Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- TheeraOn August 28, the magazine released its 2025 "Global AI The TIME100 AI list of the 100 most influential people in the field.Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Deepseek CEO Liang Wenfeng, xAI founder Elon Musk, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were listed in the 'Leaders' category.
The first "100 Most Influential People in Global AI" list was created in 2023 against the backdrop of ChatGPT's release that made the public realize the potential of AI, and this is the third year that it has published the annual list, 1AI quoted a blog post as describing. By focusing on people rather than machines, TIME hopes to present the leaders, innovators, advocates, artists, and policymakers who are driving the direction of AI.
In a blog post, TIME noted that the 2025 list highlights how fierce the competition for talent is. On the one hand, investors are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into startups, while on the other, tech giants like Meta are reportedly paying nine-figure salaries to recruit top tech talent, making the transfer of AI researchers like the NBA free agent market, with two of their recruited luminaries, Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, also making the list. The two notables recruited by the company, Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, also made the list.