-
Victor Riparbelli: Rethinking how organizations make video
Victor Riparbelli’s Synthesia treats video as an organisational communication tool. That focus changes what matters in an AI-video product.
-
Daniel De Freitas: Building a product around open-ended conversation
Daniel De Freitas’s Character.AI chapter highlights the difficult work of turning open-ended dialogue into a usable consumer product.
-
Fei-Fei Li: Building toward spatial intelligence
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs brings the AI conversation toward space, objects and interaction. The company’s ambition reaches beyond generating a flat picture.
-
Joshua Xu: Building tools for video communication
Joshua Xu’s HeyGen focuses on making video communication easier to produce. The challenge is preserving clarity and identity as creation becomes more accessible.
-
Yi Tay: Bringing research experience into a multimodal startup
Yi Tay’s move between research and startup building shows why an AI career rarely fits a permanent founder label.
-
Mira Murati: Designing a new AI research organization
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab puts customisation and understanding at the centre of its stated mission. The organisational design is part of the…
-
Mati Staniszewski: Turning voice research into a product platform
Mati Staniszewski’s ElevenLabs story connects voice technology with the work of deploying it in real organisations.
-
Dani Yogatama: Building models for more than one kind of input
Reka co-founder Dani Yogatama’s background connects language research with a company working across different kinds of input.
-
Ilya Sutskever: A company organized around one technical ambition
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence is organised around a narrowly stated mission. That focus makes the company’s structure as interesting as its public roadmap.
-
Aidan Gomez: Bringing language models into enterprise workflows
Aidan Gomez’s Cohere work puts language models inside enterprise information systems. That setting makes retrieval, deployment and evaluation central to the story.
-
Yoav Shoham: Turning language research into AI products
Yoav Shoham’s AI21 profile connects academic work on intelligent systems with the demands of practical language products.
-
Arthur Mensch: Building a European AI model company
Arthur Mensch’s Mistral story sits at the intersection of model research, European infrastructure and the practical needs of AI users.
INDEPENDENT MINDS. INTELLIGENT COVERAGE.
AI, ONLY. ALL ANGLES.
Founders
The people behind the products. Source-based profiles of the ideas, choices and businesses shaping AI.