Language models

285 people are listed under this topic in the USASI directory. Most common companies: Google DeepMind (15), Anthropic (14), Hugging Face (12), Meta (12), Stanford University (12).

Top companies in Language models

People

Abigail SeeResearch Scientist · Google DeepMind
Adina WilliamsResearch Scientist · Meta (Fundamental AI Research, FAIR)
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Airbnb
AI ExplainedCreator · AI Explained
Aidan GomezCo-founder and CEO · Cohere
Akshita BhagiaSenior Research Engineer, AllenNLP team · Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Albert GuAssistant Professor, Machine Learning Department; leads the Goomba Lab · Carnegie Mellon University
Albert JiangResearch scientist (since June 2023) · Mistral AI
Alec RadfordListed with an "Independent" affiliation on 2026 arXiv papers · Independent researcher
Alessio FanelliPodcast co-host · Latent Space
Alex RivesHead of Science · Biohub
Alexander AminiCo-founder and Chief Scientific Officer · Liquid AI
Alexander WettigResearcher working on RL for the Composer models · Cursor (Anysphere)
Ali FarhadiProfessor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; co-director of the RAIVN Lab · University of Washington
Ali GhodsiCEO and Co-Founder · Databricks
Ali MadaniCo-founder and CEO · Profluent
Amanda AskellLeads Anthropic's Character work (finetuning and AI alignment) · Anthropic
Ami VoraChief Product Officer · Anthropic
Andrej KarpathyVoices
Andriy MulyarCEO · Nomic AI
Angela FanBuilders & open source
Antje BarthMember of Technical Staff — AI Product & Developer Experience · Amazon AGI (Amazon)
Anton LozhkovMachine Learning Engineer · Hugging Face
Aran KomatsuzakiBuilders & open source
Aravind SrinivasCofounder and CEO · Perplexity
Arjun DesaiCo-founder · Cartesia
Armand JoulinGemma Team (lead on the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports; core contributor on the July 2026 Gemma 4 report) · Google DeepMind
Armen AghajanyanCo-founder · Perceptron
Arthur ConmyMember of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Arthur MenschCo-founder and CEO · Mistral AI
Ashish VaswaniCEO · Essential AI
Avi SilBuilders & open source
Aylin CaliskanAssociate Professor, The Information School; Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (courtesy) · University of Washington
Azalia MirhoseiniAssistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Scaling Intelligence lab · Stanford University
Baptiste RozièreBuilders & open source
Barret ZophBuilders & open source
BartowskiSenior Machine Learning Engineer · Red Hat
Ben MannCo-founder · Anthropic
Beren MillidgeCo-founder and Chief Scientist, leading the technical teams · Zyphra
Bill DolanBuilders & open source
Binyuan HuiBuilders & open source
Bob McGrewBuilders & open source
Brandon DuderstadtFounder · Calcifer Computing
Brian HieAssistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Evolutionary Design · Stanford University
Bryan CatanzaroVP, Applied Deep Learning Research · NVIDIA
Ce ZhangFounder & CTO · Together AI
Christopher ManningThomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science · Stanford University
Christopher RéProfessor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group) · Stanford University
Clara ShihSenior Advisor · Meta Platforms
Clément FarabetVP of Research · Google DeepMind
Colin RaffelAssociate Professor, Department of Computer Science · University of Toronto
Collin BurnsBuilders & open source
Connor LeahyBuilders & open source
Craig FederighiSenior Vice President, Software Engineering · Apple
Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science · Stanford University
Dan SuResearch scientist (large language model pretraining) · NVIDIA
Dani YogatamaCo-founder and CEO · Reka
Daniel De FreitasBuilders & open source
Danqi ChenAssociate Professor of Computer Science; co-lead, Princeton NLP Group; associate director, Princeton Language and Intelligence · Princeton University
David BauAssistant Professor of Computer Science · Northeastern University (Khoury College of Computer Sciences)
David D. CoxVP, AI Foundations; IBM Director, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab · IBM Research
David GrangierMachine Learning Group, Apple Research · Apple
David TalbyChief Executive Officer · John Snow Labs
David WaddenResearch scientist, working on post-training for Gemini · Google DeepMind
Denny BritzBuilders & open source
Diogo AlmeidaFounder and CEO · TypeSafe AI
Dirk GroeneveldBuilders & open source
Dong YuVP of AI Foundations · Capital One
Douwe KielaResearcher · Google DeepMind
Dwarkesh PatelHost · Dwarkesh Podcast
Edouard GraveBuilders & open source
Edward BeechingMachine Learning Research Scientist · Hugging Face
Eiso KantCo-founder and co-CEO · Poolside
Emily M. BenderThomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory · University of Washington
Emmanuel DupouxProfessor (EHESS), Cognitive machine learning team · EHESS (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique)
Eric HartfordFounder · Quixi.AI
Eric Michael SmithResearch Scientist (the page's bio describes a Research Engineer role at FAIR) · Meta (Facebook AI Research, FAIR)
Eric MitchellCo-lead of the Post-training Frontiers team (with Yann Dubois) · OpenAI
Ethan PerezResearcher · Anthropic
Eugene YanMember of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Evan HubingerAlignment Stress-Testing lead · Anthropic
Fabian PedregosaResearch scientist, Gemini Core team · Google
Furu WeiDistinguished Scientist and Vice President; Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, leading the GenAI group · Microsoft Research
Gabe PereyraPresident and co-founder · Harvey
Gabriel SynnaeveResearch scientist (joined FAIR as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015; listed with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2026 paper) · Meta (FAIR; Meta Superintelligence Labs)
Garyk BrixiResearcher training genome language models in the EvoDesign Lab · Stanford University (EvoDesign Lab) and Arc Institute
George HalalMachine learning software engineer · Google
Graham NeubigAssociate Professor, Language Technologies Institute · Carnegie Mellon University
Guilherme PenedoMachine Learning Research Engineer · Hugging Face
Guillaume LampleCo-founder and Chief Science Officer · Mistral AI
Hanlin TangCTO - Neural Networks · Databricks
Hannaneh HajishirziTorode Family Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; leads the H2Lab · University of Washington
Harrison ChaseCo-founder · LangChain
Hassan ShapourianBuilders & open source
Hendrik StrobeltSenior Research Scientist; Explainability Lead, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab · IBM Research
Henrique Schechter VeraResearch Engineer · Google DeepMind
Hoifung PoonBuilders & open source
Hsiao-Wuen HonEmeritus Researcher · Microsoft Research
Hynek KydlíčekML Engineer · Hugging Face
Hyung Won ChungBuilders & open source
Ian R. McKenzieResearch Engineer (since September 2025) · Google DeepMind
Illia PolosukhinFounder · NEAR AI
Ilya SutskeverCo-founder and CEO · Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Jacob AndreasAssociate Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
Jacob AndreouEVP, Copilot · Microsoft
Jakob UszkoreitCo-founder and CEO · Inceptive
Jakub PachockiChief Scientist · OpenAI
Jared KaplanCo-Founder and Chief Science Officer · Anthropic
Jason WarnerCo-founder and co-CEO · Poolside
Jason WeiWorks at Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs
Jason WestonResearch Scientist · Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs)
Jay AlammarDirector and Engineering Fellow · Cohere
Jeff DeanCo-founder · Discovery Loop
Jeffrey A. RuffoloMachine learning team member · Profluent
Jeffrey QuesnelleCo-founder and CTO · Nous Research
Jesse DodgeResearch scientist · Meta Superintelligence Labs
Jianfeng GaoTechnical Fellow & Corporate Vice President · Microsoft
Jiaxuan YouAssistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; leads U Lab · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Joe SpisakVice President of Product and Head of Open Source · Reflection AI
Johannes HagemannCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer · Prime Intellect
John GiannandreaBuilders & open source
John SchulmanCofounder and chief scientist · Thinking Machines Lab
John X. MorrisBuilders & open source
Jonathan CohenCredited in Nemotron 3 leadership (December 2025) and Nemotron 3 Super contributors (April 2026) · NVIDIA
Jonathan FrankleChief AI Scientist · Databricks
Ju-Chieh ChouPh.D. student, advised by Karen Livescu · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Junyang LinIndependent researcher · Independent
Jyoti AnejaMember of Technical Staff, AI Frontiers team · Microsoft Research
Kai-Fu LeeFounder and CEO · 01.AI
Karan GoelCEO and Founder · Cartesia
Karen LivescuProfessor · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Karén SimonyanBuilders & open source
Kari BriskiVP, AI Software Product Management · NVIDIA
Kate SouleDirector, Technical Product Management, Granite · IBM Research
Kenneth LiResearcher · Thinking Machines Lab
Kezhi KongResearch scientist, foundation model team, Applied Deep Learning Research (ADLR) · NVIDIA
Koray KavukcuogluSVP, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind
Kristina ToutanovaResearch scientist · Google DeepMind
Krithik PuthalathFounder and CEO · Zyphra
Kyle LoBuilders & open source
Kyunghyun ChoGlen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics; Professor of Computer Science and Data Science · New York University
Laurent SartranBuilders & open source
Leandro von WerraMachine learning engineer in the open-source team · Hugging Face
Leo GaoBuilders & open source
Lewis TunstallMachine learning engineer working on post-training · Hugging Face
Li DengBuilders & open source
Liam FedusListed under "Who we are" on the Periodic Labs homepage · Periodic Labs
Lilian WengAuthor · Lil'Log
Liliang RenMember of Technical Staff · Thinking Machines Lab
Loubna Ben AllalResearch Engineer · Hugging Face
Luca SoldainiMember of the technical staff · Microsoft AI
Lucas AtkinsAuthor of Arcee AI's model launch posts and co-author of its Trinity Large technical report · Arcee AI
Luis LastrasDirector of language and multimodal models · IBM Research
Łukasz KaiserListed under Reasoning Research leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card; GitHub profile lists OpenAI · OpenAI
Luke Melas-KyriaziBuilding Cursor · Anysphere (Cursor)
Luke ZettlemoyerProfessor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering · University of Washington
Lysandre DebutChief Open-Source Officer · Hugging Face
Margaret MitchellResearcher and Chief Ethics Scientist · Hugging Face
Marie-Anne LachauxBuilders & open source
Marina DanilevskySenior Research Scientist, Manager - core language and conversational technologies · IBM Research
Mark ChenChief Research Officer · OpenAI
Mark McQuadeCo-founder (identified as CEO and co-founder in a July 2025 company announcement) · Arcee AI
Mathias LechnerCo-founder and CTO · Liquid AI
Matthew BermanFounder · Forward Future
Maxime LabonneHead of Post-Training · Liquid AI
May HabibCEO and co-founder · WRITER
Michael AuliBuilders & open source
Michael CollinsResearch scientist · Google
Michele CatastaPresident (joined as VP of AI in 2023) · Replit
Mika SenghaasResearch engineer · Prime Intellect
Ming ZhouFounder and CEO · Langboat Technology
Mira MuratiCo-founder and CEO · Thinking Machines Lab
Misha BilenkoBuilders & open source
Mohit IyyerAssociate Professor, Computer Science · University of Maryland
Myle OttFounding team · Thinking Machines Lab
Nanyun (Violet) PengSenior Staff Research Scientist · Google
Nathan LambertCo-founder and Executive Director · Trillium Labs
Naveen RaoCEO and cofounder · Unconventional AI
Nicholas CarliniResearch Scientist · Anthropic
Nick FrosstCo-founder · Cohere
Niki ParmarBuilders & open source
Nils ReimersVP of AI Search · Cohere
Noah A. SmithVice Provost for Artificial Intelligence; Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies; Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering · University of Washington
Noam BrownResearch Scientist · OpenAI
Noam ShazeerVice President, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind
Oleksiy OstapenkoBuilders & open source
Omar KhattabAssistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab) · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
Omar SansevieroDeveloper Experience Lead · Google DeepMind
Oren EtzioniAdviser and board member · Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Oriol VinyalsVice President, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind
Owain EvansDirector · Truthful AI
Paige BaileyEngineering lead; Developer Experience Lead · Google DeepMind
Paolo GloriosoBuilders & open source
Percy LiangProfessor of Computer Science (and courtesy in Statistics); Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models · Stanford University
Peter SarlinFounder and chairperson of the board (since 2025, per a CV dated March 2026) · Qutwo Oy and NestAI Oy
Piero MolinoCEO and Co-founder · Studio Atelico
Pradeep DasigiLead Research Scientist, Olmo team · Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Qingyun WuAssistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology · Penn State University
Quoc LeBuilders & open source
Rama AkkirajuVice president of AI for IT · NVIDIA
Ramin HasaniCo-founder and CEO · Liquid AI
Rangan MajumderVice President of Search and Artificial Intelligence · Microsoft
Ranit AharonovBuilders & open source
Raymond LiBuilders & open source
Rishi BommasaniSenior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) · Stanford University
Rohan TaoriResearcher on the pretraining team · Anthropic
Rohit PrasadChief Executive Officer · Boston Dynamics
Ronan CollobertResearch scientist, Machine Learning Research · Apple (Machine Learning Research)
Ronen EldanBuilders & open source
Rowan CheungFounder · The Rundown AI
Ruchir PuriChief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community · IBM Research
Ruoming PangListed with Meta Platforms on the ScaleAcross Explorer paper (May 2026); GitHub profile lists Meta · Meta
Saadia GabrielAssistant Professor of Computer Science, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, University of California · Los Angeles
Sachin MehtaAffiliate Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering (from October 2021) · University of Washington
Sahil DuaResearch Engineer · Google DeepMind
Sam McCandlishCo-Founder and Chief Architect · Anthropic
Sameer SinghProfessor, Department of Computer Science, University of California · Irvine
Sami JaghouarResearch lead ("leading research" at Prime Intellect, per Jaghouar's GitHub profile, October 2026) · Prime Intellect
Samuel MarksMember of Technical Staff; leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam of the Alignment Science team · Anthropic
Samuel R. BowmanTechnical AI safety researcher · Anthropic
Samy BengioSenior Director, AI and Machine Learning Research · Apple
Sara HookerCo-founder and CEO · Adaption
Sarthak JainMachine learning team member · Profluent
Sasha RushBuilders & open source
Sasha ShengFounder and COO · TypeSafe AI
Sathwik Tejaswi MadhusudhanMachine Learning Engineer (per Madhusudhan's GitHub profile, October 2026) · ServiceNow
Saurabh TiwaryVice President, Technical Fellow, Google DeepMind (page title); Vice President and General Manager of Cloud AI (bio) · Google
Sebastian RaschkaBuilders & open source
Sébastien BubeckBuilders & open source
Sergey BrinMember of the Board of Directors (Executive Committee) · Alphabet
Sergey EdunovCTO · Genesis Molecular AI
Shantanu JainWorks on language models, including training data and training infrastructure (since 2020) · OpenAI
Shengjia ZhaoChief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025) · Meta Superintelligence Labs
Sheshansh AgrawalDirector of Research · Contextual AI
Shiv RaoCEO and co-founder · Abridge
Shixiang Shane GuSenior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team) · Google DeepMind
Shruthan RadhakrishnaAuthor on ServiceNow-AI publications (most recently the October 2026 AutoSynthData post) · ServiceNow
Shunyu YaoBuilders & open source
Sid BlackBuilders & open source
Simon WillisonAuthor · Simon Willison's Weblog
Song HanAssociate Professor with tenure, EECS · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sridhar RamaswamyChief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors · Snowflake
Sriram RaghavanGeneral Manager, IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab · IBM
Stas BekmanDevelops efficient post-training software at Snowflake AI Research · Snowflake AI Research
Stefano ErmonCEO · Inception
Stefano SoattoVice president and distinguished scientist, AWS Agentic AI · Amazon Web Services (Amazon)
Stella BidermanExecutive Director · EleutherAI
Stephen RollerMember of the Technical Staff · Thinking Machines Lab
Su Lin BlodgettIndependent visiting researcher · Mila
Susan ZhangBuilders & open source
Swabha SwayamdiptaGabilan Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi Computer Science; Associate Director, USC Center for AI and Society · University of Southern California
Tatsunori HashimotoAssistant Professor, Computer Science Department · Stanford University
TekniumCo-founder · Nous Research
TheBlokeBuilders & open source
Thomas ScialomListed with GenAI, Meta on 2023 papers and with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2025 paper and a February 2026 paper (Gaia2) · Meta
Thomas WolfCo-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) · Hugging Face
Timothée LacroixCo-founder and CTO · Mistral AI
Tom BrownCo-Founder and Chief Compute Officer · Anthropic
Torsten ScholakLeads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; co-founder of the SLAM initiative · ServiceNow
Tri DaoAssistant Professor of Computer Science, leading the Dao AI Lab · Princeton University
Vaishaal ShankarBuilders & open source
Valentina PyatkinResearcher working on LLM post-training for the Swiss AI Initiative · ETH AI Center
Vasi PhilominExecutive Vice President and Head of Data and AI · Siemens
Victor SanhListed as the current company on Sanh's GitHub profile (no title stated) · Rilix
Waseem AlShikhCTO and co-founder · WRITER
Weizhu ChenTechnical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, leading a modeling team · Microsoft AI
Wes RothCreator · Wes Roth (YouTube channel)
Winston WeinbergCEO and co-founder · Harvey
Wojciech ZarembaHead of AI Resilience · OpenAI Foundation
Xiaodong HeSenior Vice President of JD Group (JD.COM) · JD Group (JD.com)
Xingyao WangCo-founder and Chief AI Officer · All Hands AI (OpenHands)
Xuedong HuangChief Technology Officer · Zoom
Yacine JerniteLeads the ML and Society team · Hugging Face
Yannic KilcherCreator and host · Yannic Kilcher (YouTube channel)
Yejin ChoiDieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI · Stanford University
Yoav ShohamChairman & Co-Founder · AI21 Labs
Yonghui WuBuilders & open source
Younes BelkadaBuilders & open source
Yu-An ChungResearch Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) · Meta (FAIR)
Yuanzhi LiBuilders & open source
Yulia TsvetkovAssociate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering · University of Washington
Yuxin WuBuilds foundation models (Kimi) · Moonshot AI
Zach NussbaumPrincipal machine learning engineer, leading development of Nomic Embed · Nomic AI
Zhilin YangBuilders & open source
Zvi MowshowitzWriter · Don't Worry About the Vase

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