For tech enthusiasts and developers eager to learn about the latest developments, X (formerly Twitter), the official center for real-time updates, has evolved into a paradise of sorts. As we reveal the top 30 AI-ML influencers of this year, get ready for the ultimate trip into the future. Put on your seatbelts because these digital trailblazers offer exclusive access to the most advanced areas of science and technology, removing all the noise and buzz around AI.
Lex Fridman, @lexfridman
With over 2.2 million followers, Lex Fridman is an AI research scientist who hosts a hugely popular podcast in which he invites influential and prominent guests to discuss a broad range of AI-related topics. He discusses ML and AI on X and regularly updates followers about new podcast events.
Kai-Fu Lee, @kaifulee
Kai-Fu Lee, with over 1.5 million followers, former CEO of Google China, is a prominent figure in the AI world who posts on social media about the latest developments in technology. Being a venture capitalist firm creator also showcases the most exciting AI entrepreneurial ventures. His account also covers significant AI updates.
Marc Andreesen, @pmarca
Marc Andreessen is a well recognized Venture capitalist, software engineer, and entrepreneur with 1.3 Million followers on X. In addition to confounding Netscape, a business that was instrumental in the early development of the internet, he co authored one of the first web browsers, Mosaic. Later on, he helped to build the well-known venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz.
Andrej Karpath, @karpathy
At present, with 871.9K followers, Andrej Karpathy works at OpenAI, having previously served as the lead developer for Tesla Autopilot’s computer vision team. Which includes internal data classification, neural network training, and the science of assembling it all before putting it into production using proprietary inference hardware. Driving is safer and more convenient with Autopilot, even though his team’s ultimate goal is to develop and deploy Full Self-Driving to our rapidly growing fleet of millions of vehicles.
Andrew Ng, @AndrewYNg
With over 702.7K followers on X, Andrew Ng follows the greatest new ML and AI-related initiatives that are released on Coursera and tweets about the seminars and meetings that are happening right now. He is the founder of Coursera, a frequent participant in business group meetings, and the former chairman of the Baidu AI Group. Dr. Ng is a pioneer in the fields of online training and machine learning, and his AI research has changed the lives of many people. In the fields of robotics, machine learning, and related fields, he has co-authored or published more than 200 scholarly publications. In 2013, he was included in the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Rowan Cheung, @rowancheung
Rowan Cheung founder of the Rundown with 414.5k followers on X is a fast-growing AI weekly whose aim is to inform millions of readers on the most recent developments in AI and how technology is changing the world. Over 120,000 subscribers have signed up for The Rundown in less than three months, relying on its content to keep them informed about developments in the AI industry.
Yann LeCun, @ylecun
With +369.2K followers on X, Yann LeCun is a professor at New York University, Facebook’s Chief AI Scientist, and a logical voice in science on AI. He retweets news stories that keep you up to date on the newest developments in the field.
Santiago, @svpino
Santiago is an applied machine learning specialist in computer science. He has 332.3K Followers on X. Over twenty years of expertise in developing software to address challenging and occasionally fascinating situations have been gained by him. Santigo has a strong commitment to enabling people and organizations to use technology in ways that were previously unattainable to them. He likes uncertainty and is more motivated to work on issues that are beyond the scope of web searches and books. If he can work well with a group of engineers who share his interests, bonus points!
Kirk Borne, @KirkDBorne
Kirk Borne, an X star you can’t afford to miss, has been guiding the ship of influence since 2013 and has a heavenly following of +274K on X. Kirk not only rides the information waves, but also generates them, spanning across fields such as Astrophysics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and the wide realm of Space Science. Not only is he a global speaker, consultant, researcher, Big Data and Data Science sage, blogger, and researcher, but he’s also the North Star that leads the tech-savvy through the vast expanse of information.
Ronald van Loon, @Ronald_vanLoon
Ronald van Loon, has over 240K fans on X. He champions brainpower superiority in big data, IoT, AI, machine learning, 5G, deep learning, predictive analytics, cloud, edge, and the magical domain of data science, positioning himself as the Gandalf of the digital world. Ranked among the World’s Top 10 Influencers and Thought Leaders, he is the Dumbledore of data-driven, casting magical spells that subdue algorithms.
Erik Brynjolfsson, @erikbryn
Erik Brynjolfsson with 207K followers on X, is the Stanford Digital Economic Lab director, which researches enhancing the economy with digital technologies. He is a professor at Stanford and an author of machine learning books.
Antonio Grasso, @antgrasso
Antonio Grasso the Commander of the Digital Frontier, who boasts an impressive following of +189K on X. He is on a mission to use the immense power of digital technologies to boost the economy as the daring director of the Stanford Digital Economic Lab. By day a Stanford professor, at night the man behind the machine learning books that turn algorithms into captivating narratives.
Ethan Mollick, @emollick
Associate Professor Ethan Mollick teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and the implications of artificial intelligence on education and the workplace at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and have 187.7K Followers on X. His work has been featured by CNN and The New York Times and published in prestigious business publications. Mollick is also in charge of Wharton Interactive, a project that uses AI and gaming to democratize education.
Jim Fan, @DrJimFan
Jim Fan with 185.1K Followers on X works for NVIDIA AI as a research scientist. Creating broadly capable autonomous agents is my main goal. His research endeavours encompass foundation models, robotics, multimodal learning, policy learning, and large-scale systems to address this immense challenge. Prof. Fei-Fei Li provided me with advice as I completed my doctorate at Stanford Vision Lab. He has previously worked as a research intern at the Mila-Quebec AI Institute, Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Google Cloud AI. He was Columbia University’s 2016 valedictorian and the winner of the Illig Medal.
Linus Ekenstam, @LinusEkenstam
Entrepreneur and product/experience designer Linus Ekenstam with 178.9K Followers on X resides in Barcelona, Spain. He was recently employed at Typeform, where he designed systems and added some humanity to web forms. He has a passion for creating, designing, and building goods from the ground up. He has a range of abilities, including but not limited to product design, product management, UX/UI design, and business development.
Bojan Tunguz, @tunguz
Bojan Tunguz is a well-known venture capitalist and entrepreneur with 159.9K followers on X. He has a degree in physics and has experience in a variety of fields, such as technology consulting and scientific research. Additionally, Bojan Tunguz has authored articles about companies, venture capital, and technological developments.
Varun Mayya, @waitin4agi_
One of the youngest businesspeople in India to secure venture capital funding, Varun Mayya paves the way for everyone who aspires to be successful.He has 144.3K Followers on X. Formerly the founder of JobSpire, he is presently Avalon Labs’ CEO. Avalon Labs’ founder and CEO is Varun Mayya. At the age of 20, he is among the youngest entrepreneurs in India to secure venture capital funding for their firm.
Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus
Gary Marcus with 131K Followers on X is an entrepreneur, academic, and cognitive scientist who specializes in AI. His contributions to the fields of AI ethics, machine learning, and cognitive science are well known. Marcus has influenced conversations on the drawbacks and difficulties of existing AI techniques, arguing that a more integrated and interdisciplinary approach is necessary to create true artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Dr. Sally Eaves, @sallyeaves
She specializes in innovation, technology, and education as a professor. She has +116K followers on X. She manages companies that deal with AI, cloud computing, industrial IoT, and IoT. She supports environmentally friendly educational initiatives.
Utsav Techie, @utsavtechie
A youthful and passionate tech YouTuber, Utsav Techie has amassed more than 5 lakh subscribers on Youtube and 106.5K Followers on X known by his stage moniker Utsav Techie, M. A. Utsav is his true name. More than 1,350 videos have been uploaded to the Utsav Techie YouTube channel, which has received more than 90 million combined views. The collection includes videos with tech backgrounds, including product analysis, tech leaks/rumors, laptops, smartphones, tech news, and how-to videos.
Bindu Reddy, @bindureddy
Abacus.AI’s CEO and co-founder is Bindu Reddy. On X, she has 105.9k followers. She was the General Manager for AI Verticals at AWS, AI, prior to founding Abacus.AI. Her company developed and introduced Amazon Personalize and Amazon Forecast, the first AI services of their sort that let businesses quickly build custom deep learning models. Before that, she was the co-founder and CEO of Post Intelligence, a deep-learning startup that Uber bought and provided services for social media influencers. Bindu holds a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a master’s degree from Dartmouth.
Logan.GPT, @OfficialLoganK
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At OpenAI, Logan oversees developer relations and helps developers that use ChatGPT, the API, and DALL-E for their development with 76.4K Followers on X. Outside of OpenAI, Logan teaches Harvard University’s CSCI E-33A Extension School course as a Teaching Fellow and serves as the Lead Developer Community Advocate for the Julia programming language. Logan was the Julia programming language community manager before working at Apple as an applied machine learning engineer, software engineer, and community manager. Logan also serves on the boards of NumFOCUS and DEFNA, having previously served on both boards
Pedro Domingos , @pmddomingos
Pedro is a prominent computer scientist, professor, and researcher specialising in machine learning and artificial intelligence with 72.4K Followers on X. Domingos is a professor at the University of Washington and is known for his contributions to the field of machine learning, particularly in areas such as data mining, knowledge representation, and computational biology.
Allie K. Miller, @alliekmiller
A leading expert on artificial intelligence, Allie Miller is both an investor and counsellor with 46.2K Followers on X. Allie used to work at Amazon (AWS) as the Global Head of Machine Learning Business Development for Startups and Venture Capital, where she gave global advice to the best machine learning researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors. She was the company’s first hire and oversaw its growth from 100 employees to a 10-figure AWS enterprise. Before that, Allie was the youngest woman to ever design an artificial intelligence product at IBM, leading product development for thousands of enterprises in the areas of computer vision, communication, data, and regulation.
Aravind Srinivas, @AravSrinivas
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, a business aiming to provide the most reliable information service in the world, is Aravind Srinivas. Additionally, he is active on X where he has 27.9K followers, where he just unveiled a new Perplexity AI editing tool.
Vin Vashishta, @v_vashishta
In Applied Machine Learning, Vin is employed with 28.6K Followers on X. He has developed and launched products with $100 million+ annual revenue. He is a strategist and engineer. His current area of interest is the monetization of machine learning, which includes pricing and revenue strategies, model reliability, job definition and hiring for roles in research, architecture, and product management, as well as the production process.
Dr. Marcell Vollmer, @mvollmer1
With over 70,000 X followers, he is a digital transformation specialist and a director at BCG. He writes about global supply chains, innovation, new business models, and corporate restructuring and reorganization. Over his career, he oversaw a number of prosperous firms.
Vinod Sharma, @vinod1975
He is a speaker, a leader in digital transformation with over 36,000 followers on X, and a fintech CTO. He is a researcher and a specialist in using big data analytics, data science, and machine learning for SMEs.
Pratik Desai, @chheplo
Dr. Pratik Desai has 7,222 Followers on X and he is a computer scientist and entrepreneur with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and semantic web-based data extraction. Having launched several Silicon Valley firms, he is currently focused on using his startup, Titodi, to deliver AI and ML-based technologies to India’s neglected agriculture market. Titodi, which comes from a farming family, offers farmers and agriculture producers an end-to-end platform with AI and ML-powered tools to improve branding, labelling, marketing, and pricing, which will ultimately increase revenue and profitability.
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