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Bloop co-founder whose work moved from AI code search to planning and reviewing coding agents, and whose public arguments examine what improving models leave for application builders.
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Anastasis Germanidis
Runway co-founder and co-CEO working on generative video, creative tools and interactive world models.
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Sander Dieleman
Machine-learning researcher and generative-model coauthor whose work spans raw audio, continuous diffusion for language, and explanations of how image diffusion builds structure.
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Alex Dimakis
Researcher working on training-data curation, open reasoning models, and generative methods for learning and reconstruction from incomplete measurements.
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Menlo Ventures
A venture capital firm investing across AI models, infrastructure and applications, with an Anthropic partnership and enterprise AI market research.
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Fast.ai
A deep-learning research and teaching lab founded by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas, connecting free courses with open-source software and methods for working with less data and compute.
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