Luke Zettlemoyer
Whether open-weight language models can be built at frontier scale and whether their factuality can be measured at fine resolution.
Zettlemoyer's name appears on a roster of work that is closer to a research program than a list of papers — open large language models that anyone can examine (OPT in 2022 and the open-model line that followed), and the evaluation infrastructure to say whether those models keep their factual claims straight. FActScore (2023, lead author Sewon Min) is the methodologically careful version: break a long generated paragraph into atomic factual claims and score each against a knowledge source, rather than score "the whole paragraph" with a single judgment. For ai100 the resolution matters — a model that gets one fact right and two wrong in the same sentence should not get a passing grade.