LLMpeople / Public Atlas
Meet the people shaping frontier language models.
LLMpeople helps the public understand who these researchers are, where they work, and which reports made them visible across core labs like OpenAI, Google Gemini, Meta AI, ByteDance Seed, and Alibaba Qwen, with extended coverage including MiniMax and Z.ai.
Discovery
Start with one person
A random entry point for readers who want to learn about a researcher rather than navigate by institution first.
Random profile
Olivier Bachem
Olivier Bachem is a director and research scientist at Google DeepMind working on reinforcement learning from human feedback, language model post-training, and machine learning at scale. He earned his PhD at ETH Zurich, where he studied coresets and sampling methods for large-scale machine learning.
Organizations
Context by lab and institution
A quick scan of the organizations most visible in the public atlas right now.
Google Gemini
Mountain View, United States
Google is where large-scale research, Gemini-era multimodality, and public product visibility now converge in the atlas.
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
OpenAI is where much of the public story around GPT systems became legible through reports, releases, and recognizable research teams.
Moonshot AI
Beijing, China
Moonshot AI matters because Kimi made high-end long-context and multimodal systems feel consumer-facing and publicly discussable.
ByteDance Seed
Beijing, China
ByteDance Seed is ByteDance's frontier-model team for reasoning and multimodal systems.
Z.ai
Beijing, China
Z.ai represents another branch of the Chinese frontier-model ecosystem, where GLM-style systems carry a distinct public identity.
Alibaba Qwen
Hangzhou, China
Qwen is one of the clearest examples of a large industrial lab turning model families into a long-running public research program.
DeepSeek
Hangzhou, China
DeepSeek stands out because the public has become deeply curious about how a lean team ships frontier-level reasoning systems.
MiniMax
Shanghai, China
MiniMax signals how quickly a newer lab can join the frontier conversation with its own model family and public presence.
Fresh profiles
Recently enriched
Profiles that recently gained enough detail to become useful public records.
Luke Zettlemoyer
Ai2
Luke Zettlemoyer works on empirical methods for natural language semantics, machine learning, new tasks and datasets, and self-supervision for pre-training.
Luca Soldaini
Ai2
Lead research scientist at Ai2 and a founding member of the OLMo team. He works on open language models, language agents, evaluation, and reasoning, and helps build open-model research infrastructure.
Nicholas Schiefer
Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and cofounder of Oulipo Labs, working on language model safety, evaluations, and scientific forecasting.