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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

@jensen_huang

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 modelsAI products
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