The SPV bubble is batshit insane
GOOGL is $826BN and now Meta said it has already committed almost $700 billion in future AI spending (BBG).
Across all hypers, off BS commitments are now $3+ trillion, double in one quarter.
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The only AI list you need in 2026
Founders, researchers & builders actually shaping the field.
Curated by me 👇
FRONTIER LAB FOUNDERS
@sama — OpenAI CEO
@demishassabis — Google DeepMind CEO
@darioamodei — Anthropic CEO
@AravSrinivas — Perplexity AI CEO
CHINA'S OPEN-WEIGHT WAVE
@Kimi_Moonshot — Moonshot AI / Kimi (Yang Zhilin's lab)
@jietang — Z.ai (Zhipu) co-founder & chief scientist
@JustinLin610 — built the Qwen series at Alibaba
DeepSeek (Liang Wenfeng) — follow @deepseek_ai (no personal account)
THE PIONEERS / GODFATHERS
@ylecun — Turing Award, pioneer of CNNs
@goodfellow_ian — inventor of GANs
@fchollet — creator of Keras & the ARC Prize
@karpathy — Anthropic, AI educator
@AndrewYNg — Coursera co-founder
RESEARCHERS WORTH READING
@ch402 — Chris Olah, interpretability (Anthropic co-founder)
@ai_explorer25 — Researcher, AI commentary
@lilianweng — legendary research deep-dives (now Thinking Machines)
@leopoldasch — "Situational Awareness," ex-OpenAI Superalignment
@bengoertzel — founded SingularityNET & OpenCog
BUILDERS & AGENT CROWD
@Teknium — co-founder & lead eng, Hermes Agent @NousResearch@ai_explorer25 — ex-MS, AI commentary
@GeoffreyHuntley — creator of the "Ralph Loop"
@thsottiaux — leads OpenAI Codex (My Inspiration)
@hwchase17 — LangChain
@levelsio — PhotoAI & indie AI builder
@_MaxBlade — indie AI builder, CNVS vibe-coding app
WILDCARD
@ceobillionaire — Vincent Boucher, MONTREAL.AI
6K Followers 692 FollowingTools to grow your career as a software engineer. Built with ♥️ by @treyhuffine.
Top jobs community for developers - https://t.co/A4qzTGTOXy
324K Followers 1K FollowingBuilding new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
512K Followers 95 FollowingTensors and neural networks in Python with strong hardware acceleration. PyTorch is an open source project at the Linux Foundation. #PyTorchFoundation
851K Followers 366 FollowingTogether with the AI community, we are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through open science to create a more connected world.
586K Followers 3K FollowingNVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.
86K Followers 2K Followingpondering the ponderoos about using AI in unhinged ways and verifying outcomes @antithesishq. i created the “ralph loop” and “loop engineering” i guess. 😂
78K Followers 2K FollowingHow can we best create beneficial AGI, ASI and Singularity for all sentient beings?? -- Founder/CEO @asi_alliance @singularitynet, BGI Foundry, etc. etc.
293K Followers 195 FollowingMTS @OpenAI; Author of Lil'Log
Prev: Ex Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab; Ex-VP, AI Safety & robotics, applied research OpenAI
381K Followers 1K FollowingCo-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of https://t.co/M6vl8pEQ4I Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction
1.3M Followers 796 FollowingFounder/Chair, AMI Labs; Professor, NYU; Partner, 224 Ventures; Ex-Chief AI Scientist, Meta.
Researcher in AI, ML, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
73K Followers 454 FollowingProfessor @ Tsinghua, Founder of https://t.co/3IaQ4CI5W3.
AGI, LLM.
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”―Einstein
42K Followers 663 FollowingAi and Tech content Creator. 30k+ on X | 350k+ on Linkedin. Sharing insights on Ai, Tech, Free tools, resources. DM for collabs at : [email protected]