There are no doubt hundreds of influential individuals in the AI space, and this list isn't intended to be exhaustive, but merely serves as a starting point for awareness of the industry players relevant to this course, and perhaps a minimum of ones to watch.

Notable Companies

• OpenAI
• Hugging Face
• Meta
• Google
• Microsoft
• Mistral.AI

Notable Research Groups

• Meta AI
• Google Deepmind
• Technology Innovation Institute
• Stanford

Notable People

• Andrew Ng
• Andrej Karpathy