TIME announces the 2026 Global AI Top 100 list, featuring Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others

TIME magazine announced the 2026 TIME100 AI list, selecting the 100 most influential figures in the global AI field. The leaders category includes the OpenAI trio Sam Altman, Mark Chen, Greg Brockman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Huawei board member He Tingbo, Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, and others.

Innovators include OpenEvidence founder Daniel Nadler, Cursor CEO Michael Truell, BYD Executive Vice President Stella Li, Moonshot AI CEO Yang Zhilin, Manus founder Xiao Hong, and others. Shapers include Sequoia Capital co-leaders Pat Grady and Alfred Lin, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and others.