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1·Noam Shazeer87.0main character
noam shazeer keeps getting offered the keys to the kingdom because people trust his hands on the steering wheel
2·Aidan Gomez64.5
aidan gomez argues that nations need their own ai infrastructure or risk becoming digitally colonized by foreign powers
3↓0.9Peter Thiel59.1
thiel builds invisible infrastructure—from defense drones to secretive networks—that shapes power far from public view
4↓0.5Demis Hassabis57.4
demis hassabis dreams in protein folding and singularity timelines while watching his best people walk out the door
5↓0.6Adam D'Angelo55.7
adam d'angelo builds knowledge infrastructure while navigating the thornier questions about who gets to shape ai's future
6↓1.0Reid Hoffman55.4
reid hoffman bets on ai becoming medicine's thoughtful second opinion rather than its replacement
7↑0.5Tim Cook54.6
tim cook navigates apple through supply chain storms while sounding alarms about data weaponization
8↓0.5Yann LeCun54.6
yann lecun sounds the alarm on ai's unsustainable economics while building what comes next
9·Sam Altman53.6
sam altman builds the ai that hollywood fears and regulators scrutinize, yet everyone still wants a seat at his table
10·Jeff Dean53.6
jeff dean quietly steers google's ai ambitions while mentoring the next generation of computer scientists
11↑0.6Greg Brockman53.4it-curious
12↓1.5Liang Wenfeng53.2
13↓0.5Eric Schmidt53.0
14·Ray Kurzweil53.0
15·Andrew Ng52.8
16↑0.7Mira Murati52.3
17↑1.0Eliezer Yudkowsky52.2
18·Geoffrey Hinton52.1
19·Fei-Fei Li51.3
20↓0.6Patrick Collison51.3
21·Lex Fridman50.3
22↑0.5Ilya Sutskever50.1
23·Mustafa Suleyman49.8
24·Marc Andreessen49.5
25·Satya Nadella49.2
26·Naval Ravikant49.2
27↓1.1Nick Bostrom49.1
28↑0.6Mark Zuckerberg48.1
29↓0.7Aravind Srinivas47.8
30·Ian Goodfellow47.7
31·Stuart Russell46.7
32·Vinod Khosla46.6
33·Yoshua Bengio45.7
34↓0.9Sundar Pichai45.0
35·Jensen Huang44.6
36↓0.5Dario Amodei44.5
37↓0.8Larry Page43.9
38·Andrej Karpathy43.0
39↑1.1Bill Gates42.2
40·Elon Musk39.5