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The people building AGI

198 founders, chief scientists and leaders behind the 144 companies on the AGIX tracker, grouped by their lab's place on the leaderboard.

Anthropic #1

Dario AmodeiCo-founder Daniela AmodeiCo-founder Jared KaplanCo-founder Sam McCandlishCo-founder Tom BrownCo-founder Chris OlahCo-founder Jack ClarkCo-founder Ben MannCo-founder

OpenAI #2

Sam AltmanCo-founder Greg BrockmanCo-founder Ilya SutskeverCo-founder Wojciech ZarembaCo-founder Jakub PachockiChief scientist (named in 2024)Mark ChenResearch leader John SchulmanCo-founder Andrej KarpathyFounding member

Perplexity #3

Aravind SrinivasCo-founder Denis YaratsCo-founder Johnny HoCo-founder Andy KonwinskiCo-founder

Cerebras #4

Andrew FeldmanFounder

xAI #5

Elon MuskFounder Igor BabuschkinCo-founder

Cohere #6

Aidan GomezCo-founder Ivan ZhangCo-founder Nick FrosstCo-founder

Reflection AI #8

Misha LaskinCo-founder Ioannis AntonoglouCo-founder

NVIDIA Research #9

Jensen HuangCo-founder and CEO of NVIDIA

Google DeepMind #10

Demis HassabisCo-founder Shane LeggCo-founder Mustafa SuleymanCo-founder Noam ShazeerGemini co-lead (rejoined Google in 2024)Koray KavukcuogluResearch leader

Liquid AI #13

Ramin HasaniCo-founder Mathias LechnerCo-founder Alexander AminiCo-founder Daniela RusCo-founder

Prime Intellect #14

Vincent WeisserCo-founder Johannes HagemannCo-founder

Together AI #16

Vipul Ved PrakashCo-founder Ce ZhangCo-founder Percy LiangCo-founder Chris RéCo-founder

Wayve #17

Alex KendallCo-founder Amar ShahCo-founder

Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) #18

Paul AllenFounder

Fireworks AI #21

Lin QiaoFounder

Thinking Machines Lab #25

Mira MuratiFounder

Xaira Therapeutics #28

Marc Tessier-LavigneFounder

Black Forest Labs #31

Robin RombachCo-founder Andreas BlattmannCo-founder Patrick EsserCo-founder

Harvey #32

Winston WeinbergCo-founder Gabe PereyraCo-founder

Periodic Labs #36

Liam FedusCo-founder Ekin Dogus CubukCo-founder

Luma AI #38

Amit JainCo-founder Alex YuCo-founder

DeepSeek #39

Liang WenfengFounder

Tenstorrent #43

Ljubisa BajicFounder

Sakana AI #45

David HaCo-founder Llion JonesCo-founder Ren ItoCo-founder

StepFun #46

Jiang DaxinFounder

CoreWeave #48

Michael IntratorCo-founder Brian VenturoCo-founder Brannin McBeeCo-founder

Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs) #49

Alexandr WangLeads Meta Superintelligence Labs (joined 2025)Yann LeCunFounding director of FAIR

Mistral AI #50

Arthur MenschCo-founder Guillaume LampleCo-founder Timothée LacroixCo-founder

Cursor (Anysphere) #51

Michael TruellCo-founder Sualeh AsifCo-founder Arvid LunnemarkCo-founder Aman SangerCo-founder

Crusoe #53

Chase LochmillerCo-founder Cully CavnessCo-founder

Groq #54

Jonathan RossFounder

Sarvam AI #56

Vivek RaghavanCo-founder Pratyush KumarCo-founder

Etched #57

Gavin UbertiCo-founder Chris ZhuCo-founder Robert WachenCo-founder

Lightmatter #58

Nicholas HarrisFounder

ElevenLabs #59

Mati StaniszewskiCo-founder Piotr DąbkowskiCo-founder

Abridge #60

Shiv RaoFounder

Physical Intelligence #61

Karol HausmanCo-founder Sergey LevineCo-founder Chelsea FinnCo-founder Brian IchterCo-founder Lachy GroomCo-founder

1X Technologies #62

Bernt BørnichFounder

Upstage #63

Sung KimFounder

Decagon #65

Jesse ZhangCo-founder Ashwin SreenivasCo-founder

Figure AI #66

Brett AdcockFounder

Lambda #67

Stephen BalabanCo-founder Michael BalabanCo-founder

Hugging Face #69

Clément DelangueCo-founder Julien ChaumondCo-founder Thomas WolfCo-founder

MiniMax #70

Yan JunjieFounder

Reka AI #71

Dani YogatamaCo-founder Yi TayCo-founder

Character.AI #72

Daniel De FreitasCo-founder

Cartesia #73

Karan GoelCo-founder Albert GuCo-founder

Goodfire #74

Eric HoCo-founder Dan BalsamCo-founder Tom McGrathCo-founder

Axiom Math #75

Carina HongFounder

Stability AI #76

Emad MostaqueFounder

Baichuan AI #79

Wang XiaochuanFounder

Aleph Alpha #80

Jonas AndrulisCo-founder Samuel WeinbachCo-founder

World Labs #81

Fei-Fei LiCo-founder Justin JohnsonCo-founder Christoph LassnerCo-founder Ben MildenhallCo-founder

Apollo Research #82

Marius HobbhahnFounder

Moonshot AI #83

Yang ZhilinFounder

Extropic #85

Guillaume VerdonCo-founder Trevor McCourtCo-founder

Cognition #86

Scott WuCo-founder Steven HaoCo-founder Walden YanCo-founder

Harmonic #87

Vlad TenevCo-founder Tudor AchimCo-founder

The Bot Company #88

Kyle VogtFounder

Pika #89

Demi GuoCo-founder Chenlin MengCo-founder

Inflection AI #92

Reid HoffmanCo-founder Karén SimonyanCo-founder

Unitree Robotics #96

Wang XingxingFounder

Sierra #97

Bret TaylorCo-founder Clay BavorCo-founder

Midjourney #98

David HolzFounder

Hume AI #100

Alan CowenFounder

Essential AI #101

Ashish VaswaniCo-founder Niki ParmarCo-founder

SambaNova #102

Rodrigo LiangCo-founder Kunle OlukotunCo-founder

METR #103

Beth BarnesFounder

AI21 Labs #104

Yoav ShohamCo-founder Ori GoshenCo-founder Amnon ShashuaCo-founder

Krutrim #105

Bhavish AggarwalFounder

Contextual AI #106

Douwe KielaCo-founder Amanpreet SinghCo-founder

Modular #107

Chris LattnerCo-founder Tim DavisCo-founder

01.AI #108

Kai-Fu LeeFounder

Poolside #109

Jason WarnerCo-founder Eiso KantCo-founder

Writer #110

May HabibCo-founder Waseem AlShikhCo-founder

Factory #111

Matan GrinbergCo-founder Eno ReyesCo-founder

You.com #112

Richard SocherCo-founder Bryan McCannCo-founder

Redwood Research #115

Buck ShlegerisFounder

Epoch AI #116

Jaime SevillaFounder

Safe Superintelligence (SSI) #120

Daniel GrossCo-founder Daniel LevyCo-founder

Ndea #121

François CholletCo-founder Mike KnoopCo-founder

Keen Technologies #122

John CarmackFounder

Imbue #123

Kanjun QiuCo-founder Josh AlbrechtCo-founder

Adept #124

David LuanCo-founder

Magic #125

Eric SteinbergerCo-founder Sebastian De RoCo-founder

Numenta #127

Jeff HawkinsCo-founder Donna DubinskyCo-founder

Symbolica #128

George MorganFounder

Inception Labs #130

Stefano ErmonFounder

Hippocratic AI #132

Munjal ShahFounder

EvolutionaryScale #133

Alexander RivesFounder

Skild AI #134

Deepak PathakCo-founder Abhinav GuptaCo-founder

Covariant #135

Pieter AbbeelCo-founder Peter ChenCo-founder Rocky DuanCo-founder Tianhao ZhangCo-founder

Runway #137

Cristóbal ValenzuelaCo-founder Anastasis GermanidisCo-founder Alejandro MatamalaCo-founder

Transluce #139

Jacob SteinhardtCo-founder Sarah SchwettmannCo-founder

FAR.AI #140

Adam GleaveFounder

Conjecture #141

Connor LeahyCo-founder Sid BlackCo-founder Gabriel AlfourCo-founder

Alignment Research Center #142

Paul ChristianoFounder

Center for AI Safety #143

Dan HendrycksFounder

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