Akash Bobba’s Hindu parents came to New Jersey from India after his father, Jay, secured an H-1B visa. Akash wrote artificial intelligence models for Meta when he was 19 years old and interned with Palantir at 20.

Luke Farritor was a senior at the University of Nebraska when he designed an AI program that made him the first in the world to decode scrolls from Roman Herculaneum, which had been burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79.