--- description: Meet the innovators, leaders, and thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence. title: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt333bd5aa92e55444/6998c93cd32e939c67cd746a/T100_AI-1.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  Illustration by Andy Potts for TIME # TIME100 AI 2025 Meet the innovators, leaders, and thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence. [How We Chose the List](/7312067/how-we-chose-time100-ai-2025/) * All * LEADERS * INNOVATORS * SHAPERS * THINKERS ## Leaders *  [Matthew Prince](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305834/matthew-prince/) Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare byBilly Perrigo *  [Elon Musk](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305842/elon-musk-ai/) Founder, xAI byHarry Booth *  [Sam Altman](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305828/sam-altman-ai/) CEO, OpenAI byBilly Perrigo *  [Jensen Huang](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305861/jensen-huang-ai/) CEO, Nvidia byHarry Booth *  [Fidji Simo](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305850/fidji-simo/) CEO of Applications, OpenAI byHarry Booth *  [Mark Zuckerberg](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305856/mark-zuckerberg-ai/) Founder and CEO, Meta byHarry Booth *  [Andy Jassy](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305821/andy-jassy/) President and CEO, Amazon byAyesha Javed *  [Allie K. Miller](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305788/allie-k-miller/) CEO, Open Machine byAimee Groth *  [Dario Amodei](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305835/dario-amodei-ai/) CEO, Anthropic byBilly Perrigo *  [Strive Masiyiwa](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305874/strive-masiyiwa/) Founder and executive chairman, Cassava Technologies byTharin Pillay *  [Cristiano Amon](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305792/cristiano-amon/) President and CEO, Qualcomm byAmrita Khalid *  [Liang Wenfeng](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305843/liang-wenfeng-ai/) CEO, DeepSeek byHarry Booth *  [Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305854/alexandr-wang-and-nat-friedman/) Superintelligence Lab co-leads, Meta byHarry Booth *  [Ravi Kumar S](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305789/ravi-kumar-s/) CEO, Cognizant byAimee Groth *  [C.C. Wei](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305839/cc-wei-ai/) Chairman and CEO, TSMC byCharlie Campbell *  [David Holz](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305883/david-holz/) Founder, Midjourney byTharin Pillay *  [Ren Zhengfei](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305838/ren-zhengfei/) Founder and CEO, Huawei byCharlie Campbell *  [Steve Huffman](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305852/steve-huffman/) Co-founder and CEO, Reddit byHarry Booth *  [Masayoshi Son](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305841/masayoshi-son-ai/) Founder, chairman, and CEO, SoftBank byCharlie Campbell *  [Adam Evans](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305799/adam-evans/) Executive vice president and general manager, Salesforce AI byGabriela Riccardi *  [Rene Haas](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305840/rene-haas/) CEO, Arm byCharlie Campbell *  [Wang Xingxing](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305853/wang-xingxing/) CEO, Unitree Robotics byHarry Booth *  [Amnon Shashua](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305878/amnon-shashua/) President and CEO, Mobileye byTharin Pillay ## Innovators *  [Natasha Lyonne](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305814/natasha-lyonne/) Co-founder, Asteria Film Co. byAndrew R. Chow *  [Refik Anadol](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305867/refik-anadol/) Artist byTharin Pillay *  [Alex Blania](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305829/alex-blania/) Co-founder and CEO, Tools for Humanity byBilly Perrigo *  [Mike Krieger](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305832/mike-krieger/) Chief product officer, Anthropic byBilly Perrigo *  [Maithra Raghu](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305790/maithra-raghu/) Co-founder and CEO, Samaya AI byAmrita Khalid *  [Rick Rubin](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305819/rick-rubin/) Music producer byAndrew R. Chow *  [Mati Staniszewski](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305868/mati-staniszewski/) Co-founder and CEO, ElevenLabs byTharin Pillay *  [Peggy Johnson](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305848/peggy-johnson/) CEO, Agility Robotics byHarry Booth *  [James Peng](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305836/james-peng/) Founder and CEO, Pony.ai byCharlie Campbell *  [Tareq Amin](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305800/tareq-amin/) CEO, Humain byGabriela Riccardi *  [Mfikeyi Makayi](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305791/mfikeyi-makayi/) CEO, KoBold Metals Africa byAmrita Khalid *  [Sam Rodriques](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305817/sam-rodriques/) Co-founder and CEO, FutureHouse byAndrew R. Chow *  [Andy Parsons](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305796/andy-parsons/) Senior director of content authenticity, Adobe byGabriela Riccardi *  [Navrina Singh](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305855/navrina-singh/) Founder and CEO, Credo AI byHarry Booth *  [David Ha](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305851/david-ha/) Co-founder and CEO, Sakana AI byHarry Booth *  [Edwin Chen](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305876/edwin-chen/) Founder and CEO, Surge AI byTharin Pillay *  [Priya Donti](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305884/priya-donti/) Assistant Professor, MIT byTharin Pillay *  [Alan Descoins](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305804/alan-descoins/) CEO, Tryolabs byNatasha Frost *  [Kakul Srivastava](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305798/kakul-srivastava/) CEO, Splice byGabriela Riccardi *  [Brandon Tseng](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305863/brandon-tseng/) Co-founder and president, Shield AI bySimon Shuster *  [Denise Herzing](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305797/denise-herzing/) Founder and research director, Wild Dolphin Project byGabriela Riccardi *  [Mitesh Khapra](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305866/mitesh-khapra/) Associate professor, IIT Madras byTharin Pillay *  [Ana Helena Ulbrich](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305811/ana-helena-ulbrich/) Co-founder and director, NoHarm byAndrew R. Chow *  [Jeff Leek](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305795/jeff-leek/) Vice president and chief data officer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center byAnnalisa Merelli ## Shapers *  [Stuart Russell](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305869/stuart-russell/) Co-founder, International Association for Safe and Ethical AI byTharin Pillay *  [Fei-Fei Li](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305810/fei-fei-li/) Co-director, Stanford HAI and CEO, World Labs byAndrew R. Chow *  [Peter Thiel](/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305830/peter-thiel/) Partner, Founders Fund byHarry Booth ## Project Credits * Lead editor:Ayesha Javed * Editors:Emma Barker Bonomo, Merrill Fabry, Dan Macsai, Cate Matthews, Gabriela Riccardi, and Karl Vick * Art and design:Chelsea Kardokus, D.W. Pine, and Lon Tweeten * Audience:Diana Elbasha, Kitty Ruskin, and Kari Sonde * Reporters:Harry Booth, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow, Natasha Frost, Aimee Groth, Amrita Khalid, Annalisa Merelli, Billy Perrigo, Tharin Pillay, Simmone Shah, and Simon Shuster * Digital:Juwayriah Wright * Photo:Katherine Pomerantz * Video:Andrew Johnson and Alex Robson The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/"},"headline":"TIME100 AI 2025","description":"Meet the innovators, leaders, and thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence.","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/","datePublished":"2026-03-17T00:09:21.426Z","dateModified":"2026-03-17T00:09:21.062Z","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156}},"mainEntity":{"@type":"ItemList","numberOfItems":100,"itemListOrder":"Descending"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt333bd5aa92e55444/6998c93cd32e939c67cd746a/T100_AI-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/","name":"TIME100 AI 2025"}}]}] ```