Influence scores (0–100) across Research, Business, AGI, and Wealth. Rank = arithmetic mean. Tie-break: Business > Research > AGI > Wealth. Public sources only. Editorial composite — not investment advice. Movers: Brockman ▲1, Zuckerberg ▼1, Pichai ▲1, Lacroix ▼1 after the Sep 29 White House AI self-policing signatures and Forbes Oct 1 wealth marks.
| # | Prev | Chg | Name | Organization | Role | R | B | AGI | W | Avg | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | = | Dario Amodei | Anthropic | Co-founder & CEO | 90 | 99 | 98 | 78 | 91.25 | White House signature; Claude AGI |
| 2 | 2 | = | Elon Musk | xAI / SpaceX / Tesla | Founder & CEO | 60 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 88.00 | Forbes ~$933–936B; Grok |
| 3 | 3 | = | Jensen Huang | NVIDIA | Founder, CEO & President | 78 | 100 | 72 | 96 | 86.50 | Forbes ~$200B; accelerators |
| 4 | 5 | ▲1 | Greg Brockman | OpenAI | President & Co-founder | 75 | 90 | 88 | 85 | 84.50 | OpenAI ops; signed commitment |
| 5 | 4 | ▼1 | Mark Zuckerberg | Meta | Founder, Chairman & CEO | 65 | 95 | 85 | 92 | 84.25 | Llama; Forbes 400 ~$212B |
| 6 | 6 | = | Daniela Amodei | Anthropic | President & Co-founder | 80 | 91 | 90 | 75 | 84.00 | Ops scale; Forbes 400 cohort |
| 7 | 7 | = | Ilya Sutskever | Safe Superintelligence | Co-founder & CEO | 95 | 75 | 98 | 65 | 83.25 | SSI; scaling limits |
| 8 | 8 | = | Demis Hassabis | Google DeepMind / Alphabet | Chair & Chief Scientist | 99 | 88 | 97 | 40 | 81.00 | Nobel; AGI ~2029–30 |
| 9 | 9 | = | Liang Wenfeng | DeepSeek | Founder & CEO | 85 | 88 | 80 | 70 | 80.75 | Open-weight disruption |
| 10 | 10 | = | Sam Altman | OpenAI | CEO & Co-founder | 70 | 99 | 96 | 48 | 78.25 | ChatGPT; TIME100 AI 2026 |
| 11 | 11 | = | Mark Chen | OpenAI | Chief Research Officer | 92 | 75 | 90 | 55 | 78.00 | Frontier research; TIME100 |
| 12 | 12 | = | Jeff Bezos | Amazon / Prometheus | Founder; Co-CEO Prometheus | 50 | 92 | 70 | 98 | 77.50 | Forbes realtime ~$369B |
| 13 | 13 | = | Yann LeCun | AMI Labs / NYU | Founder; Professor | 96 | 70 | 88 | 50 | 76.00 | World models vs LLM path |
| 14 | 14 | = | Alexandr Wang | Meta / Scale AI | AI Lead; Co-founder Scale | 70 | 85 | 78 | 70 | 75.75 | Meta Superintelligence Labs |
| 15 | 15 | = | Mustafa Suleyman | Microsoft AI | CEO | 70 | 85 | 85 | 55 | 73.75 | Microsoft MAI |
| 16 | 16 | = | Noam Shazeer | Character.AI / Google | Co-founder | 90 | 70 | 75 | 60 | 73.75 | Transformer co-inventor |
| 17 | 17 | = | Ion Stoica | UC Berkeley / Databricks | Professor; Co-founder | 85 | 80 | 55 | 70 | 72.50 | Ray; Databricks |
| 18 | 18 | = | Larry Ellison | Oracle | CTO & Executive Chairman | 45 | 90 | 60 | 93 | 72.00 | Forbes 400 ~$204B; cloud AI |
| 19 | 19 | = | Ali Ghodsi | Databricks | Co-founder & CEO | 70 | 88 | 55 | 75 | 72.00 | Data + AI platform |
| 20 | 20 | = | Arthur Mensch | Mistral AI | CEO & Co-founder | 80 | 78 | 75 | 55 | 72.00 | European open models |
| 21 | 21 | = | Reid Hoffman | Greylock / Manas AI | Partner; Co-founder | 55 | 85 | 70 | 75 | 71.25 | AI investing |
| 22 | 22 | = | Eric Schmidt | Former Google / Investor | Investor & Advisor | 50 | 80 | 65 | 90 | 71.25 | AI policy and capital |
| 23 | 23 | = | Guillaume Lample | Mistral AI | Co-founder | 85 | 70 | 75 | 55 | 71.25 | Mistral research |
| 24 | 24 | = | Andrej Karpathy | Anthropic | Pre-training Research | 88 | 60 | 85 | 50 | 70.75 | Anthropic pre-training |
| 25 | 25 | = | Jonathan Ross | NVIDIA / Groq | Chief Software Architect | 75 | 80 | 60 | 65 | 70.00 | TPU origins; Groq |
| 26 | 26 | = | Shane Legg | Google DeepMind | Chief AGI Scientist | 90 | 60 | 95 | 35 | 70.00 | DeepMind AGI |
| 27 | 28 | ▲1 | Sundar Pichai | Alphabet / Google | CEO | 60 | 95 | 82 | 42 | 69.75 | Signed White House commitment |
| 28 | 27 | ▼1 | Timothée Lacroix | Mistral AI | Co-founder | 82 | 70 | 72 | 55 | 69.75 | Mistral models |
| 29 | 29 | = | Aravind Srinivas | Perplexity AI | Co-founder & CEO | 65 | 82 | 70 | 60 | 69.25 | AI-native search |
| 30 | 30 | = | Fei-Fei Li | World Labs / Stanford | Co-founder & CEO; Professor | 92 | 65 | 75 | 45 | 69.25 | ImageNet; spatial AI |
| 31 | 31 | = | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | Chairman & CEO | 55 | 96 | 80 | 45 | 69.00 | Azure AI; Copilot |
| 32 | 32 | = | Kai-Fu Lee | Sinovation Ventures | Chairman & CEO | 75 | 80 | 65 | 55 | 68.75 | China AI ecosystem |
| 33 | 33 | = | Alec Radford | OpenAI | Researcher | 92 | 55 | 80 | 45 | 68.00 | GPT foundations |
| 34 | 34 | = | Yoshua Bengio | Mila / UdeM | Scientific Director | 98 | 45 | 93 | 28 | 66.00 | Turing; explosion paper |
| 35 | 35 | = | Brad Gerstner | Altimeter Capital | Founder & CEO | 40 | 88 | 55 | 80 | 65.75 | Anthropic capital |
| 36 | 36 | = | Andrew Ng | DeepLearning.AI / Landing AI | Founder | 88 | 70 | 65 | 40 | 65.75 | Education and applied AI |
| 37 | 37 | = | Percy Liang | Stanford / Together AI | Professor; Co-founder | 88 | 65 | 70 | 40 | 65.75 | HELM; open models |
| 38 | 38 | = | Michael Intrator | CoreWeave | Co-founder & CEO | 50 | 85 | 55 | 70 | 65.00 | AI cloud; TIME100 |
| 39 | 39 | = | Geoffrey Hinton | University of Toronto | Professor Emeritus | 100 | 40 | 91 | 25 | 64.00 | Nobel Physics 2024 |
| 40 | 40 | = | Andrew Feldman | Cerebras | Co-founder & CEO | 70 | 75 | 60 | 50 | 63.75 | Wafer-scale chips |
| 41 | 42 | ▲1 | Oriol Vinyals | Discovery Loop (ex-DeepMind) | Co-founder | 90 | 52 | 80 | 30 | 63.00 | Left DeepMind Aug 2026 |
| 42 | 41 | ▼1 | Bill Dally | NVIDIA | Chief Scientist | 90 | 70 | 50 | 40 | 62.50 | GPU architecture |
| 43 | 43 | = | Raia Hadsell | Google DeepMind | VP Research | 85 | 55 | 78 | 30 | 62.00 | Robotics and RL |
| 44 | 44 | = | John Jumper | Anthropic (ex-DeepMind) | Researcher | 95 | 52 | 70 | 30 | 61.75 | AlphaFold; Anthropic Jun 2026 |
| 45 | 45 | = | Anima Anandkumar | Caltech / NVIDIA | Professor; Senior Director | 88 | 60 | 65 | 30 | 60.75 | Tensor methods |
| 46 | 46 | = | Sarah Friar | OpenAI | CFO | 40 | 90 | 60 | 50 | 60.00 | Capital; UK roundtable |
| 47 | 47 | = | Emad Mostaque | Stability AI (ex) | Founder | 70 | 65 | 60 | 40 | 58.75 | Stable Diffusion impact |
| 48 | 48 | = | Joelle Pineau | Meta / McGill | AI Research | 85 | 55 | 70 | 25 | 58.75 | FAIR leadership |
| 49 | 49 | = | Stuart Russell | UC Berkeley | Professor | 92 | 35 | 88 | 20 | 58.75 | Human Compatible |
| 50 | 50 | = | Chris Manning | Stanford | Professor | 90 | 40 | 60 | 20 | 52.50 | NLP pioneer |