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  1. 1 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman OpenAI

    OpenAI CEO at the center of AGI, product rollout and AI governance debates.

    45.6K Heat score
  2. 2 Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang NVIDIA

    NVIDIA founder shaping the AI accelerator, networking and AI factory conversation.

    51.2K Heat score
  3. 3 Liang Wenfeng portrait image Liang Wenfeng DeepSeek

    DeepSeek founder associated with open reasoning models and cost-efficient training debate.

    31.9K Heat score
  4. 4 Lisa Su portrait image Lisa Su AMD

    AMD CEO pushing AI accelerators, EPYC CPUs and open software into the data center race.

    34.9K Heat score
  5. 5 Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella Microsoft

    Microsoft CEO making Copilot, Azure and OpenAI partnerships central to enterprise AI.

    32.7K Heat score
  6. 6 Mark Zuckerberg portrait image Mark Zuckerberg Meta

    Meta CEO making open models, AI assistants and compute scale part of Meta's platform strategy.

    31.7K Heat score
  7. 7 Dario Amodei portrait image Dario Amodei Anthropic

    Anthropic CEO shaping Claude, constitutional AI and frontier safety debates.

    26.1K Heat score
  8. 8 Sundar Pichai portrait image Sundar Pichai Google / Alphabet

    Google CEO steering Gemini, Search, Cloud and Android through the AI platform transition.

    31.2K Heat score
  9. 9 Demis Hassabis portrait image Demis Hassabis Google DeepMind

    Google DeepMind CEO connecting frontier models, scientific AI and AlphaFold breakthroughs.

    25.7K Heat score
  10. 10 Elon Musk portrait image Elon Musk xAI / Tesla / X

    xAI founder whose AI strategy mixes open models, real-time data and consumer products.

    37K Heat score

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