2025 Extraordinary Fellows
23 – Founding team member at Cognition AI, co-creator of Devin (the AI Software Engineer) and a large language model researcher at Google DeepMind and Stanford. He pioneered PIGEON, the first superhuman AI in GeoGuessr, and defeated pro player Rainbolt in a viral video.
21 – At 16, developed a computer vision prosthetic arm, which led to joining Hanson Robotics to work on Sophia the Robot and co-lead research in neuro-symbolic AI. Deep tech polymath and past researcher/engineer at the Arc Institute, Harvard Biodesign Lab, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Cruise, the Vector Institute and NVIDIA. Authored O’Reilly textbook 'Machine Learning for Robotics'
22 – Viral engineer behind the Beluga YouTube channel (10 million+ subscribers and more than 2.4 billion views). 2nd most viewed face reveal on the internet. Recipient of the Diamond Play Button.
24 – Bitcoin contributor since 2008. Hacked the iPhone. Apple tried to sue him only to discover he was 11 years old so they offered him an internship. Wrote one of the first Bitcoin GPU miners in CUDA
16 – Technical prodigy and founder of Beem Computer, a novel computing interface that has raised $1 million in funding.
22 – Neuroscience and deep learning researcher at MIT's Boyden Lab, developing nanoimaging tools for whole-brain mapping.
22 – Renowned "purple-haired 10X engineer" known for rapidly shipping innovative projects. He is currently an engineer at Worldcoin.
23 – Co-founder of Interaction.co, a novel computing interaction company. A former researcher at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, he has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
22 – Creator of Zuzalu, the crypto pop up city experiment. Crypto Advisor.
22 – Worked on Sora video generation at OpenAI. A high school dropout turned AI engineer, previously at Midjourney.
17 – Design engineer recognized for viral iOS concept designs, collectively amassing millions of views.
22 – Engineering savant and co-creator of Origami Agents (YC F24), an AI agent company.
23 – Low-level computing expert and co-founder of Interaction.co. Formerly at Apple, where he integrated Apache Kafka into Swift and contributed to server-side Swift development.
22 – Founding team of RunPod, the AI GPU marketplace, which scaled to 200,000+ developers and mid-eight figures in revenue. Brain computer interface researcher.
16 – Systems/Infrastructure programming @ venture-backed companies since 13. Disassembled the EVM at 13 in >1000 lines of code.Founder @ Instafleet, Agents for warehouse operations for shippers & forwarders.
21 – Built a self driving go-cart at 14. Worked on dark matter detectors at SNOLAB, NLP @ Midjourney in 2020, robot simulators at NVIDIA and intelligent sidewalk robots at HYPR. Stanford graduate and train enjoyer
22 – At 16, trained and productionized SOTA CNNs to detect breast density from mammograms for cancer diagnosis. Founder of Brightlight, applied AI for patient triage, intake, healthcare delivery, and EHR.
22 – Founder and design engineer at Deco, with rebranding and application-building credits for DeFi.tech and Valour.com, a $1.6 billion market. His clients have collectively raised more than $300 million.
25 - Built Huff, the most used low-level EVM assembly language. Systems + cryptography engineer @ Aztec.
22 – Cryptographic data expert who built a blockchain fraud detection system that processed more than $4 billion last year—over half the industry's total airdrop volume.
22 - Machine Learning and Biology researcher, currently working on genomic foundation models and adapter-guided protein design at the Arc Institute and Stanford AI Lab.
Spearheading product innovation at Snapchat through design engineering. He’s helped launch things like Snapchat+, their captions tool, which people use billions of times a day.
Technical prodigy and founding engineer at Brex ($12.3 billion valuation).
Transhumanist technology designer and quantum computing artist, creator of the first neotranshumanist technology exhibition.
Graphics and AI developer creating model interpretability tools for large language models using WebGPU.