AI Rankings · Digg

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The Digg AI rankings track people actively involved in artificial intelligence across research, startups, investing, engineering, and media. It's built from the X social graph, using roughly 9 million follow relationships to map how the AI community connects.

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

RESEARCH ENGINEER1353 AI ranked followers10.000 gravity

I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.

Jeff Dean

@JeffDean

RESEARCHER1269 AI ranked followers9.379 gravity

Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research. Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigta...

Ilya Sutskever

@ilyasut

FOUNDER1143 AI ranked followers8.448 gravity

SSI @SSI

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

ACADEMIC1102 AI ranked followers8.145 gravity

Professor at NYU & Executive Chairman at AMI Labs. Ex-Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Aw...

Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis

FOUNDER1052 AI ranked followers7.775 gravity

Nobel Laureate. Co-Founder & CEO @GoogleDeepMind - working on AGI. Solving disease @IsomorphicLabs. Trying to understand the fundamental nature of ...

Sam Altman

@sama

FOUNDER1041 AI ranked followers7.694 gravity

AI is cool i guess

Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian

RESEARCHER1010 AI ranked followers7.465 gravity

Co-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction

Geoffrey Hinton

@geoffreyhinton

AI SAFETY1009 AI ranked followers7.458 gravity

deep learning

Andrew Ng

@AndrewYNg

FOUNDER982 AI ranked followers7.258 gravity

Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. #ai #machinelearning, #deeplearning #MOOCs

Oriol Vinyals

@OriolVinyalsML

RESEARCHER961 AI ranked followers7.103 gravity

VP of Research & Deep Learning Lead, Google DeepMind. Gemini co-lead. Past: AlphaStar, AlphaFold, AlphaCode, WaveNet, seq2seq, distillation, TF.

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

RESEARCH ENGINEER955 AI ranked followers7.058 gravity

Recently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

Greg Brockman

@gdb

FOUNDER926 AI ranked followers6.844 gravity

President & Co-Founder @OpenAI

Fei-Fei Li

@drfeifei

FOUNDER921 AI ranked followers6.807 gravity

Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, #AI #SpatialIntelligence #GenAI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare

hardmaru

@hardmaru

FOUNDER911 AI ranked followers6.733 gravity

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

Chelsea Finn

@chelseabfinn

ACADEMIC904 AI ranked followers6.681 gravity

Asst Prof of CS & EE @Stanford Co-founder of Physical Intelligence @physical_int PhD from @Berkeley_EECS, EECS BS from @MIT

Miles Brundage

@Miles_Brundage

AI SAFETY898 AI ranked followers6.637 gravity

AI policy researcher, @lfschiavo wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI (https://www.averi.org/), Substacker, views ...

Sara Hooker

@sarahookr

FOUNDER897 AI ranked followers6.630 gravity

Building intelligence that evolves @adaption_ai. Built @Cohere_Labs, @GoogleBrain, @GoogleDeepmind. ML Efficiency, Multimodal\lingual.

Chris Olah

@ch402

AI SAFETY889 AI ranked followers6.571 gravity

Reverse engineering neural networks at @AnthropicAI. Previously @distillpub, OpenAI Clarity Team, Google Brain. Personal account.

Kyunghyun Cho

@kchonyc

ACADEMIC883 AI ranked followers6.526 gravity

a mediocre combination of a mediocre scientist and a mediocre advisor at @nyuniversity (@CILVRatNYU)

Christopher Manning

@chrmanning

ACADEMIC875 AI ranked followers6.467 gravity

Founder @stanfordnlp & cs224n—Senior Fellow @StanfordHAI—Prof. CS & Linguistics @Stanford—GP @aixventureshq—MTS @moonlake—Australian🇦🇺—Do #NLProc &...

Thomas Wolf

@Thom_Wolf

FOUNDER874 AI ranked followers6.460 gravity

Co-founder at @HuggingFace - moonshots - angel

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

RESEARCH ENGINEER860 AI ranked followers6.356 gravity

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

Lilian Weng

@lilianweng

FOUNDER856 AI ranked followers6.327 gravity

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab @thinkymachines; Ex-VP, AI Safety & robotics, applied research @OpenAI; Author of Lil'Log

Pieter Abbeel

@pabbeel

ACADEMIC853 AI ranked followers6.305 gravity

Berkeley & Amazon

Percy Liang

@percyliang

ACADEMIC848 AI ranked followers6.268 gravity

professor of computer science @Stanford @stanfordnlp, co-founder of @togethercompute, creator of http://marin.community, co-founder of @simile_ai, ...

Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

RESEARCH ENGINEER832 AI ranked followers6.149 gravity

Researcher at Cursor https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

RESEARCH ENGINEER830 AI ranked followers6.135 gravity

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o3 / o1 / 🍓 reasoning models

Nando de Freitas

@NandoDF

RESEARCHER819 AI ranked followers6.053 gravity

I seek to understand intelligence and awareness, and build AI aligned with compassion, freedom, universal human empowerment, and progress in law & ...

Jack Clark

@jackclarkSF

POLICY818 AI ranked followers6.046 gravity

@AnthropicAI, ONEAI OECD, co-chair @indexingai, writer @ http://importai.net Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed system...

AK

@_akhaliq

CREATOR815 AI ranked followers6.024 gravity

AI research paper tweets, ML @Gradio (acq. by @HuggingFace 🤗) dm for promo ,submit papers here: https://huggingface.co/papers/submit

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

RESEARCH ENGINEER814 AI ranked followers6.016 gravity

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st ...

Sam Bowman

@sleepinyourhat

AI SAFETY811 AI ranked followers5.994 gravity

AI alignment + LLMs at Anthropic. On leave from NYU. Views not employers'. No relation to @s8mb. Into @givingwhatwecan.

Sergey Levine

@svlevine

ACADEMIC791 AI ranked followers5.846 gravity

Associate Professor at UC Berkeley Co-founder, Physical Intelligence

François Chollet

@fchollet

RESEARCHER789 AI ranked followers5.831 gravity

Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

Eric Jang

@ericjang11

RESEARCHER786 AI ranked followers5.809 gravity

Hugo Larochelle

@hugo_larochelle

RESEARCHER782 AI ranked followers5.780 gravity

Mila Scientific Director. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex. Father of 4. // Directeur scientifique à Mila. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex...

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

ACADEMIC774 AI ranked followers5.721 gravity

Professor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷

Jan Leike

@janleike

AI SAFETY756 AI ranked followers5.588 gravity

AI research @AnthropicAI. Previously OpenAI & DeepMind. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes. Opinions aren't my employer's.

Jeremy Howard

@jeremyphoward

FOUNDER745 AI ranked followers5.506 gravity

🇦🇺 Co-founder: @AnswerDotAI/@FastDotAI ; Prev: Professor@UQ; @kaggle founding president; founder @fastmail/@enlitic/… https://jeremy.fast.ai/

Russ Salakhutdinov

@rsalakhu

ACADEMIC743 AI ranked followers5.492 gravity

UPMC Professor of Computer Science @ CMU, President Elect ICML Board, Ex-VP of Research @ Meta (Multimodal LLMs, AI Agents), ex-Director of AI at ...

Mira Murati

@miramurati

FOUNDER739 AI ranked followers5.462 gravity

Now building @thinkymachines. Previously CTO @OpenAI

Jason Wei

@_jasonwei

RESEARCHER732 AI ranked followers5.410 gravity

ai researcher @meta superintelligence labs, past: openai, google 🧠

Christian Szegedy

@ChrSzegedy

RESEARCHER716 AI ranked followers5.292 gravity

#deeplearning, #ai research scientist. Opinions are mine.

Alec Radford

@AlecRad

RESEARCH ENGINEER710 AI ranked followers5.248 gravity

Quoc Le

@quocleix

RESEARCHER709 AI ranked followers5.240 gravity

Google Fellow

Richard Socher

@RichardSocher

FOUNDER690 AI ranked followers5.100 gravity

CEO @recursive_si CEO @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Before: Stanford Adj Prof in AI/NLP, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind

Wojciech Zaremba

@woj_zaremba

AI SAFETY684 AI ranked followers5.055 gravity

AI resilience at OpenAI Foundation Co-Founder of OpenAI https://woj.world

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

RESEARCHER683 AI ranked followers5.048 gravity

Gemini/Veo Thinking, Senior Staff AE @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, Google Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opin...

Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

RESEARCHER677 AI ranked followers5.004 gravity

@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.

Sebastien Bubeck

@SebastienBubeck

RESEARCHER670 AI ranked followers4.952 gravity

I work on AI at OpenAI. Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.

roon

@tszzl

CREATOR666 AI ranked followers4.922 gravity

fellow creators the creator seeks

David Duvenaud

@DavidDuvenaud

ACADEMIC663 AI ranked followers4.900 gravity

Machine learning prof @UofT. Former team lead at Anthropic. Working on generative models, inference, & latent structure.

Lucas Beyer (bl16)

@giffmana

RESEARCHER646 AI ranked followers4.775 gravity

Researcher (now: Meta. ex: OpenAI, DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian. Anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/giffmana ✗DMs →...

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

CREATOR644 AI ranked followers4.760 gravity

Host of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

ACADEMIC644 AI ranked followers4.760 gravity

Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www

Tim Dettmers

@Tim_Dettmers

ACADEMIC642 AI ranked followers4.745 gravity

Creator of bitsandbytes. Professor @CarnegieMellon and Research Scientist @allen_ai . I blog about deep learning and PhD life at http://timdettmer...

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

OPEN SOURCE632 AI ranked followers4.671 gravity

Sharing AI research. Early work on AI (GPT-J, LAION, scaling, MoE). Ex ML PhD (GT) & Google.

Yejin Choi

@YejinChoinka

ACADEMIC631 AI ranked followers4.664 gravity

professor at Stanford, researcher at NVIDIA, adventurer at heart

James Bradbury

@jekbradbury

RESEARCH ENGINEER631 AI ranked followers4.664 gravity

Compute at @AnthropicAI! Previously JAX, TPUs, and LLMs at Google, MetaMind/@SFResearch, @Stanford Linguistics, @Caixin.

Dan Roy

@roydanroy

ACADEMIC630 AI ranked followers4.656 gravity

@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

@jaschasd

RESEARCHER630 AI ranked followers4.656 gravity

Member of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.

Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

RESEARCH ENGINEER628 AI ranked followers4.642 gravity

@ Google Deepmind. Past: @MetaAI, @OpenAI, @unitygames, @losalamosnatlab, @Princeton etc. Always hungry for intelligence.

Liam Fedus

@LiamFedus

FOUNDER628 AI ranked followers4.642 gravity

Building industrial-scale science at @periodiclabs Past: VP of Post-Training @OpenAI; Google Brain

Paul Graham

@paulg

FOUNDER626 AI ranked followers4.627 gravity

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

FOUNDER621 AI ranked followers4.590 gravity

http://Terafab.ai

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

ACADEMIC618 AI ranked followers4.568 gravity

Co-Founder @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @UCL_DARK, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

RESEARCH ENGINEER618 AI ranked followers4.568 gravity

@openai Past: - CTO & Co-Founder Thinking Machines Lab (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai - Research Scientist at Google Brain

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

EXECUTIVE617 AI ranked followers4.560 gravity

http://nat.org

Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

RESEARCH ENGINEER614 AI ranked followers4.538 gravity

Research @allen_ai, reasoning, open models, RL(VR/HF)... Contact via email. Writes @interconnectsai, @readsail Wrote The RLHF Book, 🏔️🏃‍♂️

clem 🤗

@ClementDelangue

FOUNDER613 AI ranked followers4.531 gravity

Co-founder & CEO @HuggingFace 🤗, the open and collaborative platform for AI builders

Mark Chen

@markchen90

RESEARCHER612 AI ranked followers4.523 gravity

Chief Research Officer at @OpenAI. Coach for the USA IOI Team.

Thomas G. Dietterich

@tdietterich

ACADEMIC612 AI ranked followers4.523 gravity

University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Oregon State Univ.; Former President, AAAI; Currently Chair CS Section of ArXiv

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

ACADEMIC605 AI ranked followers4.472 gravity

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

Zoubin Ghahramani

@ZoubinGhahrama1

ACADEMIC596 AI ranked followers4.405 gravity

VP Research, Google DeepMind, ex-head of Google Brain. Professor at University of Cambridge. Machine Learning Researcher. ex-Chief Scientist & VP o...

Sander Dieleman

@sedielem

RESEARCH ENGINEER590 AI ranked followers4.361 gravity

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen, Veo). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal...

Ben Recht

@beenwrekt

ACADEMIC589 AI ranked followers4.353 gravity

optimization. machine learning. uc berkeley. I blog at https://argmin.substack.com/ The world won't end.

Jürgen Schmidhuber

@SchmidhuberAI

ACADEMIC588 AI ranked followers4.346 gravity

Introduced basics of: P & T in ChatGPT, very deep learning, meta learning, neural distillation, GANs, etc. Co-authored most-cited AI paper of 20th ...

Sebastian Ruder

@seb_ruder

RESEARCHER586 AI ranked followers4.331 gravity

Research Scientist @AIatMeta MSL • Ex @Cohere @GoogleDeepMind

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

INVESTOR586 AI ranked followers4.331 gravity

You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser. That loser attitude, that loser premise makes no sense to me.

Logan Kilpatrick

@OfficialLoganK

ENGINEER581 AI ranked followers4.294 gravity

Member of technical staff, working on @GoogleAIStudio, the Gemini API, & Kaggle. My views!

Ofir Press

@OfirPress

ACADEMIC581 AI ranked followers4.294 gravity

I push the AI frontier by building tough benchmarks with amazing people. SWE-bench, SWE-agent, SciCode, AlgoTune. Postdoc @Princeton. PhD @nlpnoah ...

rohan anil

@_arohan_

RESEARCH ENGINEER580 AI ranked followers4.287 gravity

member of technical staff & co-founder of @coreautoai - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

RESEARCH ENGINEER579 AI ranked followers4.279 gravity

post-training lead at xAI. ex-google

Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang

EXECUTIVE578 AI ranked followers4.272 gravity

chief ai officer @meta, founder @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time

Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

RESEARCH ENGINEER576 AI ranked followers4.257 gravity

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

Ben Poole

@poolio

RESEARCHER565 AI ranked followers4.176 gravity

research scientist at google brain. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

Tri Dao

@tri_dao

ACADEMIC564 AI ranked followers4.169 gravity

Asst. Prof @PrincetonCS, Chief Scientist @togethercompute. Machine learning & systems.

Tengyu Ma

@tengyuma

ACADEMIC562 AI ranked followers4.154 gravity

Assistant prof. @ Stanford; Chief AI Scientist @ MongoDB; Former Co-founder/CEO of Voyage AI Working on ML, DL, RL, LLMs, and their theory.

Amanda Askell

@AmandaAskell

AI SAFETY560 AI ranked followers4.139 gravity

Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.

Edward Grefenstette

@egrefen

RESEARCHER557 AI ranked followers4.117 gravity

FR/US/GB AI/ML Person, Director of Research at @GoogleDeepMind, Honorary Professor at @UCL_DARK, @ELLISforEurope Fellow. All posts are personal.

Aakanksha Chowdhery

@achowdhery

RESEARCH ENGINEER555 AI ranked followers4.102 gravity

@Stanford @reflection_ai // Previously @GoogleDeepMind :: PaLM, Gemini // @MSFTResearch, @Princeton // views my own and subject to change

Been Kim

@_beenkim

RESEARCHER555 AI ranked followers4.102 gravity

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, PhD from MIT. Make machines empower people.

Max Welling

@wellingmax

ACADEMIC555 AI ranked followers4.102 gravity

Hal Daumé III

@haldaume3

ACADEMIC553 AI ranked followers4.087 gravity

http://haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI, NLP & ML. Director @trails_ai. Prof @umdCS, member of @CLIPumd @HCIL_umd, former @MSFTresearch. Fu...

Richard Sutton

@RichardSSutton

ACADEMIC552 AI ranked followers4.080 gravity

Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ Keen, UAlberta, Amii, http://Openmindresearch.org, The Royal Society, Tur...