TIME's 2026 AI 100 list omits Jensen Huang, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Hassabis
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-27
TIME released its 2026 "100 Most Influential People in AI" list, and what's sparking discussion is who's missing: Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella, Demis Hassabis and Alex Karp are all absent.
Leaders include OpenAI's Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Mark Chen; Elon Musk; Anthropic's Dario and Daniela Amodei; IBM's Arvind Krishna; Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim; ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo; Broadcom's Hock Tan; Jeff Bezos; Huawei director He Tingbo; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu; CoreWeave's Michael Intrator; and SMIC co-CEO Liang Mong Song.
Innovators feature OpenEvidence's Daniel Nadler, actor Ben Affleck, BYD's Stella Li and Cursor CEO Michael Truell, among others.
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