Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and other top 10 leaders in Time’s 100 AI list 2025
Time Magazine has unveiled its 2025 list of the 100 tech CEOs, co-founders and other executives who have led “advances in artificial intelligence”. The list features prominent tech CEOs, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and Ravi Kumar – CEO of Cognizant.“Today we publish the third edition of the TIME100 AI, our annual look at the most influential people in artificial intelligence. We launched this list in 2023, in the wake of OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, the moment many became aware of AI’s potential to compete with and exceed the capabilities of humans,” Time said. It added that the aim of the list is to “show how the direction AI travels will be determined not by machines but by people—innovators, advocates, artists, and everyone with a stake in the future of this technology.”
Here are the names of top 10 tech leaders who led in AI ‘revolution’
| Name | Title | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Prince | Co-founder and CEO | Cloudflare |
| Elon Musk | Founder | xAI |
| Sam Altman | CEO | OpenAI |
| Jensen Huang | CEO | NVIDIA |
| Fidji Simo | CEO of Applications | OpenAI |
| Mark Zuckerberg | Founder and CEO | Meta |
| Andy Jassy | President and CEO | Amazon |
| Allie K. Miller | CEO | Open Machine |
Other prominent tech leaders in the Time’s 100 AI list 2025 include:
| Name | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Dario Amodei | CEO | Anthropic |
| Cristiano Amon | President and CEO | Qualcomm |
| Liang Wenfeng | CEO | DeepSeek |
| Alexandr Wang & Nat Friedman | Superintelligence Lab Co-Leads | Meta |
| Ravi Kumar S | CEO | Cognizant |
| C.C. Wei | Chairman and CEO | TSMC |
| Steve Huffman | Co-founder and CEO | |
| Rene Haas | CEO | Arm |
