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TIME100 AI 2025

Meet the innovators, leaders, and thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence.

How We Chose the List

Leaders

Matthew Prince
Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare
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Elon Musk
Founder, xAI
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Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
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Jensen Huang
CEO, Nvidia
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Fidji Simo
CEO of Applications, OpenAI
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Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO, Meta
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Andy Jassy
President and CEO, Amazon
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Allie K. Miller
CEO, Open Machine
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Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
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Strive Masiyiwa
Founder and executive chairman, Cassava Technologies
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Cristiano Amon
President and CEO, Qualcomm
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Liang Wenfeng
CEO, DeepSeek
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Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman
Superintelligence Lab co-leads, Meta
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Ravi Kumar S
CEO, Cognizant
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C.C. Wei
Chairman and CEO, TSMC
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David Holz
Founder, Midjourney
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Ren Zhengfei
Founder and CEO, Huawei
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Steve Huffman
Co-founder and CEO, Reddit
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Masayoshi Son
Founder, chairman, and CEO, SoftBank
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Adam Evans
Executive vice president and general manager, Salesforce AI
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Rene Haas
CEO, Arm
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Wang Xingxing
CEO, Unitree Robotics
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Amnon Shashua
President and CEO, Mobileye
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Innovators

Natasha Lyonne
Co-founder, Asteria Film Co.
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Refik Anadol
Artist
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Alex Blania
Co-founder and CEO, Tools for Humanity
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Mike Krieger
Chief product officer, Anthropic
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Maithra Raghu
Co-founder and CEO, Samaya AI
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Rick Rubin
Music producer
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Mati Staniszewski
Co-founder and CEO, ElevenLabs
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Peggy Johnson
CEO, Agility Robotics
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James Peng
Founder and CEO, Pony.ai
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Tareq Amin
CEO, Humain
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Mfikeyi Makayi
CEO, KoBold Metals Africa
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Sam Rodriques
Co-founder and CEO, FutureHouse
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Andy Parsons
Senior director of content authenticity, Adobe
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Navrina Singh
Founder and CEO, Credo AI
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David Ha
Co-founder and CEO, Sakana AI
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Edwin Chen
Founder and CEO, Surge AI
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Priya Donti
Assistant Professor, MIT
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Alan Descoins
CEO, Tryolabs
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Kakul Srivastava
CEO, Splice
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Brandon Tseng
Co-founder and president, Shield AI
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Denise Herzing
Founder and research director, Wild Dolphin Project
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Mitesh Khapra
Associate professor, IIT Madras
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Ana Helena Ulbrich
Co-founder and director, NoHarm
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Jeff Leek
Vice president and chief data officer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
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Shapers

Stuart Russell
Co-founder, International Association for Safe and Ethical AI
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Fei-Fei Li
Co-director, Stanford HAI and CEO, World Labs
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Peter Thiel
Partner, Founders Fund
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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