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AI Power List

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

A database-backed power list of AI leaders connected to companies, products, domains, public X profiles, and market impact.

Tracked leaders

26

Active AI profiles

Companies

18

Connected orgs

Founders

10

Builder-operators

Researchers

7

Science and models

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AI Power 20

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#1
86

Jared Kaplan

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

Researcher

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 modelsResearchAI safety
#2
87

Arthur Mensch

Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI

Founder@arthurmensch

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

Foundation modelsOpen modelsEnterprise AI
AK#3
86

Alex Karp

Co-founder and CEO, Palantir

Operator

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 AIDecision support
AJ#4
89

Andy Jassy

President and CEO, Amazon

Operator@ajassy

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 siliconEnterprise software
LS#5
90

Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

Operator@LisaSu

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 computeSemiconductorsData centers
#6
84

Michael Truell

Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)

Founder@mntruell

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 AICode generation
#7
77

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and CSO, Hugging Face

Researcher@Thom_Wolf

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

Open modelsResearch toolingDeveloper ecosystem
#8
78

Alexandr Wang

Founder, Scale AI

Founder@alexandr_wang

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

Data infrastructureEvaluationAI policy
#9
79

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO, Cohere

Founder@aidangomez

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

Foundation modelsEnterprise AIRetrieval
#10
80

Clement Delangue

Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face

Founder@ClementDelangue

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

Open modelsDeveloper toolingAI infrastructure
#11
81

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO, Microsoft AI

Operator@mustafasuleyman

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

Consumer AIAI productsPolicy
#12
82

Mira Murati

Founder, Thinking Machines Lab

Operator@miramurati

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

AI productsHuman-AI collaborationModel interfaces
#13
83

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence

Researcher@ilyasut

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

Frontier AIAI safetyDeep learning
#14
84

Andrej Karpathy

Founder, Eureka Labs

Researcher@karpathy

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

AI educationDeveloper toolingAutonomy
#15
85

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI

Creator@AndrewYNg

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

EducationApplied AIMachine learning
#16
86

Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs

Researcher@drfeifei

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

Computer visionSpatial AIHuman-centered AI
#17
87

Yann LeCun

AI researcher and Turing Award winner

Researcher@ylecun

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

AI researchOpen modelsWorld models
#18
89

Elon Musk

Founder, xAI

Founder@elonmusk

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

Foundation modelsReal-time AICompute
#19
90

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder and CEO, Meta

Founder@finkd

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

Open modelsConsumer AISocial platforms
#20
91

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google and Alphabet

Operator@sundarpichai

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

Consumer AICloud AISearch
#21
88

Aravind Srinivas

CEO, Perplexity

Founder@AravSrinivas

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

AI searchConsumer AIResearch
#22
93

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

Operator@satyanadella

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

Cloud AIEnterprise softwareDeveloper tools
#23
94

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Researcher@demishassabis

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

ResearchFoundation modelsScience AI
#24
95

Dario Amodei

CEO, Anthropic

Founder@DarioAmodei

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

Foundation modelsAI safetyEnterprise AI
#25
97

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

Operator@sama

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

Foundation modelsAI productsPolicy
#26
99

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

Founder@jensen_huang

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

AI computeSemiconductorsData centers