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Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus publishes technical criticism of AI learning methods and policy arguments about reliability and oversight.

Stability AI

Stability AI develops generative models and publishes company proposals about open-model access and oversight.

The Sequence

The Sequence publishes machine-learning analysis and interviews whose guest answers retain their own attribution.

Intelligent Internet

Intelligent Internet develops AI tools and advocates open systems and user control in its published company plans.

AI Futures Project

AI Futures Project publishes AI scenarios, forecasting models and updates with distinct individual forecasts.

xAI

xAI develops the Grok family of AI models and publishes its own release claims and evaluations.

Cursor

Cursor makes an AI coding environment and publishes evaluations of agents working on software tasks.

METR

METR studies what AI systems can do and how reliably they complete tasks, including work with human developers.

Epoch AI

Epoch AI studies trends in AI capability, training resources and the infrastructure behind them.

Ai2

Ai2 develops AI research tools and models, including the openly documented Olmo family.

arXiv

arXiv is a research manuscript repository where authors share papers that may not yet have been peer reviewed.

OpenAlex

OpenAlex is a catalog linking scholarly works, authors and institutions to help people discover research.

NASA Earthdata

NASA Earthdata provides access to Earth observation data and tools for studying our planet.

International Energy Agency

The International Energy Agency publishes energy data and scenarios, including research on electricity demand from AI.

Data Workers’ Inquiry

Data Workers’ Inquiry publishes research led by people whose labor helps train and moderate AI systems.

SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA is a performers’ union that negotiates terms for work, including digital likenesses and AI use.

Serpentine

Serpentine is an arts organization whose technology program commissions work investigating how emerging systems shape culture.

Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica brings art, technology and society together through exhibitions, research and a festival.

Masakhane

Masakhane is a research community working on natural-language technologies for African languages.

Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center studies public attitudes and social change through surveys and other empirical research.

Stanford AI Index

The Stanford AI Index brings together evidence on AI research, adoption, economics and policy in an annual report.

EU AI Act

The EU AI Act is a European law that assigns responsibilities for AI systems according to their uses and risks.

NIST

NIST is a US measurement and standards agency that develops ways to assess and manage risks from AI.

OECD AI Policy Observatory

The OECD AI Policy Observatory collects policy information and evidence to compare how countries approach AI.

Polis

Polis is open-source software that helps groups explore patterns of agreement and disagreement in a conversation.

OpenAI

OpenAI develops AI models and products and publishes research, release announcements and evaluations.

Anthropic

Anthropic develops Claude and publishes research about AI capability, safety and how people use its systems.

Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind develops AI systems for general tasks and scientific research, including AlphaFold.

Hugging Face

Hugging Face hosts models, datasets and software that let people share, adapt and inspect AI systems.

Mistral AI

Mistral AI develops models and products with several options for how organizations deploy them.

Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Podcast features long conversations with researchers, builders and thinkers about technology, history and the future.

Lex Fridman Podcast

The Lex Fridman Podcast publishes extended interviews about science, technology, culture and human experience.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis discusses emerging technologies and ambitious forecasts with builders, researchers and investors.

All-In Podcast

All-In is a discussion show where investors and operators debate business, technology and politics.

One Useful Thing

One Useful Thing is Ethan Mollick’s publication about AI in work, education and everyday practice.

The Innermost Loop

The Innermost Loop is Alexander Wissner-Gross’s publication interpreting developments in AI and other technologies.

AI Now Institute

AI Now Institute studies the power and institutions shaping AI and advocates for public accountability.

Ada Lovelace Institute

The Ada Lovelace Institute researches how data and AI affect people and how those systems should be governed.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons develops public licenses and advocates for sharing knowledge and culture on terms creators can choose.

Rhizome

Rhizome commissions, preserves and discusses digital art and the cultures that grow around it.

Processing Foundation

The Processing Foundation supports creative coding tools and education that help people make art with software.

NASA

NASA is the US agency for civilian space exploration, aeronautics and related scientific research.

CERN

CERN is a particle physics research organization operating shared accelerators and experiments to investigate matter.

Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Society supports research institutes across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.

MIT News

MIT News reports on research and people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine explains developments in mathematics, physics, biology and computer science through original reporting.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA develops processors, networking and software used for AI, graphics and scientific computing.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare provides networking, security and computing services that help run websites and applications.

LangChain

LangChain builds tools for developing, evaluating and operating applications that use language models and agents.

TypeSafe AI

TypeSafe AI develops models and tools for evaluating and routing AI system behavior, including Jev.

Partnership on AI

Partnership on AI brings organizations together to research and develop practices for the use of AI.

UK AI Security Institute

The UK AI Security Institute researches and evaluates capabilities and security risks of advanced AI systems.

Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation supports research, creative work and advocacy for technology that serves the public.

ACM FAccT

ACM FAccT is a research conference examining fairness, accountability and transparency in computing and its social effects.

The Authors Guild

The Authors Guild advocates for writers’ livelihoods and rights in publishing and the use of their work.

U.S. Copyright Office

The US Copyright Office administers copyright registration and publishes policy research, including work on AI.

Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and Anthropic cofounder who writes and speaks about the capabilities and risks of AI.

Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun is a machine-learning researcher known for work on neural networks and arguments about how AI can learn.

Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is a Wharton researcher and author exploring how AI changes work, learning and decision-making.

Alexander Wissner-Gross

Alexander Wissner-Gross is a scientist and entrepreneur who writes The Innermost Loop and discusses technology on Moonshots.

Mophat Okinyi

Mophat Okinyi is a former data worker whose inquiry documents Kenyan workers’ experiences of AI-related labor.

Holly Herndon

Holly Herndon is an artist and musician whose work explores voice, AI and collective creation.

Mat Dryhurst

Mat Dryhurst is an artist whose collaborations with Holly Herndon examine AI, cultural ownership and collective creation.

Amba Kak

Amba Kak is a policy researcher at AI Now Institute working on public accountability and the power behind AI systems.

Sarah Myers West

Sarah Myers West is an AI Now Institute researcher examining technology, corporate power and public policy.

Kate Brennan

Kate Brennan is an AI Now Institute researcher and coauthor of its 2025 report on power and policy in AI.

Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel hosts the Dwarkesh Podcast, asking researchers and other guests to explain and defend their ideas.

Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman is a podcast host and researcher whose interviews connect technology with broader human questions.

Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis is an entrepreneur and the host of Moonshots, a show about emerging technologies and their possibilities.

Jev

Jev is TypeSafe AI’s model for fast evaluation and routing decisions inside AI systems.

Claude

Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI models and assistants for tasks such as writing, analysis and coding.

Grok

Grok is a family of AI models from xAI, with capability claims and evaluations published by its developer.

Olmo

Olmo is Ai2’s family of language models accompanied by research artifacts intended to make development more inspectable.

AlphaFold

AlphaFold is a family of AI systems from Google DeepMind that predicts molecular structures and interactions.

LangSmith

LangSmith is LangChain’s platform for tracing, evaluating and observing how AI applications behave.

Aya Ibrahim

Aya Ibrahim is described by AI Now as leading its national security work and as a former Biden White House official.

Noam Brown

Noam Brown is an OpenAI researcher discussing reasoning models, agent teams and results from his employer on the Dwarkesh Podcast.

Jonathan Halliwell

Identified on the Quanta page as a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London and the guest of this Joy of Why episode.

GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is an OpenAI model announced on September 22, 2026 as a lower-cost tier trained with methods similar to Astra.

GPT-6 Luna

GPT-6 Luna is an OpenAI model announced on September 22, 2026 as a cheaper GPT-6 tier.

bioRxiv

bioRxiv posts biology preprints before journal publication.

medRxiv

medRxiv posts health-sciences preprints before journal publication.

IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum reports on engineering practice, research, and the industries around it.

Nature

Nature publishes research, news, and commentary across the sciences.

Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch reports on retractions and research-integrity cases.

Science News

Science News reports scientific findings for a non-specialist reader.

Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic reports on art, artists' working lives, and cultural institutions.

Le Monde Sciences

Le Monde's science coverage reports research and public-health integrity in French.

Rest of World

Rest of World reports technology and its social effects outside a US-only frame.

The Guardian Science

The Guardian's science feed reports research, environment, and related public disputes.

Artforum

Artforum reports on exhibitions, prizes, and art institutions.

Harmonic

Harmonic develops systems that generate mathematical reasoning and proofs, including Aristotle.

Lean

Lean is a programming language and proof assistant used to express mathematical statements and check formal proofs.

Figure

Figure develops humanoid robots and publishes its own tests of how they perform physical tasks.

Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial services company whose public product announcements include accounts customers can connect to software agents.

John Schulman

John Schulman is introduced as Thinking Machines' chief scientist in the September 2026 Dwarkesh panel on AI research.

Beren Millidge

Beren Millidge is introduced as Zyphra's chief technology officer developing open models in the September 2026 Dwarkesh panel on AI research.

Charlie O’Neill

Charlie O’Neill is introduced as Baseten's head of model training in the September 2026 Dwarkesh panel on AI research.

Vlad Tenev

Vlad Tenev leads Robinhood and co-founded Harmonic, whose mathematical reasoning work he discussed on Moonshots in September 2026.