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A living database of people and organizations at the frontier of the technology. Find and explore researchers, companies, nonprofits, and more.
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People are selected for perceived research influence, consequential operating roles, public prominence, and other forms of notability. Organizations are included for original contributions to AI technology or because they are significant in the backgrounds of people we track.
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The ten most-cited AI researchers in our monthly ranking. Explore the full list in our Top 50.
Frontier Labs
Labs developing some of the most capable general-purpose AI models.
Top AI safety organizations
An editorial selection of influential organizations advancing AI evaluations, technical safety, governance, forecasting, and public oversight.
Top European AI companies
An editorial selection of leading Europe-headquartered AI companies across models, infrastructure, applications, autonomy, defence, and science.
Attention Is All You Need
The eight authors of the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture underlying modern language models.
Biotech
An editorial selection of notable companies using AI to discover medicines and design therapeutic proteins.
World models
Companies building systems that learn, simulate, and act through models of the world.
The AlphaGo lineage
Researchers behind AlphaGo and the planning systems that followed it.
Companies founded by OpenAI alumni
AI companies founded or co-founded by former OpenAI researchers, engineers, and leaders.
Leading Chinese AI labs
Organizations shaping China's frontier model ecosystem across language, reasoning, multimodal systems, and AI products.
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A concise, sourced briefing of notable hires, departures, new organizations, and additions to Turing Tree.