Top AI Influencers to Follow
116 AI people worth following, grouped by what they actually do.
Lab Leaders & Founders
The people running the frontier labs and AI companies.
- Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI, leading the development of ChatGPT and GPT series models.
- Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude.
- Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc; former OpenAI chief scientist.
- Greg Brockman
Co-founder and President of OpenAI, leading product and the infrastructure behind ChatGPT.
- Demis Hassabis
CEO of Google DeepMind, 2024 Nobel Prize laureate for AlphaFold protein structure prediction.
- Mira Murati
Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab; former OpenAI CTO.
- Matt Shumer
CEO of HyperWrite/OthersideAI, prolific AI builder and investor.
- Aravind Srinivas
CEO of Perplexity AI, building the future of AI-powered search.
- Guillermo Rauch
CEO of Vercel and creator of v0, pioneering AI-assisted web development.
- Emad Mostaque
Founder and former CEO of Stability AI; vocal advocate for open and decentralized AI.
- Clément Delangue
CEO of Hugging Face, champion of open-source AI and collaborative model sharing.
- Logan Kilpatrick
Product lead for Google AI Studio and the Gemini API; former OpenAI developer relations lead.
- Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and CSO of Hugging Face, key architect of the open-source AI ecosystem.
- Alex Albert
Head of Claude Relations at Anthropic, sharing insights on Claude development.
- Jack Clark
Anthropic co-founder and author of Import AI newsletter covering AI research.
- Lukas Biewald
CEO of Weights & Biases and host of Gradient Dissent podcast, interviewing top ML practitioners.
Researchers & Scientists
The minds shaping what models can actually do.
- Andrej Karpathy
Former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, creating deep-dive neural network tutorials.
- Yann LeCun
Turing Award winner and Meta Chief AI Scientist, pioneered CNNs, outspoken AI commentary.
- Jim Fan
NVIDIA senior research scientist working on foundation agents, known for insightful research threads.
- François Chollet
Creator of Keras, known for sharp critiques of AI hype and deep learning with Python.
- Fei-Fei Li
Stanford professor, founding director of Stanford HAI, pioneer of ImageNet.
- Lilian Weng
Co-founder at Thinking Machines Lab and author of the widely-read Lil'Log; former OpenAI VP of Research.
- Riley Goodside
World's first Staff Prompt Engineer (Scale AI), now at DeepMind.
- Mark Chen
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, leading frontier model research.
- Jason Wei
Research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs (formerly OpenAI), known for chain-of-thought prompting.
- Nathan Lambert
AI researcher at Allen Institute, author of Interconnects newsletter on RLHF.
- Pranav Rajpurkar
Harvard associate professor who built CheXNet (AI chest X-ray diagnosis) and co-founded a2z Radiology AI, now researching clinical AI agents and medical foundation models.
- Blake Richards
McGill/Mila associate professor and Google Research Scientist whose lab works at the intersection of computational neuroscience and deep learning, studying biologically plausible learning rules.
- Frank Willett
Stanford HHMI professor and co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab, setting world records for brain-to-text communication speed in people with paralysis.
Educators & Explainers
Learn how AI works — from first principles to frontier papers.
- freeCodeCamp
Full-length free courses on Python, ML, deep learning, and AI engineering.
- 3Blue1Brown — Grant Sanderson
Visually stunning math and AI explainers using custom animation engine Manim.
- NetworkChuck — Chuck Keith
IT educator covering networking, cybersecurity, and local AI model deployment.
- Fireship — Jeff Delaney
Fast-paced '100 seconds' tech explainers covering AI, web dev, and programming trends.
- DeepLearning.AI
Structured AI courses, expert interviews, and MLOps tutorials from Andrew Ng.
- The Coding Train — Daniel Shiffman
Creative coding with p5.js covering neural networks, genetic algorithms, and AI art.
- Two Minute Papers — Károly Zsolnai-Fehér
Enthusiastically explaining cutting-edge AI research papers in short, accessible videos.
- Krish Naik
Comprehensive ML, deep learning, and NLP tutorials with over 1.4M subscribers.
- sentdex — Harrison Kinsley
Python and machine learning educator with hands-on AI programming tutorials.
- Tech With Tim — Tim Ruscica
Python programming and AI project tutorials including agents and ML models.
- Corey Schafer
In-depth Python tutorials essential for AI and data science development.
- StatQuest — Josh Starmer
Making statistics, machine learning, and neural network math friendly and intuitive.
- Andrew Ng
Co-founder of Coursera, former head of Google Brain and Baidu AI, DeepLearning.AI founder.
- Siraj Raval
Entertaining AI education inspiring developers to build with ML and neural networks.
- AI Explained
Deeply researched, nuanced analysis of AI capabilities, benchmarks, and safety research.
- Welch Labs
Beautifully animated conceptual deep dives into AI, math, and neural networks.
- Nicholas Renotte
IBM data scientist creating hands-on ML and computer vision tutorials.
- Tina Huang
Data scientist creating content on AI tools, productivity, and machine learning career guidance.
- Ken Jee
Data science career advice, portfolio reviews, and ML project walkthroughs.
- Yannic Kilcher
In-depth paper reviews and commentary on ML research and industry drama.
- Jeremy Howard
Co-founder of fast.ai, democratizing deep learning through practical courses and the fastai library.
- Daniel Bourke
Self-taught ML engineer sharing learn-in-public tutorials on PyTorch and deep learning.
- Sebastian Raschka
ML researcher and author, writing detailed LLM and deep learning tutorials and guides.
- What's AI — Louis-François Bouchard
AI research explainers making complex papers and concepts accessible.
- Bycloud
AI research paper breakdowns and practical ML implementation tutorials.
- Umar Jamil
Detailed code-along implementations of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and diffusion models.
- Abhishek Thakur
World's first quadruple Kaggle Grandmaster, creating practical ML and NLP tutorials.
- Aleksa Gordić
Deep-dive paper implementations and transformer architecture walkthroughs.
- Decoder
Accessible explainers on AI research papers, model architectures, and emerging AI trends.
- Code Emporium
Visual explainers of transformers, attention mechanisms, and deep learning.
- Arxiv Insights
Clear visual walkthroughs of influential ML and AI research papers.
- Jay Alammar
Creator of legendary visual guides to transformers, BERT, and GPT — essential ML learning resources.
- Jordan Harrod
Harvard-MIT researcher covering AI ethics, brain-computer interfaces, and algorithmic impact.
AI Engineering & Open Source
Builders shipping the tools, frameworks, and open models.
- AI Jason
Practical tutorials on AI agents, RAG pipelines, and building applications with LLMs.
- Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering techniques, LLM application development, and AI automation workflows.
- James Briggs
Tutorials on vector databases, RAG, LangChain, and building production AI applications.
- Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette, prolific blogger covering LLM tools, prompt engineering, and practical AI.
- Cole Medin
Building AI agents, n8n automations, and local AI tool integrations with hands-on tutorials.
- Dave Ebbelaar
Data scientist teaching practical AI agent development, LLM workflows, and Python-based AI apps.
- Corbin Brown
Deep AI coding and automation tutorials bridging beginner to building with AI.
- AssemblyAI
Developer-focused tutorials on speech AI, NLP, and building with LLMs.
- Shawn Wang (swyx)
Co-host of Latent Space podcast, AI engineer advocate exploring the AI engineering stack.
- Peter Steinberger
Founder of PSPDFKit and creator of the open-source agent OpenClaw; joined OpenAI in 2026 to bring AI agents to more people.
- Maxime Labonne
Hands-on LLM fine-tuning guides and the popular open-source LLM course on GitHub.
- Harrison Chase
Creator of LangChain, the most popular framework for building LLM-powered applications and agents.
- Sam Witteveen
Google Developer Expert in ML, tutorials on LangChain, Google AI tools, and practical LLM apps.
- Eric Hartford
Open-source LLM fine-tuner known for uncensored model variants and the Dolphin series.
- Elvis Saravia
Creator of the Prompt Engineering Guide, one of the most popular resources for LLM prompt techniques.
- Georgi Gerganov
Creator of llama.cpp and GGML, enabling efficient local LLM inference on consumer hardware.
- Hamel Husain
Ex-GitHub and Airbnb ML engineer sharing production AI insights.
Tools, Demos & Creators
Keep up with the newest AI tools, apps, and workflows.
- Kevin Stratvert
Ex-Microsoft PM teaching AI tools, productivity software, and automation workflows.
- Matt Wolfe
AI tools curator running FutureTools.io, covering the latest AI products, news, and workflows.
- Skill Leap AI — Saj Adib
Fast-paced tutorials on the latest AI tools, APIs, and generative AI workflows.
- Nate Herk
Ex-Goldman Sachs analyst teaching AI automation, n8n workflows, and AI agency building.
- The AI Advantage — Igor Pogany
Practical AI tool tutorials and workflow automation for productivity and business.
- Wes Roth
AI commentary covering AGI developments, safety, and societal implications of artificial intelligence.
- Matthew Berman
Hands-on reviews of the latest LLMs, AI tools, and local model setups.
- The AI Grid
Daily coverage of the newest AI tools with in-depth demos and breakdowns.
- Curious Refuge
Premier channel for AI filmmaking, creative video generation, and AI art.
- Ruben Hassid
Founder of EasyGen, creates beginner-friendly AI content and tutorials.
- All About AI
Practical AI tool tutorials, local LLM setups, and AI-powered creative workflows.
- World of AI
Covering the latest open-source AI models, tools, and step-by-step installation tutorials.
- AI Foundations — Drake Surach
Simplifies AI for creators and entrepreneurs with vibe coding and agent tutorials.
- Riley Brown
AI creator economy expert teaching how to build and monetize with AI tools.
- Alex Finn
No-code AI app building tutorials, grew a $300K ARR AI app.
- AI Andy
AI tool reviews, tutorials, and practical guides for generative AI products.
Podcasts, Newsletters & Analysts
The best signal on where AI is headed.
- Lex Fridman
MIT researcher hosting long-form interviews with leading minds in AI, science, and technology.
- Zain Kahn
Creator of Superhuman AI newsletter with 1M+ subscribers, sharing practical prompts.
- Ethan Mollick
Wharton professor studying AI's impact on work and education, author of Co-Intelligence.
- Rowan Cheung
Founder of The Rundown AI, one of the fastest-growing daily AI newsletters.
- Kevin Roose
NYT tech columnist and co-host of Hard Fork podcast covering AI and tech.
- Pascal Bornet
AI author and keynote speaker focusing on human-AI relationship and ethics of automation.
- Allie K. Miller
AI entrepreneur, former Amazon AI head, focused on AI business strategy and investing.
- Casey Newton
Platformer newsletter author and co-host of Hard Fork podcast on NYT.
- Robert Scoble
Tech futurist covering AI, spatial computing, and emerging tech trends.
- Dwarkesh Patel
Host of Dwarkesh Podcast with in-depth AI leader interviews.
- David Shapiro
Exploring autonomous agents, cognitive architectures, and philosophical aspects of AI.
- Elad Gil
Author of High Growth Handbook, co-host of No Priors AI podcast.
- Sarah Guo
Founder of Conviction VC and co-host of No Priors podcast covering AI startups.
- Ben Tossell
Founder of Ben's Bites, the leading daily AI newsletter for builders.
- Nathaniel Whittemore
Host of The AI Daily Brief podcast, daily AI news analysis.
- Michael Spencer
Author of AI Supremacy newsletter covering AI industry trends and future of work.
- Alessio Fanelli
Co-host of Latent Space podcast for AI engineers, partner at Decibel Partners.
- Sam Charrington
Host of TWIML AI Podcast covering machine learning and AI.
- Dan Faggella
CEO of Emerj and host of AI in Business podcast.
- Craig S. Smith
Host of Eye on AI podcast covering AI ethics and applications.
- Eric Topol
Scripps Research cardiologist and EVP, author of "Deep Medicine", running Ground Truths — the most widely-read biomedical AI newsletter with 200K+ subscribers.