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just now, time magazine released the list of the 100 most influential people in the field of ai in 2024.

we see many familiar scholars and entrepreneurs on this list.

in the "leaders" section, openai ceo sam altman and nvidia ceo huang renxun are on the list again. we also see new faces including bytedance co-founder and ceo liang rubo and baichuan intelligence founder and ceo wang xiaochuan.

in the "innovators" section, we have the familiar amd ceo lisa su, groq ceo jonathan ross, openai cto mira murati, cerebras systems ceo and founder andrew feldman, mistral ai co-founder and ceo arthur mensch, etc.

synced has sorted out the representative nominees in the technology circle, especially the ai ​​circle.

leaders

sundar pichai, ceo of alphabet and google

sundar pichai joined google in 2004 and was mainly responsible for products such as chrome and google toolbar. in 2014, sundar pichai became the head of operations for all google internet products, taking over core product teams such as search, youtube, chrome, android, and maps. in 2015, after alphabet co-founder larry page reorganized alphabet, sundar pichai officially became the ceo of the subsidiary google. in december 2019, he served as ceo of alphabet and google at the same time.

satya nadella, ceo of microsoft

satya nadella is the current ceo and chairman of microsoft. he is the third ceo after founders bill gates and steve ballmer. when he became ceo, microsoft was experiencing a period of stagnation. after nadella took office, he spent ten years revitalizing the company and created unparalleled success, making microsoft the world's most valuable public company.

Sam Altman，OpenAI CEO

sam altman, co-founder and ceo of openai. he co-founded worldcoin in 2020. previously, he served as president of y combinator and briefly served as ceo of reddit.

the large language models such as chatgpt, gpt-4, sora, and gpt-4o released by openai have triggered a craze for training large language models in the ai ​​circle.

jen-hsun huang, ceo of nvidia

jensen huang is the founder and ceo of nvidia. he started nvidia in 1993. in 2001, he was selected as one of the 40 richest people under 40 by fortune; in 2020, he was selected as one of the 2020 forbes global billionaires list. in june this year, nvidia surpassed microsoft to become the company with the highest market value in the world.

mark zuckerberg, ceo of meta

mark zuckerberg is the founder and ceo of facebook. in 2021, facebook changed its name to meta, marking a major rebranding. meta has invested billions of dollars to create the "metaverse".

after chatgpt sparked a wave of generative ai, zuckerberg quickly repositioned the company around the technology. meta’s llama family of models is now among the most powerful outside of openai, anthropic, or google.

demis hassabis, co-founder and ceo of google deepmind

demis hassabis is currently the ceo and co-founder of google deepmind, and is known as the father of alphago. alphago, alphafold and other research were completed under demis' leadership. in 2010, demis started deepmind and served as ceo, mainly researching agi. in 2014, google acquired deepmind for $400 million. in april 2023, alphabet merged deepmind and google brain to form a new google deepmind team, with demis as ceo.

liang ruobo, co-founder and ceo of bytedance

liang rubo graduated from nankai university with a degree in microelectronics in 2005 and was a college classmate of zhang yiming. in 2012, liang rubo and zhang yiming co-founded bytedance.

from then until 2016, liang rubo served as the head of product development at bytedance, responsible for many important early products and businesses, including toutiao, toutiao account, advertising system and user growth system. since 2016, liang rubo has been in charge of feishu and efficiency engineering. liang rubo is also the founder of douyin short video. in november 2021, liang rubo officially took over as ceo of bytedance.

wang xiaochuan, founder and ceo of baichuan intelligence

wang xiaochuan is the founder and ceo of baichuan intelligence. he has served as ceo and director of sogou, and senior vice president and cto of sohu.

in april 2023, wang xiaochuan and ru liyun co-founded the large-scale model company "baichuan intelligence", and completed a strategic financing of us$300 million in the a1 round in october 2023, with a total financing amount of us$350 million. it has become a technology unicorn within half a year of its establishment, setting a record for the fastest domestic large-scale model start-up. baichuan intelligence has released large models such as baichuan-7b/13b, baichuan2-7b/13b, baichuan2-192k, baichuan-npc, and baichuan 3.

innovators

lisa su, ceo of amd

lisa su is a member of the u.s. national academy of engineering and the american academy of arts and sciences, and is chairman and ceo of amd.

lisa su joined amd in 2012 and served as chief operating officer, senior vice president and general manager of global business. in 2014, lisa su became the first female ceo in amd's history. under her leadership, amd turned losses into profits and successfully transformed into a leading company in the field of high-performance and adaptive computing, and also one of the fastest-growing semiconductor companies in the world.

Jonathan Ross，Groq CEO

jonathan ross is now the ceo and founder of groq, which he started in 2018. after more than five years of development, groq is now one of the hottest ai chip manufacturing startups in silicon valley. the chip developed by groq is called a language processing unit (lpu), which is 10 times faster than the industry standard gpu and runs at only 1/10 the cost.

Aravind Srinivas，Perplexity CEO

aravind srinivas founded perplexity in august 2022 and is the company's co-founder and ceo. its product, perplexity ai, is a research and conversational search engine driven by an ai chatbot that answers queries through natural language predictive text. by the first quarter of 2024, perplexity had reached 15 million monthly users.

Mustafa Suleyman，Microsoft AI CEO

mustafa suleyman is the ceo of microsoft ai, a newly formed division focused on consumer ai research and products like copilot, bing, and edge. he was previously the co-founder of inflection and deepmind.

mira murati, cto, openai

mira murati is one of the driving forces behind openai's meteoric rise. as the company's cto, murati works behind the scenes to guide models like chatgpt and dall-e to widespread adoption. in may, openai launched the company's new flagship model, gpt-4o, which impressed users with its complex real-time voice interactions. murati led research that showcased the company's progress on the search engine searchgpt and the text-to-video model sora.

andrew feldman, ceo and founder, cerebras systems

andrew feldman co-founded cerebras systems in 2016 and is its ceo.

the company has built a new computer that accelerates ai work by three orders of magnitude, surpassing the current state-of-the-art. its flagship cs-3 is the fastest ai computer in existence. the wse-2 chip is the largest chip ever built, containing 4 trillion transistors spread over 46,225 square millimeters of silicon.

Christophe Fouquet，ASML CEO

christophe fouquet is now the ceo of asml, where he has worked for 16 years. the ai ​​boom would not be possible without asml, the world's only manufacturer of cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

asml provides lithography machines and related services to semiconductor manufacturers. the vast majority of semiconductor manufacturers in the world purchase twinscan models from asml, such as intel, samsung, hynix, tsmc, etc.

Brett Adcock，Figure CEO

founded in 2022 by brett adcock, figure is a us-based robotics company that aims to develop universal humanoid robots that will have a positive impact on humanity and create a better life for future generations. last month, figure officially released its new generation of humanoid robot figure 02.

john jumper, google deepmind alphafold team leader

for 60 years, scientists have been puzzled by the problem of protein folding because proteins fold in a variety of ways and are difficult to predict accurately.

in late 2020, a team at google deepmind, led by john jumper, then a senior research scientist at the organization, cracked the problem using a machine learning algorithm called alphafold 2. the team later released the model for free.

in may 2024, a team led by john jumper launched alphafold 3, which can predict other molecules such as dna and rna in addition to proteins. unlike its predecessor, alphafold 3 is not open source.

piotr dabkowski, co-founder and cto, elevenlabs

with just a few minutes of audio samples, elevenlabs can clone your voice. the unicorn startup was co-founded in 2022 by piotr dabkowski and mateusz staniszewski, who developed a model that can generate a variety of realistic voices from text or existing speech for dubbing.

arthur mensch, co-founder and ceo, mistral ai

mistral ai was founded in may 2023 by several former researchers from meta platforms and alphabet - arthur mensch (current ceo), guillaume lample and timothee lacroix. less than four weeks after its establishment, mistral ai received $113 million in seed round financing, with a valuation of approximately $260 million. six months after its establishment, they raised $415 million in series a financing, and their valuation soared to $2 billion, an increase of more than seven times.

this year, the company released the "flagship" large model mistral larg, which directly targets openai's gpt-4 and is comparable to gpt-4 in key performance aspects.

thinker

yao qizhi, dean of the institute for interdisciplinary information sciences, tsinghua university

yao qizhi is a world-renowned computer scientist, winner of the 2000 turing award, academician of the chinese academy of sciences, foreign member of the u.s. academy of sciences, foreign member of the american academy of sciences and arts, fellow of the international cryptologic association, and dean of the institute of cross-disciplinary information sciences at tsinghua university.

yao qizhi's research interests include computational theory and its applications in cryptography and quantum computing. he has made outstanding contributions in three major areas: (1) creating an important subfield of theoretical computer science: communication complexity and computational theory of pseudo-random number generation; (2) laying the foundation for modern cryptography, and making fundamental contributions to complexity-based cryptography and security formal methods; (3) solving open problems in the fields of circuit complexity, computational geometry, data structures, and quantum computing, and establishing new paradigms.

ray kurzweil, google principal researcher and ai pioneer

an american author, inventor, and futurist, he has been a pioneer in optical character recognition (ocr), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. he has published books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.

ilya sutskever, former chief scientist of openai and founder of ssi

after leaving openai in may this year, ilya sutskever founded a new company, safe superintelligence (ssi), in june. the company's goals and products are very clear and single: to pursue safe superintelligence, hoping to achieve this goal through a small, top-notch team that achieves revolutionary results.

recently, ssi officially announced that it had raised $1 billion, and it was revealed that the company's valuation had reached $5 billion. currently, the company has 10 employees and has not released any products.

albert gu, assistant professor of machine learning at carnegie mellon university and co-founder of cartesia

in december 2023, albert gu, together with tri dao, chief scientist of together.ai and assistant professor of computer science at princeton university, launched the new mamba architecture, challenging the transformer. in april 2024, the mamba 2 architecture was launched again, greatly improving training efficiency.

further reading

five times the throughput, fully encompassing transformer performance: new architecture mamba sets the ai ​​circle on fire

amazon research award winners announced: xie saining, mamba author albert gu and others selected

transformer again! mamba 2, led by the original author, is here, and the new architecture greatly improves training efficiency

andrej karpathy, founder, eureka labs

andrej karpathy is an old acquaintance in the ai ​​circle, and is keen to share his experience and courses in using technology with online netizens. in july 2024, he announced that he would start a business, eureka labs, which is positioned as an artificial intelligence + education company and is committed to building a new type of ai-native school.

iason gabriel, research scientist, google deepmind

iason gabriel is a researcher at google deepmind, working on the ethics research team. his work focuses on ai ethics, including ai value consistency, distributive justice, language ethics, etc. more broadly, he is interested in ai and human values, and is committed to ensuring that technology can benefit everyone.

jan leike, co-leader of alignment science at anthropic

jan leike was formerly the co-leader of the openai super alignment team. he left in may 2024 and joined anthropic in the same month. he continued to be responsible for the super alignment task and was committed to scalable supervision, generalization from weak to strong, and automatic alignment research.

chris olah, co-founder, anthropic

chris olah works on reverse engineering artificial neural networks into human-understandable algorithms. previously, he led interpretability research at openai and worked at google brain.

ben zhao, professor, university of chicago

ben zhao is neubauer professor of computer science at the university of chicago. he has worked in a variety of fields over the years, including p2p networks, online social networks, cognitive radio/dynamic spectrum, graph mining and modeling, and user behavior analysis. since 2016, he has focused on the security and privacy of machine learning and wearable systems. since 2022, he has mainly studied adversarial machine learning and tools to mitigate the harm of generative ai models to human creative people in different industries.

yoshua bengio, founder of mila - quebec institute for artificial intelligence

yoshua bengio is recognized worldwide as one of the top experts in the field of artificial intelligence. he is famous for his pioneering work in deep learning and won the 2018 am turing award together with geoffrey hinton and yann lecun.

he is a full professor at the university of montreal and the founder and scientific director of mila - quebec institute for artificial intelligence. he co-directs the cifar learning in machines and brains program as a senior researcher and serves as the scientific director of ivado.

shapers

nat friedman, investor and entrepreneur

nat friedman is an open source leader in the technology circle. he was github ceo and a startup investor. recently, nfdg, an investment partnership co-managed by nat friedman, became one of the first round investors in ilya's new company ssi.

Dario Amodei，Anthropic CEO

dario amodei is an italian-american artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. he is the co-founder and ceo of anthropic and was previously the vice president of research at openai.

sara hooker, vp of research and head of cohere for ai, cohere

sara hooker is the head of cohere for ai, a research lab dedicated to solving complex machine learning problems and supporting fundamental research that explores uncharted territory. she leads a team of researchers and engineers working to make large language models more efficient, secure, and robust. prior to joining cohere, she was a research scientist at google brain.

scarlett johansson, actor

when openai released gpt-4o, a voice in the voice interaction demonstration, "sky", was very similar to the famous movie star scarlett johansson. after users discovered that the voice sounded similar to scarlett johansson, openai chose to delete the voice.

of course, scarlett johansson herself was shocked, angry, and incredulous about the dubbing, because sky's voice sounded eerily similar to hers. she said at the time that she would seek to resolve the issue in a transparent manner, asking openai to detail the specific process they used to create sky's voice and issued a statement.

eric schmidt, founder, schmidt futures

eric schmidt served as ceo of google from 2001 to 2011 and as the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. he also served as executive chairman of parent company alphabet. he then served as a technical advisor to alphabet from 2015 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2020.

francois chollet, software engineer at google

francois chollet is a well-known software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher. his main interests include the following

understand the nature of abstraction and develop algorithms that can abstract autonomously (i.e., general intelligence).

democratize the development and deployment of ai technologies by making them easier to use and clearly explaining them.

leverage technology, especially ai, to help people gain greater agency in their own environments and realize their full potential (e.g., education technology, coachable recommendation engines, personal productivity technology, etc.).

understanding and modeling the early stages of human cognitive development (e.g. developmental psychology, cognitive development robotics).