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pronounced "it people"
the it index · wed · jun 24 · mmxxvi
things change fast.
these are the people worth keeping an eye on.
- 1·Noam Shazeer88.2main character
noam shazeer keeps building the neural architecture that makes language models speak, whether google pays for it or not
- 2·Aidan Gomez64.5
aidan gomez argues that democracies need homegrown ai or risk becoming digital colonies of foreign powers
- 3·Peter Thiel60.3
thiel moves capital toward infrastructure he believes will outlast the current order, from drone makers to code-based banks
- 4·Demis Hassabis58.6
demis hassabis builds AI that solves hard scientific problems while reminding everyone the really transformative stuff hasn't happened yet
- 5·Reid Hoffman56.6
reid hoffman keeps building ai companies while publicly interrogating whether the ones around him are actually going anywhere
- 6↑3Tim Cook55.8
tim cook steers apple through supply chain chaos while warning the industry about existential infrastructure risks
- 7·Yann LeCun55.8
yann lecun warns that the ai industry's trillion-dollar fever dream might need a cold shower before building anything real
- 8↓2Adam D'Angelo55.7
adam d'angelo builds quora into an ai-powered knowledge engine while thinking hard about how we simulate human reasoning at scale
- 9↑3Sam Altman54.8
sam altman builds the infrastructure everyone argues about while quietly hedging every bet in silicon valley
- 10·Jeff Dean54.8
jeff dean shapes how the world's largest tech company thinks about building ai systems that actually work at scale
- 11↑3Greg Brockman54.6it-curious
- 12↑1Ray Kurzweil54.2
- 13↑2Andrew Ng54.0
- 14↑2Geoffrey Hinton53.3
- 15↓7Liang Wenfeng53.2
- 16↑4Fei-Fei Li52.5
- 17↑1Mira Murati52.3
- 18↑1Eliezer Yudkowsky52.2
- 19↑5Ilya Sutskever52.1
- 20↓3Patrick Collison51.3
- 21↑2Satya Nadella50.4
- 22·Nick Bostrom49.9
- 23↑3Mustafa Suleyman49.8
- 24↑1Marc Andreessen49.5
- 25↓4Lex Fridman49.5
- 26↑4Mark Zuckerberg49.3
- 27·Naval Ravikant49.2
- 28↑1Ian Goodfellow48.5
- 29↓1Aravind Srinivas47.8
- 30↑1Stuart Russell46.7
- 31↑1Vinod Khosla46.6
- 32↑1Sundar Pichai46.2
- 33↑3Jensen Huang45.8
- 34↑1Dario Amodei45.7
- 35↓1Yoshua Bengio45.7
- 36↑1Larry Page45.1
- 37↑1Andrej Karpathy44.2
- 38↑1Bill Gates43.4
- 39↑1Elon Musk40.7
- 40↓29Eric Schmidt38.9formerly it
- 1newDavid Solomon97.0main character
david solomon steers goldman sachs toward tech-forward dealmaking while keeping one eye on the innovation supercycle
- 2newJanet Yellen81.4first time it
yellen watches the debt clock tick while everyone else argues about who broke the economy
- 3newJerome Powell68.7first time it
powell navigated the fed through pandemic chaos and inflation's return, handing off a fractured economy to his successor
- 4newDoug McMillon66.9first time it
doug mcmillon spent twelve years steering walmart through digital transformation while keeping the company rooted in its everyday-people mission
- 5newBob Iger66.8first time it
bob iger keeps defending the line between editorial independence and corporate stewardship, one late-night suspension at a time
- 6newBrian Chesky66.7first time it
brian chesky built airbnb into a platform that fundamentally changed how people think about travel and belonging in unfamiliar places
- 7newAlbert Bourla65.5first time it
albert bourla steers pfizer through the high-stakes dance of pandemic profits, pipeline pressure, and the american growth bet
- 8newLina Khan64.0first time it
lina khan went from taking on big tech's antitrust sins to marketing luxury hotels in saudi arabia
- 9newMary Barra63.9first time it
mary barra steers general motors through the collision of legacy automaking and electric vehicle transformation
- 10newTed Sarandos63.9first time it
ted sarandos quietly builds netflix's empire by betting on live sports, global productions, and a dog-eared steamship captain's manual instead of business books
- 11newAndy Jassy62.3it-curious
- 12newDaniel Ek61.5
- 13newBrian Niccol61.3
- 14newJamie Dimon60.7
- 15newStephen Schwarzman59.5
- 16newMark Cuban59.3
- 17newChristine Lagarde59.1
- 18newReed Hastings58.2
- 19newCathie Wood57.0
- 20newJeff Bezos55.4
- 21newLisa Su55.2
- 22newBernard Arnault54.0
- 23newJane Fraser53.8
- 24newLinda Yaccarino53.3
- 25newWarren Buffett42.0
- 26newLarry Fink40.1
- 1newGreg Gutfeld97.0main character
greg gutfeld mines the absurd corners of politics with a comedian's eye and a late-night host's timing
- 2newMaggie Haberman82.5first time it
maggie haberman keeps mining trump's chaos for insights that reshape how we understand his grip on power
- 3newTucker Carlson81.4first time it
tucker carlson breaks ranks with the gop over foreign policy, testing whether trumpism without trump still holds its shape
- 4newEzra Klein73.2first time it
ezra klein talks america through its structural problems while arguing we might still choose joy anyway
- 5newAnderson Cooper66.9first time it
anderson cooper brings war zones and washington intrigue to living rooms with the steady gaze of someone who's seen both
- 6newDavid Muir66.5first time it
david muir brings the world's breaking moments into living rooms with the steady hand of someone who's reported from everywhere that matters
- 7newBret Stephens65.1first time it
bret stephens writes conservative foreign policy critique with the muscle memory of someone who's been wrong before and learned something from it
- 8newCasey Newton64.9first time it
casey newton makes sense of tech's messy reality through platformer's newsletter and hard fork's podcast, where skepticism meets genuine curiosity
- 9newRachel Maddow64.5first time it
rachel maddow threads the needle between rigorous investigative storytelling and urgent political commentary for audiences hungry for both
- 10newKara Swisher63.8first time it
kara swisher interrogates silicon valley's power brokers with the clarity of someone who's been watching the internet reshape everything since it began
- 11newAndrew Ross Sorkin63.2it-curious
- 12newChristiane Amanpour62.8
- 13newMegyn Kelly62.5
- 14newLester Holt62.4
- 15newJake Tapper62.3
- 16newNorah O'Donnell60.2
- 17newDavid Brooks60.0
- 18newWalter Isaacson59.7
- 19newJoe Rogan57.6
- 20newRonan Farrow57.3
- 21newMaria Bartiromo54.1
- 22newBari Weiss49.8
- 23newMaureen Dowd40.1
- 24newSean Hannity40.0