People behind local AI

0xSero

Developer; the Omacom Foundation's announcement names Sybil Solutions as… · Sybil Solutions

Developer of the Local AI Registry, tested recipes for running open models on specific GPUs

Aaron Teo

Technology Engineer, IBM Client Engineering · IBM

IBM technology engineer and code owner for llama.cpp's zDNN backend for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Adrien Gallouët

Hugging Face is the company listed on Gallouët's GitHub profile · Hugging Face

Member of llama.cpp's llama-server and shared-code code-owner teams; Hugging Face

Aldehir Rojas

Member of the llama-common code-owner team · llama.cpp project

llama.cpp shared-code owner working on chat parsing, tool calls and JSON-schema grammars

Andrej Karpathy

Wrote llama2.c, a dependency-free C program for running Llama 2 models on a personal computer

Andriy Mulyar

CEO · Nomic AI

CEO of Nomic and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports

Angelos Katharopoulos

Member of the Machine Learning Research group · Apple

One of the four initial developers of MLX, Apple's array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon

Awni Hannun

Member of the Technical Staff · Anthropic

Co-creator of MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon

Bartowski

Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Red Hat

Publishes GGUF quantizations of open models and contributes to llama.cpp; ML engineer at Red Hat

Brandon Duderstadt

Founder · Calcifer Computing

Nomic co-founder and co-author of the GPT4All and Nomic Embed technical reports

Byron Hsu

Merge oncall for prefill-decode (PD) disaggregation · SGLang project

Led Liger Kernel, open-source Triton kernels for memory-efficient LLM training and fine-tuning

Chris Lattner

Co-founder · Modular

Co-founder of Modular, maker of the MAX inference framework and the Mojo language

Christian Cantrell

Founder and CPO (Chief Product/Prompt Officer) · Reve AI

Founder and CPO of Reve AI; formerly led Adobe Design Prototyping and was VP of Product at Stability AI

Clément Delangue

Co-founder and CEO · Hugging Face

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, whose Hub distributes open models and the libraries used to run them

Daniel Bevenius

Hugging Face is the company listed on Bevenius's GitHub profile · Hugging Face

llama.cpp code owner for model-conversion tooling and member of its CI team; Hugging Face

Daniel Han

Listed on Unsloth's About page for software, data, and algorithms · Unsloth

Works on Unsloth, open-source software for fine-tuning and running models on local hardware

David D. Cox

VP, AI Foundations; IBM Director, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab · IBM Research

VP, AI Foundations at IBM Research, working on IBM's Granite models; earlier a Harvard professor

David Heinemeier Hansson

Co-owner · 37signals

Creator of Omarchy, a Linux system that sets up local-model tools such as Ollama and LM Studio

Eric Hartford

Founder · Quixi.AI

Founder of Quixi.AI and creator of the Dolphin and Samantha open models; formerly at Microsoft and AWS

François Chollet

Co-founder · ARC Prize Foundation

Creator and project lead of Keras, whose KerasHub runs open-weight models on JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow

Georgi Gerganov

Maintains llama.cpp with the ggml team · Hugging Face

Develops llama.cpp and the ggml tensor library for running models on local hardware

Jeff Bolz

Distinguished Engineer · NVIDIA

NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer and member of llama.cpp's Vulkan backend code-owner team

Jeffrey Morgan

Building Ollama · Ollama

Works on Ollama, an open-source tool for running open models on your own machine

Jeremy Howard

Co-founder (with Eric Ries); CEO / R&D · Answer.AI

Co-founder of Answer.AI, which released FSDP/QLoRA for fine-tuning large models on gaming GPUs

Johannes Gäßler

Experimental particle physicist · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Member of llama.cpp's CUDA backend code-owner team; experimental particle physicist at KIT

Joshua Lochner

Working on Transformers.js · Hugging Face

Works on Transformers.js at Hugging Face, a library for running Transformers models in the browser

Julien Chaumond

CTO · Hugging Face

CTO of Hugging Face; added the Hub's local-apps registry and works on the hf command-line tool

Loubna Ben Allal

Research Engineer · Hugging Face

Research Engineer at Hugging Face leading the SmolLM series of small open language models

Luca Soldaini

Member of the technical staff · Microsoft AI

Former co-lead of Ai2's Olmo open-model project; now a member of the technical staff at Microsoft AI

Mark Saroufim

Cofounder · Core Automation

Co-founder of Core Automation and of GPU MODE; PyTorch maintainer whose work includes torchao

Max Krasnyansky

Member of the Hexagon and OpenCL backend code-owner teams · llama.cpp project

Author of llama.cpp's Hexagon NPU backend; member of its Hexagon and OpenCL code-owner teams

Maxime Labonne

Head of Post-Training · Liquid AI

Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI; author of the LLM Course and its quantization tutorials

Mia

Developer · Mia's AI Lab

Developer of local model deployment recipes and the sparkDash monitoring dashboard

Michael Han

Listed on Unsloth's About page for design, product, and engineering · Unsloth

Works on Unsloth and is an area owner for the Studio UI, its web interface for running and training models

Misha Bilenko

Co-author of Microsoft's Phi-3 technical report on small language models that run on a phone

Neo Zhang

Code owner for the SYCL backend (ggml-org/ggml-sycl) · llama.cpp project

Code owner for llama.cpp's SYCL backend, which is designed primarily for Intel GPUs

Nikhil Thorat

Named in Thorat's GitHub profile bio (role not stated) · Anthropic

Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic

Nikita Shulga

Listed with Thinking Machines Lab as a panelist for the PyTorch 2.14 release… · Thinking Machines Lab

PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI

Olivier Chafik

Anthropic is the company listed on Chafik's GitHub profile · Anthropic

MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer; added Jinja chat templates and tool calling to llama.cpp

Omar Sanseviero

Developer Experience Lead · Google DeepMind

Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, working on Gemma launches and developer guides

Pedro Cuenca

Machine learning engineer · Hugging Face

Machine learning engineer at Hugging Face; Diffusers co-author and builder of on-device Swift tools

Pete Warden

CEO · Useful Sensors Inc

CEO of Useful Sensors, founding member of the TensorFlow team, and co-author of TinyML and Moonshine

Pierrick Hymbert

Developer (BNP Paribas is the company listed on Hymbert's GitHub profile) · BNP Paribas

Contributor to llama.cpp's server, its test and benchmark workflows, and model support

Piotr Wilkin

Systems architect · Syndatis

Maintains llama.cpp's parser code and contributes to Lemonade; systems architect at Syndatis

Radoslav Gerganov

Code owner for the RPC backend (ggml-org/ggml-rpc) · llama.cpp project

Code owner for llama.cpp's RPC backend, which offloads computation to remote machines

Ronen Eldan

First author of TinyStories and co-author of Microsoft's Phi small language model reports

Sébastien Bubeck

OpenAI author on gpt-oss and GPT-5 science work; earlier a Microsoft GenAI vice president and Phi co-author

Sigbjørn Skjæret

Hugging Face is the company listed on Skjæret's GitHub profile · Hugging Face

llama.cpp code owner for model conversion, gguf-py and core model code; Hugging Face

Song Han

Associate Professor with tenure, EECS · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director; co-author of AWQ, SmoothQuant and StreamingLLM

Soumith Chintala

AI infrastructure, research, and robotics · Thinking Machines

Co-founder of PyTorch, the framework behind ExecuTorch's on-device AI stack

Stella Biderman

Executive Director · EleutherAI

Executive Director of EleutherAI; first author of the Pythia open model suite

Teknium

Co-founder · Nous Research

Co-founder of Nous Research and first-listed author of the Hermes 3 and Hermes 4 technical reports

TheBloke

Published quantized GGUF, GPTQ and AWQ versions of open language models on Hugging Face

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) · Hugging Face

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face; created the Transformers library

Tianqi Chen

Associate Professor, Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department · Carnegie Mellon University

Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers

Tim Baek

Creator and founder; leads the Open WebUI team · Open WebUI

Creator and founder of Open WebUI, a self-hosted AI interface for local and cloud models

Tim Dettmers

Assistant Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Creator and maintainer of bitsandbytes; Assistant Professor at CMU and Research Scientist at Ai2

Timothy Carambat

Founder · Mintplex Labs

Founder of Mintplex Labs, maker of AnythingLLM, an AI application that runs locally by default

Tri Dao

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, leading the Dao AI Lab · Princeton University

First author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba; Princeton professor and Together AI co-founder

Woosuk Kwon

Co-founder and CTO · Inferact

Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; co-founder and CTO of Inferact

Xuan-Son Nguyen

Software engineer · Hugging Face

Software engineer at Hugging Face and core maintainer of llama.cpp

Yagil Burowski

LM Studio team member (shown with the "LM Studio Team" badge on LM Studio Hub) · Element Labs

LM Studio team member; made the first commits to LM Studio's lms CLI and MLX engine repositories

Ying Sheng

Officer · LMSYS

SGLang co-author and codeowner; first author of FlexGen, for running large models on a single GPU

Yuanzhi Li

First author of the phi-1.5 report and co-author of TinyStories and Microsoft's other Phi model reports