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-dwarkesh-patel	78.0	➡️	AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-imp Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ev The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained
3	channel-all-in	78.0	➡️	AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrou GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck,
4	channel-simons-institute	78.0	➡️	Probably Approximately Precision and Recall Learning Talk by Inioluwa Deborah Raji (UC Berkeley) Can AI do research math?
5	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
6	channel-20vc	78.0	➡️	Eight Sleep CEO: How AI Runs the Company \| “Our Engineers St GPT Astra & Fable 5.1 Accelerate the Model Race \| Tesla Laun The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race That Will Replace Apps on
7	channel-lenny	78.0	➡️	How a handful of people built Grok Bot in 30 days \| Roman Ug Why companies are becoming a series of loops \| Anish Acharya AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers \| Tara S
8	channel-mlst	78.0	➡️	What Building an AI Scientist Actually Requires Beyond Intel How Many Narrow AIs Could Behave Like One Superintelligence Strange Geometric Shapes Found Inside AIs — Tom McGrath
9	channel-latent-space	78.0	➡️	Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code Trillion Token Context. No, Really — Anima Anandkumar & Bene The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second
10	channel-tim-ferriss	78.0	➡️	Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Why Dr. Andrew Huberman Changed His Mind About Psychedelics Andrew Huberman’s Weekly Training Routine
11	channel-big-tech	78.0	➡️	Why AI Labs Want You to Think They're Dangerous Why Is Every Phone Maker Suddenly Betting on Foldables? GPT-6 Can Now Hide What It's Thinking From OpenAI
12	channel-lex-fridman	73.0	➡️	DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Co Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant
13	channel-a16z	73.0	➡️	Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
14	channel-y-combinator	73.0	➡️	Why You're Getting Zero Replies To Your Cold Emails Why The Harness Matters More Than The Model \| YC Paper Club Open Models Change The Economics of AI
15	channel-deeplearning-ai	73.0	➡️	AI Dev \| San Francisco 2026 \| 2,599 AI Developers Your coding agent keeps solving the same problem Take back control of your AI coding workflow
16	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
17	channel-acquired	73.0	➡️	Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire (Audio) The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a tri
18	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】
19	channel-david-senra-founders	68.0	➡️	Bending Spoons's Luca Ferrari: Talent Science, Relentless Si How ElevenLabs Built the World's Best AI Voice Technology \| Zach Dell on Base Power, Energy Abundance & Building a Compa
20	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】

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Source: Laojin Global AI People Heatmap (https://www.laojinchuhai.com/en/heatmap), updated 2026-09-14

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