Time magazine has named “the architects of artificial intelligence” as its Person of the Year, according to the publication’s website.
The magazine’s cover references the famous “Lunch a top a Skyscraper” photograph. It features Meta* CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, xAI, SpaceX, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and ImageNet founder Fei-Fei Li.
Time noted that AI dominated headlines this year. “Person of the Year is a powerful way to focus the world’s attention on the people who shape our lives. And this year, no one has had a greater impact than those who imagined, designed, and built artificial intelligence,” the publication’s website states.
Time has named Donald Trump its Person of the Year for 2024. According to the publication, Trump’s political resurgence is unparalleled in American history.
And Jensen Huang, CEO of graphics processor developer Nvidia, has been named “Person of the Year 2025” by The Financial Times (FT).
