The people shaping the AI tools and companies you use.

#1

Founder

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

NVIDIA

NVDA-3.17% today

Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has run it ever since, turning a graphics-chip company into the dominant supplier of AI training and inference compute. His projection of $1 trillion in Blackwell and Vera Rubin platform orders through 2027 has become the reference number for the entire AI buildout.

#2

Operator

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

@sama

Sam Altman runs OpenAI, the company whose ChatGPT put a frontier model in front of more than 900 million people a week. His current bet is that owning compute matters more than winning any single model release — a stance he doubled down on after publicly conceding the GPT-5 launch was botched.

#3

Founder

Dario Amodei

CEO, Anthropic

@DarioAmodei

Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic after leading research at OpenAI, and has built it into a $47 billion revenue run-rate business on the Claude models and Claude Code. He is also the frontier-lab CEO who lost the entire U.S. federal government as a customer on principle, refusing the Pentagon unrestricted military use of Claude.

#4

Researcher

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

@demishassabis

Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, and led Google DeepMind until handing day-to-day command to Koray Kavukcuoglu. He is now chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet's chief scientist — a move up, sideways, or out, depending on whom you ask.

#5

Operator

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

@satyanadella

MSFT+6.68% today

Satya Nadella is chairman and CEO of Microsoft, where he converted an early OpenAI partnership into roughly 27% ownership of the restructured company, $250 billion in committed Azure purchases, and IP rights running through 2032. Under his AI push, Azure passed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time and Microsoft 365 Copilot passed 30 million paid seats.

#6

Operator

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google and Alphabet

@sundarpichai

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet, the company whose search business was supposed to be AI's first casualty. Instead he pushed Gemini into Search, Android, Workspace, and Cloud — and Alphabet crossed a $4 trillion market cap after Apple agreed to run future Siri features on Gemini.

#7

Operator

Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

@LisaSu

AMD+1.01% today

Lisa Su is chair and CEO of AMD, which she took from near-irrelevance in 2014 to a record $11.5 billion quarter with data-center revenue of $6.7 billion — more than double the prior year. Her Instinct GPUs and Helios rack systems are the merchant-silicon alternative that hyperscalers and OpenAI are now ordering at scale.

#8

Founder

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder and CEO, Meta

@finkd

META+1.44% today

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Meta, where a disappointing Llama 4 launch pushed him to tear up his AI org chart and rebuild it around outside talent. He paid $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale AI, installed its founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, and folded Meta's AI work into Meta Superintelligence Labs.

#9

Operator

Andy Jassy

President and CEO, Amazon

@ajassy

AMZN+6.12% today

Andy Jassy is president and CEO of Amazon, and the founding head of AWS before that. He is directing roughly $200 billion of annual capital spending into AI infrastructure — data centers, power, and Amazon's own Trainium chips — with an expanded Anthropic partnership anchoring the demand for it.

#10

Founder

Elon Musk

Founder, xAI

@elonmusk

Elon Musk folded xAI into SpaceX in an all-stock deal that valued the AI startup at about $250 billion and created, by valuation, the largest corporate merger on record. He now runs Grok, X, and a space-and-AI conglomerate on the thesis that AI's power constraint ultimately gets solved in orbit.

#11

Founder

Aravind Srinivas

CEO, Perplexity

@AravSrinivas

Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in 2022 after research stints at OpenAI and DeepMind, betting that search should return cited answers instead of ten blue links. Three years in, that bet is worth a $20 billion valuation — and an open fight with Google.

#12

Founder

Arthur Mensch

Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI

@arthurmensch

Arthur Mensch left Google DeepMind — where he co-authored the Chinchilla scaling-laws paper — to co-found Mistral AI in 2023 with Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. The Paris lab is now Europe's answer to OpenAI, with revenue past a $400 million run rate and chipmaker ASML anchoring its cap table.