THE METIS LIST

THE WORLD'S TOP AI RESEARCHERS

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Noam Shazeer

Google Deepmind

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CITATIONS: 262,612

UNDERGRAD: Duke University

PHD: NONE

PREVIOUS COMPANY: Character AI

DWARKESH APPEARANCE: YES

NEURIPS/ICLR/ICML: YES

INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Attention is All You Need, MoE, Character.AI

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Ilya Sutskever

SSI

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CITATIONS: 663,198

UNDERGRAD: University of Toronto

PHD: University of Toronto

PREVIOUS COMPANY: OpenAI

DWARKESH APPEARANCE: YES

NEURIPS/ICLR/ICML: YES

INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: AlexNet, Seq2seq, Deep Learning

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Demis Hassabis

Google Deepmind

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CITATIONS: 217,011

UNDERGRAD: University of Cambridge

PHD: University College London

PREVIOUS COMPANY: N/A

DWARKESH APPEARANCE: YES

NEURIPS/ICLR/ICML: YES

INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: DeepMind

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  Anthropic

  Dario Amodei

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Princeton University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 118,420

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Anthropic, Alignment, Scaling

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  Thinking Machines

  John Schulman

  

  Undergrad: Caltech

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: Anthropic

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 128,677

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning

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  OpenAI

  Mark Chen

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: Integral Technology LLC

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 104,996

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Codex, Multimodal

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  Thinking Machines

  Alec Radford

  

  Undergrad: Olin College

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 254,381

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GANs, GPT, CLIP

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  Anthropic

  Jared Kaplan

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Harvard University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 100,989

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scaling Laws, Constutional AI, Interpretability

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  Google Deepmind

  Shane Legg

  

  Undergrad: University of Waikato

  PhD: University of Lugano

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 55,427

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: DeepMind, AGI, Safety

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  Google Deepmind

  Jeff Dean

  

  Undergrad: University of Minnesota

  PhD: University of Washington

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 355,937

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow

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  OpenAI

  jakub pachocki

  

  Undergrad: Harvard University

  PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

  Previous Company: N/A

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: unknown

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning, OpenAI, Reasoning Models

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  University of Toronto

  Geoffrey Hinton

  

  Undergrad: University of Cambridge

  PhD: University of Edinburgh

  Previous Company: Google

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 937,866

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Backprop, Boltzmann Machine, Deep Learning

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  Anthropic

  Chris Olah

  

  Undergrad: NONE

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 93,822

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Mechanistic Interpretability

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  US AI Safety Institute

  Paul Christiano

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: University of California

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 33,266

  Dwarkesh Appearance: Yes

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: RLHF, Alignment, Safety, Scalable Oversight

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  OpenAI

  Noam Brown

  

  Undergrad: Rutgers University

  PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

  Previous Company: Meta

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 5,522

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: RL, Game Theory, Reasoning

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  Anthropic

  julian schrittwieser

  

  Undergrad: Vienna University of Technology

  PhD: N/A

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 61,361

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, MuZero

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  University of California

  Sergey Levine

  

  Undergrad: Stanford University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 188,972

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning, TRPO, SAC

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  Anthropic

  Tom Brown

  

  Undergrad: MIT

  PhD: NONE

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 90,707

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: GPT-3, Scaling Laws, RLHF

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  Thinking Machines

  andrew tulloch

  

  Undergrad: University of Sydney

  PhD: N/A

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 7,545

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: PyTorch, Inference, Quantization, Systems

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  xAI

  igor babuschkin

  

  Undergrad: TU Dortmund

  PhD: N/A

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 51,089

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Large-Scale Training

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  Anthropic

  nat mcaleese

  

  Undergrad: University of Cambridge

  PhD: University of Cambridge

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 4,670

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Scalable Oversight, LLM Critic Models, RLHF

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  OpenAI

  jerry tworek

  

  Undergrad: University of Warsaw

  PhD: N/A

  Previous Company: N/A

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 30,030

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Competitive Programming, Large Reasoning Models, Deep Reinforcement Learning

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  Eureka Labs

  Andrej Karpathy

  

  Undergrad: University of Toronto

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 74,068

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Computer Vision, cs231n, Tesla Autopilot

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  Anthropic

  Diederik P. Kingma

  

  Undergrad: Utrecht University

  PhD: University of Amsterdam

  Previous Company: Google Deepmind

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 313,576

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: VAEs, Adam Optimizer

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  Google Deepmind

  David Silver

  

  Undergrad: Christ's College, Cambridge

  PhD: University of Alberta

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 252,054

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: AlphaGo, Deep-Q, RL

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  Google

  Quoc V. Le

  

  Undergrad: Australian National University

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: NONE

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 349,370

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Seq2seq, Doc2Vec, CoT, Scaling

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  OpenAI

  wenda zhou

  

  Undergrad: Lycee International de St Germain

  PhD: Columbia University

  Previous Company: N/A

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 729

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: High-Dimensional Statistics, Compressed Sensing, Generative Modeling

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  University of California

  Pieter Abbeel

  

  Undergrad: KU Leuven

  PhD: Stanford University

  Previous Company: Covariant AI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 206,267

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Reinforcement Learning, TRPO, Apprenticeship Learning

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  Anthropic

  tristan hume

  

  Undergrad: University of Waterloo

  PhD: N/A

  Previous Company: N/A

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 8,015

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Interpretability, Performance Optimization

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  Thinking Machines

  horace he

  

  Undergrad: Cornell University

  PhD: N/A

  Previous Company: Meta

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 6,209

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: PyTorch, Kernel Auto-Tuning, Training Efficiency

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  Google DeepMind

  sebastian borgeaud

  

  Undergrad: University of Cambridge

  PhD: University of Cambridge

  Previous Company: N/A

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 29,525

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Retrieval-Augmented LMs, Chinchilla, Flamingo

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  Thinking Machines

  Alexander Kirillov

  

  Undergrad: Lomonosov Moscow State University

  PhD: Heidelberg University

  Previous Company: OpenAI

  NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML: Yes

  Citations: 51,203

  Dwarkesh Appearance: No

  INTERESTS AND NOTABLE WORKS: Segment Anything Models