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AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

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·October 26, 2025
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dipakwani

After listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Google AI, I wanted to map how many of today’s major AI players have their roots in Google. I built a network-style flowchart that visualizes this “AI Mafia”.

The goal was to map how deeply Google’s early AI efforts radiated towards current companies, viz, OpenAI, DeepMind, Cohere, etc. Each node links people and organizations mentioned in the episode, with logos for clarity.

There is still some UX work that can be done. Do explore the graph and I am sure you would also be interested in seeing the PayPal Mafia playing an important role, and how so many logos link back to Google (Brain).

Edit: Podcast link: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company

amelius

Do you have a link to the podcast?

dipakwani

Sure: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company. Added in the credits(hamburger) menu as well.

sghiassy

What’s the underling framework/website used to make the mind map?

dipakwani

I created the map as an Obsidian canvas. (It is stored as a json file internally). I am using https://js.cytoscape.org/ to render this json file on the website.

I tried out of the box obsidian canvas publishers, but they did not work. Hence the misaligned nodes.

huflungdung

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