Time names "Architects of AI" 2025 Person of the Year

Time has named the “Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year, honoring eight tech leaders: Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Elon Musk (Tesla/xAI), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Lisa Su (AMD), and Fei-Fei Li (World Labs). Per Time’s own announcement, it is the first shared Person of the Year built around a technology’s builders rather than a single figure or movement.

Read the list as a map of leverage: two chipmakers, two hyperscaler founders, and four lab CEOs — the same concentration of compute, capital, and distribution we traced in nine signals shaping the AI power curve.