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THE METIS LIST

THE WORLD'S TOP AI RESEARCHERS

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1Noam Shazeer photo

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Noam Shazeer

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

2Ilya Sutskever photo

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Ilya Sutskever

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

3Demis Hassabis photo

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Demis Hassabis

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

  • Dario Amodei photo

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    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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    John Schulman

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    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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