AI Superstars: Profiles of People Building Today's AI Tools

Updated 2026-10-12Needs owner review

These profiles are factual and sourced. Every claim links to a public source, and we don’t publish private details. Where we add our own analysis, it’s labeled.

Profiles

• Lauren Tan: engineer working on Grok Bot and Cursor at SpaceXAI; React Compiler core team. (Needs owner review.)

Planned profiles (TODO owner: choose, then research with sources)

• Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
• Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg)
• Simon Willison (@simonw)

Profile standards

1. Only facts verifiable from public sources, each cited.
2. No home locations, family details, or other private information.
3. Analysis is labeled as eTarget’s opinion.
4. Profiles are re-checked at least every six months.