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- Elon Musk was left off a new list of the top 100 influential figures in artificial intelligence.
- Musk's exclusion generated plenty of responses on social media including by the billionaire himself.
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Billionaire Elon Musk is focusing a lot of attention on artificial intelligence these days through companies like Tesla Inc TSLA, X and xAI, but he missed out on being recognized by Time Magazine as a top 100 name for the artificial intelligence sector.
What Happened: Time Magazine recently unveiled its second annual TIME100 AI list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
A picture shared on X by Time was notably missing Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which drew plenty of reactions on social media. Clicking through to the list showed that Altman made the cut and wasn't included in the picture, but Musk was nowhere to be found.
The tweet from Time has over seven million views and hundreds of comments asking where musk is and why he wasn't on the list.
Popular social media user @greg16676935420 had one of the most liked replies.
"Elon Musk must've been #101," a reply said.
The reply has over 11,000 likes, ratioing the 3,400 likes that Time originally received on the post.
The X account @wallstreetbets posted a picture of dogs and captioned the reply with "Time's most influential cats."
Tesla influencer Sawyer Merritt criticized Musk being excluded.
"Somehow, Elon Musk is not on the list, despite recently bringing online the most powerful AI training system in the world with xAI, and having the largest self-driving data fleet in the world at Tesla," Merritt tweeted.
Musk responded to Merritt's post with, "Magazines do not establish relevance, history does."
The thought from Musk comes as the billionaire is often quick to criticize media companies and their coverage of him, but in this case took the high road and offered a way to say I'll show them.
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Why It's Important: The TIME100 AI list includes many well-known figures like Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sundar Pichai of Google, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms and Lisa Su of AMD.
It may have been the inclusion of actor Scarlett Johansson on the list that drew the most attention at someone who beat out Musk. The actress lashed out at OpenAI for the usage of what sounded like her voice for ChatGPT after previously being asked to share her voice on a project.
While the moment was significant to the artificial intelligence in the world of deepfakes and concerns of using people's image and likeness without permission through AI, many argued that she isn't as influential on the sector as Musk.
Musk made the Time list last year for influential names in AI, but could have missed out due to a focus on selecting new names.
"Ninety-one of the members of the 2024 list were not on last year's an indication of just how quickly the field is changing," Time said.
The magazine said they interviewed members from last year's list to find the best new additions, which could suggest a preference to new names.
When it comes to AI, Musk is one of the most mentioned names. Tesla investors and analysts have argued that the company best known for electric vehicles could be one of the most underrated AI companies.
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood previously told Benzinga that Tesla should trade like a technology stock and not like an auto stock, due in large part to its place in AI.
"Tesla, because of its positioning with AI, it is the only auto company or tech company that has designed its own chip for autonomous driving," Wood previously said.
Wood said autonomous taxi platforms could be "the biggest AI project in the world."
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives shares the same commentary on Tesla being an AI company.
"The key for Tesla's stock looking ahead is the Street recognizing that Tesla is the most undervalued AI play in the market in our view with a historical Robotaxi Day ahead for Musk and Tesla," Ives previously said.
Ives said Tesla is more of an AI and robotics lay than a traditional car company.
Along with Musk pushing AI forward at Tesla, the billionaire also launched the xAI company, which is well-known for its Grok chatbot. xAI raised $6 billion earlier this year.
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