Maxim Serebryakov is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sanas, a Palo Alto-based AI company building the world's first real-time Speech Understanding Platform. Born in New York and raised in Russia, Serebryakov co-founded Sanas at Stanford with two fellow international students after witnessing a friend face accent discrimination in a contact center. The company's AI modulates accents in real time while preserving a speaker's voice, tone, and emotion - serving 150,000+ live agents across 39 countries. Sanas has raised $149.2M in total funding, including a $65M Series B led by Quadrille Capital in February 2025.
Jonathan Siddharth is the CEO and Co-founder of Turing, a $2.2 billion AI-powered talent and AGI infrastructure company based in San Francisco. A Stanford CS alum with a lifelong obsession with artificial intelligence, he built his first neural network as a teenager to drive a simulated car. After founding and selling Rover (an AI content discovery app) for ~$30M, he launched Turing in 2018 to build the world's largest intelligent developer talent cloud. Today, Turing partners with frontier AI labs including OpenAI to train and improve the world's most capable language models, and counts Fortune 500 companies among its 900+ enterprise clients. He has raised $334M in total funding and led Turing to over $167M in annualized revenue.
Kevin Guo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hive, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that built what may be the world's largest human-labeled training dataset - over 1 billion labeled items - and deployed those models as cloud APIs used by Reddit, BeReal, and more than 15 of the top social platforms for content moderation. A Stanford triple-degree graduate (biology BA, mathematical/computational sciences BS, computer science MS), Guo co-founded Kiwi - a social Q&A app that grew to 100 million users - before pivoting that team into Hive in 2017. Hive reached unicorn status with a $2 billion valuation after its $85 million Series D in April 2021, and Guo has become one of the most prominent voices on AI-generated content detection and the fight against deepfakes.
Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian-American AI researcher and educator who co-founded OpenAI, led Tesla's Autopilot AI as Director of AI from 2017-2022, and now runs Eureka Labs, an AI-native education startup. He coined 'vibe coding' (Collins Dictionary 2025 Word of the Year), created the legendary Stanford CS 231n course, and builds open-source tools like nanoGPT that have become essential references for the global ML community. His YouTube 'Zero to Hero' series and multi-hour deep dives have demystified deep learning for millions.
Ilya Sutskever is a co-creator of AlexNet, the 2012 deep learning breakthrough that launched the modern AI era, and a co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI. After a dramatic board vote to remove Sam Altman in November 2023, he departed OpenAI in 2024 and co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) — a $32B company with roughly 50 employees and a single stated mission: build artificial general superintelligence that is provably safe, with no commercial products until that goal is achieved.
Dan Hendrycks is the Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), the UC Berkeley PhD who created MMLU - the benchmark that shaped how the world measures AI intelligence - and invented GELU, the activation function running inside BERT, GPT, and virtually every major AI model. From a rural evangelical town in Missouri, he's become one of AI safety's most consequential voices, advising Elon Musk's xAI and Scale AI while sounding alarms about civilizational-scale AI risk, accepting $1/year to keep his independence intact.
Azalia Mirhoseini is an Iranian-born AI researcher, Stanford professor, and co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence - a frontier AI lab valued at $4 billion that uses AI to design better chips, which in turn train stronger AI. Best known for AlphaChip, the deep reinforcement learning system that now designs Google's TPUs and has compressed chip floorplanning from months to hours, she also co-invented the Mixture-of-Experts architecture underpinning GPT, Claude, and Gemini. With 20,000+ citations and a $335M-funded startup launched in under four months, she is closing the recursive loop between artificial intelligence and the hardware it runs on.