Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Turing Award winner. Founding father of convolutional neural networks. Vocal on world models, JEPA, and the limits of LLMs.

Founder DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI. Co-founder Coursera. Stanford adjunct professor.

Director of Google Quantum AI since 2006. Architect of Google's quantum computing program, from Sycamore to Willow chip. Quantum hardware + quantum ML.

Angel investor. Founder This Week in Startups and LAUNCH. All-In Podcast co-host.

Co-founder a16z. Techno-optimist. Software is eating the world.

Harvard University, co-founder of QuEra Computing. Built the 256-qubit neutral atom processor (2021), currently the leading non-superconducting path to large-scale quantum machines. Pioneer of Rydberg-atom quantum gates.

MIT. Invented Shor's algorithm (1994) — the polynomial-time quantum algorithm for integer factorization that motivates the entire field. The reason quantum computing matters for cryptography and the reason post-quantum cryptography exists.

RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing director, University of Tokyo. Built the first superconducting charge qubit in 1999 — every IBM, Google, and Rigetti qubit descends from this work. The deepest cite in superconducting quantum computing.

University of Toronto. Pioneered the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) — the workhorse algorithm for quantum chemistry on NISQ devices. Co-founded Zapata Computing. Leading work on quantum machine learning for drug discovery.

Oak Ridge National Lab Quantum Computing Institute Director. Runs the U.S. Department of Energy quantum-HPC integration program. The single most relevant person for "first adopter" hybrid systems work.

PsiQuantum CEO and co-founder. Building the first million-qubit photonic quantum computer using silicon photonics fabricated at GlobalFoundries. Bristol University background, world-leading photonic quantum hardware.

President and CEO of Y Combinator. Co-founder Initialized Capital.

Co-founder and CEO Google DeepMind. Nobel laureate for AlphaFold.

Co-creator Django. Creator Datasette and llm CLI. Prolific AI blogger.

CEO of Replit. Pioneered AI-native coding with Replit Agent.

Co-founder and CEO Anthropic. Former VP Research OpenAI. AI safety researcher.

Tech evangelist and futurist. Spatial computing and AI analyst.

Founder Social Capital. All-In Podcast co-host. SPAC pioneer.

Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X. Reusable rockets, electric cars, AI, neural interfaces, Mars. The firehose.

CEO of Shopify. Issued the famous internal memo declaring AI non-optional across Shopify in April 2025. Operator perspective.

CEO of Vercel. Creator of Next.js, V0. Best product-design thinker in the developer-AI space.

Creator of Keras. Now at Anthropic. Author of "Deep Learning with Python". Most thoughtful voice on AGI benchmarking via the ARC challenge.

Founder AngelList. Investor and philosopher. How to Get Rich without getting lucky.

CEO OpenAI. Former president Y Combinator.

Open-source framework for LLM applications + LangSmith observability platform. Founded by Harrison Chase. $125M Series B Oct 2025 at $1.25B.

Enterprise AI foundation model company. Co-founded by Aidan Gomez (lead author of the original Transformer paper), Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst.

Wharton professor. Author of Co-Intelligence. One of the most prolific voices on what LLMs can actually do in practice.

Google's AI research division, led by Demis Hassabis. Behind AlphaFold, AlphaGo, Gemini, and fundamental RL research.

Turing Award winner. Godfather of deep learning. Nobel Prize in Physics 2024.

AI safety company building Claude. Founded by former OpenAI researchers. Co-founders: Dario Amodei (CEO), Daniela Amodei (President), Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Jared Kaplan, Chris Olah.

President and Co-founder of OpenAI. Former CTO of Stripe. One of the most important voices on frontier model development, scaling, and AI safety.

Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI co-founder. LLM Knowledge Bases pattern. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero.

Co-founder and CEO Stripe. Progress Studies co-founder.

Product lead at Google AI Studio. Runs developer experience for Gemini API. Very prolific on X.

Co-creator of Ethereum, the leading smart contract blockchain platform. Shapes Web3, decentralized finance, governance, and explores intersections between crypto, AI, and scalable decentralized systems.

Co-founder and CEO of Lovable. Vibe-coding startup, reached $400M ARR in early 2026.

Founder and CEO NVIDIA. AI compute pioneer.

Founder and general partner at Craft Ventures. Former COO of PayPal, founder of Yammer. All-In Podcast co-host. AI Czar appointment under Trump admin.

Co-founder and CEO Perplexity. AI-powered answer engine.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies. Co-author of the foundational textbook on quantum machine learning. Defined the field — if you cite QML and don't cite Schuld, you're not serious.

Founder of Oculus VR, which popularized modern consumer virtual reality (acquired by Facebook). Founded Anduril Industries to build AI-powered autonomous defense systems and spatial computing technologies.

Princeton CS associate professor. Systems for ML, LLM serving, video systems, networked systems. Runs the SNS (Systems and Networking Systems) Group. Former PhD advisor work on lots of PLDI/OSDI/NSDI papers.

European frontier AI lab founded by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix. Known for open-weight models and the Mistral + Mixtral families.

Research lab behind GPT-5, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex. Co-founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and others in 2015.

IBM Fellow and VP of IBM Quantum. Shapes the industry quantum hardware roadmap.

Co-founder Twitter and Block. Funded Bluesky. Open protocols advocate.

CEO and founder of The Production Board. Former CEO of Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for ~$1B). All-In Podcast co-host. Biotech, food systems, climate.

NVIDIA Senior Director of AI and Distinguished Scientist leading robotics and physical AI efforts. Co-leads GEAR lab on simulation, embodied agents, and building generalist humanoid robots for real-world tasks.

Founder of Stratechery, the original premium tech analysis newsletter. Author of Aggregation Theory. Hosts Dithering with John Gruber and Sharp Tech.

Caltech theoretical physicist. Coined NISQ and quantum supremacy. Director of Caltech Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.

VP Google Labs + Gemini App. Took over Gemini product in 2025 after Sissie Hsiao. TIME 100 AI 2025.

Product lead for Codex at OpenAI. Running the coding-agent category.

AI builder and founder. Part of Scoble-curated AI founders and robotics-adjacent lists.

Tech columnist at the New York Times. Co-hosts Hard Fork. Author of Futureproof. Covers AI, platforms, and the social impact of tech.

UT Austin theoretical computer scientist. Shtetl-Optimized blog is the quantum blog. Former OpenAI alignment researcher.

AI-powered answer engine replacing traditional search. Founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski.

Open-source AI cloud and inference infrastructure. Co-founded by Vipul Ved Prakash. $305M Series B. Major player in open-model inference.

Programming legend behind Doom and Quake at id Software. Former CTO of Oculus advancing consumer VR; now CEO of Keen Technologies building AGI with focus on efficient compute, simulation, and spatial interfaces.

Andreessen Horowitz is an American privately-held venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

One of the leading political bloggers who brings tech into things often. In Scoble's hand-picked top tech bloggers roster.

Barry Ritholtz is an American businessman and author. He is the founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm with over $5 billion in assets under management. He first came to public notice for his warning about derivatives and mortgages leading to the subprime mortgage crisis.

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist and progressive movement against economic inequality, capitalism, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics. It began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011.

Host of Capital Allocators, the leading podcast on institutional investing. Author of Capital Allocators. Former co-CIO at Protégé Partners. Interviews top institutional investors.

Economics professor at George Mason. Hosts Conversations with Tyler. Co-author of Marginal Revolution. The most read economics blogger and one of the most curious minds alive.

Founder of Platformer, contributing editor at New York Magazine. Co-hosts Hard Fork with Kevin Roose at the New York Times. Tech and platforms reporter.

National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of more than 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

Author of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast. Former Airbnb product lead. Now the most influential voice in product management with weekly interviews of top operators.

UCSB physicist who led Google's quantum supremacy paper (Sycamore, 2019). Now CTO at Silicon Quantum Computing (Australia). One of the actual inventors of superconducting qubits at scale.

Run open-source ML models with a simple API. Founded by Ben Firshman + Andreas Jansson. Popular for image generation pipelines.

YouTube channel: Upstream with Erik Torenberg

UC Berkeley professor, director at BAIR lab, and co-founder of Covariant. Pioneer in deep reinforcement learning for robotics, enabling robots to learn complex manipulation tasks from demonstrations and simulation.

Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tools of Titans. Host of The Tim Ferriss Show, the most-downloaded interview podcast in history. Early-stage investor.

Apple Intelligence is a generative artificial intelligence system developed by Apple Inc. Relying on a combination of on-device and server processing, it was announced on June 10, 2024, at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, as a built-in feature of Apple's iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which were announced alongside Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence is free for all users with supported devices.

LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, host of Masters of Scale. Author of Blitzscaling, The Startup of You. Now one of the most active AI investors and thinkers.

YouTube channel: AI Jason

Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, by size and passengers carried. Air Canada is headquartered in the borough of Saint-Laurent in the city of Montreal. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 222 destinations worldwide. It operates major hubs at Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson and Vancouver. Air Canada is a founding member of the Star Alliance.

Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

AI developer advocate and writer. Frequently appears in Scoble's AI newsmakers and influencers rosters.

Global Affairs Canada is the department of the Government of Canada that manages Canada's diplomatic and consular relations, promotes Canadian international trade, and leads Canada's international development and humanitarian assistance. It is also responsible for maintaining Canadian government offices abroad with diplomatic and consular status on behalf of all government departments.

YouTube channel: 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mustafa Suleyman is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company which was acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.

Conversational AI platform for customer experience. Co-founded by Bret Taylor (ex-Facebook CTO, Salesforce co-CEO, Twitter chair, OpenAI board chair) and Clay Bavor. $350M at $10B.

CEO and co-founder of Box, the enterprise cloud content management platform increasingly powered by AI. Active commentator on startup strategy, cloud computing, AI productivity tools, and spatial computing trends.

McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".

General Catalyst (GC) is an American venture capital firm headquarted in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, it invests across seed, venture, and growth stages and manages more than US$43 billion in assets as of December 2024. The firm has invested in more than 800 companies. Its portfolio includes Airbnb, Stripe, Snap, Canva, HubSpot, Anduril, Mistral, and Helsing.

Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI. Grew ChatGPT to 700M+ weekly active users. Currently re-architecting it as an operating system.

YouTube channel: Wes Roth

AI researcher at MIT and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast with in-depth interviews of top minds in AI, science, and technology. Focuses on autonomous vehicles, human-AI interaction, and robotics.

YouTube channel: Ben Taylor

Runs This Week in Tech, Scoble's favorite tech podcast. Included in Scoble's top tech bloggers and influencers list.

YouTube channel: Tim Ferriss

Co-host of Pivot with Scott Galloway and host of On with Kara Swisher. Founded Recode and AllThingsD. The most feared interviewer in tech.

Social networking analyst and expert. Included in Scoble's recommended lists and SUL alternative roster.

Mr. PR in the social media and tech space according to Scoble. Part of top tech/FriendFeed list.

Neuroscientist, philosopher, host of Making Sense podcast. Founder of the Waking Up meditation app. Writes on AI risk, free will, consciousness.

Tech thinker, investor, and commentator on crypto, AI, and spatial tech. Featured across Scoble's frontier tech lists.

CPO of Anthropic. Took over product leadership in early 2026 after Mike Krieger moved to Anthropic Labs.

YouTube channel: Matt Wolfe

Co-founder of LangChain. AI framework pioneer featured in Scoble's AI founders and newsmakers discussions.

YouTube channel: YC Root Access

watchOS is the operating system of the Apple Watch, developed by Apple. It is based on iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone, and has many similar features. Its original version was released on April 24, 2015, along with the Apple Watch, the only device that runs watchOS. watchOS exposes an API called WatchKit for developer use.

AI-first code editor. Founded by Aman Sanger, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark. Largest growth story in AI coding tools.

Data framework for LLM applications, focused on RAG. Founded by Jerry Liu.

Runs Techmeme. Inventor of Techmeme. Prominently featured in Scoble's tech bloggers roster.

NYU Stern professor, co-host of Pivot, founder of L2 (sold to Gartner). Author of The Four, Post Corona. Frequent commentator on tech monopolies and economic inequality.

IonQ co-founder, Duke University. Trapped-ion quantum computing pioneer. Demonstrated the first quantum logic gate between two atoms in 1995 (with David Wineland). One of the originators of the modular ion-trap architecture.

Frank's RedHot is a hot sauce made from a variety of cayenne peppers, produced by McCormick & Company. The Original blend ranks low on the Scoville scale, with 450 SHUs, while even the XTRA Hot variety only measures 2,000 SHUs, which is lower than Tabasco, Cholula Hot Sauce, and Tapatío, and only slightly hotter than Sriracha.

Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician who has been Leader of Reform UK since 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton since 2024. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020.

Prompt engineering expert and AI researcher. Key figure Scoble follows in his AI researchers and newsmakers lists.

Famous VC in tech industry. Invested in Twitter. Featured in Scoble's top tech bloggers and SUL alternative lists.

YouTube channel: The Colin Cowherd Podcast

YouTube channel: The Investor's Podcast Network

Interactive Brokers, Inc. is an American multinational brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operates the largest electronic trading platform in the United States by number of daily average revenue trades. In 2024, the platform processed an average of 2.6 million trades per trading day. Interactive Brokers is the largest foreign exchange market broker and is one of the largest prime brokers servicing commodity brokers. The company brokers stocks, options, futures contracts, exchange of futures for physicals, options on futures, bonds, mutual funds, currency, cryptocurrency, contracts for difference, derivatives, and trading in prediction markets. Interactive Brokers offers direct market access, omnibus and non-disclosed broker accounts, and provides clearing services.

Alexander Zane Reed Lowe is a New Zealand radio DJ, live DJ, record producer, and television presenter. After an early career in music creation, production and DJing, he moved to the UK in 1997. He came to prominence through presenting on XFM and MTV Europe, developing a DJ career by opening sets for bands and eventually landing a slot on prime-time radio on BBC Radio 1 from 2003 to 2015. In 2015, he was hired by Apple to be the Creative Director of their new world-wide music station, Apple Music 1.

YouTube channel: TheAIGRID

Scion Asset Management, LLC is an American hedge fund headquartered in California, founded by Michael Burry. It is best known for profiting from the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as paving the way for the GameStop short squeeze.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He serves as its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.

Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as a friendly, male-gendered counterpart to AI assistants like Alexa and Siri.

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Paul Edward Stamets is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and an advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation.

Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is a state network of PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations serving the U.S. state of Georgia. It is operated by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, an agency of the Georgia state government which holds the licenses for most of the PBS and NPR member stations licensed in the state. The broadcast signals of the nine television stations and 19 radio stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

YouTube channel: Yahoo Finance

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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham is an English author, motivational speaker and business consultant based in California.

Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. Formerly Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Co-author of the seminal AlexNet paper. Possibly the most consequential ML researcher alive.

The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. As of August 2025, The New York Times had 11.88 million total and 11.3 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 580,000 print subscribers. The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger. The Times is headquartered at The New York T

Take Care is the second studio album by the Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on November 15, 2011, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records. The album features guest appearances from the Weeknd, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Birdman, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Stevie Wonder, Lil Wayne, and André 3000. In addition to primary production from Drake and 40, further contributors include T-Minus, Chantal Kreviazuk, Boi-1da, Illangelo, Jamie xx, Supa Dups, Just Blaze, Chase N. Cashe, and Doc McKinney.

Gong Cha is a tea drink franchise founded in 2006 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

YouTube channel: Alex Hormozi

Laura DePuy is a colorist who has produced work for several of the major comics companies, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics and CrossGen.

YouTube channel: Greg Isenberg

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Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name in September 1961 after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla. He has reported on some of the most significant events of the modern age, such as from Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, 9/11, the Iraq War, and the war on terror.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the United States. It provides patient care, medical education, and research training through its 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes, including Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston Children's Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, McLean Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, The Baker Center for Children and Families, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and others.

Stanford neuroscience professor, host of Huberman Lab podcast. Tools for sleep, performance, focus, and health. Massive following.

Hires three people to help tweet and has the most organically-grown Twitter followers Scoble knows of. In Scoble roster.

Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways, and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between London and the Falkland Islands. Soon after changing the name to Virgin Atlantic Airways, Fields sold his shares in the company to Richard Branson in return for unlimited free travel. The maiden flight from London–Gatwick to Newark took place on 22 June 1984.

Former CTO of OpenAI. Key AI leader Scoble tracks in his AI founders and influencers lists.

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the twelfth-largest in the world. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mo

Ezra Klein is an American political commentator and journalist. He has been a New York Times columnist since 2021 and is the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast. He is a co-founder of Vox and was formerly the website's editor-at-large. He has held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC. Klein has written two books, both published by Simon & Schuster: Why We're Polarized in January 2020, and Abundance, cowritten with Derek Thompson, in March 2025.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking institution headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States, and the world's largest bank by market capitalization as of 2025. As the largest of the Big Four banks in America, the firm is considered systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Its size and scale have often led to enhanced regulatory oversight as well as the development of an internal "Fortress Balance Sheet". The firm has had its global headquarters on 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan since 2025.

Google Brain was a deep learning artificial intelligence research team that served as the sole AI branch of Google before being incorporated under the newer umbrella of Google AI, a research division at Google dedicated to artificial intelligence. Formed in 2011, it combined open-ended machine learning research with information systems and large-scale computing resources. It created tools such as TensorFlow, which allow neural networks to be used by the public, and multiple internal AI research projects, and aimed to create research opportunities in machine learning and natural language processing. It was merged into former Google sister company DeepMind to form Google DeepMind in April 2023.

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising both a nonprofit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), headquartered in San Francisco. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

YouTube channel: Asianometry

YouTube channel: Sequoia Capital

NYU journalism professor who keeps Scoble up to date on tech advances in journalism. Featured in multiple Scoble rosters.

visionOS is an extended reality operating system derived primarily from iPadOS and its core frameworks, and MR-specific frameworks for foveated rendering and real-time interaction. It was developed by Apple exclusively for its Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. It was unveiled on June 5, 2023, at Apple's WWDC23 event alongside the reveal of the Apple Vision Pro. The software released on February 2, 2024, shipping with the Apple Vision Pro.

YouTube channel: Arvind on AI

Marco Antonio Rubio is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 72nd United States secretary of state. He is also the acting national security advisor. A member of the Republican Party, Rubio represented Florida in the U.S. Senate from 2011 to 2025.

Runs the D Conference with Walt Mossberg and generally beats Scoble to all the good stories. Listed in top tech roster.

Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as a friendly, male-gendered counterpart to AI assistants like Alexa and Siri.

YouTube channel: Dwarkesh Patel

UNSW Sydney physicist. Founder of Silicon Quantum Computing. Pioneer of atomic-precision silicon qubits. 2018 Australian of the Year.

Everyone knows him in the social media world. Scoble listed him prominently in his top tech blogger and FriendFeed/social media roster.

Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan is an American attorney who served as the U.S. national security advisor from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden.

TU Delft / QuTech. Performed the first loophole-free Bell test (2015) using NV centers in diamond — the experiment that closed the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen debate. Diamond NV-center quantum networks.

IBM Research. Co-invented zero-noise extrapolation, the leading error mitigation technique making near-term (NISQ) quantum hardware useful before full fault tolerance.

University of Maryland. Theoretical condensed matter / Majorana theorist. Major contributor to the Majorana zero mode framework that underpins Microsoft's topological qubit program.

Adolfo Larrue Martínez III, credited as A Martinez, is an American actor and singer. He had roles in the daytime soap operas Santa Barbara, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives, and the primetime dramas L.A. Law, Profiler, Longmire and Dark Winds. His feature films include The Cowboys (1972), Powwow Highway (1989), Curse of Chucky (2013), Ambulance (2022) and Far Haven (2023).

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), commonly known as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance, and operates on a subscription model that requires readers to pay for access to most articles and other content. The Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.

Oxford University. Defined the universal quantum Turing machine (1985). Argued that the Church-Turing thesis must be reformulated in quantum-physical terms. The intellectual founder of quantum computation.

Quantum error correction and architecture researcher.

Princeton University. Neutral atom arrays with strontium and ytterbium. Leading work on optical-clock atoms as qubits — a route to qubits with seconds-long coherence times.

Quantinuum CEO. Founded Cambridge Quantum Computing in 2014, merged with Honeywell Quantum Solutions in 2021 to form Quantinuum. Built the first integrated quantum software/hardware stack.

IBM Research. Co-invented quantum teleportation (1993), the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol (1984, with Brassard), and laid the foundations of quantum information theory. Possibly the most-cited author in the field.

ETH Zurich. Major contributor to circuit QED experimental work. Built ETH's superconducting quantum processor program. First experimental observation of strong coupling in cQED.

Caltech. Neutral atom arrays with Rydberg gates. Likely path to 10K+ qubit machines. One of the technical leaders making neutral atoms a credible alternative to superconducting and trapped ion.

Founder of Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI). Built one of the first full-stack superconducting quantum cloud services. Pioneered hybrid quantum-classical workflow integration into HPC environments.

TU Delft / QuTech. Leads the European quantum internet initiative. Invented protocols for entanglement distribution over quantum networks. Co-author of the "stages of quantum internet development" roadmap.

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Leads China's national quantum effort. Built the Micius satellite (2016 — first satellite-based quantum key distribution). Co-led the Jiuzhang photonic quantum advantage demonstration (2020).

Atom Computing CEO and founder. Built the first 1000+ qubit neutral-atom quantum computer (2023). Pursuing optical-clock-style atom arrays as a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Yale University. Theoretical physicist behind circuit QED with Schoelkopf and Devoret. Authored the canonical introduction to circuit QED. Quantum many-body physics.

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, General Manager of Microsoft Quantum software. Leads Microsoft's Q# language, quantum compiler, and quantum algorithm development. Major contributor to fault-tolerant quantum compilation.

ETH Zurich. Quantum information theory, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum cryptography security proofs. Best known for proving the security of quantum key distribution protocols.

University of Washington / formerly Niels Bohr Institute / Microsoft Station Q. Experimental condensed matter physicist working on Majorana zero modes. Long-time leader of the topological qubit experimental effort.

University of Maryland. Co-invented the stabilizer formalism (1996) — the foundation of every quantum error correction code in use today. Author of the canonical PhD thesis on stabilizer codes.

Institut d'Optique, France. Co-founder of Pasqal (the European neutral-atom quantum company). Pioneer of Rydberg-atom array experiments. One of the architects of the neutral-atom approach to large-scale quantum.

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Co-invented the HHL algorithm (Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd, 2009) for quantum linear systems. One of the leading voices on the limits of quantum machine learning speedups.

Bell Labs / IIT. Invented Grover's algorithm (1996) — quadratic speedup for unstructured search. The second pillar of quantum algorithms after Shor.

Forschungszentrum Jülich / RWTH Aachen. Quantum error correction theory and complexity theory. Major contributor to the surface code and to the theoretical foundations of fault tolerance.

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Munich. Co-inventor (with Zoller) of the trapped-ion quantum computer proposal. Tensor network methods. One of the most-cited theorists in quantum information.

ETH Zurich. Computational chemistry at the quantum/classical interface. Serious quantum chemistry methods for catalysis, materials, and molecular simulation. The "real chemist's chemist" in quantum.

Quantinuum chief architect. Foundational work on ZX-calculus for quantum circuit reasoning. Co-developer of TKET, one of the most widely used quantum compilers.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Co-founder of Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta). One of the early proponents of Rydberg-blockade quantum gates in neutral atom arrays.

YouTube channel: Bg2 Pod

TU Delft / QuTech. Pioneer of silicon spin qubits and the original NMR Shor's algorithm demonstration (2001, IBM). One of the leading voices for silicon as a route to scalable quantum hardware.

Physician focused on longevity. Host of The Drive podcast. Author of Outlive. Influential voice on healthspan, exercise, nutrition, and prevention.

RIKEN R-CCS Director, leads Fugaku supercomputer (#1 worldwide 2020-2022). Driving Japan's national hybrid quantum-HPC integration program. Architect of the quantum-classical co-design strategy at Japanese scale.

MIT EECS, MIT Lincoln Lab. Director of MIT Center for Quantum Engineering. Superconducting qubit hardware + materials. One of the most cited working experimentalists on coherence-limit improvements.

Sean Stuart Cairncross is the National Cyber Director (NCD) of the United States. He is also an American lawyer that served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Senior Adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, and CEO for the Republican National Committee. He was nominated to be the National Cyber Director on February 11, 2025 and confirmed on August 2, 2025.

Quantum computing researcher focused on quantum control and hardware-aware compilation.

University of Innsbruck. Trapped-ion quantum computing pioneer. Co-founder of Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT). His group performed many of the foundational trapped-ion quantum logic demonstrations.

IBM Research, quantum computing. Leads gate calibration and benchmarking work that has driven IBM's steady reduction in error rates. Co-author on the randomized benchmarking protocols used industry-wide.

Caltech. Theoretical condensed matter, Majorana fermions. Major contributor to topological quantum computing theory. Reviews of Majorana-based qubit proposals.

University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing. Author of "The Theory of Quantum Information" — the canonical textbook on quantum information theory. Quantum complexity theory.

University of Innsbruck. Theoretical physicist. Co-invented (with Cirac) the original 1995 trapped-ion quantum computer proposal that launched the modality. Also co-developer of Rydberg-blockade gates for neutral atoms.

USTC. Co-led the Jiuzhang photonic quantum computing demonstrations claiming quantum advantage on Gaussian boson sampling (2020-2022). Most prominent Chinese photonic quantum hardware leader.

Quantum computing researcher, quantum compilers and microarchitecture.

Midas was a king of Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.

Quantum computing researcher at Q-CTRL, focus on control systems and error mitigation.

IBM Director of Quantum Hardware. Built the first cloud-accessible quantum processor (IBM Quantum Experience, 2016). Co-invented the cross-resonance gate that powers IBM's superconducting architecture.

Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as a friendly, male-gendered counterpart to AI assistants like Alexa and Siri.

Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto, with FTX having a global reach with more than 130 international affiliates. At the peak of his net worth, he was ranked the 41st-richest American in the Forbes 400.

Google Quantum AI, MIT (emeritus). Co-invented the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA, 2014) — the most studied near-term quantum optimization algorithm.

IonQ CEO. Ex-Amazon Prime engineering. Productized trapped-ion quantum computing into rack-mountable commercial systems. First quantum company to IPO via SPAC (2021).

Serverless compute for AI workloads. Founded by Erik Bernhardsson (ex-Spotify, built Luigi). $87M Series B, talks for Series C at $2.5B.

Co-founder of FriendFeed, former Salesforce co-CEO, AI and tech leader. In Scoble's early tech and modern AI rosters.

QuantWare CEO and co-founder. Building the "TSMC of qubits" — a Dutch superconducting qubit foundry selling chips to other quantum companies. Spinout from QuTech / TU Delft.

Builder of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer. Founded by Scott Wu, Walden Yan, Steven Hao. $400M at $10.2B valuation.

Yale University. Co-inventor of circuit QED. Pioneer of mesoscopic superconducting devices. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-founder of Quantum Circuits Inc.

Quantum computing researcher, fault-tolerant architectures.

Production inference platform for open-source models. $250M Series C. Founded by ex-Meta AI infra team.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Computational chemistry at the quantum-classical boundary. Bridges abstract quantum algorithms to actual HPC workloads in chemistry and materials science.

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Quantum computing researcher. Lead author on heterogeneous QC architecture work, Q-CTRL.

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister.

Quantum computing researcher, Q-CTRL. Focus on quantum control and machine learning for quantum systems.

CarPlay is an Apple standard that enables a car radio or automotive head unit to be a display and controller for an iOS device. It is available on iPhone 5 and later models running iOS 7.1 or later.

Guy who started Blogger and Twitter. Listed in Scoble's recommended Twitter users not on SUL but worth following.

Yale University. Co-invented circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) in 2004 with Devoret and Girvin — the architecture that powers every IBM, Google, Rigetti, and IQM superconducting quantum computer. Co-founder of Quantum Circuits Inc.