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Softmax

Emmett Shear co-founded Justin.tv, which became Twitch — one of the defining consumer products of the 2010s. He ran OpenAI for four days in November 2023 during the board crisis. In 2024 he founded…

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Anduril Industries

Palmer Luckey founded Oculus at 19 and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. He was fired in 2017. He founded Anduril the same year. By 2026 Anduril is one of the most valuable private defence…

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Anthropic

Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela and five other OpenAI researchers. Five years later Anthropic is a top-three frontier lab and Claude is one of the most-used AI…

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Cohere

Aidan Gomez was 20 years old and interning at Google Brain when he became one of the eight authors of the transformer paper that reshaped modern AI. Six years later he co-founded Cohere with a…

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World Labs

Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet, catalysed the modern computer-vision revolution, ran Google Cloud's AI organisation, co-directed Stanford HAI, and in 2024 founded World Labs to build spatial-intelligence…

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Perplexity

Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with a specific thesis: the answer engine, not the link engine, was the next default. Three years later Perplexity is one of the most-cited AI…

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