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People who shaped AI. Public professional records only.
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- Andrej KarpathyAI researcher and educator, born in Bratislava and raised partly in Toronto, who co-founded OpenAI, led AI at Tesla, taught Stanford's CS231n course, and later joined Anthropic's pre-training team.
- Andrew Chi-Chih YaoAndrew Chi-Chih Yao is a computer scientist born in Shanghai who won the 2000 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, and later founded Tsinghua University's Yao Class and IIIS.
- Clément DelangueClément Delangue is a French entrepreneur who co-founded Hugging Face in 2016 and runs it as CEO, leading its shift from a chatbot app to an open machine-learning platform and model hub.
- 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.
- Fei-Fei LiStanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet, the large-scale image dataset and challenge that gave data-driven computer vision a common benchmark, and has led AI research in both academia and industry.
- 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.
- John McCarthyJohn McCarthy (1927–2011) was an American computer scientist. His 1955 proposal is credited with coining the term “artificial intelligence”, he organised the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, and he created the LISP programming language.
- Julien ChaumondFrench entrepreneur who co-founded Hugging Face in 2016 and serves as its CTO, building the platform where open models and datasets are shared and speaking publicly for open-source AI.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nat FriedmanNat Friedman is a technology executive who led Xamarin as CEO, became CEO of GitHub after Microsoft acquired it, and later joined Meta to help lead Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- 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.
- Thomas WolfThomas Wolf is a co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, and the first author of the 2019 paper that introduced the company's open-source Transformers library to researchers and practitioners.
- 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.
- Wojciech ZarembaWojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist who co-founded OpenAI in 2015. He later led teams working on GPT models, GitHub Copilot and Codex.
- Zhou ZhihuaZhou Zhihua is a Chinese computer scientist at Nanjing University who works on ensemble learning, weakly supervised learning and multi-label learning. He founded the LAMDA institute there, serves as a university vice president, and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025.
- Zhu SongchunZhu Songchun is a computer vision researcher who worked at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2002 and was named in 2020 to lead Peking University's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.