Full list: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/
(launched in Sep 2024)
Notable Names
1. Core AI Labs & Major Tech Platforms
Amazon
- Prasad, Rohit - SVP and Head Scientist of Artificial General Intelligence
Anthropic
- Amodei, Daniela - President
- Amodei, Dario - CEO
- Askell, Amanda - Member of Technical Staff (Alignment/Safety)
- Leike, Jan - Alignment Science Co-Lead (at time of list publication)
- Olah, Chris - Co-founder (Research/Safety)
Baichuan AI
- Wang Xiaochuan - Founder & CEO
ByteDance
- Liang Rubo - CEO and Co-founder
Character.AI
- Shazeer, Noam - Co-founder & CEO
Cohere
- Gomez, Aidan - Co-founder & CEO
- Lewis, Patrick - Director of Machine Learning
- Kurzweil, Ray - Principal Researcher and AI Visionary
Google DeepMind
- Gabriel, Iason - Research Scientist
- Hassabis, Demis - CEO and Co-founder
- Ibrahim, Lila - COO
- Jumper, John - Director and AlphaFold Team Lead
Lelapa AI (Focus on African languages)
- Moiloa, Pelonomi - Co-founder & CEO
Microsoft AI (Consumer AI Division)
- Suleyman, Mustafa - CEO
Mistral AI
- Mensch, Arthur - Co-founder and CEO
OpenAI
- Altman, Sam - CEO
- Brockman, Greg - President
- Eloundou Nekoul, Tyna - Technical Staff
- Huet, Romain - Head of Developer Experience
- Murati, Mira - CTO
Salesforce
- Savarese, Silvio - Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of AI Research
2. Hardware & Semiconductors
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
- Su, Lisa - Chair & CEO
ASML (Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment)
- Fouquet, Christophe - CEO
Cerebras Systems (AI Hardware Startup)
- Feldman, Andrew - CEO and Founder
Extropic (Physics-Based AI Computing Startup)
- Verdon, Guillaume - Founder
Groq (AI Hardware Startup - LPUs)
- Ross, Jonathan - CEO
Intel
- Rivera, Sandra - EVP & GM, Data Center and AI Group
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) (Semiconductor Foundry)
- Wei, C.C. - Chairman and CEO
3. AI Applications: Healthcare & Life Sciences
Abridge (Healthcare Documentation)
- Rao, Shiv - Co-founder & CEO
AEYE Health (Healthcare Diagnostics)
- Dvey-Aharon, Zack - Co-founder & CEO
Insitro (Drug Discovery)
- Koller, Daphne - Founder and CEO
Viz.ai (Healthcare Imaging)
- Mansi, Chris - Co-founder
4. AI Applications: Autonomous Systems & Robotics
Anduril Industries (Defense Tech / Autonomy)
- Luckey, Palmer - Founder
Figure (Robotics)
- Adcock, Brett - CEO
Waabi (Self-Driving Trucks)
- Urtasun, Raquel - Founder & CEO
Waymo (Self-Driving Cars / Google Affiliate)
- Mawakana, Tekedra - Co-CEO
5. AI Applications, Platforms, Ecosystem & Investment
ElevenLabs (Voice Synthesis)
- Dabkowski, Piotr - Co-founder and CTO
Greylock / Inflection AI (Venture Capital / AI Startup)
- Hoffman, Reid - Partner / Co-founder
Hugging Face (Open Source AI Platform / Community)
- Delangue, Clem - Co-founder & CEO
- Le Scao, Teven - Researcher
- Luccioni, Sasha - AI & Climate Lead
- Mitchell, Margaret - Chief Ethics Scientist
Landing AI / DeepLearning.AI (Enterprise Deployment / Education)
- Ng, Andrew - Founder & CEO / Founder
Laskie (Recruiting/Hiring)
- Bakke, Chris - Founder
Palantir (Data Analysis / AI Platforms)
- Karp, Alex - CEO
Perplexity (Search/Answer Engine)
- Srinivas, Aravind - CEO
Proton (Privacy-Focused Tech using AI)
- Singh, Anant Vijay - Product Lead
Synthesia (Video Generation)
- Riparbelli, Victor - CEO
Vermillio (Creative Tools)
- Neely, Dan - Co-Founder and CEO
6. Academic & Independent Research Institutes
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) / Cartesia
- Gu, Albert - Assistant Professor / Co-founder
Eureka Labs / OpenAI (Alumnus) (Independent Research)
- Karpathy, Andrej - Founder
Mila – Quebec AI Institute / University of Montreal
- Bengio, Yoshua - Founder and Scientific Director / Professor
Stanford HAI (Institute for Human-Centered AI)
- Li, Dr. Fei-Fei - Co-Director
Stanford / Together AI
- Liang, Percy - Associate Professor / Co-founder
Tsinghua University, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
- Yao, Andrew - Dean
University of California, Berkeley
- Xu, Fei - Professor (Cognitive Science informing AI)
University of Chicago
- Zhao, Ben - Professor / Inventor (Nightshade)
University of Toronto / Google (Alumnus)
- Hinton, Geoffrey - Professor Emeritus / Researcher
7. AI Safety Focused Organizations
Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR)
- Barnes, Beth - Founder & Head of Research
Safe Superintelligence Inc. / OpenAI (Alumnus)
- Sutskever, Ilya - Co-founder