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Emmett Shear: From Twitch to OpenAI's Interim CEO to Softmax

Emmett Shear co-founded Justin.tv, which became Twitch — one of the defining consumer products of the 2010s. He ran OpenAI for four days in November 2023 during the board crisis. In 2024 he founded Softmax to work on AI alignment.

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Fei-Fei Li: From ImageNet to World Labs and Spatial Intelligence

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Fei-Fei Li: From ImageNet to World Labs and Spatial Intelligence

Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet, catalysed the modern computer-vision revolution, ran Google Cloud's AI organisation, co-directed Stanford HAI, and in 2024 founded World Labs to build spatial-intelligence models.

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