Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Grimes, Jensen Huang Are Among Time Magazine's Top Artificial Intelligence Voices

Among the hottest topics of 2023 has been the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), especially since the valuations of public and private companies involved in the sector have surged.

A new list highlights the top 100 people in the field and it includes some recognizable names. Here are some highlights.

What Happened: Well-known for its annual lists of the top 100 influential people and top 100 influential companies, TIME has released its inaugural TIME 100 AI list of the top names in the artificial intelligence sector.

The list of 100 names is broken down across the categories of leaders, innovators, shapers and thinkers.

“At this critical moment of exceptional growth and advancement in AI, we are proud to reveal the first-ever TIME 100 AI list to recognize the individuals leading AI innovation, including those advancing major conversations to promote equity in AI," TIME CEO Jessica Sibley said.

TIME sought nominations from industry leaders and experts. The final list includes 43 CEOs, including those of several publicly traded companies. Here’s a breakdown of some of the most recognizable names.

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Public Companies: Investors would be wise to take note of which companies the following executives are with:

• Demis Hassabis (Leaders): CEO, co-founder Google DeepMind, a unit of Alphabet Inc GOOGGOOGL
• Robin Li (Leaders): CEO, co-founder Baidu Inc BIDU
• Lila Ibrahim (Leaders): COO DeepMind
• Elon Musk (Leaders): CEO X.AI, CEO Tesla Inc TSLA
• Alex Karp (Leaders): CEO, co-founder Palantir Technologies PLTR
• Sandra Rivera (Leaders): General Manager of Data Center & Ai Group Intel Corp INTC
• Jaime Teevan (Leaders): Chief Scientist Microsoft Corporation MSFT
• Kevin Scott (Leaders): CTO, Executive Vice President of AI Microsoft
• Jensen Huang (Leaders): CEO, co-founder NVIDIA Corporation NVDA
• Clara Shih (Leaders): CEO Salesforce AI, a unit of Salesforce Inc CRM
• Pushmeet Kohli (Thinkers): VP of Research DeepMind
• Yann LeCun (Thinkers): Chief AI Scientist Meta Platforms META
• Kalikia Bali (Thinkers): Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India
• Shakit Mohamed (Thinkers): Research Director Google DeepMind
• James Manyiak (Shapers): Senior VP, Research Technology & Society Google

Private Companies and Other Notable Names: Several of the largest private AI companies are also well represented. OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, saw a $10 billion investment from Microsoft is well represented.

Anthropic, which is backed by the likes of Nvidia, Cathie Wood and Ashton Kutcher, and Hugging Face, which is backed by some of the largest technology companies, also highlight the private companies on the list. Others include:

• Sam Altman (Leaders): CEO, co-founder OpenAI
• Clement Delangue (Leaders): CEO, co-founder Hugging Face
• Reid Hoffman (Leaders): Investor
• Andreessen Horowitz (Leaders): Investor
• Greg Brockman (Leaders): President, co-founder OpenAI
• Aidan Gomez (Leaders): CEO, co-founder Cohere
• Ted Chiang (Innovators): writer, author of “Story of Your Life,” which was the basis of the movie “Arrival.”
• Charlie Brocker (Innovators): TV writer, producer, creator of “Black Mirror”
• Grimes (Innovators): musician, innovating AI use in music
• Anna Makanju (Shapers): VP of Global Affairs OpenAI
• Omar Al Olama (Shapers): Minister of AI United Arab Emirates
• Eric Schmidt (Shapers): Co-founder Schmidt Futures, former Google CEO (2001 to 2011)
• Anna Eshoo (Shapers): U.S. Representative, D-CA
• Ted Lieu (Shapers): U.S. Representative, D-CA
• Ilya Sutskever (Thinkers): Chief Scientist, co-founder OpenAI

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