Top 20 — the most influential people in AI

1. 1
   Jensen Huang 🇺🇸 Hardware

   Nvidia CEO; the GPUs that power the entire modern AI revolution.

   NVIDIA Corporation
2. 2
   Dan Martell 🇨🇦 Business & Investing

   SaaS Academy founder and 'Buy Back Your Time' author; teaches founders to scale with systems and AI.

3. 3 NS
   Nick Saraev 🇨🇦 Influencers & Commentators

   One of the most-watched AI-automation educators; founder of LeftClick and Maker School.

4. 4 NH
   Nate Herk 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators

   Leading AI-automation educator (n8n, no-code agents); founder of Uppit AI.

5. 5
   Andrej Karpathy 🇺🇸 Research & Academia

   Deep-learning educator and builder; ex-Tesla, ex-OpenAI.

6. 6 AK
   Allie K. Miller 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

   One of the most-followed voices on practical, enterprise AI adoption.

7. 7 EM
   Ethan Mollick 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators

   Wharton professor whose hands-on writing shows what AI actually changes at work.

8. 8
   Sam Altman 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

   OpenAI CEO; brought ChatGPT to the world.

   OpenAI
9. 9
   David Sparks 🇺🇸 Influencers & Commentators

   MacSparky; a leading voice on productivity, automation and getting real work done with AI.

10. 10 SS
    Sandeep Swadia 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

    TheMITMonk; former tech CEO turned educator on AI, leadership and career.

11. 11 GW
    Geoff Woods 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

    Author of 'The AI-Driven Leader'; teaches executives to lead with AI.

12. 12 VA
    Valentina Alto 🇦🇪 Influencers & Commentators

    Microsoft Data & AI specialist and author of 'Practical Generative AI with ChatGPT'; a leading voice teaching hands-on generative AI.

    Microsoft Azure AI
13. 13
    Demis Hassabis 🇬🇧 Business & Investing

    DeepMind co-founder; AlphaGo and AlphaFold; Nobel laureate.

    Google DeepMind
14. 14
    Sundar Pichai 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

    CEO of Alphabet and Google; steering Gemini and AI across the world's largest products.

    Google DeepMind
15. 15
    Satya Nadella 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

    Microsoft CEO; made the OpenAI bet and put AI (Copilot) into work everywhere.

    MA Microsoft AI
16. 16
    Lisa Su 🇺🇸 Hardware

    AMD CEO; the Instinct GPUs powering AI data centers alongside Nvidia.

    AMD
17. 17
    Mark Zuckerberg 🇺🇸 Business & Investing

    Meta CEO; open-weight Llama models and a multibillion-dollar push for superintelligence.

    MS Meta Superintelligence Labs
18. 18
    Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 Research & Academia

    Pioneer of convolutional neural networks; Meta's chief AI scientist.

    MS Meta Superintelligence Labs
19. 19
    Fei-Fei Li 🇺🇸 Research & Academia

    Created ImageNet; a leading voice in human-centered AI.

    World Labs
20. 20 FV
    Federico Viticci 🇮🇹 Influencers & Commentators

    Founder of MacStories and AppStories; the most trusted voice on iPad workflows, Apple automation, and AI tools on Apple devices.

This is a curated editorial ranking, not an exhaustive score. See the full list of all people for everyone else.