black Forest Labs	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	Stability AI	1,411
Sumith Kulal	Black Forest Labs	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,271
Danny Driess	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	Google DeepMind	4,198
Karl Pertsch	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,680
Kevin Black	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,722
Suraj Nair	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,316
Liyiming Ke	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	University of Washington (CS PhD)	1,660
Chelsea Finn	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	105,999
Sergey Levine	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	141,332
Michael Equi	Physical Intelligence	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—
Seth Karten	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,371
Cooper Miller	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	342
Kevin Thomas	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Parker Pettit	Prime Intellect	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Andrew Gao	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	43,807
Eric Lu	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Merlijn Vos	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	250
Mokshit Jain	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	2,642
Jared Zoneraich	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
Mrinal Mohit	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	—
strellic	Cognition	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,457
Tommaso Biancalani	Lila Sciences	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—
Atul Mistry	Lila Sciences	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—
Kenneth O. Stanley	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	17,145
Ian Goodfellow	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	383,900
Ethan Shaotran	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,094
Sergey Levine	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	141,332
Chelsea Finn	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	105,999
Lucia Specia	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	2,325
Neil D. Lawrence	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	38,059
Shirley Ho	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,743
Nathaniel D. Daw	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	7,000
Sagalpreet Singh	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	553
Mrinank Sharma	Anthropic	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	40,569
Daya Guo	DeepSeek	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,644
Fuli Luo	DeepSeek	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	87,368
Igor Babuschkin	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	111,867
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu	xAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	55,706
David Gomes	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	6,504
Lingxi Li	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	17,315
Anish Athalye	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	4,572
Ian Huang (Shaoru)	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	32,001
Sam Kottler	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	5,272
Vineeth Sendilraj	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	3,407
Eric Zakariasson	Cursor (Anysphere)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	97,649
Jean-François Ton	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,554
Zaixiang Zheng	ByteDance Seed	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	583
Jeff Dean	Google DeepMind	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	533,262
Junlin Han	Meta AI (FAIR)	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	1,433
Barret Zoph	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	28,882
Alec Radford	OpenAI	[object Object]	[object Object]	[object Object]	—	—	72,890

Methodology

Evidence-linked profiles, with history retained.

Start with a named person

Use official team pages, technical reports, release bylines, and primary professional sources. Link the exact account independently. A search match or model-user bio is only a lead.

Separate profile from affiliation

A LinkedIn profile or self-linked GitHub account proves identity through its evidence trail. Current lab affiliation and literal role need their own evidence. Preserve genuine dual roles and uncertain acquisition context.

Retain departures visibly

Change old lab rows to Former when someone leaves or moves. Keep historical provenance out of current counts. An unproven old association stays clearly unconfirmed; an incorrect identity is corrected or excluded.

Structured X-resolution source observations

These dated source pools support the X-resolution lane, not all professional profiles or current employee populations. 2,181 OpenAlex authors and 240 GitHub members are recorded across 19 resolver-backed groups. 16 targeted groups are not sampled. Current X enrichment covers 253/258 listings; former and profile-only rows are excluded from that denominator.

Lab	Current listings with X	OpenAlex	Wikidata employer	GitHub	arXiv names
OpenAI	26	120 sampled; historical cohort, rate unavailable	—	11/33	—
Google DeepMind	35	120 sampled; historical cohort, rate unavailable	—	21/61	—
Mistral AI	10	1/72	—	6/15	—
Anthropic	30	120 sampled; historical cohort, rate unavailable	21/43	—	51
DeepSeek	4	0/120	3/28	0/1	198
xAI	19	—	0/7	14/26	—
Cursor (Anysphere)	8	—	1/1	7/26	—
Moonshot AI (Kimi)	1	0/49	0/1	1/2	198
Qwen (Alibaba)	1	—	—	0/3	60
Tencent Hunyuan	4	0/876	—	—	—
ByteDance Seed	5	0/581	—	—	—
Xiaomi MiMo	5	0/48	—	0/5	—
Midjourney	1	—	—	1/4	—
Runway	6	—	—	6/14	—
Microsoft AI	1	—	1/1	—	—
MiniMax	2	0/75	0/1	—	—
Meta AI (FAIR)	13	—	1/27	43 sampled; historical cohort, rate unavailable	—
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	2	—	—	1/1	—
Thinking Machines Lab	9	—	1/13	6 sampled; historical cohort, rate unavailable	—
Inception	1	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Cohere	5	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	5	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Hugging Face	5	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
NVIDIA Research	12	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Sakana AI	7	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Nous Research	5	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Prime Intellect	7	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
StepFun	2	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Ant Group AGI (InclusionAI)	2	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Cognition	7	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Perplexity AI	2	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Liquid AI	5	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Black Forest Labs	4	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Physical Intelligence	7	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled
Lila Sciences	0	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled	Not sampled

Questions

How to read this index.

Do researchers need an X account to be included?

No. LinkedIn, GitHub, Hugging Face, Bluesky, and self-maintained professional sites are accepted alongside X. We start with an independently named technical person, verify the exact profile through primary professional evidence, and assess the lab affiliation separately. 10 current people are listed without a recorded X handle. An absent X link means not recorded, not proof the person has no account.

Why are former researchers still listed?

Departures and lab moves are retained with a visible Former tag. A new lab gets its own evidence-backed current entry; the old lab stays as a former record. Current-affiliation totals exclude all 29 former listings. 8 legacy associations were never proven as employment and are labeled Former listing and Affiliation unconfirmed. Those labels describe prior index records, not a claim that the person used to work at the lab. Known wrong-person matches remain excluded.

How do you verify identity, affiliation, and roles?

These are separate claims. Exact profile links come from an official author/team page, a self-maintained professional site, ORCID, Wikidata, or a self-declared profile field. A name match, product use, ambassador status, or parent-company mention is insufficient. Current professional context supports the assigned lab; explicit departures change status to Former. A silent bio alone does not establish departure. Roles are literal self-declared titles with a source and observation date; descriptive work areas are left blank.

What do the confidence labels mean?

ORCID/Wikidata and lab GitHub membership preserve structured identity provenance. X bio and Professional profile are self-declared affiliation paths after independent identity checks. 3 current listings retain explicitly labeled maintainer public-record overrides; archived override evidence remains historical. A profile link establishes account identity, not employment by itself. Former rows label their source signals Historical.

Are these complete lab employee rosters?

No. The 19 resolver-backed groups have dated source-pool observations; four OpenAlex institution rosters are capped at 120 authors. Some old provenance does not match current samples, so source sizes and current X-resolution counts are separate. The 16 targeted groups have unknown structured pools, shown as Not sampled. Named bylines and bounded professional-profile discovery are not staff censuses. Former or LinkedIn-only entries do not inflate X-resolution numerators.

What does the snapshot date cover?

The November 3, 2026 update adds six people and reviews the current and former directory, including all 270 previously recorded X handles. Live X returned profile details for 265 accounts. Its responses omitted follower counts and verification fields, so existing statistics retain their earlier observation dates and new rows leave those fields blank. Five accounts returned 404 and retain prior evidence. October 27 remains the last full X enrichment pass. Inception is a new targeted group with structured source pools marked Not sampled.

Can I download current and former records?

Yes. The CSV includes every listing, stable person identity, listing and affiliation status, status notes/evidence/date, exact profile URLs, X-specific metrics, role sources and observation dates, and previous affiliations. LinkedIn-only rows leave X handle and X statistics blank. Download: https://crawlora.net/ai-researchers-index/download. It is licensed CC BY 4.0.

Companion historical study: AI lab names in X bios. Its original sample and conclusions are unchanged. CC BY 4.0.