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Andrej Karpathy

Eureka Labs / ex-Tesla, OpenAI

Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator who founded Eureka Labs, an AI-native education company. Previously, Andrej served as the Director of AI at Tesla, leading the Autopilot computer vision and neural network architecture teams, and was a founding research scientist at OpenAI. Widely revered as one of the world's premier deep learning educators, he created nanoGPT and the landmark 'Neural Networks: Zero to Hero' lecture series.

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Aakash Gupta

Product Growth / Independent Advisory

Author of Product Growth, the #1 Product Management and AI newsletter on Substack with over 150,000 paid and free subscribers. Former VP of Product at Apollo.io, advising Fortune 500 product organizations and venture-backed AI startups on copilot UX, AI monetization, and product discovery.

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Abeba Birhane

Mozilla / Trinity College Dublin

Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation and Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI. Cognitive scientist specializing in relational ethics and critical auditing of large-scale multimodal training datasets (such as LAION-5B), uncovering systematic demographic disparities, exploitative content, and copyright vulnerability.

AI Safety, Evals & Red TeamingAI Governance & Compliance
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Co-founder and CEO of Cohere, enterprise AI platform for generative LLMs, fine-tuning, and semantic retrieval. Co-authored the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper in 2017 while at Google Brain, which introduced the Transformer architecture that underpins all modern generative AI models. Completed Ph.D. at University of Oxford.

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Research Scientist at OpenAI and primary architect of modern generative AI. Lead author of the original GPT (Improving Language Understanding), GPT-2, CLIP, and Whisper, establishing the scaling paradigms for unsupervised pre-training and contrastive vision-language representation.

Research and EvaluationMultimodal & Real-Time Voice AI
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