Top 100 AI Data Experts to Follow

1. 01

   Alexandr Wang

   Chief AI Officer, Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta

   AI labs

   Founded Scale AI, the data-labeling company behind much frontier-lab training data, and now leads Meta's Superintelligence Labs after Meta's $14.3B Scale investment.

   @alexandr_wangLinkedIn
2. 02

   Edwin Chen

   Founder and CEO, Surge AI

   Data companies

   Founded Surge AI in 2020 and bootstrapped it to over $1B in revenue serving Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. Reported in talks to raise at a valuation above $25B in 2026.

   @echenLinkedInWebsite
3. 03

   Brendan Foody

   CEO and Co-founder, Mercor

   Data companies

   Co-founded Mercor, which connects domain experts with AI labs; valued at $10B after a $350M round led by Felicis (2025) and reported in talks at $20B in 2026. Acquired Sepal AI (Feb 2026) and Deeptune (Jul 2026).

   @BrendanFoodyLinkedInWebsite
4. 04

   Ali Ansari

   Founder and CEO, micro1

   Data companies

   Built micro1 into an expert-talent and AI training data supplier to labs. Reported raising $100M+ at a $4B valuation in September 2026 (Forbes).

   @aliansarinikLinkedInWebsite
5. 05

   Sam Altman

   CEO, OpenAI

   AI labs

   Leads the lab that signed the first wave of publisher and content data licensing deals and is a central voice in the training-data copyright debate.

   @samaLinkedInWebsite
6. 06

   Dario Amodei

   Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic

   AI labs

   CEO of Anthropic, which agreed in 2025 to a $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated books used in model training, one of the largest AI training data copyright settlements.

   LinkedIn
7. 07

   Francis deSouza

   CEO, Scale AI

   Data companies

   Appointed Scale AI CEO effective August 10, 2026, succeeding Jason Droege; previously COO of Google Cloud and Illumina CEO.

   @fdesouzaLinkedIn
8. 08

   Ari Morcos

   Co-founder and CEO, DatologyAI

   Data companies

   Former DeepMind and Meta FAIR researcher who founded DatologyAI to automate training-data curation; about $57M raised including a $46M Series A.

   @arimorcosLinkedInWebsite
9. 09

   Matthew Prince

   Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare

   Investors and dealmakers

   Launched Pay Per Crawl in July 2025 so sites can charge AI crawlers via HTTP 402, and has pressed Google to separate AI training from search crawling.

   @eastdakota
10. 10

    Steve Huffman

    Co-founder and CEO, Reddit

    Data companies

    Runs Reddit's AI data licensing, with 2024 Google and OpenAI deals and renewal talks reported in July 2026.

    LinkedIn
11. 11

    Jonathan Siddharth

    CEO and Co-founder, Turing

    Data companies

    Leads Turing, a coding and expert-data provider to OpenAI and other labs; raised a $111M Series E at a $2.2B valuation in March 2025 led by Khazanah.

    LinkedInWebsite
12. 12

    Garrett Lord

    Co-founder and CEO, Handshake

    Data companies

    Pivoted Handshake into Handshake AI, an expert-data business reportedly near $1B in annualized gross revenue by April 2026 (Sacra estimate).

    @GarrettLordLinkedIn
13. 13

    Bobby Samuels

    Co-founder and CEO, Protege

    Data companies

    Built Protege to license healthcare, media and other private data to AI developers; raised a $30M a16z-led Series A extension in January 2026 ($65M total). Formerly of Datavant and LiveRamp.

    LinkedInWebsite
14. 14

    Aravind Srinivas

    Co-founder and CEO, Perplexity

    AI labs

    Launched Perplexity's Publishers Program and the Comet Plus revenue share that pays publishers for content use in AI answers.

    @AravSrinivasLinkedIn
15. 15

    Clement Delangue

    Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face

    AI labs

    Runs the platform that hosts most open training datasets (500,000+ datasets). Nvidia confirmed in September 2026 a roughly $12.9B deal to acquire Hugging Face, expected to close in H1 2027, with Delangue and the founding team staying.

    @ClementDelangueLinkedIn
16. 16

    Shayne Longpre

    Member of Technical Staff (MIT PhD, Data Provenance Initiative founder), Anthropic

    Research and analysis

    Leads the Data Provenance Initiative, whose audit of dataset licensing and attribution appeared in Nature Machine Intelligence, and co-authored 'Consent in Crisis' on web crawling restrictions.

    @ShayneRedfordLinkedInWebsite
17. 17

    Jaime Sevilla

    CEO, Epoch AI

    Research and analysis

    Co-founded Epoch AI, whose research on dataset sizes and the projected exhaustion of public human text ('Will we run out of data?') shaped the AI data scaling debate.

    @JsevillamolWebsite
18. 18

    Andrej Karpathy

    Member of Technical Staff (pretraining), Anthropic

    AI labs

    Joined Anthropic on May 19, 2026 (pretraining team) and paused Eureka Labs; frequent public commentator on training data quality and synthetic data.

    @karpathyLinkedInWebsite
19. 19

    Mira Murati

    Founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab

    AI labs

    Former OpenAI CTO who founded Thinking Machines, which focuses on post-training and customization using customer data.

    @miramuratiLinkedIn
20. 20

    Demis Hassabis

    Chair, Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist, Alphabet, Google DeepMind / Alphabet

    AI labs

    Stepped down as Google DeepMind CEO on August 5, 2026 to become chair of DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist; Koray Kavukcuoglu now runs the lab. He shaped Google's approach to proprietary and synthetic data for Gemini and AlphaFold-style scientific datasets.

    @demishassabisLinkedIn
21. 21

    Alex Ratner

    Co-founder and CEO, Snorkel AI

    Data companies

    Started the Snorkel project at Stanford; Snorkel reportedly raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation (led by Insight Partners and S32) with run-rate revenue over $350M.

    @ajratnerLinkedInWebsite
22. 22

    Manu Sharma

    Founder and CEO, Labelbox

    Data companies

    Co-founded Labelbox in 2018; the platform and its expert-labeling service supply data to AI labs (about $50M 2024 revenue per Latka estimate).

    @manuaeroLinkedInWebsite
23. 23

    Matt Fitzpatrick

    CEO, Invisible Technologies

    Data companies

    Named Invisible CEO in January 2025 after leading McKinsey's QuantumBlack Labs; still quoted as CEO in a March 2026 release on the WeCP acquisition.

    @Matt_FitzpatLinkedIn
24. 24

    Trip Adler

    Co-founder and CEO, Created by Humans

    Data companies

    Scribd co-founder who launched Created by Humans, an AI rights licensing marketplace for authors, with $5M seed funding and an Authors Guild partnership.

    LinkedInWebsite
25. 25

    Toshit Panigrahi

    CEO and Co-founder, TollBit

    Investors and dealmakers

    TollBit lets publishers monetize AI bot access and publishes the quarterly State of the AI Bots report on crawler traffic and robots.txt bypassing.

    LinkedIn
26. 26

    Bill Gross

    Founder and CEO, ProRata.ai

    Investors and dealmakers

    Built ProRata and Gist.ai, which answers only from licensed content and shares 50 percent of ad revenue with publishers; 500+ publication partners announced in 2025.

    @Bill_GrossLinkedIn
27. 27

    Ali Ghodsi

    CEO and Co-founder, Databricks

    Investors and dealmakers

    Runs Databricks, the data and AI platform, and is a vocal advocate of enterprise data as the key AI asset; publicly frames rivalry with Snowflake around AI.

    LinkedInWebsite
28. 28

    Arthur Mensch

    Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI

    AI labs

    Led Mistral's content deal with AFP for Le Chat and has proposed a revenue-based levy to fund European creators whose work is used in AI training.

    @arthurmenschLinkedIn
29. 29

    Aidan Gomez

    Co-founder and CEO, Cohere

    AI labs

    Co-author of the Transformer paper and CEO of Cohere, which builds enterprise models and agreed in April 2026 to combine with Germany's Aleph Alpha (business combination agreement announced September 2026, pending approvals).

    @aidangomezLinkedInWebsite
30. 30

    Mustafa Suleyman

    CEO, Microsoft AI, Microsoft

    AI labs

    Leads Microsoft AI and drew widespread attention in 2024 for saying openly published web content is effectively fair game for training, a flashpoint in the data-rights debate.

    @mustafasuleymanLinkedIn
31. 31

    Thomas Wolf

    Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face

    AI labs

    Co-author of the FineWeb paper and a leading voice on open datasets and open model training.

    @Thom_WolfLinkedInWebsite
32. 32

    Stella Biderman

    Executive Director, EleutherAI

    Research and analysis

    Leads EleutherAI, creator of The Pile dataset and the Pythia model suite, and works on open, documented training data.

    @BlancheMinervaLinkedIn
33. 33

    Nathan Lambert

    Co-founder and Executive Director, Trillium Labs

    AI labs

    Led post-training on Olmo 2 and 3 and Tulu at Ai2 until June 2026, then co-founded Trillium Labs, a nonprofit for open science of frontier AI. Author of The RLHF Book and the Interconnects newsletter, the main public explainer of RLHF and preference data.

    @natolambertLinkedInWebsite
34. 34

    Greg Brockman

    Co-founder and President, OpenAI

    AI labs

    OpenAI co-founder and president; OpenAI is one of the largest buyers of licensed training and news content and a defendant in several copyright suits over training data.

    @gdbLinkedIn
35. 35

    Jack Clark

    Co-founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic

    AI labs

    Anthropic co-founder who writes the Import AI newsletter; since March 2026 leads the Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank on the societal impact of powerful AI, after building Anthropic's policy team.

    @jackclarkSF
36. 36

    Brad Lightcap

    Former Chief Operating Officer (departed August 2026), OpenAI

    AI labs

    As OpenAI COO he oversaw business operations during its content licensing deals with publishers such as News Corp and Axel Springer; moved to a special-projects role in April 2026 and announced his departure in August 2026.

    LinkedIn
37. 37

    Neil Vogel

    CEO, People Inc.

    Investors and dealmakers

    Signed People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) to OpenAI and as launch partner of Microsoft's publisher content marketplace; uses Cloudflare to block crawlers and force negotiation.

    LinkedIn
38. 38

    Robert Thomson

    CEO, News Corp

    Investors and dealmakers

    Led News Corp's May 2024 multi-year OpenAI licensing deal, reported by the WSJ at over $250 million across five years.

    LinkedIn
39. 39

    Mathias Doepfner

    Chairman and CEO, Axel Springer

    Investors and dealmakers

    Struck Axel Springer's December 2023 OpenAI licensing deal and a follow-on Microsoft partnership; has said anyone using news data must pay for it.
40. 40

    Craig Peters

    CEO, Getty Images

    Investors and dealmakers

    Sued Stability AI over training data and has signed AI licensing deals, including Perplexity in October 2025; the planned Shutterstock merger was terminated in July 2026.

    LinkedIn
41. 41

    Daniela Braga

    Founder and CEO, Defined.ai

    Data companies

    Founded Defined.ai in 2015, a marketplace for ethically sourced AI training data; ISO 42001 certified and expanding to Riyadh.

    LinkedIn
42. 42

    Phelim Bradley

    Co-founder and CEO, Prolific

    Data companies

    Co-founded Prolific, a participant and human-data platform that shifted into AI training data; Sacra estimates $350M annualized revenue in April 2026.

    LinkedInWebsite
43. 43

    Olga Megorskaya

    Founder and CEO, Toloka

    Data companies

    Leads Toloka, an AI data and evaluation company that took a $72M investment led by Bezos Expeditions; Mikhail Parakhin is executive chair.

    LinkedIn
44. 44

    Radha Basu

    Founder; Executive Vice President, Head of iMerit at EXL, iMerit (EXL)

    Data companies

    Founded iMerit; EXL completed its acquisition in 2026 and she now leads iMerit as an EXL executive vice president.

    @RadhaRBasuLinkedInWebsite
45. 45

    Wendy Gonzalez

    CEO, Sama

    Data companies

    CEO since 2020 of Sama, a B Corp providing data annotation and model evaluation; raised a $70M Series B in 2021. No 2026 announcement found; listed as a September 2026 HumanX speaker.

    LinkedInWebsite
46. 46

    Ryan Kolln

    CEO and Managing Director, Appen

    Data companies

    Appen CEO since February 2024; H1 FY26 results (August 2026) showed 17% revenue growth and Appen China above a $175M run-rate.
47. 47

    Prashanth Chandrasekar

    CEO, Stack Overflow

    Data companies

    Leads Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI data licensing business, including the May 2024 OpenAI deal and Google partnership.

    @pchandrasekarLinkedIn
48. 48

    James Smith

    Senior Director of Product, AI Content Monetization (co-founder of Human Native), Cloudflare

    Data companies

    Co-founded Human Native, the UK AI data marketplace Cloudflare acquired in January 2026; now leads AI content monetization product work at Cloudflare.
49. 49

    Doug Leeds

    Co-CEO and Co-founder, RSL Collective

    Investors and dealmakers

    Co-founded the RSL Collective and Really Simple Licensing standard (launched September 2025; 1.0 became an official standard in December 2025).

    @leedsdougLinkedIn
50. 50

    Eckart Walther

    Co-founder; Chair, RSL Technical Steering Committee, RSL Collective

    Investors and dealmakers

    Co-creator of RSS and co-founder of Really Simple Licensing, the open standard for setting AI crawler licensing terms.
51. 51

    Adarsh Hiremath

    Co-founder and CTO, Mercor

    Data companies

    Co-founder of Mercor and a Thiel Fellow; Forbes estimated each Mercor founder held about 22% at the $10B valuation.

    @adarsh_exeLinkedInWebsite
52. 52

    Surya Midha

    Co-founder and Board Chairman, Mercor

    Data companies

    Co-founded Mercor with Foody and Hiremath and chairs its board; named among the world's youngest self-made billionaires by Forbes.

    @suryamidhaLinkedInWebsite
53. 53

    Vijay Krishnan

    Co-founder and CTO, Turing

    Data companies

    Co-founded Turing and leads its technology, including the LLM training and evaluation data business.

    LinkedInWebsite
54. 54

    Francis Pedraza

    Founder and Executive Chairman, Invisible Technologies

    Data companies

    Founded Invisible, which provides AI training and process data services; moved to executive chairman when Fitzpatrick became CEO (no longer CEO).

    LinkedIn
55. 55

    Dave Davis

    General Manager, Protege Media (former CEO, Calliope Networks), Protege

    Data companies

    Founded Calliope Networks, which ran the YouTube 'License to Scrape' creator licensing program, then joined Protege after it acquired Calliope to run video and media licensing.
56. 56

    Serena Ge

    Co-founder and CEO, Datacurve

    Data companies

    Co-founded Datacurve, which sells expert coding data to AI labs via an engineer bounty platform; raised a $15M Series A in October 2025.

    LinkedInWebsite
57. 57

    Rukesh Reddy

    Founder and CEO, Deccan AI

    Data companies

    Founded Deccan AI, an India-workforce AI data and post-training company that raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners in March 2026.

    LinkedInWebsite
58. 58

    Joelle Pineau

    Chief AI Officer, Cohere

    AI labs

    Former head of Meta FAIR, now Cohere's Chief AI Officer, and a longtime advocate for reproducibility and transparency in how models and datasets are documented.

    @jpineau1LinkedInWebsite
59. 59

    Loubna Ben Allal

    Research Engineer, leads SmolLM, Hugging Face

    AI labs

    Leads SmolLM and helped build FineWeb-Edu and the BigCode datasets (The Stack), showing how quality-filtered data lets small models punch above their weight.

    @LoubnaBenAllal1LinkedInWebsite
60. 60

    Leandro von Werra

    Head of Research, Hugging Face

    AI labs

    Co-author of FineWeb and creator of the TRL library; leads the Hugging Face research team working on large open pretraining and post-training datasets.

    @lvwerraLinkedInWebsite
61. 61

    Yacine Jernite

    Head of Machine Learning and Society, Hugging Face

    AI labs

    Co-organized BigScience data governance and leads Hugging Face work on data documentation, consent and governance tooling.

    @YJerniteLinkedInWebsite
62. 62

    Margaret Mitchell

    Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face

    AI labs

    Created Model Cards and Data Cards and works on data governance and consent in ML datasets.

    @mmitchell_aiLinkedIn
63. 63

    Luca Soldaini

    Member of Technical Staff (MAI-Thinking models), Microsoft AI

    AI labs

    Led the Dolma open pretraining corpus and co-led Olmo at Ai2 until early 2026, when he joined Microsoft AI to work on scalable data methods for MAI-Thinking models.

    @soldniLinkedInWebsite
64. 64

    Kyle Lo

    Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI

    AI labs

    Core author of Dolma and co-lead of Olmo at Ai2 (pretraining data curation and documentation); moved to Microsoft AI's Superintelligence team in 2026.

    @kylelostatLinkedInWebsite
65. 65

    Hanna Hajishirzi

    Professor, University of Washington; member of Microsoft AI Superintelligence team (formerly Senior Director, Ai2), Microsoft AI

    AI labs

    Co-led the fully open OLMo and Tulu efforts at Ai2, which released training data alongside weights; joined Microsoft AI's Superintelligence team in March 2026 while keeping her UW professorship. Exact Microsoft title not published.

    @HannaHajishirziLinkedInWebsite
66. 66

    John Schulman

    Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab

    AI labs

    OpenAI co-founder who led development of RLHF and ChatGPT post-training, the human-feedback data pipeline behind modern assistants.

    @johnschulman2Website
67. 67

    Ilya Sutskever

    Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.

    AI labs

    Told NeurIPS 2024 that the industry has hit peak data, comparing training data to fossil fuel.

    @ilyasutLinkedIn
68. 68

    Elon Musk

    Founder, xAI (acquired by SpaceX, February 2026)

    AI labs

    Has said publicly that real-world human data for training has been exhausted and that synthetic data is the way forward; xAI trains on X posts and was acquired by SpaceX in February 2026.

    @elonmusk
69. 69

    Jeff Dean

    Co-founder, Discovery Loop (formerly Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research), Discovery Loop

    AI labs

    Left Google on August 5, 2026 after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public-benefit corporation for AI-accelerated science. He built much of the large-scale training systems and data pipelines behind Google Brain and Gemini.

    @jeffdeanLinkedIn
70. 70

    Bryan Catanzaro

    VP, Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA

    AI labs

    Leads NVIDIA's Nemotron open-model program, which publishes open training datasets and synthetic data pipelines.

    @ctnzrLinkedIn
71. 71

    Sebastien Bubeck

    Researcher, OpenAI

    AI labs

    Led Microsoft's Phi small models trained on curated and synthetic textbook-style data, then joined OpenAI in late 2024.

    @SebastienBubeckLinkedIn
72. 72

    Sara Hooker

    Co-founder and CEO, Adaption Labs

    AI labs

    Former head of Cohere Labs whose research covers data quality, synthetic data and multilingual data curation.

    @sarahookrLinkedInWebsite
73. 73

    Sridhar Ramaswamy

    CEO, Snowflake

    Investors and dealmakers

    Became Snowflake CEO in 2024 after Snowflake bought his startup Neeva; has pushed Snowflake toward AI and data-sharing deals.

    LinkedIn
74. 74

    Danielle Coffey

    President and CEO, News/Media Alliance

    Investors and dealmakers

    Testified to the Senate in 2024 on compensating publishers for AI use; the Alliance sued Cohere and runs AI content licensing programming.
75. 75

    Jason Kint

    CEO, Digital Content Next

    Investors and dealmakers

    Leads the trade group of premium digital publishers and is a frequent commentator on AI content licensing and platform power.

    @Jason_KintLinkedIn
76. 76

    Travis May

    Co-founder and Chairman, Protege

    Investors and dealmakers

    Serial data-licensing founder (LiveRamp, Datavant) who co-founded Protege with Bobby Samuels in 2024.

    LinkedIn
77. 77

    Daisy Wolf

    Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

    Investors and dealmakers

    Leads health tech investing at a16z and sits on Protege's board after a16z led its $30M round for AI data licensing.

    @daisydwolf
78. 78

    Viv Faga

    Partner, Felicis

    Investors and dealmakers

    Co-led Felicis's $46M Series A in DatologyAI (data curation for AI training) in May 2024.

    @vivfagaLinkedIn
79. 79

    Astasia Myers

    Partner, Felicis

    Investors and dealmakers

    Co-led Felicis's $46M Series A in DatologyAI in May 2024 and writes on AI and data infrastructure.

    @AstasiaMyersLinkedIn
80. 80

    Elad Gil

    Investor, Independent

    Investors and dealmakers

    Early investor in AI companies including DatologyAI, which he joined in its $46M Series A.

    @eladgilWebsite
81. 81

    Victor Lazarte

    Founder and General Partner, VL Fund (formerly Benchmark)

    Investors and dealmakers

    Led Benchmark's Series A in Mercor in 2024 (with Bill Gurley) and joined its board; left Benchmark in July 2025 to start his own firm.

    LinkedIn
82. 82

    Thani Shamsi

    Founder and CEO, Datarade

    Investors and dealmakers

    Founded Datarade in Berlin in 2018, a data marketplace with 2,000+ data providers across 500+ categories.
83. 83

    Anna Kazlauskas

    Co-founder and CEO, Vana

    Investors and dealmakers

    Builds Vana, where users pool personal data into data DAOs and own the AI models trained on it; 1M+ contributors reported.

    LinkedIn
84. 84

    Dan Goikhman

    CEO, Dappier

    Investors and dealmakers

    Runs Dappier, a pay-per-query marketplace for publishers to license content to LLM builders; $2M seed led by Silverton Partners in 2024.

    LinkedIn
85. 85

    Paul Hennessy

    CEO, Shutterstock

    Investors and dealmakers

    Shutterstock earned $104M from AI data licensing in 2023 under deals with OpenAI, Meta and others; the planned Getty Images merger was terminated in July 2026 after UK CMA objections.
86. 86

    Pablo Villalobos

    Research Scholar, GovAI

    Research and analysis

    Lead author of Epoch AI's 'Will we run out of data?' study projecting when public text stock is fully used for training; previously Epoch researcher on LLM scaling.
87. 87

    Guilherme Penedo

    Machine Learning Research Engineer, Hugging Face

    Research and analysis

    Core author of the FineWeb and FineWeb-Edu pretraining datasets and the datatrove processing library.

    @gui_penedoLinkedInWebsite
88. 88

    Percy Liang

    Professor of Computer Science; Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models, Stanford University

    Research and analysis

    Founding director of Stanford CRFM, behind the HELM evaluation and the Foundation Model Transparency Index, which scores disclosure of training data.

    @percyliang
89. 89

    Christopher Re

    Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

    Research and analysis

    Stanford MacArthur fellow known for data-centric AI, weak supervision (Snorkel) and data-efficiency research; co-founded Lattice.io, acquired by Apple.

    @HazyResearch
90. 90

    Ludwig Schmidt

    Assistant Professor; Member of Technical Staff, Stanford University / Anthropic

    Research and analysis

    Co-led DataComp and DataComp-LM (DCLM), benchmarks for dataset curation, and worked on OpenCLIP and LAION-5B.

    LinkedInWebsite
91. 91

    Pratyush Maini

    Founding Member; incoming Assistant Professor (Cornell Tech, Spring 2027), DatologyAI

    Research and analysis

    Works on data curation and synthetic data for pretraining (rephrasing the web) and training data memorization and attribution.

    @pratyushmainiLinkedInWebsite
92. 92

    Vaishaal Shankar

    Research scientist, Apple

    Research and analysis

    Co-led DataComp-LM (DCLM) release of open data, weights and code in 2024 and announced Apple's open DCLM models; current employer not re-verified for 2026.

    LinkedInWebsite
93. 93

    Dylan Patel

    Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis

    Research and analysis

    Runs SemiAnalysis, the research firm whose reports on AI compute, scaling and data center buildouts are widely cited by labs and investors.

    @dylan522p
94. 94

    Alex Reisner

    Writer, The Atlantic

    Research and analysis

    Revealed the contents of Books3 and built a searchable LibGen database showing pirated books used to train Meta and other models.

    Website
95. 95

    Ed Newton-Rex

    Founder of Fairly Trained; Visiting Research Fellow, Fairly Trained / King's College London

    Research and analysis

    Founded Fairly Trained, which certifies generative AI models trained on licensed data, and organized the Statement on AI Training signed by tens of thousands.

    @ednewtonrexBlueskyWebsite
96. 96

    Pamela Samuelson

    Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

    Research and analysis

    Leading copyright scholar on generative AI; wrote in Science on whether training on copyrighted works is infringement and fair use.

    @PamelaSamuelson
97. 97

    Matthew Sag

    Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, Emory University School of Law

    Research and analysis

    Testified to the Senate in 2023 that training on copyrighted works is typically non-expressive fair use; author of 'Copyright Safety for Generative AI'.

    LinkedInWebsite
98. 98

    Peter Henderson

    Assistant Professor (Computer Science and SPIA), Princeton University

    Research and analysis

    Lead author of 'Foundation Models and Fair Use' and co-author with Mark Lemley on AI terms of use restrictions.

    @PeterHndrsnBlueskyWebsite
99. 99

    Pierre-Carl Langlais

    Co-founder, Pleias

    Research and analysis

    Leads Common Corpus, a multilingual open pretraining dataset of public domain and permissively licensed text with per-document provenance.

    @Dorialexander
100. 100

     Rich Skrenta

     Executive Director, Common Crawl Foundation

     Research and analysis

     Runs Common Crawl, the web archive underlying most LLM pretraining corpora (C4, FineWeb); publicly responded in Nov 2025 to a critical Atlantic article.

     @skrentaLinkedIn

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