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AI Power List

The people moving compute, capital, models, and belief.

Database-backed rankings of AI leaders — founders, operators, researchers, and investors — sorted by TECHi influence score.

Tracked leaders

26

Active profiles

Companies

18

Connected orgs

Founders

10

Builder-operators

Researchers

7

Science & models

Ranked by influence

26 leaders tracked· top score 99

Jensen Huang#1
Founder

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

NVIDIA

Influence99

Jensen Huang is the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the accelerated computing company at the center of the AI infrastructure buildout.

AI computeSemiconductors
Sam Altman#2
Operator

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

@sama

Influence97

Sam Altman leads OpenAI, whose ChatGPT product made frontier AI a mainstream consumer and enterprise category.

Foundation modelsConsumer AI
Dario Amodei#3
Founder

Dario Amodei

CEO, Anthropic

@DarioAmodei

Influence95

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company behind Claude.

Foundation modelsAI safety
Demis Hassabis#4
Researcher

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

@demishassabis

Influence94

Demis Hassabis leads Google DeepMind, combining frontier AI research with Google-scale product and cloud distribution.

ResearchFoundation models
Satya Nadella#5
Operator

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

@satyanadella

Influence93

Satya Nadella leads Microsoft, one of the largest enterprise distribution platforms for AI.

Cloud AIEnterprise software
Sundar Pichai#6
Operator

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google and Alphabet

@sundarpichai

Influence91

Sundar Pichai leads Google and Alphabet as AI reshapes Search, Android, Workspace, Cloud, and consumer computing.

Consumer AICloud AI
Lisa Su#7
Operator

Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

@LisaSu

Influence90

Lisa Su is Chair and CEO of AMD, where she has rebuilt the company into a credible second source of AI training and inference compute, alongside data-center CPUs.

AI computeSemiconductors
Mark Zuckerberg#8
Founder

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder and CEO, Meta

@finkd

Influence90

Mark Zuckerberg leads Meta, where AI strategy spans Llama, Meta AI, recommendations, ads, wearables, and consumer assistants.

Open modelsConsumer AI
Andy Jassy#9
Operator

Andy Jassy

President and CEO, Amazon

@ajassy

Influence89

Andy Jassy leads Amazon, where AWS Bedrock, custom Trainium / Inferentia silicon, and an Anthropic partnership anchor the AI strategy across cloud, retail, devices, and advertising.

Cloud AICustom AI silicon
Elon Musk#10
Founder

Elon Musk

Founder, xAI

@elonmusk

Influence89

Elon Musk founded xAI, the company behind Grok and a fast-scaling AI compute and product effort tied to X.

Foundation modelsReal-time AI
Aravind Srinivas#11
Founder

Aravind Srinivas

CEO, Perplexity

@AravSrinivas

Influence88

Aravind Srinivas leads Perplexity, an AI answer engine challenging classic search behavior.

AI searchConsumer AI
Arthur Mensch#12
Founder

Arthur Mensch

Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI

@arthurmensch

Influence87

Arthur Mensch co-founded Mistral AI, France's leading frontier model lab and a key European counterweight in the foundation-model market.

Foundation modelsOpen models
Yann LeCun#13
Researcher

Yann LeCun

AI researcher and Turing Award winner

@ylecun

Influence87

Yann LeCun is a pioneering AI researcher whose work on deep learning and world models continues to shape AI research debates.

AI researchOpen models
Alex Karp#14
Operator

Alex Karp

Co-founder and CEO, Palantir

Influence86

Alex Karp co-founded and leads Palantir, the data and AI platform whose AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) anchors enterprise and government AI deployments.

Enterprise AIDefense AI
Fei-Fei Li#15
Researcher

Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs

@drfeifei

Influence86

Fei-Fei Li is a computer-vision pioneer, Stanford professor, and co-founder of World Labs.

Computer visionSpatial AI
Jared Kaplan#16
Researcher

Jared Kaplan

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

Anthropic

Influence86

Jared Kaplan is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Anthropic, and a primary author of the scaling-laws research that shaped how the field thinks about compute, data, and model size.

Foundation modelsResearch
Andrew Ng#17
Creator

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI

@AndrewYNg

Influence85

Andrew Ng is an AI educator, investor, researcher, and founder of DeepLearning.AI.

EducationApplied AI
Andrej Karpathy#18
Researcher

Andrej Karpathy

Founder, Eureka Labs

@karpathy

Influence84

Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher, educator, and founder of Eureka Labs, with past leadership roles at OpenAI and Tesla AI.

AI educationDeveloper tooling
Michael Truell#19
Founder

Michael Truell

Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)

@mntruell

Influence84

Michael Truell co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, an AI-native code editor that became one of the fastest-growing developer tools of the AI era.

Developer toolsAgentic AI
Ilya Sutskever#20
Researcher

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence

@ilyasut

Influence83

Ilya Sutskever is a co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence, known for foundational deep-learning research.

Frontier AIAI safety
Mira Murati#21
Operator

Mira Murati

Founder, Thinking Machines Lab

@miramurati

Influence82

Mira Murati founded Thinking Machines Lab after leading major product and research efforts at OpenAI.

AI productsHuman-AI collaboration
Mustafa Suleyman#22
Operator

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO, Microsoft AI

@mustafasuleyman

Influence81

Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft AI and previously co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI.

Consumer AIAI products
Clement Delangue#23
Founder

Clement Delangue

Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face

@ClementDelangue

Influence80

Clement Delangue leads Hugging Face, one of the central platforms for open models, datasets, and AI developer collaboration.

Open modelsDeveloper tooling
Aidan Gomez#24
Founder

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO, Cohere

@aidangomez

Influence79

Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere and a co-author of the Transformer paper.

Foundation modelsEnterprise AI
Alexandr Wang#25
Founder

Alexandr Wang

Founder, Scale AI

@alexandr_wang

Influence78

Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI, a data and evaluation infrastructure company used across frontier AI, enterprise, and government work.

Data infrastructureEvaluation
Thomas Wolf#26
Researcher

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and CSO, Hugging Face

@Thom_Wolf

Influence77

Thomas Wolf is Hugging Face's co-founder and chief science officer, working at the center of open AI research and tooling.

Open modelsResearch tooling