TIME names the “Architects of AI” as 2025 Person of the Year

Daria Ivanova — 11.12.2025

TIME magazine has announced its 2025 Person of the Year.
The title went not to an individual, but to a group of visionaries the publication calls The Architects of AI, according to the magazine’s special issue.

TIME notes that in 2025, debates about technological safety ultimately gave way to a global race to deploy AI at scale.

The list of those shaping this new reality includes:

  • Jensen Huang (CEO, Nvidia), whose company became the first in the world to reach a 5 trillion USD market cap.
  • Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI), who transformed the company into a 500-billion-dollar giant and launched Stargate, a 500-billion-dollar data-center initiative.
  • Mark Zuckerberg (CEO, Meta), who aggressively pushed AI assistants across Instagram, WhatsApp, and other Meta products, while attracting top engineers with large compensation packages.
  • Elon Musk (CEO, X), credited for developing the Grok AI model.
  • Lisa Su (CEO, AMD), now leading the effort to build a software ecosystem capable of competing with Nvidia.
  • Demis Hassabis (CEO, Google DeepMind).
  • Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic).
  • Fei-Fei Li (CEO, ImageNet).

According to TIME, AI has become a central instrument of geopolitics, and the arms race between the United States and China has intensified following the release of breakthrough models from China’s DeepSeek.