AI researchers and builders
What AI researchers and builders recommend, in their own words, each with a link to where they said it.
- 34 thingsAndrej KarpathyAI researcher; founder of Eureka Labs, previously director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI.Claude Fable 5, Nano Banana, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Dyson Big+Quiet and 28 more
- 19 thingsVicki BoykisMachine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; previously at Mozilla.ai, Duo, Tumblr and Automattic, and author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.Cathedral of the Sea, Our Share of Night, The Tombs of Atuan, Demon Copperhead, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and 14 more
- 14 thingsJason LiuMachine learning engineer and consultant working on RAG and retrieval systems; author of the instructor library and of the Systematically Improving RAG course.Manta Sleep eye mask, Harman Kardon Aura Studio 3, Philips Hue, Wyatt harness boots, Yohji Yamamoto and 9 more
- 13 thingsBoris ChernySoftware engineer at Anthropic, creator of Claude Code and author of Programming TypeScript; blogs at borischerny.com.Claude, Fable 5.1, Claude Code Artifacts, Claude, Claude Opus 5 and 8 more
- 11 thingsChip HuyenEngineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering.Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Chaos: Making a New Science, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science and 6 more
- 11 thingsEugene YanMember of technical staff at Anthropic; previously led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, RecSys and engineering at eugeneyan.com.MacDown, Warp, Fish, Raycast, MX Ergo and 6 more
- 10 thingsHamel HusainMachine learning engineer and independent AI consultant; writes about LLM evaluation and tooling at hamel.dev.Hex, Next.js, Arize Phoenix, Amp, Cursor and 5 more
- 10 thingsHilary MasonData scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and later a machine-learning executive at Cloudera and Hidden Door.MacBook Air, iTerm2, Python, Moleskine, Muji .38mm pens and 5 more
- 10 thingsswyxWriter and developer; runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast and writes at swyx.io.Beeper, uv, Video Speed Controller, pnpm, podman and 5 more
- 9 thingsJeff DeanComputer scientist at Google; co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner and TensorFlow and led the Google Brain project.HP Z620, MacBook Air, Nexus 9, emacs, Google Docs and 4 more
- 8 thingsNeel NandaRuns the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; formerly at Anthropic.Think Python 2e, fast.ai, Deep Learning for Alignment syllabus, 3Blue1Brown (Essence of Linear Algebra), einops and 3 more
- 8 thingsThomas WolfCo-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Deep Learning and 3 more
- 7 thingsSebastian RaschkaAI research engineer working on LLMs; author of the Ahead of AI newsletter and of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).Ollama, North Mini Code, MLX, Codex, Claude Code and 2 more
- 6 thingsSebastian RuderResearch scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; previously led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind.Deep Learning, Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition, Machine Learning (Coursera), fast.ai Deep Learning courses, fast.ai NLP course and 1 more
- 4 thingsNathan LambertMachine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.A Safe Path to Open Weights, Are Open Models Catching Up?, How far behind are open models?, On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
- 3 thingsJack ClarkCo-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes the Import AI newsletter.The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations, The Hugging Face attack surprised me, AIs are not people
- 2 thingsChristopher OlahInterpretability researcher and co-founder at Anthropic.The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, You and Your Research
- 2 thingsFrançois CholletAI researcher; creator of the Keras deep learning library and of the ARC-AGI benchmark, and co-founder of Ndea.GPT-6 Astra, Deep Learning with Python
- 2 thingsLex FridmanAI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast.The Evidence for Modern Physics, ElevenLabs
- 2 thingsMiles BrundageIndependent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.How Big Things Get Done, Policy Entrepreneurship at the White House: Getting Things Done in Large-Scale Governmental Organizations
- 1 thingGary MarcusCognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.The Marketoonist
- 1 thingSasha RushMachine-learning researcher at Cursor; formerly professor at Cornell/Harvard and researcher at Hugging Face.video on distilling Mamba from Llama (“The Mamba in the Llama”)
- 1 thingYoshua BengioDeep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI