AI angels

I asked people: "who are the best active angels in AI?" I asked people to focus on angels that work in frontier AI. Many but not all of the picks fit that.
VotesPersonAffiliationsLocation
5 Jeff DeanJeff Dean
GDM
SF
4 Umesh KhannaUmesh Khanna
xAI
SF
3 Sholto DouglasSholto Douglas
Anthropicex-GDM
SF
3 Thomas WolfThomas Wolf
Hugging Face
Paris
2 Daniel ChangDaniel Chang
ex-Mercor
SF
2 Elad GilElad Gil
Gil Capital
SF
2 Logan KilpatrickLogan Kilpatrick
GDMex-OpenAI
SF
2 Michael ChenMichael Chen
Applied Computeex-Scale AI
SF
2 Nat FriedmanNat Friedman
Metaex-AI Grant
SF
2 Noam BrownNoam Brown
OpenAIex-Meta AI
SF
2 Philip BogdanovPhilip Bogdanov
ex-OpenAI
Palo Alto
2 Sarah ZengSarah Zeng
Braintrustex-Character.AI
SF
2 Tim LuongTim Luong
Cartesiaex-Scale AI
SF
1 Abhishek BhardwajAbhishek Bhardwaj
OpenAIex-Replit
SF
1 Alex AtallahAlex Atallah
OpenRouter
NYC
1 Andrew HoAndrew Ho
OpenAI
SF
1 Andrew TanAndrew Tan
TLDR AI
SF
1 Armin HamrahArmin Hamrah
OpenAI
SF
1 Auriel WrightAuriel Wright
GDMex-Google Brain
SF
1 Avichal GargAvichal Garg
Electric Capital
SF
1 Chirag MahapatraChirag Mahapatra
Mercor
SF
1 Chris FreglyChris Fregly
ex-Databricks
SF
1 Daniel LevineDaniel Levine
OpenAI
SF
1 Daniel McAuleyDaniel McAuley
OpenAI
SF
1 David VélezDavid Vélez
Nubank
São Paulo
1 Devendra ChaplotDevendra Chaplot
SpaceXex-Thinking Machines Labex-Mistral AIex-Meta AI
Palo Alto
1 Dwarkesh PatelDwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Podcast
SF
1 Dylan PatelDylan Patel
SemiAnalysis
SF
1 Eric GlymanEric Glyman
Ramp
NYC
1 Felix NenzFelix Nenz
Zoox
Menlo Park
1 Kevin YangKevin Yang
Fleet
SF
1 Kory MathewsonKory Mathewson
GDM
Montreal
1 Laura ModianoLaura Modiano
OpenAI
London
1 Lauren WagnerLauren Wagner
ARC Prize Foundation
SF
1 Luke DragoLuke Drago
Thinking Machinesex-Workshop Labs
SF
1 Nicholas MarwellNicholas Marwell
Anthropic
SF
1 Omer PerchikOmer Perchik
Any.do
Tel Aviv
1 Peter Bowman-DavisPeter Bowman-Davis
OpenAI
SF
1 Rudolf LaineRudolf Laine
Thinking Machinesex-Workshop Labs
SF
1 Samay ShamdasaniSamay Shamdasani
Thrive Holdings
NYC
1 Savin GoyalSavin Goyal
Anacondaex-Outerbounds
SF
1 Shayan ShafiiShayan Shafii
Cognition
SF
1 Steven LiSteven Li
MSL
SF
1 Theodor MarcuTheodor Marcu
Cognition
SF
1 Tim RocktäschelTim Rocktäschel
Recursiveex-GDMex-Meta AI
London
1 Uma RoyUma Roy
Succinct
SF
1 ZFZach Frankel
1/0 Capital
NYC
Voted by 39 people
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