Time magazine has named the “Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year, recognizing the leading figures behind the rapid advancement of AI.
Key figures featured include Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA, XETRA:NVD) CEO Jensen Huang, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and xAI founder Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD, XETRA:AMD) CEO Lisa Su, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and AI researcher Fei-Fei Li.
The publication said that the architects were selected for reshaping multiple aspects of society, including hardware innovation, model training, and ethical deployment of AI technologies.
Their work underpins systems ranging from chatbots to autonomous machines, marking 2025 as a year when AI integration accelerated on a global scale.
“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year,” the magazine said in a social media post.
The choice of a collective rather than a single individual reflects Time’s historical approach to recognizing both people and ideas that significantly influence the news.
Past selections have included “The Computer” in 1982 and “You” in 2006, while 2024’s Person of the Year was President Donald Trump.