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
Founder and CEO, NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Jensen Huang is the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the accelerated computing company at the center of the AI infrastructure buildout.
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
@sama
Sam Altman leads OpenAI, whose ChatGPT product made frontier AI a mainstream consumer and enterprise category.
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
@DarioAmodei
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company behind Claude.
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind
@demishassabis
Demis Hassabis leads Google DeepMind, combining frontier AI research with Google-scale product and cloud distribution.
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO, Microsoft
@satyanadella
Satya Nadella leads Microsoft, one of the largest enterprise distribution platforms for AI.
Sundar Pichai
CEO, Google and Alphabet
@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai leads Google and Alphabet as AI reshapes Search, Android, Workspace, Cloud, and consumer computing.
Lisa Su
Chair and CEO, AMD
@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.
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO, Meta
@finkd
Mark Zuckerberg leads Meta, where AI strategy spans Llama, Meta AI, recommendations, ads, wearables, and consumer assistants.
Andy Jassy
President and CEO, Amazon
@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.
Elon Musk
Founder, xAI
@elonmusk
Elon Musk founded xAI, the company behind Grok and a fast-scaling AI compute and product effort tied to X.
Aravind Srinivas
CEO, Perplexity
@AravSrinivas
Aravind Srinivas leads Perplexity, an AI answer engine challenging classic search behavior.
Arthur Mensch
Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI
@arthurmensch
Arthur Mensch co-founded Mistral AI, France's leading frontier model lab and a key European counterweight in the foundation-model market.
Yann LeCun
AI researcher and Turing Award winner
@ylecun
Yann LeCun is a pioneering AI researcher whose work on deep learning and world models continues to shape AI research debates.
Alex Karp
Co-founder and CEO, Palantir
Alex Karp co-founded and leads Palantir, the data and AI platform whose AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) anchors enterprise and government AI deployments.
Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder and CEO, World Labs
@drfeifei
Fei-Fei Li is a computer-vision pioneer, Stanford professor, and co-founder of World Labs.
Jared Kaplan
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic
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.
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
@AndrewYNg
Andrew Ng is an AI educator, investor, researcher, and founder of DeepLearning.AI.
Andrej Karpathy
Founder, Eureka Labs
@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher, educator, and founder of Eureka Labs, with past leadership roles at OpenAI and Tesla AI.
Michael Truell
Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)
@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.
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence
@ilyasut
Ilya Sutskever is a co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence, known for foundational deep-learning research.
#21Mira Murati
Founder, Thinking Machines Lab
@miramurati
Mira Murati founded Thinking Machines Lab after leading major product and research efforts at OpenAI.
Mustafa Suleyman
CEO, Microsoft AI
@mustafasuleyman
Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft AI and previously co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI.
Clement Delangue
Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
@ClementDelangue
Clement Delangue leads Hugging Face, one of the central platforms for open models, datasets, and AI developer collaboration.
Aidan Gomez
Co-founder and CEO, Cohere
@aidangomez
Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere and a co-author of the Transformer paper.
Alexandr Wang
Founder, Scale AI
@alexandr_wang
Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI, a data and evaluation infrastructure company used across frontier AI, enterprise, and government work.
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and CSO, Hugging Face
@Thom_Wolf
Thomas Wolf is Hugging Face's co-founder and chief science officer, working at the center of open AI research and tooling.
