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- Andrew BartoAndrew G. Barto is a computer scientist who helped establish reinforcement learning as a general framework and shared the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Richard Sutton.
- Dowson TongSenior executive at Tencent: Senior Executive Vice President and head of the Cloud and Smart Industries Group since October 2018, previously president of the Social Network Group responsible for QQ, and chairman of Tencent Music Entertainment Group.
- Eddie WuEddie Wu is a co-founder of Alibaba Group who has been its chief executive officer and a director since September 2023, after more than two decades in technical and business roles across Alipay, Alimama and Taobao.
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang is a founder of NVIDIA and has served as its president, CEO and board member since the company was founded in 1993. NVIDIA credits the company's invention of the GPU and its work in accelerated computing to that era.
- Jingren ZhouJingren Zhou is a computer scientist at Alibaba, where he is chief technology officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, leads the Tongyi AI lab and joined the Alibaba Partnership in 2025; he was named a 2024 ACM Fellow.
- Kevin ScottKevin Scott is Microsoft's chief technology officer, appointed on 24 January 2017 after engineering leadership roles at LinkedIn, Google and AdMob. In March 2024 Microsoft said he continued as CTO and EVP of AI, responsible for all-up AI strategy.
- Lilian WengLilian Weng is an AI researcher whose main public writing is her blog Lil'Log, which has carried her learning notes since 2017. Chinese-language coverage describes her as a Peking University alumna and reports on her years at OpenAI and her later moves.
- Lisa SuLisa Su is an electrical engineer who became AMD's president and chief executive officer in 2014 and chair of its board in 2022, serving during the company's push into AI accelerators.
- Richard SuttonRichard Sutton is a computer scientist at the University of Alberta known for his work on reinforcement learning; he co-authored the field's standard textbook and shared the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Andrew Barto.
- Satya NadellaSatya Nadella is the chief executive of Microsoft, who has led the company since 2014 and pushed it toward cloud computing and AI partnerships, including the 2019 deal with OpenAI.
- Sundar PichaiIndian-born American executive who rose from leading Google Chrome and Android to become CEO of Google and then Alphabet, and who has overseen the company's push into AI, including Bard and Google DeepMind.
- Wang JianWang Jian is the founder of Alibaba Cloud and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was previously a Zhejiang University psychology professor and Microsoft Research Asia executive, and directs Zhijiang Laboratory.