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Top 200 AI KOLs on X + Bio/Drug-Discovery Benchmark Watchlist

A timestamped scouting report for outreach and monitoring: a top-200 AI KOL map on X with technical/semi-technical labels, plus a focused benchmark watchlist for AI models in drug discovery, biotechnology, chemistry, biology, and scientific agents.

200top AI KOLs/accounts
114technical
69semi-technical
32bio/DD benchmark KOLs
2026-07-10snapshot date

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Top 200 AI KOLs on X

Use the filter to isolate the more technical research/engineering/evals accounts for DDDBench/MMAI-style outreach.

#1Elon Musk

@elonmusk
~240.7M followers
Semi-technicalxAI / X platform

Massive X-native reach; Grok/xAI announcements and AI platform narrative.

Technical rationale: xAI/Grok strategy and technical/product narratives, but mostly founder/platform distribution

#2Sam Altman

@sama
~5.4M followers
Semi-technicalOpenAI / frontier AI CEO

OpenAI narrative-setter and frontier-model launch signal.

Technical rationale: Strategic lab and product framing rather than code-level posts

#3Lex Fridman

@lexfridman
~5.0M followers
Semi-technicalAI podcast / public discourse

Long-form AI interviews bridging researchers, founders, and policy.

Technical rationale: Technical interviews, broad public audience

#4Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy
~3.2M followers
TechnicalAI researcher / educator

One of the highest signal technical AI explainers on X.

Technical rationale: Posts deep model intuition, training, code, and technical education

#5Andrew Ng

@AndrewYNg
~1.5–1.6M followers
TechnicalAI education / applied ML

Major applied-AI educator and practitioner influence.

Technical rationale: Applied ML, data-centric AI, courses, technical practice

#6Kai-Fu Lee

@kaifulee
~1.4M followers
Semi-technicalAI investor / 01.AI

China/global AI strategy and commercialization voice.

Technical rationale: Strategic AI and commercialization, occasionally model/company technical context

#7Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis
~1.3M followers
TechnicalGoogle DeepMind CEO

High-authority AI-for-science and AGI lab voice.

Technical rationale: Science-AI, DeepMind research, AlphaFold/Gemini technical context

#8Yann LeCun

@ylecun
~0.94–1.2M followers
TechnicalMeta AI / Turing laureate

Major technical counterweight to LLM-scaling consensus.

Technical rationale: Research debates on world models, self-supervised learning, architectures

#9Greg Brockman

@gdb
~0.63–1.0M followers
Semi-technicalOpenAI cofounder/president

OpenAI product/research amplification.

Technical rationale: Demos and product/research amplification, less code-level

#10Ilya Sutskever

@ilyasut
~760.9K followers
TechnicalSSI / frontier research

Rare posts carry frontier-lab/research weight.

Technical rationale: Foundational LLM researcher; rare but technical significance

#11Mira Murati

@miramurati
~742.1K followers
Semi-technicalThinking Machines Lab

New frontier-lab founder and ex-OpenAI CTO.

Technical rationale: Lab/product strategy from technical leadership background

#12Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas
~800.6K followers
Semi-technicalPerplexity CEO

AI search and consumer-AI distribution leader.

Technical rationale: AI search/product strategy with some model context

#13Fei-Fei Li

@drfeifei
~632–781K followers
TechnicalWorld Labs / Stanford

Major AI research and human-centered AI authority.

Technical rationale: Computer vision, spatial intelligence, AI healthcare/policy

#14François Chollet

@fchollet
~566–704K followers
TechnicalKeras / ARC-AGI

Important benchmark/reasoning voice.

Technical rationale: Reasoning benchmarks, Keras, AGI critique, architecture debates

#15Geoffrey Hinton

@geoffreyhinton
~489–618K followers
TechnicalDeep learning pioneer

High-authority voice on deep learning and AI risk.

Technical rationale: Foundational deep-learning researcher

#16Dario Amodei

@DarioAmodei
~478.6K followers
Semi-technicalAnthropic CEO

Claude/frontier AI strategy and safety framing.

Technical rationale: Frontier lab strategy/safety, not frequent code-level posting

#17Jeff Dean

@JeffDean
~361–448K followers
TechnicalGoogle DeepMind / Google Research

Elite systems + ML research credibility.

Technical rationale: Systems ML, scaling, Gemini/Google research

#18Clément Delangue

@ClementDelangue
~452.1K followers
Semi-technicalHugging Face CEO

Open-source AI distribution and community leader.

Technical rationale: Open-source model ecosystem/product strategy

#19Alexandr Wang

@alexandr_wang
~541.7K followers
Semi-technicalMeta AI / Scale founder

Data, evals, and enterprise AI influence.

Technical rationale: AI data/evals/enterprise strategy

#20Jim Fan

@DrJimFan
~435–486K followers
TechnicalNVIDIA robotics / agents

High-signal physical AGI and robotics commentator.

Technical rationale: Robotics, simulation, embodied agents, model systems

~500.4K followers
Semi-technicalAI paper aggregator

Important AI paper discovery/amplification account.

Technical rationale: Research-paper firehose; mostly aggregation

#22Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt
~476K followers
TechnicalML/LLM educator

Hands-on LLM training and architecture education.

Technical rationale: Implementation-level LLM/ML tutorials

#23Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala
~247–311K followers
TechnicalPyTorch / Meta

PyTorch ecosystem credibility.

Technical rationale: Open-source ML framework engineering

#24Lilian Weng

@lilianweng
~88–267K followers
TechnicalAI research / agents / safety

Widely cited technical explainer.

Technical rationale: Canonical technical essays on agents, RLHF, safety

#25Jeremy Howard

@jeremyphoward
~236–289K followers
Technicalfast.ai / Answer.AI

Applied technical AI education and open models.

Technical rationale: Practical model training, pedagogy, open-source AI

#26Emad Mostaque

@EMostaque
~328.3K followers
Semi-technicalStability AI founder

Open-source AI and generative media commentary.

Technical rationale: Open model strategy and ecosystem commentary

#27Lior / AlphaSignal

@AlphaSignalAI
~80.4K followers
Semi-technicalAI R&D newsletter

AI R&D paper/news amplification.

Technical rationale: Technical research curation rather than original research

#28Logan Kilpatrick

@OfficialLoganK
~339.2K followers
Semi-technicalGoogle AI Studio / devrel

Developer-facing AI launch signal.

Technical rationale: API/model developer-relations updates

#29Simon Willison

@simonw
~154.5K followers
TechnicalDeveloper / AI tooling analyst

Top practical technical evaluator of LLM tools.

Technical rationale: Hands-on testing, code, model behavior, security

#30Hamel Husain

@HamelHusain
n/a followers
TechnicalAI evals / applied LLM systems

High-signal practitioner voice on AI evals.

Technical rationale: Evals, product quality, production LLM systems

#31Aidan McLaughlin

@aidan_mclau
~47.8K followers
TechnicalOpenAI research

Useful model-design and frontier-lab research signal.

Technical rationale: Frontier model design/research perspective

#32Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian
~315.7K followers
TechnicalDeep learning researcher

Foundational ML researcher.

Technical rationale: GANs and deep learning research

#33Oriol Vinyals

@oriolvinyalsml
~182.4K followers
TechnicalGoogle DeepMind research

Major DeepMind technical leader.

Technical rationale: Gemini, AlphaCode, sequence models

#34Nando de Freitas

@NandoDF
~108.9K followers
TechnicalMicrosoft AI / ex-DeepMind

High-credibility research voice.

Technical rationale: Deep learning and superintelligence research

#35Abhishek Thakur

@abhi1thakur
~83.1K followers
TechnicalKaggle / Hugging Face AutoTrain

Applied ML competition and tooling expert.

Technical rationale: Kaggle, AutoML, model-building practice

#36Rowan Cheung

@rowancheung
~563.6K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI newsletter / curator

Large AI news distribution channel.

Technical rationale: News/tool curation, not usually technical depth

#37Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer
~536.6K followers
Non-technical / media-businessTech futurist / AI commentator

Broad technology/AI reach.

Technical rationale: Technology commentary and amplification

#38Kirk Borne

@KirkDBorne
~455.1K followers
Semi-technicalData science / AI influencer

Large data/AI amplification account.

Technical rationale: Data science/AI curation; PhD background

#39Ronald van Loon

@Ronald_vanLoon
~337.6K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI/data influencer

Large B2B AI/data reach.

Technical rationale: Business/AI content and amplification

#40Timnit Gebru

@timnitGebru
~162.1K followers
Semi-technicalAI ethics / DAIR

Influential AI ethics/accountability voice.

Technical rationale: AI accountability research and policy

#41Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus
~213.5K followers
Semi-technicalAI critic / cognitive scientist

Influential skeptical AI commentator.

Technical rationale: Critiques of deep learning and LLM limits

#42Erik Brynjolfsson

@erikbryn
~210.2K followers
Semi-technicalAI economics / Stanford

Important AI-economics KOL.

Technical rationale: AI productivity and economics research

#43Paul Couvert

@itsPaulAi
~191.1K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI educator / tools

Large AI tools/tutorial audience.

Technical rationale: Tool/use-case education, usually not deep technical

#44Pascal Bornet

@pascal_bornet
~158.1K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI automation author

AI automation business influencer.

Technical rationale: Business automation/AI commentary

#45Vincent Boucher

@ceobillionaire
~153.7K followers
Semi-technicalMontreal AI / AGI commentator

AI community amplification.

Technical rationale: AI/AGI commentary and community account

#46Bernard Marr

@bernardmarr
~138.7K followers
Non-technical / media-businessTech futurist / author

Broad enterprise AI reach.

Technical rationale: Business tech/AI thought leadership

#47Data Chaz

@DataChaz
~114.1K followers
Semi-technicalDeveloper advocate / Streamlit

Practical AI/data app educator.

Technical rationale: Python/data apps/LLM developer content

#48Randy Olson

@randal_olson
~110.7K followers
Semi-technicalData science / visualization

Technical-ish data science influencer.

Technical rationale: Data science and visualization content

#49Jürgen Schmidhuber

@SchmidhuberAI
~98.1K followers
TechnicalAI researcher

Longstanding ML research figure.

Technical rationale: Deep learning history and research claims

#50AI Tool Report

@AIToolReport
~85.2K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI tools newsletter

AI tools distribution channel.

Technical rationale: AI tools/news aggregation

#51Kate Crawford

@katecrawford
~82.3K followers
Semi-technicalAI ethics / policy researcher

Major AI ethics scholar.

Technical rationale: Sociotechnical AI research and policy

#52Nathan Lands

@nathanlands
~77.3K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI investor / podcast

AI startup/media reach.

Technical rationale: Investor/media commentary

#53Pedro Domingos

@pmddomingos
~74.3K followers
TechnicalML professor / author

Recognized ML academic voice.

Technical rationale: ML theory and AI commentary

#54Allie Miller

@alliekmiller
~71.7K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI business speaker

Broad AI business audience.

Technical rationale: Business AI education

#55Karen Hao

@_karenhao
~61.6K followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI journalist

Important AI media voice.

Technical rationale: Investigative AI reporting

#56Santiago Valdarrama

@svpino
~383.3K followers
TechnicalML educator

Large practical ML learning audience.

Technical rationale: Hands-on ML engineering and system design

#57Bojan Tunguz

@tunguz
~251.1K followers
TechnicalML engineer / Kaggle

Applied ML/Kaggle KOL.

Technical rationale: Data science/Kaggle/model-building

#58Akshay Pachaar

@akshay_pachaar
~240K followers
Semi-technicalLLM/agents educator

Large applied AI education audience.

Technical rationale: Practical LLM/RAG/agent explainers

#59Ganapathi Pulipaka

@gp_pulipaka
~153.2K followers
Semi-technicalAI/data science influencer

Large AI/data reach.

Technical rationale: AI/data science curation and commentary

#60Hugo Larochelle

@hugo_larochelle
~115.9K followers
TechnicalGoogle DeepMind researcher

High-quality ML research voice.

Technical rationale: Deep learning research and education

#61Peyman Milanfar

@docmilanfar
~100.1K followers
TechnicalGoogle computational imaging

Technical computer-vision KOL.

Technical rationale: Vision/imaging ML research

#62Dan Kornas

@dankornas
~87.1K followers
TechnicalML engineer / educator

Practical ML engineering audience.

Technical rationale: End-to-end ML engineering education

#63Patrick Loeber

@patloeber
~70.7K followers
Semi-technicalGoogle DeepMind devrel

AI developer education.

Technical rationale: Developer education and DeepMind-facing updates

#64Kevin Patrick Murphy

@sirbayes
~64.7K followers
TechnicalGoogle DeepMind researcher

Authoritative ML textbook/research voice.

Technical rationale: Bayesian ML, probabilistic modeling

#65Gautam Kamath

@thegautamkamath
~59.7K followers
TechnicalML professor / Vector Institute

Technical ML theory voice.

Technical rationale: Privacy, statistics, ML theory

#66Sara Hooker

@sarahookr
~53.3K followers
TechnicalCohere Labs / model efficiency

Important efficient/open AI researcher.

Technical rationale: ML efficiency, multilingual/multimodal research

#67Durk Kingma

@dpkingma
~51.3K followers
TechnicalAnthropic / VAE/Adam inventor

Foundational ML researcher.

Technical rationale: Core ML optimization and generative modeling

#68Andriy Burkov

@burkov
~50.8K followers
TechnicalML author

Strong ML educational voice.

Technical rationale: ML/LLM books and practical education

#69Jean de Nyandwi

@Jeande_d
~46.9K followers
TechnicalCMU / NLP evals

Rising technical AI research voice.

Technical rationale: Multimodal NLP, post-training, data, evals

#70Shakir Mohamed

@shakir_za
~41.7K followers
TechnicalDeepMind researcher

Technical DeepMind/social-good voice.

Technical rationale: ML research and AI for social good

#71Ferenc Huszár

@fhuszar
~37.9K followers
TechnicalML professor

Technical ML/statistics KOL.

Technical rationale: Bayesian/statistical ML commentary

#72Andrew Gordon Wilson

@andrewgwils
~35.5K followers
TechnicalML professor

Technical ML academic.

Technical rationale: Bayesian/deep learning theory

#73Ben Recht

@beenwrekt
~32.9K followers
TechnicalBerkeley ML/control

Sharp technical ML critic.

Technical rationale: Optimization, ML systems, critical analysis

#74Zoubin Ghahramani

@ZoubinGhahrama1
~32.6K followers
TechnicalGoogle DeepMind / Cambridge

Senior ML research authority.

Technical rationale: Probabilistic ML and AI research leadership

#75Jakob Foerster

@j_foerst
~22.7K followers
TechnicalOxford/Meta ML researcher

Technical RL/agents researcher.

Technical rationale: Multi-agent RL and ML research

#76Nils Reimers

@Nils_Reimers
~14.6K followers
TechnicalCohere / SBERT

Important technical retrieval/embedding voice.

Technical rationale: Embeddings, retrieval, AI search

#77Nathan Raw

@_nateraw
~9.5K followers
TechnicalML hacker / Hugging Face alumnus

Hands-on ML builder.

Technical rationale: Open-source ML tooling

#78Tim Scarfe

@ecsquendor
~8.7K followers
Semi-technicalML Street Talk / ML engineer

AI research interview/amplification channel.

Technical rationale: Technical AI podcast and ML commentary

#79Alicia Curth

@AliciaCurth
~4.7K followers
TechnicalML/statistics researcher

Technical ML/statistics voice.

Technical rationale: Statistical ML intuition and methods

#80Yoshua Bengio

@yoshuabengio
n/a followers
TechnicalDeep learning pioneer

Turing laureate and major AI safety/research voice.

Technical rationale: Foundational deep-learning research

#81Chris Olah

@chrisolah
n/a followers
TechnicalAnthropic / interpretability

Core interpretability KOL.

Technical rationale: Mechanistic interpretability research

#82Anca Dragan

@ancadragan
n/a followers
TechnicalBerkeley robotics / HRI

Technical robotics/HRI authority.

Technical rationale: Human-robot interaction and robotics

#83Pieter Abbeel

@pabbeel
n/a followers
TechnicalBerkeley robotics / Covariant

Major robotics/RL KOL.

Technical rationale: Robotics and reinforcement learning

#84Daphne Koller

@DaphneKoller
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI healthcare / Coursera

AI-healthcare founder/research voice.

Technical rationale: AI in healthcare and biology entrepreneurship

#85Chelsea Finn

@chelseabfinn
n/a followers
TechnicalStanford robotics / meta-learning

High-signal robotics/learning researcher.

Technical rationale: Robotics, meta-learning, imitation learning

#86Sergey Levine

@svlevine
n/a followers
TechnicalBerkeley robotics / RL

Top technical robotics/RL researcher.

Technical rationale: Deep RL and robot learning

#87Been Kim

@beenkim
n/a followers
TechnicalGoogle interpretability

Important technical interpretability voice.

Technical rationale: Explainability/interpretability research

#88Samy Bengio

@samybengio
n/a followers
TechnicalApple / ex-Google Brain

Senior deep learning researcher.

Technical rationale: Deep learning research leadership

#89Kyunghyun Cho

@kchon2020
n/a followers
TechnicalNYU / NLP

Technical NLP researcher.

Technical rationale: Neural machine translation, NLP, deep learning

#90Max Welling

@wellingmax
n/a followers
TechnicalCuspAI / ML professor

Technical ML/science-AI voice.

Technical rationale: ML theory, generative science, Bayesian/deep learning

#91David Ha

@hardmaru
n/a followers
TechnicalAI researcher / generative systems

Technical and creative AI research voice.

Technical rationale: World models, generative systems, creative AI

#92Alex Graves

@alexjgraves
n/a followers
TechnicalDeepMind researcher

Foundational sequence-model researcher.

Technical rationale: RNNs, sequence learning, deep learning

#93Quoc Le

@quocleix
n/a followers
TechnicalGoogle Brain / AutoML

Senior technical Google AI researcher.

Technical rationale: AutoML and deep learning research

#94Leslie Kaelbling

@lpkaelbling
n/a followers
TechnicalMIT AI/robotics

Senior AI/robotics authority.

Technical rationale: Planning, robotics, AI fundamentals

#95Mustafa Suleyman

@mustafasuleymn
n/a followers
Semi-technicalMicrosoft AI / DeepMind cofounder

Major lab/product/policy voice.

Technical rationale: AI strategy, product, policy

#96Reid Hoffman

@reidhoffman
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI investor / author

Large business/AI network.

Technical rationale: AI entrepreneurship and investment

#97Daniela Amodei

@daniela_amodei
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAnthropic cofounder

Frontier-lab leadership voice.

Technical rationale: Anthropic strategy and safety operations

#98Aidan Gomez

@aidangomez
n/a followers
TechnicalCohere CEO / Transformer coauthor

Technical founder with model lineage.

Technical rationale: Transformer coauthor and enterprise LLM builder

#99Palantir

@PalantirTech
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI/data platform company

Large enterprise AI channel.

Technical rationale: Enterprise AI/data platform narratives

#100Jensen Huang

@JensenHuang
n/a followers
Semi-technicalNVIDIA CEO

AI compute platform narrative-setter.

Technical rationale: AI hardware/platform strategy

#101Rachel Thomas

@math_rachel
n/a followers
Technicalfast.ai / AI education

Technical educator and fast.ai cofounder.

Technical rationale: Practical ML and responsible AI education

#102Thomas Wolf

@Thom_Wolf
n/a followers
TechnicalHugging Face cofounder

Core open-source AI platform builder.

Technical rationale: Transformers/open-source AI engineering

#103Julien Chaumond

@julien_c
n/a followers
TechnicalHugging Face CTO/cofounder

Important open-source AI infra voice.

Technical rationale: Model hub/open-source platform engineering

#104Naveen Rao

@NaveenGRao
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI chips / Databricks

AI compute/systems founder.

Technical rationale: AI hardware and systems entrepreneurship

#105Vinod Khosla

@vkhosla
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI investor

Major AI investment voice.

Technical rationale: AI investment and market theses

#106Sebastian Thrun

@SebastianThrun
n/a followers
TechnicalUdacity / robotics

Robotics/AI education pioneer.

Technical rationale: Robotics, autonomous vehicles, education

#107Peter Diamandis

@PeterDiamandis
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessFuturist / XPRIZE

Broad innovation audience.

Technical rationale: AI futurism and entrepreneurship

#108Ray Kurzweil

@raykurzweil
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI futurist

Longstanding AI futurist voice.

Technical rationale: Singularity/AI future commentary

#109Joy Buolamwini

@jovialjoy
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAlgorithmic Justice League

AI fairness and policy KOL.

Technical rationale: Algorithmic bias/accountability research

#110Rumman Chowdhury

@ruchowdh
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI ethics / governance

Important AI governance voice.

Technical rationale: Responsible AI and governance

#111Abeba Birhane

@Abebab
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI accountability researcher

Strong responsible-AI researcher.

Technical rationale: AI bias/eval/accountability research

#112Rediet Abebe

@red_abebe
n/a followers
TechnicalAI for social good

Technical/public-interest AI voice.

Technical rationale: Algorithms and social-good AI research

#113Meredith Whittaker

@mer__edith
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessSignal / AI critic

Important policy/privacy voice.

Technical rationale: AI politics, privacy, surveillance critique

#114Cathy O’Neil

@mathbabedotorg
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAlgorithmic accountability

Public algorithmic-risk voice.

Technical rationale: Risk, fairness, automated decision-making

#115Safiya Noble

@safiyanoble
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessAI/search equity scholar

Important sociotechnical AI voice.

Technical rationale: Critical AI/search scholarship

#116Ruha Benjamin

@ruha9
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessTechnology and society scholar

Sociotechnical AI influence.

Technical rationale: Race, technology, AI society

#117Jack Clark

@jackclarkSF
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAnthropic cofounder / Import AI

Measured AI policy/technical newsletter voice.

Technical rationale: AI policy, capability trends, technical summaries

#118Melanie Mitchell

@MelMitchell1
n/a followers
TechnicalComplexity / AI researcher

Technical and skeptical AI researcher.

Technical rationale: AI reasoning, analogy, cognitive science

#119Aurélien Géron

@aureliengeron
n/a followers
TechnicalML author

Popular practical ML educator.

Technical rationale: Hands-on ML education

#120Chip Huyen

@chipro
n/a followers
TechnicalAI engineering author

High-signal AI engineering voice.

Technical rationale: ML systems, AI engineering, evals

#121Monica Rogati

@mrogati
n/a followers
TechnicalData science leader

Technical data/AI product KOL.

Technical rationale: Data/AI product strategy and systems

#122Inioluwa Deborah Raji

@rajiinio
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI accountability researcher

Important AI auditing voice.

Technical rationale: Model auditing and accountability

#123Arvind Narayanan

@random_walker
n/a followers
TechnicalPrinceton AI/society

Technical AI and policy critic.

Technical rationale: AI, fairness, privacy, crypto, accountability

#124Vincent Warmerdam

@fishnets88
n/a followers
TechnicalCalmcode / ML tooling

High-signal practical technical educator.

Technical rationale: Practical ML education and tooling

#125Sasha Luccioni

@SashaMTL
n/a followers
Semi-technicalHugging Face / AI climate

Technical responsible-AI voice.

Technical rationale: AI energy, climate, responsible AI evaluation

#126Miles Brundage

@Miles_Brundage
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI policy/safety

Important policy/safety KOL.

Technical rationale: AI governance and frontier-lab policy

#127Jan Leike

@janleike
n/a followers
TechnicalAnthropic / alignment

Top technical alignment researcher.

Technical rationale: Alignment, scalable oversight, RLHF

#128Paul Christiano

@paulc443
n/a followers
TechnicalAlignment Research Center

Core technical alignment voice.

Technical rationale: Technical AI alignment theory/evals

#129Oren Etzioni

@etzioni
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI2 founder

Senior AI institution builder.

Technical rationale: AI research, policy, entrepreneurship

#130Percy Liang

@percyliang
~106.5K followers
TechnicalStanford NLP / HELM

Top LLM-evaluation researcher.

Technical rationale: Benchmarking, NLP, HELM/MedHELM

#131Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas
n/a followers
TechnicalMIT NLP

Technical NLP/agents researcher.

Technical rationale: Language grounding, agents, NLP research

#132Dan Hendrycks

@DanHendrycks
n/a followers
TechnicalCenter for AI Safety

Important eval/safety benchmark creator.

Technical rationale: Benchmarks, model risks, WMDP/MMLU-style evals

#133Scott Aaronson

@scottaaronson
n/a followers
TechnicalTheoretical CS / OpenAI alumnus

Technical theory/safety voice.

Technical rationale: Complexity theory, quantum, AI safety commentary

#134Swyx

@swyx
n/a followers
TechnicalAI engineering / Latent Space

Top AI engineering community builder.

Technical rationale: Agents, RAG, evals, AI engineering stack

#135Mckay Wrigley

@mckaywrigley
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI builder / Chatbot UI

Practical AI builder influence.

Technical rationale: AI app demos and builder workflows

#136Deedy Das

@deedydas
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI investor / curator

High-signal AI startup/model curator.

Technical rationale: Model release summaries and benchmark takes

#137Bindu Reddy

@bindureddy
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAbacus AI CEO

High-engagement AI product/founder voice.

Technical rationale: AI capability/startup commentary

#138Ethan Mollick

@emollick
n/a followers
Semi-technicalWharton professor / AI use cases

Major practical AI adoption voice.

Technical rationale: Empirical AI use and workplace experiments

#139Linus Lee

@thesephist
n/a followers
TechnicalNotion AI researcher

Technical AI product/research voice.

Technical rationale: LLM internals, embeddings, AI-native UX

#140Nathan Labenz

@labenz
n/a followers
Semi-technicalCognitive Revolution podcast

Strong AI interview/eval commentator.

Technical rationale: Model eval discussions, AI interviews

#141Nathan Lambert

@natolambert
n/a followers
TechnicalAI2 / Interconnects

Top technical post-training/open-model voice.

Technical rationale: RLHF, post-training, open models

#142DAIR.AI

@DAIR_AI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI research education

Research-paper amplification and education.

Technical rationale: Paper explainers and ML education

#143arXiv

@arxiv_org
n/a followers
TechnicalResearch preprint platform

Raw research discovery channel.

Technical rationale: Primary research feed

#144AlphaXiv

@alphaxiv
n/a followers
TechnicalPaper discovery platform

AI paper discovery/amplification.

Technical rationale: Social layer for arXiv/papers

#145Cameron Wolfe

@cwolferesearch
n/a followers
TechnicalAI researcher / writer

High-signal technical AI explainer.

Technical rationale: Paper breakdowns and Deep Learning Focus

#146Vikhyat K.

@vikhyatk
n/a followers
TechnicalMoondream / small VLMs

Practical model builder.

Technical rationale: Small-model/VLM engineering

#147OpenAI

@OpenAI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalFrontier AI lab

Primary OpenAI launch channel.

Technical rationale: Official launches and benchmark posts

#148Anthropic

@AnthropicAI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalFrontier AI lab

Primary Anthropic launch channel.

Technical rationale: Claude releases and safety research

#149Google DeepMind

@GoogleDeepMind
~1.2M followers
TechnicalFrontier AI/science lab

Major technical AI lab channel.

Technical rationale: Research releases, AlphaFold/Gemini science AI

#150Meta AI

@MetaAI
n/a followers
TechnicalOpen models / AI lab

Key open-model lab channel.

Technical rationale: Llama/open model research and product

#151Mistral AI

@MistralAI
n/a followers
TechnicalFrontier/open model lab

European frontier model channel.

Technical rationale: Open/foundation model releases

#152Hugging Face

@huggingface
~689K followers
Semi-technicalOpen-source AI platform

High-impact open AI distribution.

Technical rationale: Model/dataset/leaderboard ecosystem

#153NVIDIA

@nvidia
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI compute platform

AI infrastructure narrative channel.

Technical rationale: GPU/platform launches and AI hardware

#154Cohere

@cohere
n/a followers
Semi-technicalEnterprise LLM lab

Enterprise LLM platform channel.

Technical rationale: Enterprise model releases and retrieval/RAG context

#155Perplexity

@perplexity_ai
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI search company

Consumer AI search channel.

Technical rationale: AI search product releases

#156Together AI

@togethercompute
n/a followers
TechnicalOpen model infra

Open AI infrastructure channel.

Technical rationale: Inference/fine-tuning/open model infra

#157xAI

@xai
n/a followers
Semi-technicalFrontier AI lab

xAI primary launch channel.

Technical rationale: Grok releases and xAI research

#158LM Arena

@lmarena_ai
n/a followers
TechnicalModel leaderboard/evals

Important public model benchmark channel.

Technical rationale: Chatbot Arena / model rankings

#159OpenRouter

@OpenRouterAI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalModel routing/API platform

Useful model market/API signal.

Technical rationale: Model availability and routing data

#160Replicate

@replicate
n/a followers
TechnicalModel hosting/API

Model deployment ecosystem channel.

Technical rationale: Open model deployment and demos

#161Weights & Biases

@weights_biases
n/a followers
Semi-technicalMLOps / evals

MLOps and AI eval community.

Technical rationale: Experiment tracking, evals, ML tooling

#162LangChain

@LangChainAI
n/a followers
TechnicalLLM app framework

Key AI agent/RAG developer channel.

Technical rationale: Agents, RAG, LangGraph, app tooling

#163LlamaIndex

@llama_index
n/a followers
TechnicalLLM data/RAG framework

Important AI engineering framework.

Technical rationale: RAG, retrieval, agents, data connectors

#164Modal

@modal_labs
n/a followers
TechnicalAI compute platform

Technical AI infra channel.

Technical rationale: Serverless GPU/AI infra

#165Anyscale

@AnyscaleCompute
n/a followers
TechnicalRay / AI infra

Important scalable AI systems channel.

Technical rationale: Distributed ML/serving infrastructure

#166Scale AI

@scale_AI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalData/evals platform

Evals/data infrastructure influence.

Technical rationale: Data, evals, enterprise AI

#167Scale Labs

@ScaleAILabs
n/a followers
TechnicalAI evals / benchmarks

High-signal eval/benchmark channel.

Technical rationale: DrugDiscoveryBench and agent benchmarks

#168METR

@METR_Evals
~25.2K followers
TechnicalAI capability evals

Important agent-eval methodology voice.

Technical rationale: Agent/R&D capability measurements

#169UK AI Security Institute

@AISecurityInst
~7.6K followers
Semi-technicalModel safety/evals

Government eval-framework voice.

Technical rationale: Inspect Evals and frontier-model evaluation

#170Center for AI Safety

@ai_risks
~8.2K followers
Semi-technicalAI safety benchmarks

Bio/chem/cyber eval relevance.

Technical rationale: WMDP and risk evaluations

#171Epoch AI

@EpochAIResearch
~45.7K followers
Semi-technicalAI trends/benchmarks

Methodology/benchmark analysis amplifier.

Technical rationale: Benchmark and compute trend analysis

#172MLCommons

@MLCommons
~3.6K followers
Semi-technicalAI standards/benchmarks

Standards-setting benchmark channel.

Technical rationale: MLPerf, medical AI, benchmark working groups

#173Papers with Code

@paperswithcode
~114.7K followers
Semi-technicalBenchmark leaderboard platform

Broad benchmark visibility channel.

Technical rationale: Paper/code/leaderboard discovery

#174Therapeutics Data Commons

@ProjectTDC
~1.3K followers
TechnicalDrug-discovery ML benchmarks

Foundational drug-discovery benchmark ecosystem.

Technical rationale: TDC tasks/leaderboards/datasets

#175Phylo

@phylo_bio
n/a followers
TechnicalBiomedical agents / DrugDiscoveryBench

Direct DDDBench peer/partner target.

Technical rationale: Biomni, BiomniBench, DrugDiscoveryBench

#176Kexin Huang

@KexinHuang5
n/a followers
TechnicalBiomedical AI agents

High-signal biomedical-agent benchmark KOL.

Technical rationale: BiomniBench/Biomni; long-horizon bio tasks

#177FutureHouse

@FutureHouseSF
n/a followers
TechnicalScientific agents / LAB-Bench

Top scientific-agent benchmark target.

Technical rationale: LAB-Bench/BixBench/scientific-agent ecosystem

#178Valence Labs

@valence_ai
~5.9K followers
TechnicalDrug-discovery benchmarks

Relevant industry-standard DD benchmarking channel.

Technical rationale: Polaris benchmark/data platform

#179Pat Walters

@wpwalters
~6.3K followers
TechnicalCheminformatics / benchmark critique

High-credibility DD benchmark evaluator.

Technical rationale: ADMET/blind challenges, benchmark validity

#180OpenBioML

@openbioml
~4.1K followers
TechnicalOpen biology ML

Community amplifier for open BioML benchmarks.

Technical rationale: BioML/ChemNLP community amplification

#181Stephen Turner

@strnr
~31.3K followers
TechnicalGenomics / AIxBio commentary

Strong AI-bio benchmark amplifier.

Technical rationale: Genomics, biosecurity, AI-bio eval commentary

#182Jablonka Lab

@jablonkagroup
~359 followers
TechnicalChemBench / chemistry AI

Relevant chemistry benchmark group.

Technical rationale: ChemBench and chemistry/materials LLM evals

#183Andrew White

@andrewwhite01
n/a followers
TechnicalChemCrow / scientific agents

Strong chemistry/science-agent benchmark KOL.

Technical rationale: ChemCrow, PaperQA, chemistry agents

#184Philippe Schwaller

@pschwllr
n/a followers
TechnicalChemical language models

Chemistry model/eval KOL.

Technical rationale: RXN/ChemCrow/chemistry AI

#185Chai Discovery

@chaidiscovery
~5.6K followers
TechnicalStructure prediction

Protein/structure benchmark channel.

Technical rationale: Chai-1/chai-lab structure benchmarks

#186Rosetta Commons

@RosettaCommons
~1.9K followers
TechnicalProtein modeling/design

Protein-design benchmark credibility network.

Technical rationale: Rosetta, CASP/CAPRI ecosystem

#187ChEMBL Database

@ChEMBL
~2.9K followers
TechnicalDrug-discovery data

Benchmark/data community account.

Technical rationale: ChEMBL resource updates

#188Tanishq Abraham / MedARC

@iScienceLuvr
n/a followers
TechnicalMedical LLM benchmarks

Medical LLM benchmark KOL.

Technical rationale: Medmarks and medical AI evaluation

#189Stability AI

@StabilityAI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalOpen generative AI lab

Generative AI model distribution channel.

Technical rationale: Open image/audio/model releases

#190Midjourney

@midjourney
n/a followers
Non-technical / media-businessGenerative image models

Major creative AI model channel.

Technical rationale: Model/product releases, creative AI

#191Runway

@runwayml
n/a followers
Semi-technicalGenerative video AI

Major generative video model channel.

Technical rationale: Video model/product releases

#192Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalGenerative video/3D

Creative model product channel.

Technical rationale: Dream Machine/video/3D model releases

#193Cursor

@cursor_ai
n/a followers
TechnicalAI coding IDE

Major AI coding tool channel.

Technical rationale: AI coding product and model integrations

#194Cognition

@cognition_labs
n/a followers
TechnicalAI software agents

Important coding-agent benchmark/product channel.

Technical rationale: Devin and coding-agent releases

#195Replit

@Replit
n/a followers
Semi-technicalAI coding platform

AI coding/developer distribution channel.

Technical rationale: AI coding agents and cloud dev platform

#196Windsurf

@windsurf_ai
n/a followers
TechnicalAI coding IDE

Important AI coding product channel.

Technical rationale: Coding-agent/product releases

#197OpenAI Developers

@OpenAIDevs
n/a followers
TechnicalOpenAI developer platform

Primary technical OpenAI developer channel.

Technical rationale: API, model tiers, developer releases

#198Google AI

@GoogleAI
n/a followers
Semi-technicalGoogle AI product/research

Broad Google AI channel.

Technical rationale: Google AI releases and research/product links

#199Databricks

@databricks
n/a followers
Semi-technicalData/AI platform

Important enterprise data+AI platform channel.

Technical rationale: Lakehouse, MosaicML, model serving and enterprise AI infra

#200MosaicML

@MosaicML
n/a followers
TechnicalModel training infrastructure

Technical model-training infrastructure voice.

Technical rationale: Open model training, LLM training systems and infra

KOLs posting benchmarks for AI in drug discovery + biotech

This is the higher-priority watchlist for DDDBench/MMAI Gym style outreach. It mixes individual researchers, benchmark creators, lab/org accounts, and amplification channels.

OpenAI

@OpenAI
very large / n.a. followers
LifeSciBench; GeneBench-Pro; life-science model evaluation

LifeSciBench: 750 expert-authored tasks, 173 scientist contributors, 19,020 rubric criteria.

Relevance: Direct benchmark comparator and high-impact launch/amplification target.

Tacit Labs

@tacitlabsco
n/a followers
LifeSciBench partner / biology verification loop

Referenced in LifeSciBench launch ecosystem with OpenAI.

Relevance: Potential partner/peer for life-science task design and validation.

Nina Fitzpatrick

@ninklefitz
n/a followers
LifeSciBench / Tacit Labs

Named in LifeSciBench/Tacit Labs launch amplification.

Relevance: Likely useful individual contact around biology eval design.

Andrew Droste

@AmDroste
n/a followers
LifeSciBench / Tacit Labs

Named in LifeSciBench/Tacit Labs launch amplification.

Relevance: Likely useful individual contact around life-science verification.

FutureHouse

@FutureHouseSF
n/a followers
Biology/science agents, LAB-Bench, scientific task evaluation

LAB-Bench and FutureHouse scientific-agent ecosystem; BixBench repo under Future-House.

Relevance: Top target for scientific-agent benchmark comparison/amplification.

n/a followers
Biomni, BiomniBench, DrugDiscoveryBench, biomedical agents

DrugDiscoveryBench with Scale Labs; BiomniBench process-level evaluation.

Relevance: Direct DDDBench peer/benchmark partner and high-priority outreach target.

Scale Labs

@ScaleAILabs
n/a followers
DrugDiscoveryBench and agent evals

DrugDiscoveryBench: 82 early-stage DD tasks with expert rubrics and leaderboard.

Relevance: Direct benchmark comparison; useful for model-vs-harness narrative.

Scale AI

@scale_AI
large / n.a. followers
AI data/evals; Scale Labs amplification

Scale blog and labs leaderboard for DrugDiscoveryBench.

Relevance: Enterprise-eval distribution channel.

Kexin Huang

@KexinHuang5
n/a followers
Biomni, BiomniBench, AI agents for biomedical research

Posted BiomniBench launch: process-level evaluation of agents on long-horizon biology tasks.

Relevance: Strong KOL for agentic biomedical benchmarks and scientific-agent systems.

Therapeutics Data Commons

@ProjectTDC
~1.3K followers
Drug-discovery ML datasets/tasks/leaderboards

TDC platform for AI-ready therapeutic datasets and leaderboards.

Relevance: Foundational benchmark ecosystem for DDDBench positioning.

Jure Leskovec

@jure
~44.7K followers
TDC, graph ML, biomedical ML

TDC / Harvard-Stanford biomedical ML ecosystem.

Relevance: Senior benchmark and graph-ML amplifier.

Valence Labs

@valence_ai
~5.9K followers
Polaris drug-discovery benchmark platform

PolarisHub benchmark/data platform for drug discovery.

Relevance: Highly relevant for industry-standard DD benchmarking.

Pat Walters

@wpwalters
~6.3K followers
Cheminformatics benchmark critique, ADMET, blind challenges

OpenADMET/blind-challenge and benchmark-validity commentary.

Relevance: High-credibility evaluator/KOL for DD benchmark quality.

OpenBioML

@openbioml
~4.1K followers
Open biology ML, ChemNLP, model-risk/eval discussion

Community journal clubs and BioML paper amplification.

Relevance: Community amplifier for open BioML benchmarking.

Biology+AI Daily

@BiologyAIDaily
n/a followers
AI-bio paper/benchmark amplification

Amplified BixBench and other AI-biology benchmark papers.

Relevance: Useful awareness channel for DDDBench/MMAI benchmark posts.

Stephen Turner

@strnr
~31.3K followers
Genomics, computational biology, AIxBio commentary

Genomics and biosecurity/AI benchmark commentary.

Relevance: Strong commentator/amplifier for AI-bio benchmark credibility.

Jablonka Lab

@jablonkagroup
~359 followers
ChemBench, chemistry/materials LLM evaluation

ChemBench benchmark for chemistry reasoning and tool use.

Relevance: Relevant analog for chemistry/LLM eval methodology.

Andrew White

@andrewwhite01
n/a followers
ChemCrow, PaperQA, scientific agents, chemistry LLMs

ChemCrow and scientific-agent evaluation work.

Relevance: Very strong chemistry/science-agent benchmark KOL.

Philippe Schwaller

@pschwllr
n/a followers
Chemical language models, RXN, ChemCrow ecosystem

ChemCrow / reaction prediction / chemistry AI work.

Relevance: Good benchmark reviewer and chemistry-agent evaluator.

Chai Discovery

@chaidiscovery
~5.6K followers
Biomolecular structure prediction benchmarks

Chai-1, chai-lab, structure prediction comparisons.

Relevance: Protein/structure benchmark comparison channel.

Google DeepMind

@GoogleDeepMind
~1.2M followers
AlphaFold/CASP, Gemini science AI

AlphaFold and Isomorphic science-AI narratives.

Relevance: Huge amplifier; benchmark framing authority.

Rosetta Commons

@RosettaCommons
~1.9K followers
Protein modeling/design benchmarks and community tools

Rosetta, CASP/CAPRI-related modeling ecosystem.

Relevance: Protein-design benchmark credibility network.

ChEMBL Database

@ChEMBL
~2.9K followers
Drug-discovery data resource used in benchmarks

ChEMBL data/resource updates.

Relevance: Useful data/benchmark community account.

Papers with Code

@paperswithcode
~114.7K followers
ML benchmark/leaderboard amplification

Benchmark and paper leaderboard distribution.

Relevance: Broad benchmark visibility channel.

Hugging Face

@huggingface
~689K followers
Open leaderboards and model hubs

Open Medical LLM Leaderboard; dataset/model benchmark hosting.

Relevance: High-impact hosting/amplification route for DDDBench/MMAI.

Percy Liang / Stanford HELM

@percyliang
~106.5K followers
HELM, MedHELM, holistic LLM evals

Stanford CRFM HELM and medical evaluation frameworks.

Relevance: Credible LLM-eval benchmark KOL.

~25.2K followers
Agent/R&D capability evals, time-horizon evals

Autonomous capability measurement and eval methodology.

Relevance: Useful for agent-eval methodology framing.

UK AI Security Institute

@AISecurityInst
~7.6K followers
Inspect Evals; chem/bio/frontier model evals

Inspect eval framework and frontier-model safety evaluations.

Relevance: Strong eval-framework/governance target.

Center for AI Safety

@CAIS / @ai_risks
~8.2K followers
WMDP bio/chem/cyber hazardous-knowledge benchmark

WMDP benchmark and biorisk/chem risk evals.

Relevance: Relevant to bio/chem LLM evals; outreach should be careful and risk-aware.

~45.7K followers
Benchmark datasets/trends and biorisk eval analysis

Epoch benchmark tracking and AI trend analysis.

Relevance: Methodology/benchmark-analysis amplifier.

MLCommons

@MLCommons
~3.6K followers
Medical AI, safety, and science benchmark working groups

MLCommons medical/data working groups.

Relevance: Standards-setting outreach target.

Tanishq M. Abraham / MedARC

@iScienceLuvr
n/a followers
Medmarks medical LLM benchmark suite

Medmarks benchmark posts and GitHub project.

Relevance: Strong medical LLM benchmark KOL.

Spreadsheet-style tables

Top 200 AI KOLs

#NameX handleFollowersTechnicalCategoryWhy / technical rationale
1Elon Musk@elonmusk~240.7MSemi-technicalxAI / X platformMassive X-native reach; Grok/xAI announcements and AI platform narrative.
xAI/Grok strategy and technical/product narratives, but mostly founder/platform distribution
2Sam Altman@sama~5.4MSemi-technicalOpenAI / frontier AI CEOOpenAI narrative-setter and frontier-model launch signal.
Strategic lab and product framing rather than code-level posts
3Lex Fridman@lexfridman~5.0MSemi-technicalAI podcast / public discourseLong-form AI interviews bridging researchers, founders, and policy.
Technical interviews, broad public audience
4Andrej Karpathy@karpathy~3.2MTechnicalAI researcher / educatorOne of the highest signal technical AI explainers on X.
Posts deep model intuition, training, code, and technical education
5Andrew Ng@AndrewYNg~1.5–1.6MTechnicalAI education / applied MLMajor applied-AI educator and practitioner influence.
Applied ML, data-centric AI, courses, technical practice
6Kai-Fu Lee@kaifulee~1.4MSemi-technicalAI investor / 01.AIChina/global AI strategy and commercialization voice.
Strategic AI and commercialization, occasionally model/company technical context
7Demis Hassabis@demishassabis~1.3MTechnicalGoogle DeepMind CEOHigh-authority AI-for-science and AGI lab voice.
Science-AI, DeepMind research, AlphaFold/Gemini technical context
8Yann LeCun@ylecun~0.94–1.2MTechnicalMeta AI / Turing laureateMajor technical counterweight to LLM-scaling consensus.
Research debates on world models, self-supervised learning, architectures
9Greg Brockman@gdb~0.63–1.0MSemi-technicalOpenAI cofounder/presidentOpenAI product/research amplification.
Demos and product/research amplification, less code-level
10Ilya Sutskever@ilyasut~760.9KTechnicalSSI / frontier researchRare posts carry frontier-lab/research weight.
Foundational LLM researcher; rare but technical significance
11Mira Murati@miramurati~742.1KSemi-technicalThinking Machines LabNew frontier-lab founder and ex-OpenAI CTO.
Lab/product strategy from technical leadership background
12Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas~800.6KSemi-technicalPerplexity CEOAI search and consumer-AI distribution leader.
AI search/product strategy with some model context
13Fei-Fei Li@drfeifei~632–781KTechnicalWorld Labs / StanfordMajor AI research and human-centered AI authority.
Computer vision, spatial intelligence, AI healthcare/policy
14François Chollet@fchollet~566–704KTechnicalKeras / ARC-AGIImportant benchmark/reasoning voice.
Reasoning benchmarks, Keras, AGI critique, architecture debates
15Geoffrey Hinton@geoffreyhinton~489–618KTechnicalDeep learning pioneerHigh-authority voice on deep learning and AI risk.
Foundational deep-learning researcher
16Dario Amodei@DarioAmodei~478.6KSemi-technicalAnthropic CEOClaude/frontier AI strategy and safety framing.
Frontier lab strategy/safety, not frequent code-level posting
17Jeff Dean@JeffDean~361–448KTechnicalGoogle DeepMind / Google ResearchElite systems + ML research credibility.
Systems ML, scaling, Gemini/Google research
18Clément Delangue@ClementDelangue~452.1KSemi-technicalHugging Face CEOOpen-source AI distribution and community leader.
Open-source model ecosystem/product strategy
19Alexandr Wang@alexandr_wang~541.7KSemi-technicalMeta AI / Scale founderData, evals, and enterprise AI influence.
AI data/evals/enterprise strategy
20Jim Fan@DrJimFan~435–486KTechnicalNVIDIA robotics / agentsHigh-signal physical AGI and robotics commentator.
Robotics, simulation, embodied agents, model systems
21AK@_akhaliq~500.4KSemi-technicalAI paper aggregatorImportant AI paper discovery/amplification account.
Research-paper firehose; mostly aggregation
22Sebastian Raschka@rasbt~476KTechnicalML/LLM educatorHands-on LLM training and architecture education.
Implementation-level LLM/ML tutorials
23Soumith Chintala@soumithchintala~247–311KTechnicalPyTorch / MetaPyTorch ecosystem credibility.
Open-source ML framework engineering
24Lilian Weng@lilianweng~88–267KTechnicalAI research / agents / safetyWidely cited technical explainer.
Canonical technical essays on agents, RLHF, safety
25Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward~236–289KTechnicalfast.ai / Answer.AIApplied technical AI education and open models.
Practical model training, pedagogy, open-source AI
26Emad Mostaque@EMostaque~328.3KSemi-technicalStability AI founderOpen-source AI and generative media commentary.
Open model strategy and ecosystem commentary
27Lior / AlphaSignal@AlphaSignalAI~80.4KSemi-technicalAI R&D newsletterAI R&D paper/news amplification.
Technical research curation rather than original research
28Logan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganK~339.2KSemi-technicalGoogle AI Studio / devrelDeveloper-facing AI launch signal.
API/model developer-relations updates
29Simon Willison@simonw~154.5KTechnicalDeveloper / AI tooling analystTop practical technical evaluator of LLM tools.
Hands-on testing, code, model behavior, security
30Hamel Husain@HamelHusainn/aTechnicalAI evals / applied LLM systemsHigh-signal practitioner voice on AI evals.
Evals, product quality, production LLM systems
31Aidan McLaughlin@aidan_mclau~47.8KTechnicalOpenAI researchUseful model-design and frontier-lab research signal.
Frontier model design/research perspective
32Ian Goodfellow@goodfellow_ian~315.7KTechnicalDeep learning researcherFoundational ML researcher.
GANs and deep learning research
33Oriol Vinyals@oriolvinyalsml~182.4KTechnicalGoogle DeepMind researchMajor DeepMind technical leader.
Gemini, AlphaCode, sequence models
34Nando de Freitas@NandoDF~108.9KTechnicalMicrosoft AI / ex-DeepMindHigh-credibility research voice.
Deep learning and superintelligence research
35Abhishek Thakur@abhi1thakur~83.1KTechnicalKaggle / Hugging Face AutoTrainApplied ML competition and tooling expert.
Kaggle, AutoML, model-building practice
36Rowan Cheung@rowancheung~563.6KNon-technical / media-businessAI newsletter / curatorLarge AI news distribution channel.
News/tool curation, not usually technical depth
37Robert Scoble@Scobleizer~536.6KNon-technical / media-businessTech futurist / AI commentatorBroad technology/AI reach.
Technology commentary and amplification
38Kirk Borne@KirkDBorne~455.1KSemi-technicalData science / AI influencerLarge data/AI amplification account.
Data science/AI curation; PhD background
39Ronald van Loon@Ronald_vanLoon~337.6KNon-technical / media-businessAI/data influencerLarge B2B AI/data reach.
Business/AI content and amplification
40Timnit Gebru@timnitGebru~162.1KSemi-technicalAI ethics / DAIRInfluential AI ethics/accountability voice.
AI accountability research and policy
41Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus~213.5KSemi-technicalAI critic / cognitive scientistInfluential skeptical AI commentator.
Critiques of deep learning and LLM limits
42Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn~210.2KSemi-technicalAI economics / StanfordImportant AI-economics KOL.
AI productivity and economics research
43Paul Couvert@itsPaulAi~191.1KNon-technical / media-businessAI educator / toolsLarge AI tools/tutorial audience.
Tool/use-case education, usually not deep technical
44Pascal Bornet@pascal_bornet~158.1KNon-technical / media-businessAI automation authorAI automation business influencer.
Business automation/AI commentary
45Vincent Boucher@ceobillionaire~153.7KSemi-technicalMontreal AI / AGI commentatorAI community amplification.
AI/AGI commentary and community account
46Bernard Marr@bernardmarr~138.7KNon-technical / media-businessTech futurist / authorBroad enterprise AI reach.
Business tech/AI thought leadership
47Data Chaz@DataChaz~114.1KSemi-technicalDeveloper advocate / StreamlitPractical AI/data app educator.
Python/data apps/LLM developer content
48Randy Olson@randal_olson~110.7KSemi-technicalData science / visualizationTechnical-ish data science influencer.
Data science and visualization content
49Jürgen Schmidhuber@SchmidhuberAI~98.1KTechnicalAI researcherLongstanding ML research figure.
Deep learning history and research claims
50AI Tool Report@AIToolReport~85.2KNon-technical / media-businessAI tools newsletterAI tools distribution channel.
AI tools/news aggregation
51Kate Crawford@katecrawford~82.3KSemi-technicalAI ethics / policy researcherMajor AI ethics scholar.
Sociotechnical AI research and policy
52Nathan Lands@nathanlands~77.3KNon-technical / media-businessAI investor / podcastAI startup/media reach.
Investor/media commentary
53Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos~74.3KTechnicalML professor / authorRecognized ML academic voice.
ML theory and AI commentary
54Allie Miller@alliekmiller~71.7KNon-technical / media-businessAI business speakerBroad AI business audience.
Business AI education
55Karen Hao@_karenhao~61.6KNon-technical / media-businessAI journalistImportant AI media voice.
Investigative AI reporting
56Santiago Valdarrama@svpino~383.3KTechnicalML educatorLarge practical ML learning audience.
Hands-on ML engineering and system design
57Bojan Tunguz@tunguz~251.1KTechnicalML engineer / KaggleApplied ML/Kaggle KOL.
Data science/Kaggle/model-building
58Akshay Pachaar@akshay_pachaar~240KSemi-technicalLLM/agents educatorLarge applied AI education audience.
Practical LLM/RAG/agent explainers
59Ganapathi Pulipaka@gp_pulipaka~153.2KSemi-technicalAI/data science influencerLarge AI/data reach.
AI/data science curation and commentary
60Hugo Larochelle@hugo_larochelle~115.9KTechnicalGoogle DeepMind researcherHigh-quality ML research voice.
Deep learning research and education
61Peyman Milanfar@docmilanfar~100.1KTechnicalGoogle computational imagingTechnical computer-vision KOL.
Vision/imaging ML research
62Dan Kornas@dankornas~87.1KTechnicalML engineer / educatorPractical ML engineering audience.
End-to-end ML engineering education
63Patrick Loeber@patloeber~70.7KSemi-technicalGoogle DeepMind devrelAI developer education.
Developer education and DeepMind-facing updates
64Kevin Patrick Murphy@sirbayes~64.7KTechnicalGoogle DeepMind researcherAuthoritative ML textbook/research voice.
Bayesian ML, probabilistic modeling
65Gautam Kamath@thegautamkamath~59.7KTechnicalML professor / Vector InstituteTechnical ML theory voice.
Privacy, statistics, ML theory
66Sara Hooker@sarahookr~53.3KTechnicalCohere Labs / model efficiencyImportant efficient/open AI researcher.
ML efficiency, multilingual/multimodal research
67Durk Kingma@dpkingma~51.3KTechnicalAnthropic / VAE/Adam inventorFoundational ML researcher.
Core ML optimization and generative modeling
68Andriy Burkov@burkov~50.8KTechnicalML authorStrong ML educational voice.
ML/LLM books and practical education
69Jean de Nyandwi@Jeande_d~46.9KTechnicalCMU / NLP evalsRising technical AI research voice.
Multimodal NLP, post-training, data, evals
70Shakir Mohamed@shakir_za~41.7KTechnicalDeepMind researcherTechnical DeepMind/social-good voice.
ML research and AI for social good
71Ferenc Huszár@fhuszar~37.9KTechnicalML professorTechnical ML/statistics KOL.
Bayesian/statistical ML commentary
72Andrew Gordon Wilson@andrewgwils~35.5KTechnicalML professorTechnical ML academic.
Bayesian/deep learning theory
73Ben Recht@beenwrekt~32.9KTechnicalBerkeley ML/controlSharp technical ML critic.
Optimization, ML systems, critical analysis
74Zoubin Ghahramani@ZoubinGhahrama1~32.6KTechnicalGoogle DeepMind / CambridgeSenior ML research authority.
Probabilistic ML and AI research leadership
75Jakob Foerster@j_foerst~22.7KTechnicalOxford/Meta ML researcherTechnical RL/agents researcher.
Multi-agent RL and ML research
76Nils Reimers@Nils_Reimers~14.6KTechnicalCohere / SBERTImportant technical retrieval/embedding voice.
Embeddings, retrieval, AI search
77Nathan Raw@_nateraw~9.5KTechnicalML hacker / Hugging Face alumnusHands-on ML builder.
Open-source ML tooling
78Tim Scarfe@ecsquendor~8.7KSemi-technicalML Street Talk / ML engineerAI research interview/amplification channel.
Technical AI podcast and ML commentary
79Alicia Curth@AliciaCurth~4.7KTechnicalML/statistics researcherTechnical ML/statistics voice.
Statistical ML intuition and methods
80Yoshua Bengio@yoshuabengion/aTechnicalDeep learning pioneerTuring laureate and major AI safety/research voice.
Foundational deep-learning research
81Chris Olah@chrisolahn/aTechnicalAnthropic / interpretabilityCore interpretability KOL.
Mechanistic interpretability research
82Anca Dragan@ancadragann/aTechnicalBerkeley robotics / HRITechnical robotics/HRI authority.
Human-robot interaction and robotics
83Pieter Abbeel@pabbeeln/aTechnicalBerkeley robotics / CovariantMajor robotics/RL KOL.
Robotics and reinforcement learning
84Daphne Koller@DaphneKollern/aSemi-technicalAI healthcare / CourseraAI-healthcare founder/research voice.
AI in healthcare and biology entrepreneurship
85Chelsea Finn@chelseabfinnn/aTechnicalStanford robotics / meta-learningHigh-signal robotics/learning researcher.
Robotics, meta-learning, imitation learning
86Sergey Levine@svlevinen/aTechnicalBerkeley robotics / RLTop technical robotics/RL researcher.
Deep RL and robot learning
87Been Kim@beenkimn/aTechnicalGoogle interpretabilityImportant technical interpretability voice.
Explainability/interpretability research
88Samy Bengio@samybengion/aTechnicalApple / ex-Google BrainSenior deep learning researcher.
Deep learning research leadership
89Kyunghyun Cho@kchon2020n/aTechnicalNYU / NLPTechnical NLP researcher.
Neural machine translation, NLP, deep learning
90Max Welling@wellingmaxn/aTechnicalCuspAI / ML professorTechnical ML/science-AI voice.
ML theory, generative science, Bayesian/deep learning
91David Ha@hardmarun/aTechnicalAI researcher / generative systemsTechnical and creative AI research voice.
World models, generative systems, creative AI
92Alex Graves@alexjgravesn/aTechnicalDeepMind researcherFoundational sequence-model researcher.
RNNs, sequence learning, deep learning
93Quoc Le@quocleixn/aTechnicalGoogle Brain / AutoMLSenior technical Google AI researcher.
AutoML and deep learning research
94Leslie Kaelbling@lpkaelblingn/aTechnicalMIT AI/roboticsSenior AI/robotics authority.
Planning, robotics, AI fundamentals
95Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleymnn/aSemi-technicalMicrosoft AI / DeepMind cofounderMajor lab/product/policy voice.
AI strategy, product, policy
96Reid Hoffman@reidhoffmann/aNon-technical / media-businessAI investor / authorLarge business/AI network.
AI entrepreneurship and investment
97Daniela Amodei@daniela_amodein/aSemi-technicalAnthropic cofounderFrontier-lab leadership voice.
Anthropic strategy and safety operations
98Aidan Gomez@aidangomezn/aTechnicalCohere CEO / Transformer coauthorTechnical founder with model lineage.
Transformer coauthor and enterprise LLM builder
99Palantir@PalantirTechn/aSemi-technicalAI/data platform companyLarge enterprise AI channel.
Enterprise AI/data platform narratives
100Jensen Huang@JensenHuangn/aSemi-technicalNVIDIA CEOAI compute platform narrative-setter.
AI hardware/platform strategy
101Rachel Thomas@math_racheln/aTechnicalfast.ai / AI educationTechnical educator and fast.ai cofounder.
Practical ML and responsible AI education
102Thomas Wolf@Thom_Wolfn/aTechnicalHugging Face cofounderCore open-source AI platform builder.
Transformers/open-source AI engineering
103Julien Chaumond@julien_cn/aTechnicalHugging Face CTO/cofounderImportant open-source AI infra voice.
Model hub/open-source platform engineering
104Naveen Rao@NaveenGRaon/aSemi-technicalAI chips / DatabricksAI compute/systems founder.
AI hardware and systems entrepreneurship
105Vinod Khosla@vkhoslan/aNon-technical / media-businessAI investorMajor AI investment voice.
AI investment and market theses
106Sebastian Thrun@SebastianThrunn/aTechnicalUdacity / roboticsRobotics/AI education pioneer.
Robotics, autonomous vehicles, education
107Peter Diamandis@PeterDiamandisn/aNon-technical / media-businessFuturist / XPRIZEBroad innovation audience.
AI futurism and entrepreneurship
108Ray Kurzweil@raykurzweiln/aSemi-technicalAI futuristLongstanding AI futurist voice.
Singularity/AI future commentary
109Joy Buolamwini@jovialjoyn/aSemi-technicalAlgorithmic Justice LeagueAI fairness and policy KOL.
Algorithmic bias/accountability research
110Rumman Chowdhury@ruchowdhn/aSemi-technicalAI ethics / governanceImportant AI governance voice.
Responsible AI and governance
111Abeba Birhane@Abebabn/aSemi-technicalAI accountability researcherStrong responsible-AI researcher.
AI bias/eval/accountability research
112Rediet Abebe@red_abeben/aTechnicalAI for social goodTechnical/public-interest AI voice.
Algorithms and social-good AI research
113Meredith Whittaker@mer__edithn/aNon-technical / media-businessSignal / AI criticImportant policy/privacy voice.
AI politics, privacy, surveillance critique
114Cathy O’Neil@mathbabedotorgn/aSemi-technicalAlgorithmic accountabilityPublic algorithmic-risk voice.
Risk, fairness, automated decision-making
115Safiya Noble@safiyanoblen/aNon-technical / media-businessAI/search equity scholarImportant sociotechnical AI voice.
Critical AI/search scholarship
116Ruha Benjamin@ruha9n/aNon-technical / media-businessTechnology and society scholarSociotechnical AI influence.
Race, technology, AI society
117Jack Clark@jackclarkSFn/aSemi-technicalAnthropic cofounder / Import AIMeasured AI policy/technical newsletter voice.
AI policy, capability trends, technical summaries
118Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell1n/aTechnicalComplexity / AI researcherTechnical and skeptical AI researcher.
AI reasoning, analogy, cognitive science
119Aurélien Géron@aureliengeronn/aTechnicalML authorPopular practical ML educator.
Hands-on ML education
120Chip Huyen@chipron/aTechnicalAI engineering authorHigh-signal AI engineering voice.
ML systems, AI engineering, evals
121Monica Rogati@mrogatin/aTechnicalData science leaderTechnical data/AI product KOL.
Data/AI product strategy and systems
122Inioluwa Deborah Raji@rajiinion/aSemi-technicalAI accountability researcherImportant AI auditing voice.
Model auditing and accountability
123Arvind Narayanan@random_walkern/aTechnicalPrinceton AI/societyTechnical AI and policy critic.
AI, fairness, privacy, crypto, accountability
124Vincent Warmerdam@fishnets88n/aTechnicalCalmcode / ML toolingHigh-signal practical technical educator.
Practical ML education and tooling
125Sasha Luccioni@SashaMTLn/aSemi-technicalHugging Face / AI climateTechnical responsible-AI voice.
AI energy, climate, responsible AI evaluation
126Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundagen/aSemi-technicalAI policy/safetyImportant policy/safety KOL.
AI governance and frontier-lab policy
127Jan Leike@janleiken/aTechnicalAnthropic / alignmentTop technical alignment researcher.
Alignment, scalable oversight, RLHF
128Paul Christiano@paulc443n/aTechnicalAlignment Research CenterCore technical alignment voice.
Technical AI alignment theory/evals
129Oren Etzioni@etzionin/aSemi-technicalAI2 founderSenior AI institution builder.
AI research, policy, entrepreneurship
130Percy Liang@percyliang~106.5KTechnicalStanford NLP / HELMTop LLM-evaluation researcher.
Benchmarking, NLP, HELM/MedHELM
131Jacob Andreas@jacobandreasn/aTechnicalMIT NLPTechnical NLP/agents researcher.
Language grounding, agents, NLP research
132Dan Hendrycks@DanHendrycksn/aTechnicalCenter for AI SafetyImportant eval/safety benchmark creator.
Benchmarks, model risks, WMDP/MMLU-style evals
133Scott Aaronson@scottaaronsonn/aTechnicalTheoretical CS / OpenAI alumnusTechnical theory/safety voice.
Complexity theory, quantum, AI safety commentary
134Swyx@swyxn/aTechnicalAI engineering / Latent SpaceTop AI engineering community builder.
Agents, RAG, evals, AI engineering stack
135Mckay Wrigley@mckaywrigleyn/aSemi-technicalAI builder / Chatbot UIPractical AI builder influence.
AI app demos and builder workflows
136Deedy Das@deedydasn/aSemi-technicalAI investor / curatorHigh-signal AI startup/model curator.
Model release summaries and benchmark takes
137Bindu Reddy@bindureddyn/aSemi-technicalAbacus AI CEOHigh-engagement AI product/founder voice.
AI capability/startup commentary
138Ethan Mollick@emollickn/aSemi-technicalWharton professor / AI use casesMajor practical AI adoption voice.
Empirical AI use and workplace experiments
139Linus Lee@thesephistn/aTechnicalNotion AI researcherTechnical AI product/research voice.
LLM internals, embeddings, AI-native UX
140Nathan Labenz@labenzn/aSemi-technicalCognitive Revolution podcastStrong AI interview/eval commentator.
Model eval discussions, AI interviews
141Nathan Lambert@natolambertn/aTechnicalAI2 / InterconnectsTop technical post-training/open-model voice.
RLHF, post-training, open models
142DAIR.AI@DAIR_AIn/aSemi-technicalAI research educationResearch-paper amplification and education.
Paper explainers and ML education
143arXiv@arxiv_orgn/aTechnicalResearch preprint platformRaw research discovery channel.
Primary research feed
144AlphaXiv@alphaxivn/aTechnicalPaper discovery platformAI paper discovery/amplification.
Social layer for arXiv/papers
145Cameron Wolfe@cwolferesearchn/aTechnicalAI researcher / writerHigh-signal technical AI explainer.
Paper breakdowns and Deep Learning Focus
146Vikhyat K.@vikhyatkn/aTechnicalMoondream / small VLMsPractical model builder.
Small-model/VLM engineering
147OpenAI@OpenAIn/aSemi-technicalFrontier AI labPrimary OpenAI launch channel.
Official launches and benchmark posts
148Anthropic@AnthropicAIn/aSemi-technicalFrontier AI labPrimary Anthropic launch channel.
Claude releases and safety research
149Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind~1.2MTechnicalFrontier AI/science labMajor technical AI lab channel.
Research releases, AlphaFold/Gemini science AI
150Meta AI@MetaAIn/aTechnicalOpen models / AI labKey open-model lab channel.
Llama/open model research and product
151Mistral AI@MistralAIn/aTechnicalFrontier/open model labEuropean frontier model channel.
Open/foundation model releases
152Hugging Face@huggingface~689KSemi-technicalOpen-source AI platformHigh-impact open AI distribution.
Model/dataset/leaderboard ecosystem
153NVIDIA@nvidian/aSemi-technicalAI compute platformAI infrastructure narrative channel.
GPU/platform launches and AI hardware
154Cohere@coheren/aSemi-technicalEnterprise LLM labEnterprise LLM platform channel.
Enterprise model releases and retrieval/RAG context
155Perplexity@perplexity_ain/aSemi-technicalAI search companyConsumer AI search channel.
AI search product releases
156Together AI@togethercomputen/aTechnicalOpen model infraOpen AI infrastructure channel.
Inference/fine-tuning/open model infra
157xAI@xain/aSemi-technicalFrontier AI labxAI primary launch channel.
Grok releases and xAI research
158LM Arena@lmarena_ain/aTechnicalModel leaderboard/evalsImportant public model benchmark channel.
Chatbot Arena / model rankings
159OpenRouter@OpenRouterAIn/aSemi-technicalModel routing/API platformUseful model market/API signal.
Model availability and routing data
160Replicate@replicaten/aTechnicalModel hosting/APIModel deployment ecosystem channel.
Open model deployment and demos
161Weights & Biases@weights_biasesn/aSemi-technicalMLOps / evalsMLOps and AI eval community.
Experiment tracking, evals, ML tooling
162LangChain@LangChainAIn/aTechnicalLLM app frameworkKey AI agent/RAG developer channel.
Agents, RAG, LangGraph, app tooling
163LlamaIndex@llama_indexn/aTechnicalLLM data/RAG frameworkImportant AI engineering framework.
RAG, retrieval, agents, data connectors
164Modal@modal_labsn/aTechnicalAI compute platformTechnical AI infra channel.
Serverless GPU/AI infra
165Anyscale@AnyscaleComputen/aTechnicalRay / AI infraImportant scalable AI systems channel.
Distributed ML/serving infrastructure
166Scale AI@scale_AIn/aSemi-technicalData/evals platformEvals/data infrastructure influence.
Data, evals, enterprise AI
167Scale Labs@ScaleAILabsn/aTechnicalAI evals / benchmarksHigh-signal eval/benchmark channel.
DrugDiscoveryBench and agent benchmarks
168METR@METR_Evals~25.2KTechnicalAI capability evalsImportant agent-eval methodology voice.
Agent/R&D capability measurements
169UK AI Security Institute@AISecurityInst~7.6KSemi-technicalModel safety/evalsGovernment eval-framework voice.
Inspect Evals and frontier-model evaluation
170Center for AI Safety@ai_risks~8.2KSemi-technicalAI safety benchmarksBio/chem/cyber eval relevance.
WMDP and risk evaluations
171Epoch AI@EpochAIResearch~45.7KSemi-technicalAI trends/benchmarksMethodology/benchmark analysis amplifier.
Benchmark and compute trend analysis
172MLCommons@MLCommons~3.6KSemi-technicalAI standards/benchmarksStandards-setting benchmark channel.
MLPerf, medical AI, benchmark working groups
173Papers with Code@paperswithcode~114.7KSemi-technicalBenchmark leaderboard platformBroad benchmark visibility channel.
Paper/code/leaderboard discovery
174Therapeutics Data Commons@ProjectTDC~1.3KTechnicalDrug-discovery ML benchmarksFoundational drug-discovery benchmark ecosystem.
TDC tasks/leaderboards/datasets
175Phylo@phylo_bion/aTechnicalBiomedical agents / DrugDiscoveryBenchDirect DDDBench peer/partner target.
Biomni, BiomniBench, DrugDiscoveryBench
176Kexin Huang@KexinHuang5n/aTechnicalBiomedical AI agentsHigh-signal biomedical-agent benchmark KOL.
BiomniBench/Biomni; long-horizon bio tasks
177FutureHouse@FutureHouseSFn/aTechnicalScientific agents / LAB-BenchTop scientific-agent benchmark target.
LAB-Bench/BixBench/scientific-agent ecosystem
178Valence Labs@valence_ai~5.9KTechnicalDrug-discovery benchmarksRelevant industry-standard DD benchmarking channel.
Polaris benchmark/data platform
179Pat Walters@wpwalters~6.3KTechnicalCheminformatics / benchmark critiqueHigh-credibility DD benchmark evaluator.
ADMET/blind challenges, benchmark validity
180OpenBioML@openbioml~4.1KTechnicalOpen biology MLCommunity amplifier for open BioML benchmarks.
BioML/ChemNLP community amplification
181Stephen Turner@strnr~31.3KTechnicalGenomics / AIxBio commentaryStrong AI-bio benchmark amplifier.
Genomics, biosecurity, AI-bio eval commentary
182Jablonka Lab@jablonkagroup~359TechnicalChemBench / chemistry AIRelevant chemistry benchmark group.
ChemBench and chemistry/materials LLM evals
183Andrew White@andrewwhite01n/aTechnicalChemCrow / scientific agentsStrong chemistry/science-agent benchmark KOL.
ChemCrow, PaperQA, chemistry agents
184Philippe Schwaller@pschwllrn/aTechnicalChemical language modelsChemistry model/eval KOL.
RXN/ChemCrow/chemistry AI
185Chai Discovery@chaidiscovery~5.6KTechnicalStructure predictionProtein/structure benchmark channel.
Chai-1/chai-lab structure benchmarks
186Rosetta Commons@RosettaCommons~1.9KTechnicalProtein modeling/designProtein-design benchmark credibility network.
Rosetta, CASP/CAPRI ecosystem
187ChEMBL Database@ChEMBL~2.9KTechnicalDrug-discovery dataBenchmark/data community account.
ChEMBL resource updates
188Tanishq Abraham / MedARC@iScienceLuvrn/aTechnicalMedical LLM benchmarksMedical LLM benchmark KOL.
Medmarks and medical AI evaluation
189Stability AI@StabilityAIn/aSemi-technicalOpen generative AI labGenerative AI model distribution channel.
Open image/audio/model releases
190Midjourney@midjourneyn/aNon-technical / media-businessGenerative image modelsMajor creative AI model channel.
Model/product releases, creative AI
191Runway@runwaymln/aSemi-technicalGenerative video AIMajor generative video model channel.
Video model/product releases
192Luma AI@LumaLabsAIn/aSemi-technicalGenerative video/3DCreative model product channel.
Dream Machine/video/3D model releases
193Cursor@cursor_ain/aTechnicalAI coding IDEMajor AI coding tool channel.
AI coding product and model integrations
194Cognition@cognition_labsn/aTechnicalAI software agentsImportant coding-agent benchmark/product channel.
Devin and coding-agent releases
195Replit@Replitn/aSemi-technicalAI coding platformAI coding/developer distribution channel.
AI coding agents and cloud dev platform
196Windsurf@windsurf_ain/aTechnicalAI coding IDEImportant AI coding product channel.
Coding-agent/product releases
197OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevsn/aTechnicalOpenAI developer platformPrimary technical OpenAI developer channel.
API, model tiers, developer releases
198Google AI@GoogleAIn/aSemi-technicalGoogle AI product/researchBroad Google AI channel.
Google AI releases and research/product links
199Databricks@databricksn/aSemi-technicalData/AI platformImportant enterprise data+AI platform channel.
Lakehouse, MosaicML, model serving and enterprise AI infra
200MosaicML@MosaicMLn/aTechnicalModel training infrastructureTechnical model-training infrastructure voice.
Open model training, LLM training systems and infra

Bio/DD benchmark KOLs

#NameX handleFollowersBenchmark/eval focusExamples + relevance
1OpenAI@OpenAIvery large / n.a.LifeSciBench; GeneBench-Pro; life-science model evaluationLifeSciBench: 750 expert-authored tasks, 173 scientist contributors, 19,020 rubric criteria.
Direct benchmark comparator and high-impact launch/amplification target.
2Tacit Labs@tacitlabscon/aLifeSciBench partner / biology verification loopReferenced in LifeSciBench launch ecosystem with OpenAI.
Potential partner/peer for life-science task design and validation.
3Nina Fitzpatrick@ninklefitzn/aLifeSciBench / Tacit LabsNamed in LifeSciBench/Tacit Labs launch amplification.
Likely useful individual contact around biology eval design.
4Andrew Droste@AmDrosten/aLifeSciBench / Tacit LabsNamed in LifeSciBench/Tacit Labs launch amplification.
Likely useful individual contact around life-science verification.
5FutureHouse@FutureHouseSFn/aBiology/science agents, LAB-Bench, scientific task evaluationLAB-Bench and FutureHouse scientific-agent ecosystem; BixBench repo under Future-House.
Top target for scientific-agent benchmark comparison/amplification.
6Phylo@phylo_bion/aBiomni, BiomniBench, DrugDiscoveryBench, biomedical agentsDrugDiscoveryBench with Scale Labs; BiomniBench process-level evaluation.
Direct DDDBench peer/benchmark partner and high-priority outreach target.
7Scale Labs@ScaleAILabsn/aDrugDiscoveryBench and agent evalsDrugDiscoveryBench: 82 early-stage DD tasks with expert rubrics and leaderboard.
Direct benchmark comparison; useful for model-vs-harness narrative.
8Scale AI@scale_AIlarge / n.a.AI data/evals; Scale Labs amplificationScale blog and labs leaderboard for DrugDiscoveryBench.
Enterprise-eval distribution channel.
9Kexin Huang@KexinHuang5n/aBiomni, BiomniBench, AI agents for biomedical researchPosted BiomniBench launch: process-level evaluation of agents on long-horizon biology tasks.
Strong KOL for agentic biomedical benchmarks and scientific-agent systems.
10Therapeutics Data Commons@ProjectTDC~1.3KDrug-discovery ML datasets/tasks/leaderboardsTDC platform for AI-ready therapeutic datasets and leaderboards.
Foundational benchmark ecosystem for DDDBench positioning.
11Jure Leskovec@jure~44.7KTDC, graph ML, biomedical MLTDC / Harvard-Stanford biomedical ML ecosystem.
Senior benchmark and graph-ML amplifier.
12Valence Labs@valence_ai~5.9KPolaris drug-discovery benchmark platformPolarisHub benchmark/data platform for drug discovery.
Highly relevant for industry-standard DD benchmarking.
13Pat Walters@wpwalters~6.3KCheminformatics benchmark critique, ADMET, blind challengesOpenADMET/blind-challenge and benchmark-validity commentary.
High-credibility evaluator/KOL for DD benchmark quality.
14OpenBioML@openbioml~4.1KOpen biology ML, ChemNLP, model-risk/eval discussionCommunity journal clubs and BioML paper amplification.
Community amplifier for open BioML benchmarking.
15Biology+AI Daily@BiologyAIDailyn/aAI-bio paper/benchmark amplificationAmplified BixBench and other AI-biology benchmark papers.
Useful awareness channel for DDDBench/MMAI benchmark posts.
16Stephen Turner@strnr~31.3KGenomics, computational biology, AIxBio commentaryGenomics and biosecurity/AI benchmark commentary.
Strong commentator/amplifier for AI-bio benchmark credibility.
17Jablonka Lab@jablonkagroup~359ChemBench, chemistry/materials LLM evaluationChemBench benchmark for chemistry reasoning and tool use.
Relevant analog for chemistry/LLM eval methodology.
18Andrew White@andrewwhite01n/aChemCrow, PaperQA, scientific agents, chemistry LLMsChemCrow and scientific-agent evaluation work.
Very strong chemistry/science-agent benchmark KOL.
19Philippe Schwaller@pschwllrn/aChemical language models, RXN, ChemCrow ecosystemChemCrow / reaction prediction / chemistry AI work.
Good benchmark reviewer and chemistry-agent evaluator.
20Chai Discovery@chaidiscovery~5.6KBiomolecular structure prediction benchmarksChai-1, chai-lab, structure prediction comparisons.
Protein/structure benchmark comparison channel.
21Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind~1.2MAlphaFold/CASP, Gemini science AIAlphaFold and Isomorphic science-AI narratives.
Huge amplifier; benchmark framing authority.
22Rosetta Commons@RosettaCommons~1.9KProtein modeling/design benchmarks and community toolsRosetta, CASP/CAPRI-related modeling ecosystem.
Protein-design benchmark credibility network.
23ChEMBL Database@ChEMBL~2.9KDrug-discovery data resource used in benchmarksChEMBL data/resource updates.
Useful data/benchmark community account.
24Papers with Code@paperswithcode~114.7KML benchmark/leaderboard amplificationBenchmark and paper leaderboard distribution.
Broad benchmark visibility channel.
25Hugging Face@huggingface~689KOpen leaderboards and model hubsOpen Medical LLM Leaderboard; dataset/model benchmark hosting.
High-impact hosting/amplification route for DDDBench/MMAI.
26Percy Liang / Stanford HELM@percyliang~106.5KHELM, MedHELM, holistic LLM evalsStanford CRFM HELM and medical evaluation frameworks.
Credible LLM-eval benchmark KOL.
27METR@METR_Evals~25.2KAgent/R&D capability evals, time-horizon evalsAutonomous capability measurement and eval methodology.
Useful for agent-eval methodology framing.
28UK AI Security Institute@AISecurityInst~7.6KInspect Evals; chem/bio/frontier model evalsInspect eval framework and frontier-model safety evaluations.
Strong eval-framework/governance target.
29Center for AI Safety@CAIS / @ai_risks~8.2KWMDP bio/chem/cyber hazardous-knowledge benchmarkWMDP benchmark and biorisk/chem risk evals.
Relevant to bio/chem LLM evals; outreach should be careful and risk-aware.
30Epoch AI@EpochAIResearch~45.7KBenchmark datasets/trends and biorisk eval analysisEpoch benchmark tracking and AI trend analysis.
Methodology/benchmark-analysis amplifier.
31MLCommons@MLCommons~3.6KMedical AI, safety, and science benchmark working groupsMLCommons medical/data working groups.
Standards-setting outreach target.
32Tanishq M. Abraham / MedARC@iScienceLuvrn/aMedmarks medical LLM benchmark suiteMedmarks benchmark posts and GitHub project.
Strong medical LLM benchmark KOL.

Source anchors

  1. Feedspot Top AI Influencers 2026
  2. OpenAI LifeSciBench announcement
  3. OpenAI LifeSciBench X post
  4. Scale Labs DrugDiscoveryBench blog
  5. Phylo DrugDiscoveryBench blog
  6. Scale Labs DrugDiscoveryBench X post
  7. BioML-bench preprint
  8. Therapeutics Data Commons
  9. ProteinGym
  10. LAB-Bench arXiv
  11. BixBench GitHub
  12. ChemBench
  13. FutureHouse LAB-Bench GitHub
  14. HeadGym AI influencers on X
  15. Feedspot Machine Learning X influencers
  16. Zarif Automates best AI X accounts