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
@jensen_huang
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.
