Azalia Mirhoseini and Anna Goldie
Built the AI that lays out Google's TPU chips together at Google Brain, moved to Anthropic and then Google DeepMind together, and co-founded Ricursive Intelligence in 2025.
Where they worked, studied and met
The companies and universities the 100 have in common, and the people whose careers crossed before they ended up on the same list.
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Ten of them worked at OpenAI
Where they work now. Three left to found Anthropic together, and three more started their own: Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab and METR.
OpenAI10 of the 100 worked here
Still at OpenAI
Now at Anthropic
Now at Thinking Machines Lab
Now at Safe Superintelligence
Now at METR
Sources (18)
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Their careers crossed
People on the list who worked at the same organization, from Bell Labs in the 1990s to Sequoia today. Each pair cites its sources.
Dario Amodei and Ilya Sutskever
Colleagues at OpenAI from 2016 to 2020. Each has since left to run a rival lab: Anthropic and Safe Superintelligence.
Daniel Nadler and Mikey Shulman
Shulman was head of machine learning at Kensho, the AI company Nadler co-founded, before starting the AI music app Suno.
Marian Croak and Yann LeCun
Both worked at AT&T's Bell Labs through the 1990s, long before either worked on AI at Google or Meta.
Elon Musk and Mira Murati
Murati was a product manager on the Model X at Musk's Tesla from 2013 to 2016, then joined OpenAI, which Musk had co-founded.
Elon Musk and Michael Truell
Cursor, the coding tool Truell co-founded, became part of Musk's SpaceX in 2026.
Greg Brockman and Daniela Amodei
Overlapped at Stripe, where he was CTO, and again at OpenAI before she left to co-found Anthropic.
Sam Altman and Geoff Ralston
Ralston followed Altman as president of Y Combinator in 2019, when Altman left to run OpenAI.
Ali Ghodsi and Andy Konwinski
Co-founded Databricks in 2013. Konwinski went on to co-found Perplexity as well.
Yann LeCun and Joëlle Pineau
Worked side by side in Meta's AI research lab until both left in 2025, she for Cohere and he to found his own lab.
Arvind Krishna and Darío Gil
Gil spent two decades at IBM Research, which he led, before becoming the US Energy Department's under secretary for science.
Pat Grady and Alfred Lin
Run Sequoia Capital together, one of the biggest investors in AI companies.
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Where they have worked
13 worked at Google or DeepMind at some point, more than at any other company. Internships and university posts are not counted.
Google or DeepMindGoogle Brain, Google Research and DeepMind
OpenAI
Meta
Anthropic
Amazon
IBM
Every career and its sources are on each person's profile.
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Where they studied
13 went to Stanford, though two of them (Sam Altman, Elon Musk) left without a degree from it. 34 of the 100 have a PhD.
Stanford University
Harvard University
MIT
UC Berkeley
Columbia University
Princeton University
Counts anyone who studied there, including those who left without a degree; a person counts once per university.