
The Reflection AI co-founder helped build AlphaGo, AlphaZero and MuZero. His next wager is that powerful AI agents should be open enough for others to inspect, adapt and run.
Mistral AI’s quiet co-founder spent years teaching machines to connect facts. Now he connects researchers, products and infrastructure - and keeps the expensive experiments moving.

Arcee AI began by making other people’s models more useful. Three years later, McQuade and a compact team trained a 400-billion-parameter model of their own - and turned a career spent translating technology into a wager on ownership.