We hosted our annual AI Pioneers Summit this week to celebrate the technical leaders at the forefront of deploying AI and LLMs in production today! 🚀
Over 170 notable product and engineering execs from 136 companies gathered to celebrate this year’s award winners:
***Expanding the Frontier of LLMs***
Olivier Godement (@oliviergodement), Head of Product, API, Open AI
***Innovation in Open Source AI***
Kari Ann Briski (@karibriski), VP Gen AI Software, Nvidia
Sergey Edunov (@edunov), Director of Engineering, Gen AI, Meta
Lin Qiao (@lqiao), Founder and CEO, Fireworks AI
***Full Stack AI Innovation***
Ramine Roane, CVP for AI, AMD
Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm), CEO, Modular AI
Vipul Ved Prakash (@vipulved), CEO, Together AI
***Scaling AI Agents***
Mike Conover (@vagabondjack), Founder and CEO, Brightwave
Aatish Nayak (@nayakkayak), Chief Product Officer, Harvey AI
Subho Mukherjee (@subho_mpi), Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Hippocratic AI
***Creating ROI in Gen AI***
T.R. Vishwanath, Founder and CTO, Glean
Aparna Chennapragada (@aparnacd), CVP, Microsoft
Clara Shih (@clarashih), CEO, Salesforce AI
***Gen AI Exit of the Year***
Yaron Singer, Founder and CEO, Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco)
Jeetu Patel (@jpatel41), Chief Product Officer, Cisco
DJ Sampath (@djsampath), VP of AI Products, Cisco
***Consumer AI Products of the Year***
Tony Jebara (@TonyJebara), VP of Engineering and Head of AI/ML, Spotify
Uzma Barlaskar (@uzmabarlaskar), Director of Generative AI, WhatsApp
***Founders' Choice Award: Building Our Silicon Brain***
Drew Houston (@drewhouston), Founder and CEO, Dropbox
Hiten Shah (@hnshah), Founder and CEO, Nira (acquired by Dropbox)
This year we also announced the launch of "Win AI", our community for women pioneers in AI that are paving the way for the next generation of female technologists 🔥
We look forward to celebrating and expanding this community with @latentspacepod@swyx@FanaHOVA in the years to come!
I've spent the past ~3 weeks going through the entire history of deep learning and reimplementing all the core breakthroughs.
It has completely changed my beliefs about deep learning progress and where we're headed.
Progress tracker in thread (all resources at the end) 👇
@suchisaria Another gap I see - way to validate training data is representative of overall population - maybe already covered in one of the frameworks you mentioned. But from an AI safety perspective, it’s something that I worry about quite a bit
Kobe on Gianna: “The best thing that happens is when we go out and fans come up to me, and she'll be standing next to me ..
They’ll be like “you gotta have a boy, have soembody carry on the legacy... she’s like, “oh, I got this!”