Discover TIME’s “Architects of AI 2025” — eight innovators shaping how we live, create, and think in the era of artificial intelligence.
The Architects of AI 2025: The Eight Visionaries Redefining the Future of Technology
In its Person of the Year 2025 edition, TIME magazine didn’t celebrate just one person—it honored a collective force: “The Architects of AI.”
The cover, a modern reimagining of the classic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photograph, features eight trailblazers of artificial intelligence balanced on a steel beam above a futuristic skyline. Each represents a unique piece of the AI revolution — from chip manufacturing and research to ethics and human‑centered design.
Meet the minds shaping our intelligent future.
1. Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)
The Meta founder continues to redefine how we connect. Beyond social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Zuckerberg envisions an ecosystem where generative AI and reality technologies power the metaverse — an interactive, intelligent social world.
💼 Meta
2. Lisa Su (AMD)
As CEO of AMD, Lisa Su rebuilt the company into one of the world’s leading chip manufacturers. Her leadership positioned AMD at the core of AI computing, developing high‑performance processors that rival Nvidia and fuel the world’s data centers.
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💻 AMD
3. Elon Musk (xAI, Tesla, SpaceX)
Never far from controversy or innovation, Elon Musk launched xAI to pursue AI systems that “understand the true nature of the universe.” Alongside Tesla and SpaceX, Musk now stands at the intersection of automation, robotics, and ethics in the age of intelligent machines.
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🚀 xAI | Tesla | SpaceX
4. Jensen Huang (Nvidia)
Few names are as fundamental to AI as Jensen Huang. His company, Nvidia, produces GPUs that serve as the computational backbone of deep learning models worldwide. Huang describes AI as “the most transformative technology of our lifetime.”
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💼 Nvidia
5. Sam Altman (OpenAI)
The public face of the generative AI boom, Sam Altman and his company OpenAI brought AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL·E into everyday life. Altman’s vision combines accessibility, innovation, and accountability — pushing AI out of labs and into classrooms, offices, and homes.
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🤖 OpenAI
6. Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind)
The co‑founder of DeepMind is a polymath — neuroscientist, game designer, and strategist. Under Hassabis, DeepMind achieved breakthroughs such as AlphaGo and AlphaFold, proving AI’s potential to solve scientific and ethical challenges far beyond industry.
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💡 Google DeepMind
7. Dario Amodei (Anthropic)
After leaving OpenAI, Dario Amodei founded Anthropic, a company devoted to building safer, interpretable, and aligned AI systems. Its model Claude represents “constitutional AI” — intelligent systems trained with ethical principles at their core.
🌍 Anthropic
8. Fei‑Fei Li (World Labs, Stanford)
A leader in human‑centered AI, Fei‑Fei Li co‑founded the Stanford Human‑Centered AI Institute and developed ImageNet, the dataset that revolutionized computer vision. Her new venture, World Labs, bridges research and ethics to build inclusive, accessible AI for all.
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🌐 World Labs
