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- Aicha EvansAicha Evans is chief executive of Zoox, the autonomous ride-hailing company Amazon acquired, and stayed on to lead it as a standalone business after the deal.
- Aidan GomezAidan Gomez is a Canadian computer scientist, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, and one of the eight authors of the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture.
- Alexandr WangAmerican entrepreneur born in 1997 who co-founded Scale AI, a data-labelling and model-evaluation company, and became Meta's chief AI officer and leader of Meta Superintelligence Labs in 2025.
- Amnon ShashuaAmnon Shashua is the founder of Mobileye, which grew out of his Hebrew University research into single-camera vehicle detection; he has led the company as chief executive since Intel acquired it in 2017.
- 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.
- Ashish VaswaniAshish Vaswani is a computer scientist best known as the first-listed author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. He also co-founded the AI companies Adept and Essential AI.
- Bernt Øyvind BørnichBernt Øyvind Børnich is CEO of 1X Technologies, the robotics company he founded in 2014 as Halodi Robotics; its work spans humanoid robots and the Revo1 servo motor.
- Bowen ZhouAI researcher and research administrator who worked at IBM's Watson Group and at JD.com, and has been director and chief scientist of the Shanghai AI Laboratory since April 2024.
- Brett AdcockBrett Adcock is a founder of several technology companies, including the recruiting platform Vettery, the electric aircraft maker Archer Aviation and the humanoid robotics company Figure AI, where he is chief executive.
- Cao XudongCao Xudong, a former Microsoft researcher, founded Momenta, a physical AI company, in 2016 and leads it as chief executive; he took it public in Hong Kong in 2026 and now points it toward robots.
- Chelsea FinnChelsea Finn is a computer scientist and assistant professor at Stanford University whose research spans meta-learning, deep reinforcement learning and robot learning; she is a co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
- Cheng YixiaoCheng Yixiao is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou, served as its chief product officer, and has been its chief executive officer since 2021 and chairman since 2023.
- Chris UrmsonChris Urmson is co-founder and chief executive officer of Aurora, the self-driving company he leads. Under him Aurora announced the acquisition of Uber's self-driving unit and put driverless commercial trucks on public roads.
- Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and electrical engineer whose 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" gave communication engineering a mathematical foundation.
- 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.
- Elon MuskElon Musk is an entrepreneur who led SpaceX and Tesla, co-founded PayPal's predecessors and OpenAI, and founded xAI, the company behind the Grok models.
- 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.
- Frank RosenblattFrank Rosenblatt (1928–1971) was an American psychologist who developed the perceptron, an early learning machine that adjusted its weights from examples. His Mark I Perceptron is now held by the Smithsonian Institution.
- Gavin NewsomAmerican politician born in San Francisco in 1967; founder of the PlumpJack Group, former mayor of San Francisco, and California's 40th governor, who has both signed and declined to sign frontier-AI legislation.