TIME Magazine has named the “Architects of AI” its 2025 Person of the Year, recognizing the CEOs driving the global AI race. The group includes OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Tesla’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, AMD’s Lisa Su, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and World Labs’ Fei-Fei Li.
The magazine highlighted how these leaders have reshaped government policy, accelerated AI adoption, and intensified geopolitical competition through multibillion-dollar investments in AI infrastructure. TIME noted that the rapid deployment of AI has sparked both excitement and concern, reflecting broader societal and economic implications.
The cover story frames 2025 as a turning point for AI, portraying the technology as a tool capable of reshaping the information landscape, climate action, and global power dynamics. TIME emphasizes the unprecedented scale of AI development, likening its significance in great-power competition to that of nuclear technology.
The announcement was made Thursday, though images of the cover leaked a day earlier on prediction market Polymarket.
