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Thinker

Alec Radford

American AI researcher who was a key contributor at OpenAI — co-authoring the foundational GPT and CLIP papers — and is one of the most influential researchers in the development of large language models and multimodal AI.

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Anna Patterson

American computer scientist and former Google VP of engineering, known for leading Google's search infrastructure work and later co-founding Apprente (acquired by McDonald's) and Argo AI work.

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Institution

DeepMind

British AI research company co-founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman in 2010 — acquired by Google in 2014 — which built AlphaGo (defeated world Go champion), AlphaFold (solved protein folding), and AlphaZero (mastered chess/shogi/Go from scratch).

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Sergey Brin

Russian-American computer scientist and co-founder of Google, responsible for much of the early algorithmic and infrastructure work that made Google's search engine technically superior.

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Institution

Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute

Stanford University's interdisciplinary AI research institute — focused on the development and deployment of human-centered AI — producing influential AI Index reports and research on AI ethics, policy, and safety.

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Stuart Russell

British-American computer scientist at UC Berkeley, co-author of the standard AI textbook (Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach), and author of Human Compatible — which argues for a new paradigm of AI development based on uncertainty about human preferences.

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