Abstract:
On August 27, Time released the 2026 TIME100 AI: The 100 Most Influential People in the Global Artificial Intelligence Field. The list is divided into four sections: Leaders, Innovators, Shapers and Thinkers.
Times stated that the original intention of launching the TIME100 AI list three years ago was to select the most influential leaders in the field of artificial intelligence.
Times commented that the artificial intelligence industry is developing rapidly and is also full of controversy; it not only carries great expectations but is also accompanied by many concerns. The people on the TIME100 AI list in 2026 are the epitome of the turbulent pattern of this industry.
Times overview stated that we have witnessed many industry events in the past 12 months: corporate executives such as Elon Musk of xAI have pushed leading AI companies to the public market; Anthropic’s Dario and Daniela Amodei have disagreed with the Pentagon over the use of AI weapons; founders of companies such as Oracle’s Larry Ellison have stepped up the construction of data centers; researchers such as Yang Zhilin from the Chinese start-up Dark Side of the Moon have created high-profile large models.
From the perspective of market value, the list includes representatives from leading companies with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, such as SpaceX, Amazon, Micron Technology, Google, etc.
From an industry perspective, the list covers AI large models, chip computing power, humanoid robots, data centers, AI Agents, AI security and other fields.
From each sector, leaders include Mark Chen, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (SpaceX), Dario and Daniela Amodei (Anthropic), Arvind Krishna (IBM), Lila Ibrahim (DeepMind), Liang Rubo (ByteDance), Bezos (Prometheus), Josh Payne (Nscale), Chen Fuyang (Broadcom), Larry Ellison (Oracle), He Tingbo (Huawei), Wu Yongming (Alibaba), Michael Intrator (CoreWeave), Liang Mengsong (SMIC), etc.
Innovators include Li Ke (BYD), Michael Truell (Crusor), Yang Zhilin (Dark Side of the Moon), Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw), Andrew Feldman (Cerebras), Deng Taihua (Zhiyuan Robot), Zhang Peng (Zhipu), Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron Technology), etc.
Shapers include David Sacks (Trump Science and Technology Advisory Council), Pat Grady and Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), etc.
Thinkers include Li Feifei (World Labs), Mira Murati (Thinking Machines Lab), etc.
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