AI Founders List Spams Your Feed: Here's Why It Matters

A post on X from @ai_explorer25 shares "30 AI Founders You Should Follow," pairing each account with a one-line description of what they founded or where they work. The list includes Sam Altman (founded OpenAI), Arav Srinivas (founded Perplexity AI), Andrej Karpathy (ex-founding member at OpenAI), Dario Amodei (founded Anthropic), Demis Hassabis (founded DeepMind), Harrison Chase (founded LangChain), Brett Adcock (founded Figure AI), Andrew Ng (founded DeepLearning AI), Jeremy Howard (founded fast ai), Jim Fan (leads AI robotics at NVIDIA), Nat Friedman (ex-CEO of GitHub), swyx (founded Smol AI), levelsio (founded PhotoAI), François Chollet (founded Keras), Sebastian Raschka (described as an underrated ML educator), Elon Musk (founded xAI), Greg Brockman (co-founded OpenAI), Mustafa Suleyman (co-founded DeepMind), Reid Hoffman (co-founded Inflection AI), Yohei Nakajima (founded BabyAGI), Sarah Guo (founded Conviction), Aidan McLaughlin (co-founded Modal Labs), Satya Nadella (leading Microsoft's AI transformation), Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI), Logan Kilpatrick (AI developer relations at Google), Rowan Cheung (founded The Rundown AI), Ilya Sutskever (co-founded OpenAI), @ai_explorer25 (described as an underrated AI creator), Jeff Dean (leads AI research at Google DeepMind), Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist at Meta), and Clément Delangue (co-founded Hugging Face).

The post says following these accounts is "like getting a front-row seat to the AI revolution," and asks which AI account everyone should follow. Posted at 2:30 AM on Jun 17, 2026, it has 15.3K views.