AI People Heatmap

Name: AI People Heatmap Weekly
Creator: Laojin Global
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Who's moving AI this week — scored from media mentions, deep interviews, GitHub activity and arXiv papers. Updated weekly. Free to cite with attribution.

Methodology

Score = media ×3 + deep interviews ×5 + GitHub activity ×1 + arXiv papers ×2 + recency bonus +3. Sources: reputable media RSS, our interview archive, GitHub and arXiv signals.

#	Person / Lab	Heat	Trend	This week
1	channel-karpathy	78.0	➡️	How I use LLMs Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M)
2	channel-simons-institute	78.0	➡️	Probably Approximately Precision and Recall Learning Talk by Inioluwa Deborah Raji (UC Berkeley) Can AI do research math?
3	channel-mckay-wrigley	78.0	➡️	How To 10x Your Notes: Obsidian + Claude AI Agents Claude Code + Opus 4 = The Future of AI Coding Agents NEW: Claude 3.7 Sonnet + Cursor Agent = Best AI Coding Agent
4	channel-lenny	78.0	➡️	Everything I’ve learned from leading product at Snap and Dis How we built Grok Bot in a month \| Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI) Why companies are becoming a series of loops \| Anish Acharya
5	channel-mlst	78.0	➡️	How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutte Why More Data Cannot Replace Prior Structure - Alexander Mat How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — M
6	channel-latent-space	78.0	📈	🔬 An AI that perceives the world through DNA - Eric Nguyen 🔬 The Man Behind sklearn, an Oscar, and Two Asteroids on AI Why I couldn't build Jev at OpenAI — Diogo Almeida, TypeSafe
7	channel-tim-ferriss	78.0	➡️	How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Why Dr. Andrew Huberman Changed His Mind About Psychedelics
8	channel-acquired	78.0	➡️	The Home Depot: How America's aging houses built the best st Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire (Audio) The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for
9	channel-lex-fridman	73.0	➡️	Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Co Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor
10	channel-a16z	73.0	➡️	Replit CEO Amjad Masad on What Young People Should Learn in Why Education Has to Change Why the People Who Built Hip-Hop Ended Up With Nothing
11	channel-y-combinator	73.0	➡️	The State of Startups in 2026 Why You're Getting Zero Replies To Your Cold Emails Why The Harness Matters More Than The Model \| YC Paper Club
12	channel-deeplearning-ai	73.0	➡️	Building AI Assistants with On-Device Memory Full Course: Spec-Driven Development with Coding Agents AI Dev \| San Francisco 2026 \| 2,599 AI Developers
13	channel-20vc	73.0	➡️	Daniel Dines on Why Work Processes Not Models Will Be The Mo "Anti-Data Centers is a Chinese Psyop" \| How Many Will Actua Instinct Raising $1B at $10B & Meta Launches Muse \| Miro Sel
14	channel-big-tech	73.0	➡️	Is AI Doom Overhyped? The Data OpenAI & Anthropic Don't Want You To See (Ramp AI I Nate Soares: AI Will Kill You Without Even Noticing It.
15	channel-luoyonghao-crossroads	73.0	➡️	CrossRoads Ep.36: Handy Geng: A Dadaist in the Village Hardw Crossroads is One Year Old! XRoads with Luo Yonghao \| The Snobbery That Kept Us Alive
16	channel-latepost-youtube	68.0	➡️	35 万茉莉花农，被洪水改变的花季中国民营火箭首次回收之后：对话朱雀三号副总设计师 26 岁 3 亿美元卖公司“开心只有两分钟”，不想 boring 就继续 suffering【晚点聊 LateTalk】
17	channel-david-senra-founders	68.0	➡️	He Sold Rxbar for $600 Million. Now He Has One of the Fastes Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Drivi Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies \| Mati Stanis
18	channel-sv101	63.0	➡️	AI开始预测人类：83亿虚拟人格、数字社会，与一门押注未来的生意｜解析AI预测模型｜AI prediction mode 机器人触觉的爆发前夜：五大技术路线、数据困局与模型之争｜机器人系列 mRNA的第二战场：拆解人类首个肿瘤疫苗三期突破｜对话艾博生物CEO英博【101视频播客】
19	channel-stripe	58.0	📈	Sea founder and CEO Forrest Li in conversation with Tyler Br A conversation with Replit's President and Head of AI Michel Tech analyst Philipp Klöckner in conversation with Conor McN
20	channel-all-in	58.0	📉	Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology

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Source: Laojin Global AI People Heatmap (https://www.laojinchuhai.com/en/heatmap), updated 2026-09-23

132 people & labs tracked · ranked by heat score · updated weekly