91 insiders vote on the most insightful people in AI data and post-training; Daniel Chang tops the list
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-06
Frontier List polled industry insiders on the most insightful people they've met in AI data and post-training, producing a 91-person list. Daniel Chang (ex-Mercor) led with 5 votes, followed by Abhijay Rana, Ryan Wexler, Sean Cai, and Will Brown with 3 each. The 1-vote long tail includes recognizable names like Noam Brown, Jason Wei, Andrej Karpathy, Jonathan Frankle, Michael Truell, Nathan Lambert, and Edwin Chen. Participants couldn't vote for themselves; Chris Barber abstained.
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