Time Magazine has unveiled its 2025 list of the 100 Most Influential People, featuring five prominent tech CEOs, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg . However, the most notable highlight is the selection of Demis Hassabis , CEO of Google DeepMind , Google's artificial intelligence division, as the magazine's cover star. Here are the five popular tech CEOs that have made it to the list.
Demis Hassabis: CEO of Google DeepMind
Demis Hassabis is among highly influential figures in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). At Google, he leads one of the world’s leading AI research teams, DeepMind, which is known for groundbreaking achievements in AI. These include major breakthroughs like AlphaGo: the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go, and AlphaFold, an AI system that has revolutionised protein structure prediction, a significant challenge in biology.
Hassabis and his colleague John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold. This recognition highlights the profound impact of AI in scientific discovery.
Elon Musk: CEO of Tesla , SpaceX and xAI
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has driven innovation in electric vehicles and space exploration, respectively. He is also the owner of X (formerly Twitter) and has promoted free speech on the platform. He is also involved with Neuralink, The Boring Company and co-founded xAI. Most recently his political involvement increased, especially with his role in the Trump administration's DOGE.
Mark Zuckerberg: CEO of Meta
Mark Zuckerberg is a prominent businessman and computer programmer best known for co-founding Facebook, the social media giant. He launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room in 2004. Zuckerberg serves as the Chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms , Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“More recently, his belief in open-source AI—exemplified by Meta’s groundbreaking Llama models, downloaded more than a billion times worldwide since the initiative’s launch in 2023—has reshaped the industry, democratizing innovation and making AI more accessible and affordable for all of us,” wrote Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox, in his write-up.
Lisa Su: CEO of AMD
Lisa Su is a prominent figure in the technology industry, most notably recognised as the President, CEO, and Chair of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Her leadership has been widely credited with AMD's significant resurgence, transforming the company into a major competitor in the high-performance computing and graphics markets, challenging industry giants like Intel and Nvidia.
“Most importantly for AI, she’s positioned the company’s chips to compete as a credible alternative to Nvidia’s graphics processing units,” said Andrew Ng, the founder of DeepLearning.AI.
Liang Wenfeng: CEO of DeepSeek
Liang Wenfeng is the CEO of DeepSeek, a company that is making waves in the field of AI. The company has gained attention for developing powerful AI models. The release of the company’s a generative AI platform in January that was comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT while using just a fraction of the bleeding-edge chips produced by Nvidia, which itself quickly lost $600 billion in market value, the largest drop for a single company in US stock-market history.
Demis Hassabis: CEO of Google DeepMind
Demis Hassabis is among highly influential figures in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). At Google, he leads one of the world’s leading AI research teams, DeepMind, which is known for groundbreaking achievements in AI. These include major breakthroughs like AlphaGo: the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go, and AlphaFold, an AI system that has revolutionised protein structure prediction, a significant challenge in biology.
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Hassabis and his colleague John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold. This recognition highlights the profound impact of AI in scientific discovery.
Elon Musk: CEO of Tesla , SpaceX and xAI
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has driven innovation in electric vehicles and space exploration, respectively. He is also the owner of X (formerly Twitter) and has promoted free speech on the platform. He is also involved with Neuralink, The Boring Company and co-founded xAI. Most recently his political involvement increased, especially with his role in the Trump administration's DOGE.
Mark Zuckerberg: CEO of Meta
Mark Zuckerberg is a prominent businessman and computer programmer best known for co-founding Facebook, the social media giant. He launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room in 2004. Zuckerberg serves as the Chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms , Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“More recently, his belief in open-source AI—exemplified by Meta’s groundbreaking Llama models, downloaded more than a billion times worldwide since the initiative’s launch in 2023—has reshaped the industry, democratizing innovation and making AI more accessible and affordable for all of us,” wrote Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox, in his write-up.
Lisa Su: CEO of AMD
Lisa Su is a prominent figure in the technology industry, most notably recognised as the President, CEO, and Chair of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Her leadership has been widely credited with AMD's significant resurgence, transforming the company into a major competitor in the high-performance computing and graphics markets, challenging industry giants like Intel and Nvidia.
“Most importantly for AI, she’s positioned the company’s chips to compete as a credible alternative to Nvidia’s graphics processing units,” said Andrew Ng, the founder of DeepLearning.AI.
Liang Wenfeng: CEO of DeepSeek
Liang Wenfeng is the CEO of DeepSeek, a company that is making waves in the field of AI. The company has gained attention for developing powerful AI models. The release of the company’s a generative AI platform in January that was comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT while using just a fraction of the bleeding-edge chips produced by Nvidia, which itself quickly lost $600 billion in market value, the largest drop for a single company in US stock-market history.
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