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Clément Delangue: Building a shared home for machine learning
Clément Delangue’s Hugging Face makes shared infrastructure and community part of the AI story. The platform’s value extends beyond any single model.
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Amnon Shashua: Connecting AI research and company formation
Amnon Shashua’s company-building history spans different AI markets, each with its own standards for useful evidence.
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Aravind Srinivas: Reimagining the search-and-answer experience
Aravind Srinivas’s Perplexity turns a familiar activity—looking for information—into a conversation about answers and their sources.
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Harrison Chase: Building the tools around language-model applications
Harrison Chase’s LangChain began as a small project around language models and grew into tools for building and operating agents.
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Bhavish Aggarwal: Building an AI company for Indian use cases
Krutrim’s founding pitch puts Indian languages and local computing needs inside the same company narrative.
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Michael Truell: Building AI into the code editor
Michael Truell’s writing about Cursor traces a shift from code suggestions toward agents that complete larger units of software work.
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Jerry Liu: Connecting models with external data
Jerry Liu’s LlamaIndex work focuses on the information that models need but do not automatically possess. Documents and retrieval are central to that…
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Vivek Raghavan: Building for India’s languages and institutions
Sarvam’s co-founder story centres on building AI for the languages and institutions that broad global benchmarks can overlook.
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Varun Mohan: The founder journey behind an AI coding platform
Varun Mohan’s Codeium and Windsurf chapter illustrates how quickly AI coding companies can change form while their products continue evolving.
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Andrew Ng: Building an ecosystem for applied AI learning
Andrew Ng’s education work makes a useful case study in turning technical knowledge into practical capability.
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Pratyush Kumar: Taking language research toward practical deployment
Pratyush Kumar’s Sarvam chapter illustrates how language research becomes a set of decisions about access, deployment and everyday use.
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Amjad Masad: Lowering the barrier from idea to software
Amjad Masad’s Replit work follows a persistent question: how much of the effort between an idea and working software can a development environment…
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