businessNov 2025
Annie Liao on being a female solo founder of an AI startup
Annie Liao, 24, founder of the AI startup Build Club in San Francisco, writes about working to be taken seriously as a female solo founder.
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business2025
Mira Murati launches Thinking Machines Lab
OpenAI's former chief technology officer founded her own AI company, Thinking Machines Lab.
scienceFeb 2023
Cambridge study: only 8% of AI scientists in a century of film are women
Researchers at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence found that 92% of AI scientists and engineers on screen in influential films from 1920 to 2020 were men, and argue the stereotype may deter women from AI careers.
business2022
Meredith Whittaker becomes president of Signal
AI researcher Meredith Whittaker became president of the Signal Foundation.
business2021
Daniela Amodei co-founds Anthropic
Daniela Amodei co-founded the AI company Anthropic and became its president.
music2021
Holly Herndon launches Holly+
Musician Holly Herndon released Holly+, an AI model of her own voice that others can sing through.
science2021
Margaret Mitchell joins Hugging Face
AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell joined Hugging Face.
science2021
Timnit Gebru founds the DAIR Institute
Timnit Gebru founded the Distributed AI Research Institute, an independent home for community-rooted AI research.
art2018
Anna Ridler shows Mosaic Virus
Artist Anna Ridler made Mosaic Virus, tulips generated by AI trained on photographs she took herself.
science2018
Daphne Koller founds insitro
Daphne Koller founded insitro, which uses machine learning to discover new medicines.
art2018
Stephanie Dinkins makes Not the Only One
Artist Stephanie Dinkins built Not the Only One, an AI trained on her family's stories.
science2016
Joy Buolamwini founds the Algorithmic Justice League
Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to raise awareness of bias in AI.
art2015
Sougwen Chung draws with robots
Artist Sougwen Chung began drawing in collaboration with robotic arms trained on her own style.