The World's Best
AI Power Users

An editorially ranked directory of the people pushing AI forward. Developers, designers, researchers, and creators, scored on real impact.

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Andrej Karpathy

Founded OpenAI, led Tesla AI, now building Eureka Labs. Created Neural Networks: Zero to Hero.

9.4

ChatGPTGitHub CopilotResearchCoding

Twitter/XWebsite

Yann LeCun

Turing Award winner. Meta Chief AI Scientist. Pioneer of deep learning and CNNs.

9.2

ChatGPTResearchCoding

Twitter/XWebsite

Andrew Ng

Co-founded Coursera. DeepLearning.AI. Former Google Brain and Baidu AI chief.

8.8

ChatGPTResearchContent Creation

Twitter/XWebsite

Jeremy Howard

Created ULMFiT. Co-founder of fast.ai. #1 Kaggle competitor. Runs Answer.AI.

ChatGPTResearch

8.8

Guillermo Rauch

Founder of Vercel. Creator of Next.js and v0. 3M+ users building with AI.

v0Coding

8.6

Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI. Built ChatGPT. Leading the push toward AGI.

ChatGPTResearch

8.6

Clement Delangue

CEO of Hugging Face. Built the GitHub of AI. 5M+ builders, 2M+ models, $4.5B valuation.

ChatGPTCoding

8.4

Pieter Levels

Solo maker. Built PhotoAI, NomadList, RemoteOK. $3M+ ARR with zero employees.

ChatGPTCoding

8.4

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic. Built Claude. Former VP of Research at OpenAI.

ClaudeResearch

8.4

Harrison Chase

Co-founder of LangChain. Built the most popular AI agent framework. 100K+ GitHub stars.

ChatGPTCoding

8.2

Simon Willison

Django co-creator. Builds open source AI tools (Datasette, LLM CLI). Blogs about AI daily.

ClaudeCoding

8.2

Aravind Srinivas

CEO of Perplexity AI. Building the AI-powered answer engine challenging Google Search.

PerplexityCoding

8.0

Amjad Masad

CEO of Replit. Building the browser IDE where anyone can code with AI. $100M+ ARR.

ChatGPTCoding

8.0

Lex Fridman

4.9M YouTube subscribers. AI researcher. Hosts the world's biggest AI podcast.

ChatGPTContent Creation

8.0

McKay Wrigley

Creator of Chatbot UI (25K+ GitHub stars). Claude Code educator. Founder of Takeoff AI.

ClaudeCoding

7.8

Shawn Wang (swyx)

Founder of Latent Space. AI engineer. Created the 'AI Engineer' job title movement.

ClaudeCoding

7.6

Matt Shumer

CEO of HyperWrite. Prompt engineering pioneer. Created GPT-Prompt-Engineer.

ChatGPTCoding

7.6

Peter Steinberger

Created OpenClaw (fastest-growing GitHub project ever). Founded PSPDFKit. Joined OpenAI.

ChatGPTCoding

7.6

Theo Browne

Creator of the T3 Stack. 492K YouTube subscribers. CEO of T3 Chat (YC W22).

CursorCoding

7.6

Sebastian Raschka

Author of 'Build a Large Language Model From Scratch'. Staff researcher at Lightning AI.

ChatGPTResearch

7.6

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Andrej Karpathy

Yann LeCun

Andrew Ng

Jeremy Howard

Guillermo Rauch

Sam Altman

Clement Delangue

Pieter Levels

Dario Amodei

Harrison Chase

Simon Willison

Aravind Srinivas

Amjad Masad

Lex Fridman

McKay Wrigley

Shawn Wang (swyx)

Matt Shumer

Peter Steinberger

Theo Browne

Sebastian Raschka

The World's Best
AI Power Users