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Title: CEO Company: StepFun Industry: Technology

Jiang is the founder and CEO of StepFun, a Chinese startup developing advanced large language models. Previously a Vice President at Microsoft Research Asia, he spent over 16 years leading research in search and AI. Jiang now focuses on building multimodal AGI systems, having rapidly launched the impressive Step-1 and Step-2 models.

Title: Founder & Executive Director Company: DAIR Industry: Education

Timnit leads the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute( DAIR), an independent organisation she founded to counter the influence of Big Tech on AI research. A renowned computer scientist and former co-lead of Google’ s Ethical AI team, she is a fierce advocate for diversity and widely recognised for highlighting algorithmic bias and harm.

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