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[Read How We Chose the List](/article/2026/08/27/how-we-chose-time100-ai-2026/) * All * LEADERS * INNOVATORS * SHAPERS * THINKERS ## Leaders *  [Mark Chen, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman](/collection/time100-ai/2026/mark-chen-sam-altman-greg-brockman/) Chief Research Officer, OpenAI; CEO, OpenAI; President, OpenAI *  [Elon Musk](/collection/time100-ai/2026/elon-musk/) CEO, SpaceX byBilly Perrigo *  [Dario and Daniela Amodei](/collection/time100-ai/2026/dario-amodei-daniela-amodei/) Co-founders, Anthropic byBilly Perrigo *  [Arvind Krishna](/collection/time100-ai/2026/arvind-krishna/) CEO and Chairman, IBM byHarry Booth *  [Lila Ibrahim](/collection/time100-ai/2026/lila-ibrahim/) Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind byAyesha Javed *  [Liang Rubo](/collection/time100-ai/2026/liang-rubo/) Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, Bytedance byCharlie Campbell *  [A.G. Sulzberger](/collection/time100-ai/2026/a-g-sulzberger/) Publisher and Chairman, The New York Times Co. byAndrew R. Chow *  [Hock Tan](/collection/time100-ai/2026/hock-tan/) CEO, Broadcom byHarry Booth *  [Arvind Raman](/collection/time100-ai/2026/arvind-raman/) Acting head, U.S. CAISI; Director, NIST byBilly Perrigo *  [Jeff Bezos](/collection/time100-ai/2026/jeff-bezos/) Founder, Amazon; Co-founder and Co-CEO, Prometheus byBilly Perrigo *  [Moustapha Cissé](/collection/time100-ai/2026/moustapha-cisse/) Founder and CEO, Kera Health Platforms bySteve Friess *  [Josh Payne](/collection/time100-ai/2026/josh-payne/) Founder and CEO, Nscale byBilly Perrigo *  [Larry Ellison](/collection/time100-ai/2026/larry-ellison/) Co-founder, CTO, and Executive Chairman, Oracle byBilly Perrigo *  [He Tingbo](/collection/time100-ai/2026/he-tingbo/) Director, Huawei byCharlie Campbell *  [Valerii Borovyk](/collection/time100-ai/2026/valerii-borovyk/) Founder and CEO, First Contact byChris Stokel-Walker *  [Joëlle Pineau](/collection/time100-ai/2026/joelle-pineau/) Chief AI Officer, Cohere byAmrita Khalid *  [Matt Garman](/collection/time100-ai/2026/matt-garman/) CEO, Amazon Web Services byChris Stokel-Walker *  [Ali Ghodsi](/collection/time100-ai/2026/ali-ghodsi/) Co-founder and CEO, Databricks byBilly Perrigo *  [Eddie Wu](/collection/time100-ai/2026/eddie-wu/) CEO, Alibaba byCharlie Campbell *  [Elizabeth Reid](/collection/time100-ai/2026/elizabeth-reid/) VP and Head of Search, Google byGabriela Riccardi *  [Nigel Vaz](/collection/time100-ai/2026/nigel-vaz/) CEO, Publicis Sapient byAmrita Khalid *  [Michael Intrator](/collection/time100-ai/2026/michael-intrator/) Co-founder and CEO, CoreWeave byChris Stokel-Walker *  [Liang Mong Song](/collection/time100-ai/2026/liang-mong-song/) Co-CEO, SMIC byChris Stokel-Walker ## Innovators *  [Daniel Nadler](/collection/time100-ai/2026/daniel-nadler/) Founder and CEO, OpenEvidence byAndrew R. Chow *  [Ben Affleck](/collection/time100-ai/2026/ben-affleck/) Actor and filmmaker byAyesha Javed *  [Stella Li](/collection/time100-ai/2026/stella-li/) Executive Vice President, BYD byCharlie Campbell *  [Michael Truell](/collection/time100-ai/2026/michael-truell/) Co-founder and CEO, Cursor byHarry Booth *  [Azalia Mirhoseini and Anna Goldie](/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/) Co-founders, Ricursive Intelligence byBilly Perrigo *  [Yang Zhilin](/collection/time100-ai/2026/yang-zhilin/) Co-founder and CEO, Moonshot AI byCharlie Campbell *  [Peter Steinberger](/collection/time100-ai/2026/peter-steinberger/) Creator, OpenClaw byChris Stokel-Walker *  [Anima Anandkumar](/collection/time100-ai/2026/anima-anandkumar/) Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech byTharin Pillay *  [Mohamed Moussa](/collection/time100-ai/2026/mohamed-moussa/) Co-founder and CTO, Tarteel byJuwayriah Wright *  [Coerte Voorhees](/collection/time100-ai/2026/coerte-voorhees/) Writer and filmmaker bySteve Friess *  [Brendan Foody](/collection/time100-ai/2026/brendan-foody/) Co-founder and CEO, Mercor byTharin Pillay *  [Mikey Shulman](/collection/time100-ai/2026/mikey-shulman/) Co-founder and CEO, Suno byTharin Pillay *  [Danielle Boyer](/collection/time100-ai/2026/danielle-boyer/) Founder, The STEAM Connection byAimee Groth *  [Utkarsh Saxena](/collection/time100-ai/2026/utkarsh-saxena/) Co-founder and CEO, Adalat AI byAimee Groth *  [Uljan Sharka](/collection/time100-ai/2026/uljan-sharka/) Founder and CEO, Domyn byAmrita Khalid *  [Andrew Feldman](/collection/time100-ai/2026/andrew-feldman/) Co-founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems byBilly Perrigo *  [Deng Taihua](/collection/time100-ai/2026/deng-taihua/) Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, AgiBot byCharlie Campbell *  [Zhang Peng](/collection/time100-ai/2026/zhang-peng/) CEO, Zhipu byChris Stokel-Walker *  [Winston Weinberg](/collection/time100-ai/2026/winston-weinberg/) Co-founder and CEO, Harvey byTharin Pillay *  [Suchi Saria](/collection/time100-ai/2026/suchi-saria/) Founder and CEO, Bayesian Health byChris Stokel-Walker *  [Sanjay Mehrotra](/collection/time100-ai/2026/sanjay-mehrotra/) Chairman, President, and CEO, Micron Technology byHarry Booth *  [Vivek Raghavan](/collection/time100-ai/2026/vivek-raghavan/) Co-founder, Sarvam AI byAmrita Khalid *  [Hon Weng Chong](/collection/time100-ai/2026/hon-weng-chong/) Founder and CEO, Cortical Labs byCharlie Campbell *  [Xiao Hong](/collection/time100-ai/2026/xiao-hong/) Founder and CEO, Manus byChris Stokel-Walker ## Shapers *  [Doreen Bogdan-Martin](/collection/time100-ai/2026/doreen-bogdan-martin/) Secretary-General, United Nations International Telecommunication Union byHarry Booth *  [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](/collection/time100-ai/2026/joseph-gordon-levitt/) Co-founder, Creators Coalition on AI byAyesha Javed *  [Pat Grady and Alfred Lin](/collection/time100-ai/2026/pat-grady-alfred-lin/) Co-stewards, Sequoia Capital byBilly Perrigo ## Project Credits * Lead editor:Ayesha Javed * Editors:Alex Altman, Merrill Fabry, Dan Macsai, Cate Matthews, Gabriela Riccardi, Lily Rothman, Dayana Sarkisova, and Karl Vick * Art and design:Skye Quinn and Lon Tweeten * Audience:Diana Elbasha, Helen Ray, Kari Sonde, and Alyona Uvarova * Reporters:Harry Booth, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. 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