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Rankings last updated 2026-09-05 00:06
Rank trajectories · AI Minds 500
Position over time for today's leaders plus the biggest risers, fallers, and entities that fell off the list (○, dashed). The shaded span is a modeled backcast, estimates rather than measurements.
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27 countries host the 520 AI Minds. Top 3: United States 61%, United Kingdom 11%, China 7% · HHI 3968 (highly concentrated)
Where the minds sit
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The 500 people doing the most to push AI forward, the researchers, lab leaders and thinkers shaping where the technology goes. The AI Advancement Index blends their research impact, role at the frontier, thought leadership and current momentum.The 500 most consequential minds in AI, ranked by the AI Advancement Index, a blend of research influence, frontier role, thought leadership, field-building and momentum. Distinct from wealth or office; this measures who advances the field. Tick people to compare.AI Minds panel (500). AAI = weighted blend of research influence (×1.4), frontier role (×1.3), thought leadership (×1.1), field-building (×1.0) and momentum (×1.1). Multi-select → comparison + exportable report.
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Curated estimates of contribution to AI's advancement, synthesised from public information, a model of relative influence on the field, not a precise measurement. Refreshed periodically.
| # | Person | Field | Country | AAI | Research | Frontier | Thought | Field | Momentum | Trajectory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demis Hassabis Chairman, Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist, Alphabet · Google DeepMind / Alphabet · United Kingdom | Frontier lab leader | United Kingdom | 93.3 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 92.0 | 92.0 | 98.0 | Preeminent | |
| Dario Amodei Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 93.2 | 84.0 | 99.0 | 95.0 | 90.0 | 99.0 | Preeminent | |
| Ilya Sutskever Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Safe Superintelligence · Safe Superintelligence Inc. · Israel | Frontier lab leader | Israel | 92.1 | 98.0 | 95.0 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 90.0 | Preeminent | |
| Jeff Dean Co-founder, Discovery Loop · Discovery Loop · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 90.3 | 90.0 | 88.0 | 92.0 | 92.0 | 90.0 | Preeminent | |
| Yann LeCun Founder, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs; Professor, NYU · Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs / NYU · United States | Deep learning pioneer | United States | 89.6 | 95.0 | 88.0 | 94.0 | 92.0 | 78.0 | Preeminent | |
| Yoshua Bengio Professor, Université de Montréal; Scientific Director, Mila · Mila · Canada | Deep learning pioneer | Canada | 89.3 | 100.0 | 62.0 | 98.0 | 97.0 | 92.0 | Preeminent | |
| Andrej Karpathy Head of Pretraining Team, Anthropic; Founder, Eureka Labs; ex-OpenAI, ex-Tesla · Anthropic · SVK | LLMs & NLP | SVK | 88.6 | 85.0 | 84.0 | 95.0 | 91.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Fei-Fei Li Professor, Stanford; Co-founder, World Labs · Stanford / World Labs · United States | Computer vision | United States | 88.2 | 97.0 | 74.0 | 93.0 | 98.0 | 80.0 | Preeminent | |
| Geoffrey Hinton Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; ex-Google · University of Toronto · Canada | Deep learning pioneer | Canada | 88.1 | 100.0 | 66.0 | 98.0 | 96.0 | 82.0 | Preeminent | |
| Pieter Abbeel Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-founder, Covariant · UC Berkeley · Belgium | Robotics & embodied AI | Belgium | 86.3 | 88.0 | 92.0 | 80.0 | 88.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Oriol Vinyals VP of Research & Deep Learning Lead, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Frontier lab leader | United Kingdom | 86.3 | 92.0 | 92.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 | 88.0 | Preeminent | |
| Percy Liang Founder, Together AI; Professor & Director CRFM, Stanford · Stanford University / Together AI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 85.8 | 88.0 | 80.0 | 86.0 | 90.0 | 86.0 | Preeminent | |
| Tang Jie Professor, Tsinghua University; Chief Scientist, Zhipu AI · Tsinghua University / Zhipu AI · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 85.6 | 76.0 | 85.0 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 95.0 | Ascendant | |
| Chris Olah Co-founder, Anthropic (Interpretability) · Anthropic · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 85.6 | 86.0 | 84.0 | 86.0 | 86.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Koray Kavukcuoglu Chief Technology Officer, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Frontier lab leader | United Kingdom | 85.2 | 88.0 | 93.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yejin Choi Professor, Stanford University; Senior Research Fellow, NVIDIA · Stanford University / NVIDIA · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 85.0 | 88.0 | 84.0 | 86.0 | 82.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jan Leike Alignment researcher, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 84.8 | 82.0 | 86.0 | 88.0 | 80.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Noam Shazeer VP, Gemini Co-Lead, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 84.8 | 92.0 | 90.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 96.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sergey Levine Co-founder, Physical Intelligence; Professor, UC Berkeley · Physical Intelligence / UC Berkeley · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 84.3 | 90.0 | 82.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tri Dao Chief Scientist, Together AI; Professor, Princeton · Together AI / Princeton University · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 84.2 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 95.0 | Ascendant | |
| David Silver Founder and Director, Ineffable Intelligence; Professor, UCL · Ineffable Intelligence, UCL · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 84.1 | 90.0 | 82.0 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 92.0 | Waning | |
| Richard Sutton Professor, University of Alberta; DeepMind · University of Alberta · Canada | Reinforcement learning | Canada | 83.8 | 98.0 | 70.0 | 92.0 | 90.0 | 68.0 | Preeminent | |
| Liang Wenfeng Founder & CEO, DeepSeek; co-founder, High-Flyer · DeepSeek · China | Frontier lab leader | China | 83.8 | 72.0 | 93.0 | 76.0 | 80.0 | 99.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jason Wei Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 83.7 | 86.0 | 88.0 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Shane Legg Co-founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Frontier lab leader | United Kingdom | 83.3 | 78.0 | 90.0 | 84.0 | 78.0 | 86.0 | Holding | |
| Christopher Ré Professor, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 83.2 | 88.0 | 83.0 | 76.0 | 84.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Noam Brown Research Scientist, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 83.1 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 76.0 | 66.0 | 95.0 | Ascendant | |
| Andrew Ng Founder, DeepLearning.AI & Landing AI; Managing General Partner, AI Fund; Co-founder, Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 82.9 | 85.0 | 66.0 | 95.0 | 96.0 | 76.0 | Holding | |
| Yang Zhilin Co-founder and CEO · Moonshot AI · China | Frontier lab leader | China | 82.9 | 85.0 | 95.0 | 66.0 | 72.0 | 93.0 | Ascendant | |
| Bill Dally Chief Scientist and SVP of Research, NVIDIA; Professor (emeritus), Stanford University · NVIDIA · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 82.9 | 85.0 | 82.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 89.0 | Holding | |
| John Schulman Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines · Thinking Machines · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 82.6 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 72.0 | 74.0 | 90.0 | Waning | |
| Paul Christiano Head of Safety, US AI Safety Institute; founder, ARC · OpenAI · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 82.5 | 82.0 | 74.0 | 90.0 | 82.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Arthur Mensch Co-founder & CEO, Mistral AI · Mistral AI · France | Frontier lab leader | France | 82.2 | 72.0 | 90.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ion Stoica Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley; co-founder Databricks and Anyscale · UC Berkeley / Anyscale / Databricks · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 82.2 | 84.0 | 78.0 | 74.0 | 90.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Matei Zaharia Associate Professor, UC Berkeley; CTO and co-founder, Databricks · Databricks / UC Berkeley · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 82.2 | 84.0 | 78.0 | 76.0 | 88.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jared Kaplan Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 82.0 | 85.0 | 88.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Albert Gu Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Cartesia; Professor, CMU · Cartesia / Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 82.0 | 84.0 | 89.0 | 68.0 | 70.0 | 96.0 | Ascendant | |
| Luke Zettlemoyer Professor, University of Washington; Senior Director of Research, Meta AI (FAIR) · University of Washington / Meta AI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 82.0 | 90.0 | 80.0 | 76.0 | 82.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 81.9 | 42.0 | 99.0 | 92.0 | 90.0 | 95.0 | Ascendant | |
| Song Han Associate Professor, MIT; Distinguished Scientist, NVIDIA · MIT / NVIDIA · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 81.9 | 84.0 | 84.0 | 70.0 | 78.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tianqi Chen Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Chief Technologist, OctoAI/NVIDIA · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 81.8 | 88.0 | 80.0 | 70.0 | 86.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Hannaneh Hajishirzi Professor, University of Washington; Senior Director of NLP, Allen Institute for AI · University of Washington / Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 81.7 | 84.0 | 80.0 | 74.0 | 82.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jakub Pachocki Chief Scientist, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 81.5 | 80.0 | 95.0 | 70.0 | 65.0 | 94.0 | Ascendant | |
| John Jumper Director · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Frontier lab leader | United Kingdom | 81.5 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 88.0 | Waning | |
| Zhilin Yang Founder & CEO, Moonshot AI · Moonshot AI · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 81.4 | 84.0 | 88.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Graham Neubig Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Chief Scientist, All Hands AI · Carnegie Mellon University / All Hands AI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 81.2 | 84.0 | 76.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Danqi Chen Associate Professor, Princeton University · Princeton University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 81.1 | 85.0 | 82.0 | 74.0 | 80.0 | 83.0 | Ascendant | |
| François Chollet Co-founder, Ndea; creator of Keras and the ARC benchmark · Ndea · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 81.1 | 78.0 | 65.0 | 90.0 | 92.0 | 85.0 | Ascendant | |
| Stuart Russell Professor, UC Berkeley · UC Berkeley · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 81.0 | 95.0 | 52.0 | 98.0 | 88.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Samuel R. Bowman Associate Professor, New York University; Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic · Anthropic / New York University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 81.0 | 84.0 | 80.0 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Aidan Gomez Co-founder & CEO, Cohere · Cohere · Canada | Frontier lab leader | Canada | 80.6 | 80.0 | 84.0 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Hyung Won Chung Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 80.6 | 82.0 | 88.0 | 76.0 | 66.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Chelsea Finn Associate Professor, Stanford University; Co-founder, Physical Intelligence · Stanford University / Physical Intelligence · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 80.6 | 84.0 | 80.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | 88.0 | Rising | |
| Greg Brockman President & Co-founder, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 80.4 | 60.0 | 95.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 92.0 | Holding | |
| Soumith Chintala Co-creator of PyTorch; AI Researcher · Meta AI (FAIR) · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 80.4 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 93.0 | 82.0 | Waning | |
| Tim Dettmers Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI; Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University · Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) / Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 80.1 | 84.0 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Russ Tedrake Professor of EECS/Aero/MechE; VP of Robotics Research, TRI · MIT / Toyota Research Institute · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 80.1 | 84.0 | 75.0 | 75.0 | 85.0 | 82.0 | Rising | |
| Neel Nanda Research Engineer, Mechanistic Interpretability Lead, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 80.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Mira Murati Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 79.9 | 58.0 | 92.0 | 82.0 | 78.0 | 93.0 | Ascendant | |
| Aleksander Mądry Researcher, OpenAI; Professor, MIT · OpenAI / MIT · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 79.8 | 83.0 | 84.0 | 72.0 | 74.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Barret Zoph Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 79.7 | 82.0 | 89.0 | 66.0 | 68.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Junyang Lin Founder, PragmatikLabs · PragmatikLabs · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 79.6 | 72.0 | 88.0 | 65.0 | 82.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Guillaume Lample Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Mistral AI · Mistral AI · France | Frontier lab leader | France | 79.5 | 80.0 | 88.0 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Thomas Wolf Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face · Hugging Face · France | Open-source & tools | France | 79.4 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 92.0 | 88.0 | Rising | |
| Sebastian Ruder Research Scientist, Meta AI · Meta AI · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 79.3 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 84.0 | 84.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jeremy Howard Co-founder, fast.ai; CEO, Answer.AI · fast.ai / Answer.AI · Australia | LLMs & NLP | Australia | 79.2 | 76.0 | 66.0 | 86.0 | 90.0 | 82.0 | Waning | |
| Stella Biderman Executive Director & Head of Research, EleutherAI · EleutherAI · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 79.2 | 74.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 90.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Lucas Beyer Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Computer vision | United States | 79.1 | 83.0 | 84.0 | 72.0 | 65.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 79.0 | 76.0 | 92.0 | 68.0 | 64.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Clément Delangue Co-founder & CEO, Hugging Face · Hugging Face · France | Open-source & tools | France | 78.9 | 55.0 | 76.0 | 88.0 | 92.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sébastien Bubeck VP of AI, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 78.8 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 76.0 | 64.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Douwe Kiela Co-founder & CEO, Contextual AI; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University · Contextual AI / Stanford University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 78.7 | 82.0 | 80.0 | 74.0 | 72.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Wojciech Zaremba Co-founder, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 78.6 | 78.0 | 90.0 | 68.0 | 66.0 | 88.0 | Waning | |
| Lukasz Kaiser Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 78.6 | 87.0 | 84.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jonathan Frankle Chief AI Scientist, Databricks (Mosaic) · Databricks · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 78.5 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Lianmin Zheng Researcher; co-creator of SGLang and Vicuna/Chatbot Arena · xAI · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 78.5 | 74.0 | 80.0 | 68.0 | 84.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| David Patterson Distinguished Engineer, Google; Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley · Google / UC Berkeley · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 78.5 | 90.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | 88.0 | 62.0 | Rising | |
| Tatsunori Hashimoto Assistant Professor, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 78.2 | 82.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 72.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Shunyu Yao Researcher, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 78.2 | 80.0 | 84.0 | 70.0 | 64.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Beth Barnes Founder & CEO, METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) · METR · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 78.2 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 80.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Patrick Esser Co-founder / Research Lead · Black Forest Labs · Germany | Generative models | Germany | 78.2 | 84.0 | 85.0 | 60.0 | 68.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Łukasz Kaiser Research Scientist, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 78.1 | 86.0 | 84.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Dan Hendrycks Director; Safety Advisor · Center for AI Safety / xAI · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 78.0 | 76.0 | 65.0 | 84.0 | 80.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jimmy Ba Associate Professor, University of Toronto; Chief Scientist, xAI · xAI / University of Toronto / Vector Institute · United States | Deep learning pioneer | United States | 77.9 | 84.0 | 85.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 90.0 | Holding | |
| Mohammad Shoeybi Senior Director of Applied Research, NVIDIA · NVIDIA · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 77.9 | 84.0 | 84.0 | 62.0 | 70.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yoav Shoham Co-founder, AI21 Labs; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University · AI21 Labs · Israel | Frontier lab leader | Israel | 77.9 | 76.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 78.0 | Waning | |
| Ze Liu Researcher, DeepSeek (former Microsoft Research Asia) · DeepSeek · China | Computer vision | China | 77.8 | 76.0 | 82.0 | 67.6 | 75.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tom Brown Co-founder, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 77.8 | 84.0 | 90.0 | 62.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sara Hooker VP of Research, Cohere; Head of Cohere Labs · Cohere · Canada | Systems & efficiency | Canada | 77.8 | 70.0 | 76.0 | 80.0 | 82.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Robin Rombach Co-founder / Research Lead · Black Forest Labs · Germany | Generative models | Germany | 77.8 | 86.0 | 80.0 | 64.0 | 72.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI · Microsoft · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 77.7 | 52.0 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 80.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Zico Kolter Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Board Member, OpenAI · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 77.7 | 82.0 | 72.0 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jonathan Ho Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United States | Generative models | United States | 77.7 | 90.0 | 80.0 | 66.0 | 68.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Liam Fedus VP of Research (Post-training); former OpenAI research lead · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 77.6 | 80.0 | 88.0 | 66.0 | 64.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ludwig Schmidt Assistant Professor, Stanford University; Research Scientist, Anthropic · Stanford University / Anthropic · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 77.6 | 79.0 | 76.0 | 68.0 | 80.0 | 85.0 | Rising | |
| Llion Jones Co-founder & CTO, Sakana AI · Sakana AI · Japan | LLMs & NLP | Japan | 77.5 | 86.0 | 80.0 | 66.0 | 68.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Christopher Manning Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science | Associate Direct · Stanford · Australia | LLMs & NLP | Australia | 77.4 | 90.0 | 58.0 | 82.0 | 90.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Alec Radford Deep learning researcher (independent); ex-OpenAI · Independent / formerly OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 77.4 | 94.0 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sanja Fidler VP of AI Research, NVIDIA; Professor, University of Toronto · NVIDIA / University of Toronto / Vector Institute · Canada | Computer vision | Canada | 77.4 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 76.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sam McCandlish Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 77.3 | 86.0 | 82.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Colin Raffel Associate Professor, University of Toronto; Associate Research Director, Vector Institute · University of Toronto / Vector Institute · Canada | LLMs & NLP | Canada | 77.3 | 87.0 | 70.0 | 74.0 | 78.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Marc Raibert Executive Director, The AI Institute; Founder, Boston Dynamics · The AI Institute / Boston Dynamics · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 77.3 | 80.0 | 70.0 | 78.0 | 85.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Jitendra Malik Professor of EECS; Research Director · UC Berkeley / Meta AI · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 77.3 | 92.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | 88.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI · Perplexity AI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 77.2 | 62.0 | 82.0 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 93.0 | Ascendant | |
| Joelle Pineau Chief AI Officer · Cohere (formerly VP AI Research, Meta) · Canada | AI policy & society | Canada | 77.2 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Jacob Devlin Distinguished Engineer / Researcher · Anthropic · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 77.1 | 90.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | 68.0 | 79.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jim Fan Director of Robotics & Distinguished Research Scientist · NVIDIA · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 77.1 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 65.0 | 93.0 | Ascendant | |
| Diederik Kingma Research Scientist, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Generative models | United States | 77.0 | 90.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | 62.0 | 84.0 | Fading | |
| Sebastian Riedel Professor, University College London; Research Director, Meta AI · University College London / Meta AI · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 76.8 | 84.0 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 74.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Rohin Shah Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 76.8 | 70.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ashish Vaswani Founder & CEO, Essential AI (acqui-hired by Nvidia) · Nvidia · India | LLMs & NLP | India | 76.7 | 90.0 | 74.0 | 70.0 | 74.0 | 72.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jeff Clune Senior Research Advisor, Google DeepMind; Professor, UBC · Google DeepMind / University of British Columbia · Canada | Reinforcement learning | Canada | 76.7 | 80.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Kai-Fu Lee Founder, Chairman and CEO · Sinovation Ventures / Project AI 2.0 · China | AI policy & society | China | 76.6 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Patrick Lewis Lead Research Scientist, Cohere · Cohere · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 76.6 | 84.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Mike Lewis Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR) · Meta AI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 76.6 | 86.0 | 84.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Nathan Lambert Research Scientist; post-training & RLHF lead · Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 76.6 | 64.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | 82.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Kaiming He Associate Professor, EECS, MIT; Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind · MIT, Google DeepMind · China | Computer vision | China | 76.5 | 93.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Yi Tay Scientist & Engineer · Google DeepMind · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 76.5 | 76.0 | 85.0 | 66.0 | 65.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| William Fedus Researcher · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 76.5 | 82.0 | 86.0 | 64.0 | 60.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Georgi Gerganov Creator of llama.cpp and ggml · ggml.ai · BGR | Open-source & tools | BGR | 76.5 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 75.0 | 90.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Woosuk Kwon Co-creator of vLLM · UC Berkeley (Sky Computing Lab) · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 76.5 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 62.0 | 82.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Evan Hubinger Head of Alignment Stress-Testing, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 76.4 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sebastian Borgeaud Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 76.3 | 86.0 | 84.0 | 66.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Raia Hadsell Senior Director of Research · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 76.2 | 80.0 | 75.0 | 72.0 | 75.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Joseph Gonzalez Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley · UC Berkeley · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 76.2 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | 84.0 | Rising | |
| Alexander Kolesnikov Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Computer vision | United States | 76.1 | 82.0 | 83.0 | 64.0 | 60.0 | 87.0 | Ascendant | |
| Geoffrey Irving Chief Scientist, UK AI Safety Institute · UK AI Safety Institute · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 76.1 | 74.0 | 75.0 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 80.0 | Waning | |
| Adam Paszke Research Engineer; co-creator of PyTorch and JAX contributor · Google DeepMind · Poland | Open-source & tools | Poland | 75.8 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 65.0 | 85.0 | 80.0 | Fading | |
| Hao Zhang Assistant Professor, UC San Diego · UC San Diego · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 75.8 | 74.0 | 74.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Amnon Shashua Co-founder, President & CEO, Mobileye; Professor, Hebrew University · Mobileye / Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Israel | Computer vision | Israel | 75.8 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Quoc V. Le Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | Deep learning pioneer | United States | 75.7 | 88.0 | 76.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Doina Precup Professor / Research Team Lead · McGill University / Mila / Google DeepMind · Canada | Reinforcement learning | Canada | 75.6 | 85.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Nicholas Carlini Research Scientist, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 75.6 | 82.0 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ken Goldberg Professor of Engineering; William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair · UC Berkeley · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 75.5 | 82.0 | 65.0 | 74.0 | 82.0 | 75.0 | Holding | |
| Daya Guo Research Scientist at Seed Team · ByteDance · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 75.4 | 72.0 | 90.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 94.0 | Ascendant | |
| Norman Jouppi Distinguished Hardware Engineer / VP, Google · Google · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 75.3 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Boaz Barak Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard; Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · Harvard University / OpenAI · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 75.2 | 78.0 | 75.0 | 74.0 | 70.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Noah Smith Professor, University of Washington; Senior Director of NLP Research, Allen Institute for AI · University of Washington / Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 75.2 | 86.0 | 64.0 | 74.0 | 84.0 | 68.0 | Holding | |
| Jordan Hoffmann Research Scientist, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 75.2 | 86.0 | 82.0 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jack Clark Co-founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 75.1 | 44.0 | 78.0 | 90.0 | 84.0 | 88.0 | Holding | |
| Xiaohua Zhai Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Computer vision | United States | 75.1 | 81.0 | 83.0 | 62.0 | 58.0 | 87.0 | Ascendant | |
| Karen Simonyan Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI; Co-founder, Inflection AI · Microsoft AI · United States | Computer vision | United States | 75.1 | 86.0 | 82.0 | 62.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Lilian Weng Co-founder · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 75.1 | 62.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 70.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yuke Zhu Assistant Professor; Research Lead · UT Austin / NVIDIA · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 75.0 | 74.0 | 78.0 | 64.0 | 68.0 | 90.0 | Fading | |
| Yangqing Jia Founder and CEO, Lepton AI (acquired by NVIDIA) · NVIDIA (Lepton AI) · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 75.0 | 76.0 | 72.0 | 64.0 | 84.0 | 80.0 | Fading | |
| Danijar Hafner Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 74.9 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 65.0 | 60.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yi Wu Assistant Professor, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences · Tsinghua University · China | Reinforcement learning | China | 74.7 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 75.0 | 60.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Margaret Mitchell Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist · Hugging Face · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 74.6 | 76.0 | 55.0 | 84.0 | 82.0 | 80.0 | Waning | |
| Aäron van den Oord Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Speech & audio | United Kingdom | 74.5 | 87.0 | 78.0 | 62.0 | 60.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Marco Hutter Professor of Robotic Systems · ETH Zurich · Switzerland | Robotics & embodied AI | Switzerland | 74.5 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jacob Steinhardt Associate Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-founder, Transluce · UC Berkeley · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 74.5 | 80.0 | 60.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 | Rising | |
| Kunle Olukotun Professor of EE and CS, Stanford University; Chief Technologist and co-founder, SambaNova Systems · Stanford University / SambaNova Systems · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 74.5 | 80.0 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Wang Haifeng Associate Professor · Auburn University · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 74.4 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 65.0 | 75.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Yuandong Tian Co-founder, Recursive · Recursive · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 74.4 | 76.0 | 75.0 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 82.0 | Rising | |
| Dan Jurafsky Professor, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 74.4 | 88.0 | 52.0 | 84.0 | 90.0 | 60.0 | Holding | |
| Peter Stone Professor of CS; Executive Director, Sony AI America · UT Austin / Sony AI · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 74.4 | 82.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | 85.0 | 70.0 | Waning | |
| Been Kim Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 74.4 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Daniela Amodei Co-founder & President, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 74.3 | 42.0 | 90.0 | 76.0 | 80.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Karol Hausman Co-founder & CEO, Physical Intelligence · Physical Intelligence · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 74.3 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 66.0 | 64.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Niki Parmar Co-founder, Essential AI · Essential AI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 74.3 | 88.0 | 74.0 | 62.0 | 65.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Satinder Singh Research Director / Professor · Google DeepMind / University of Michigan · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 74.3 | 84.0 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Abhinav Gupta Professor of Robotics · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 74.3 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | Rising | |
| Emo Todorov Associate Professor; Founder, Roboti LLC · University of Washington / Google DeepMind · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 74.3 | 84.0 | 68.0 | 62.0 | 85.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Furu Wei Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research · Microsoft Research Asia · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 74.2 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 60.0 | 65.0 | 85.0 | Ascendant | |
| Prafulla Dhariwal Research Scientist · OpenAI · United States | Generative models | United States | 74.2 | 82.0 | 85.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Bill Peebles Co-lead, Sora · OpenAI · United States | Generative models | United States | 74.2 | 78.0 | 86.0 | 58.0 | 54.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Shai Shalev-Shwartz CTO, Mobileye; Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Mobileye / Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Israel | Theory & foundations | Israel | 74.2 | 82.0 | 65.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | 72.0 | Waning | |
| Dieter Fox Senior Director of Robotics Research; Professor · NVIDIA / University of Washington · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 74.1 | 86.0 | 64.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | 68.0 | Waning | |
| Ross Girshick Research Scientist · Meta AI (FAIR) · United States | Computer vision | United States | 74.1 | 90.0 | 70.0 | 62.0 | 75.0 | 70.0 | Waning | |
| Ce Zhang Associate Professor, University of Chicago; co-founder and CTO, Together AI · University of Chicago / Together AI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 73.9 | 75.0 | 74.0 | 64.0 | 74.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Maosong Sun Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology · Tsinghua University · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 73.8 | 74.0 | 72.0 | 62.0 | 82.0 | 80.0 | Rising | |
| Ying Sheng Researcher; co-creator of SGLang and FlexGen · Stanford University / xAI · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 73.8 | 70.0 | 76.0 | 60.0 | 78.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ethan Perez Research Scientist, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 73.8 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ming-Wei Chang Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 73.6 | 85.0 | 78.0 | 60.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Timothée Lacroix Co-founder & CTO, Mistral AI · Mistral AI · France | Frontier lab leader | France | 73.5 | 68.0 | 86.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tao Yu Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong · University of Hong Kong · HKG | LLMs & NLP | HKG | 73.5 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Timnit Gebru Founder and Executive Director · Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 73.5 | 78.0 | 42.0 | 90.0 | 85.0 | 78.0 | Waning | |
| Roger Grosse Associate Professor, University of Toronto; Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic · University of Toronto / Anthropic · Canada | AI safety & alignment | Canada | 73.5 | 80.0 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 72.0 | 76.0 | Rising | |
| Jeffrey Wu Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 73.4 | 80.0 | 84.0 | 58.0 | 58.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Deepak Pathak Assistant Professor; Co-founder, Skild AI · Carnegie Mellon University / Skild AI · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 73.4 | 76.0 | 75.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Samyam Rajbhandari Principal Researcher, Microsoft (DeepSpeed) · Microsoft · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 73.4 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 58.0 | 74.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Bo Li Professor, University of Chicago · University of Chicago · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 73.3 | 76.0 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Edward Hu Researcher, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 73.3 | 80.0 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Shuran Song Associate Professor of EE · Stanford University · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 73.2 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jim Keller CEO, Tenstorrent · Tenstorrent · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 73.2 | 62.0 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 84.0 | Fading | |
| Nando de Freitas Research Director, Microsoft AI · Microsoft AI · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 73.2 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 72.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Mu Li Senior Principal Scientist, Boson AI (co-founder) · Boson AI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 73.1 | 78.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 85.0 | 70.0 | Ascendant | |
| Max Welling Distinguished Scientist & Co-founder, CuspAI; Professor, University of Amsterdam · University of Amsterdam / CuspAI · Netherlands | Theory & foundations | Netherlands | 73.1 | 86.0 | 64.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Zoubin Ghahramani Professor of Information Engineering, University of Cambridge; former VP of Research, Google DeepMind · University of Cambridge / Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Theory & foundations | United Kingdom | 73.1 | 88.0 | 54.0 | 78.0 | 84.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Cordelia Schmid Research Director, Inria; Researcher, Google DeepMind · Inria / Google DeepMind · France | Computer vision | France | 73.1 | 84.0 | 66.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Jan Peters Professor of Intelligent Autonomous Systems · TU Darmstadt · Germany | Robotics & embodied AI | Germany | 73.1 | 82.0 | 62.0 | 68.0 | 82.0 | 72.0 | Ascendant | |
| Csaba Szepesvari Professor; Senior Research Scientist · University of Alberta / Google DeepMind · Canada | Theory & foundations | Canada | 73.0 | 84.0 | 65.0 | 65.0 | 80.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Luis Ceze Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington; CEO and co-founder, OctoAI · University of Washington / OctoAI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 73.0 | 74.0 | 68.0 | 66.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Volodymyr Mnih Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 72.9 | 90.0 | 76.0 | 62.0 | 60.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Aditya Ramesh VP of Research, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 72.8 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Allan Dafoe Director of Frontier Safety and Governance · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI policy & society | United Kingdom | 72.8 | 62.0 | 65.0 | 80.0 | 82.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ian Goodfellow Co-Founder at a Stealth Startup · Stealth Startup · United States | Generative models | United States | 72.7 | 88.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | 78.0 | 58.0 | Fading | |
| Zhiyuan Liu Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology · Tsinghua University · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 72.7 | 74.0 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Saining Xie Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University · New York University · United States | Computer vision | United States | 72.7 | 82.0 | 72.0 | 62.0 | 62.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Phil Blunsom Chief Scientist, Cohere; Professor, University of Oxford · Cohere / University of Oxford · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 72.7 | 74.0 | 78.0 | 64.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jifeng Dai Associate Professor, Tsinghua University · Tsinghua University · China | Computer vision | China | 72.6 | 85.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 70.0 | 77.0 | Ascendant | |
| Kyunghyun Cho Professor, New York University; Senior Director of Frontier Research, Prescient Design (Genentech) · New York University / Genentech · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 72.6 | 84.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Haotian Liu Researcher (LLaVA), xAI / industry · xAI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 72.5 | 75.0 | 76.0 | 56.0 | 70.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Benjamin Recht Professor of EECS · UC Berkeley · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 72.5 | 84.0 | 58.0 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Jean-Baptiste Alayrac Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Multimodal & agents | United Kingdom | 72.4 | 78.0 | 82.0 | 58.0 | 55.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ting Chen Research Scientist, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 72.4 | 81.0 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Alex Nichol Research Scientist · OpenAI · United States | Generative models | United States | 72.4 | 80.0 | 84.0 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Damai Dai Research Scientist · DeepSeek · China | Systems & efficiency | China | 72.2 | 70.0 | 88.0 | 52.0 | 55.0 | 92.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yee Whye Teh Professor of Statistical Machine Learning, University of Oxford; Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · University of Oxford / Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Theory & foundations | United Kingdom | 72.2 | 84.0 | 62.0 | 66.0 | 76.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Wenhai Wang Research Scientist, Shanghai AI Laboratory · Shanghai AI Laboratory · China | Computer vision | China | 72.1 | 72.0 | 78.0 | 55.0 | 68.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Arvind Narayanan Professor of Computer Science; Director, Center for Information Technology Policy · Princeton University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 72.1 | 72.0 | 48.0 | 86.0 | 74.0 | 85.0 | Fading | |
| Jakob Foerster Associate Professor of Engineering Science · University of Oxford · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 72.1 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 65.0 | 68.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Victoria Krakovna Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 72.1 | 68.0 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Michael I. Jordan Professor, EECS & Statistics, UC Berkeley · University of California, Berkeley · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 72.0 | 95.0 | 42.0 | 82.0 | 92.0 | 50.0 | Fading | |
| Eric Mitchell Research Scientist, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 72.0 | 76.0 | 80.0 | 60.0 | 56.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Chen Tianshi Chairman and CEO · Cambricon Technologies · China | AI hardware & chips | China | 71.9 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 60.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yang Song Research Scientist, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Generative models | United States | 71.9 | 80.0 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 52.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Michael Bronstein DeepMind Professor of AI, University of Oxford; Senior Director, AI Research, Aithyra · University of Oxford · United Kingdom | Theory & foundations | United Kingdom | 71.9 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 72.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Nat Friedman AI investor; former CEO, GitHub · NFDG / Meta Superintelligence Labs · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 71.9 | 40.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | 84.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sebastian Thrun Adjunct Professor; Founder, Udacity & Kitty Hawk · Stanford University · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 71.9 | 86.0 | 56.0 | 80.0 | 88.0 | 50.0 | Fading | |
| Jonathan Ross CEO and founder, Groq · Groq · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 71.9 | 56.0 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 66.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Dani Yogatama Co-founder and CEO · Reka AI, University of Southern California · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 71.8 | 68.0 | 84.0 | 60.0 | 60.0 | 85.0 | Holding | |
| Hugo Larochelle Research Scientist, Google DeepMind; Adjunct Professor, Université de Montréal · Google DeepMind / Mila · Canada | Deep learning pioneer | Canada | 71.8 | 78.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 68.0 | Waning | |
| Vivienne Sze Professor of EECS, MIT · MIT · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 71.8 | 76.0 | 62.0 | 70.0 | 78.0 | 74.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tim Brooks Researcher · Google DeepMind · United States | Generative models | United States | 71.7 | 74.0 | 84.0 | 56.0 | 52.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yiming Yang Professor, Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 71.6 | 84.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 74.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Tara Sainath Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | Speech & audio | United States | 71.6 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 62.0 | 68.0 | 76.0 | Rising | |
| Patrick von Platen ML Researcher / Engineer · Mistral AI · France | Open-source & tools | France | 71.6 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 64.0 | 82.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Marc G. Bellemare Professor / Canada CIFAR AI Chair · McGill University / Mila / Reliant AI · Canada | Reinforcement learning | Canada | 71.6 | 84.0 | 65.0 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | Waning | |
| Florian Tramèr Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich · ETH Zurich · Switzerland | AI safety & alignment | Switzerland | 71.6 | 78.0 | 62.0 | 68.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tim Salimans Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · Netherlands | Generative models | Netherlands | 71.6 | 83.0 | 76.0 | 58.0 | 58.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Jun Zhu Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology · Tsinghua University · China | Generative models | China | 71.5 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | Fading | |
| Andrew Zisserman Professor of Computer Vision, University of Oxford; Researcher, Google DeepMind · University of Oxford / Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Computer vision | United Kingdom | 71.5 | 90.0 | 56.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Phillip Isola Associate Professor of EECS, MIT · MIT CSAIL · United States | Computer vision | United States | 71.5 | 82.0 | 62.0 | 66.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Kenton Lee Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 71.4 | 82.0 | 76.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| David Bau Assistant Professor, Northeastern University · Northeastern University · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 71.4 | 76.0 | 60.0 | 68.0 | 74.0 | 80.0 | Waning | |
| Beidi Chen Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Research Scientist, Meta FAIR · Carnegie Mellon University / Meta · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 71.4 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 62.0 | 66.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Alex Smola AWS vice president and distinguished scientist · Amazon · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 71.3 | 86.0 | 56.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Yu Qiao Assistant Director and Lead Scientist · Shanghai AI Laboratory · China | Multimodal & agents | China | 71.3 | 74.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Tero Karras Distinguished Research Scientist · NVIDIA · Finland | Generative models | Finland | 71.2 | 86.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 64.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Kenneth Stanley Researcher / Author; former OpenAI & Maven · Independent / Lila Sciences · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 71.1 | 76.0 | 60.0 | 78.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Vincent Vanhoucke Senior Director, Robotics Research · Waymo / formerly Google DeepMind Robotics · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 71.1 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Michael Littman Professor of Computer Science · Brown University · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 71.1 | 80.0 | 55.0 | 75.0 | 82.0 | 65.0 | Fading | |
| Jakob Uszkoreit Co-founder & CEO, Inceptive · Inceptive · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 71.0 | 88.0 | 64.0 | 65.0 | 66.0 | 68.0 | Rising | |
| Alexei Efros Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley · UC Berkeley (BAIR) · United States | Computer vision | United States | 71.0 | 86.0 | 58.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Nick Frosst Co-founder, Cohere · Cohere · Canada | Frontier lab leader | Canada | 70.9 | 64.0 | 80.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jeff Rasley Creator/lead of DeepSpeed · Microsoft / Snowflake · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 70.9 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 82.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Hado van Hasselt Research Scientist / Team Lead · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 70.9 | 82.0 | 70.0 | 62.0 | 65.0 | 72.0 | Waning | |
| Tommi Jaakkola Thomas Siebel Professor of EECS, MIT · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 70.8 | 82.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Harry Shum Council Chairman, HKUST; Chairperson, Hong Kong AI Research and Development Institute · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong AI Research and Development Institute · China | Frontier lab leader | China | 70.7 | 78.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Buck Shlegeris CEO, Redwood Research · Redwood Research · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 70.7 | 65.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | Holding | |
| Collin Burns Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 70.7 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 68.0 | 58.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Han Hu Distinguished Scientist, Head of Hy Vision-Language Model (VLM) and Embodied Foundation Model · Tencent · China | Computer vision | China | 70.6 | 82.0 | 72.0 | 55.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jascha Sohl-Dickstein Principal Scientist, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | Generative models | United States | 70.6 | 84.0 | 75.0 | 62.0 | 56.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Igor Babuschkin Co-founder, xAI (former); founder, Babuschkin Ventures · Babuschkin Ventures / formerly xAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 70.6 | 64.0 | 82.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 80.0 | Rising | |
| Joel Emer Professor of the Practice, MIT; Senior Distinguished Research Scientist, NVIDIA · MIT / NVIDIA · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 70.6 | 80.0 | 64.0 | 66.0 | 74.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Jack Rae Principal research scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 70.6 | 68.0 | 82.0 | 60.0 | 52.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Bret Taylor Co-founder & CEO, Sierra; Chair, OpenAI board · Sierra / OpenAI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 70.5 | 38.0 | 80.0 | 80.0 | 76.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Andrew Barto Professor Emeritus of Computer Science · University of Massachusetts Amherst · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 70.5 | 98.0 | 35.0 | 80.0 | 90.0 | 50.0 | Fading | |
| Brett Adcock Founder & CEO · Figure AI · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 70.5 | 45.0 | 80.0 | 72.0 | 65.0 | 95.0 | Ascendant | |
| Aude Billard Professor; Head of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory · EPFL · Switzerland | Robotics & embodied AI | Switzerland | 70.5 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 65.0 | Holding | |
| Igor Mordatch Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 70.5 | 76.0 | 72.0 | 65.0 | 62.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Stefano Ermon Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | Generative models | United States | 70.4 | 82.0 | 62.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Rafael Rafailov Research Scientist, Physical Intelligence · Physical Intelligence · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 70.4 | 74.0 | 78.0 | 58.0 | 54.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Owain Evans Founder & Lead, Truthful AI; Affiliate, UC Berkeley CHAI · Truthful AI · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 70.4 | 70.0 | 60.0 | 74.0 | 68.0 | 82.0 | Rising | |
| Kate Crawford Research Professor; Senior Principal Researcher · USC Annenberg / Microsoft Research · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 70.3 | 74.0 | 40.0 | 88.0 | 80.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Olga Russakovsky Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University · Princeton University · United States | Computer vision | United States | 70.3 | 76.0 | 54.0 | 72.0 | 84.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Tom Kwiatkowski Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 70.2 | 80.0 | 76.0 | 58.0 | 58.0 | 74.0 | Waning | |
| Richard Ngo AI Governance & Alignment Researcher (independent) · Independent · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 70.2 | 65.0 | 60.0 | 80.0 | 78.0 | 72.0 | Ascendant | |
| Kurt Keutzer Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley · UC Berkeley · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 70.2 | 76.0 | 60.0 | 66.0 | 80.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Hailey Schoelkopf Research Scientist; lead of lm-evaluation-harness · EleutherAI · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 70.1 | 62.0 | 68.0 | 62.0 | 80.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Xipeng Qiu Professor, School of Computer Science · Fudan University · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 70.0 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Aaron Courville Professor, Université de Montréal; Core Member, Mila · Mila / Université de Montréal · Canada | Deep learning pioneer | Canada | 70.0 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Shixiang Shane Gu Research Scientist · OpenAI · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 70.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 60.0 | 55.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jun-Yan Zhu Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Generative models | United States | 70.0 | 80.0 | 64.0 | 60.0 | 66.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Yi Ma Chair Professor and Director, School of Computing and Data Science · University of California, Berkeley · HKG | Theory & foundations | HKG | 69.9 | 85.0 | 52.0 | 75.0 | 75.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Sepp Hochreiter Professor & Head of Institute for Machine Learning, JKU Linz · Johannes Kepler University Linz / NXAI · Austria | Deep learning pioneer | Austria | 69.9 | 88.0 | 52.0 | 68.0 | 70.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Dahua Lin Associate Professor; Director, OpenGVLab · Chinese University of Hong Kong / Shanghai AI Laboratory · HKG | Computer vision | HKG | 69.9 | 72.0 | 66.0 | 58.0 | 74.0 | 80.0 | Holding | |
| Sham Kakade Gordon McKay Professor of CS & Statistics, Harvard University · Harvard University / Kempner Institute · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 69.8 | 82.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Ari Morcos Co-founder & CEO, DatologyAI · DatologyAI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 69.8 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Emily M. Bender Professor of Linguistics · University of Washington · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 69.8 | 75.0 | 40.0 | 88.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Jia Deng Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University · Princeton University · United States | Computer vision | United States | 69.8 | 84.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Iryna Gurevych Professor and Director of UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt · Technical University of Darmstadt · Germany | LLMs & NLP | Germany | 69.8 | 76.0 | 55.0 | 66.0 | 80.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Ross Wightman Creator of timm (PyTorch Image Models) · Hugging Face · Canada | Open-source & tools | Canada | 69.7 | 66.0 | 62.0 | 60.0 | 84.0 | 80.0 | Waning | |
| Rowan Zellers Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 69.6 | 72.0 | 80.0 | 56.0 | 54.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Miles Brundage Independent AI policy researcher · Independent (formerly OpenAI) · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 69.5 | 60.0 | 58.0 | 82.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Bernhard Schölkopf Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen · Germany | Theory & foundations | Germany | 69.5 | 85.0 | 50.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 63.0 | Fading | |
| Xiaolong Wang Associate Professor of ECE · UC San Diego · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 69.4 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 58.0 | 85.0 | Holding | |
| David Krueger Assistant Professor, University of Montreal / Mila · Mila (Université de Montréal) · Canada | AI safety & alignment | Canada | 69.4 | 70.0 | 55.0 | 75.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yuxiong He Distinguished Engineer / Partner, Snowflake (former DeepSpeed lead, Microsoft) · Snowflake · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 69.4 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Antonio Torralba Professor of EECS, MIT · MIT CSAIL · United States | Computer vision | United States | 69.4 | 86.0 | 56.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | 56.0 | Fading | |
| Edward Grefenstette Research Director, Google DeepMind; Honorary Professor, UCL · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | LLMs & NLP | United Kingdom | 69.4 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 62.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | Rising | |
| Anca Dragan Director of AI Safety and Alignment · Google DeepMind · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 69.4 | 65.0 | 78.0 | 65.0 | 60.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Dzmitry Bahdanau Research Scientist, ServiceNow Research / Adjunct, McGill University · ServiceNow Research / Mila · Canada | LLMs & NLP | Canada | 69.3 | 88.0 | 62.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Lewis Tunstall Research Engineer / LLM team · Hugging Face · Switzerland | Open-source & tools | Switzerland | 69.3 | 58.0 | 65.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Zhihao Jia Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 69.3 | 73.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 64.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Andrew Feldman CEO and co-founder, Cerebras Systems · Cerebras Systems · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 69.3 | 50.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 66.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Trevor Darrell Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley · UC Berkeley (BAIR) · United States | Computer vision | United States | 69.3 | 82.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Julien Chaumond Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Hugging Face · Hugging Face · France | Open-source & tools | France | 69.0 | 48.0 | 65.0 | 68.0 | 88.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Bob McGrew Advisor; former Chief Research Officer, OpenAI · OpenAI (former) · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 68.9 | 60.0 | 82.0 | 66.0 | 64.0 | 72.0 | Waning | |
| Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs · ElevenLabs · United Kingdom | Speech & audio | United Kingdom | 68.9 | 50.0 | 78.0 | 64.0 | 66.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ben Mildenhall Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United States | Computer vision | United States | 68.9 | 86.0 | 66.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | 68.0 | Ascendant | |
| Tie-Yan Liu Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia · Microsoft Research Asia · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 68.8 | 80.0 | 58.0 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Ishan Misra Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR) · Meta AI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 68.8 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 54.0 | 56.0 | 80.0 | Rising | |
| Eric Jang VP of AI, 1X Technologies · 1X Technologies · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 68.7 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Joy Buolamwini Founder; researcher and author · Algorithmic Justice League · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 68.7 | 70.0 | 38.0 | 86.0 | 80.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Cynthia Dwork Professor of Computer Science · Harvard University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 68.7 | 88.0 | 42.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 | 58.0 | Fading | |
| Ajeya Cotra Senior Program Officer, AI, Open Philanthropy · Open Philanthropy · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 68.7 | 62.0 | 50.0 | 82.0 | 80.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Andrew Yao Dean, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences · Tsinghua University · China | Theory & foundations | China | 68.6 | 88.0 | 40.0 | 70.0 | 92.0 | 55.0 | Fading | |
| Song-Chun Zhu Director, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) · Peking University / Tsinghua University / BIGAI · China | Computer vision | China | 68.6 | 85.0 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 78.0 | 55.0 | Fading | |
| Binyuan Hui Former Research Scientist, Qwen Team · Formerly Alibaba (Qwen) · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 68.6 | 62.0 | 80.0 | 52.0 | 62.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Hang Li Head of Research, ByteDance AI Lab (former) · ByteDance · China | LLMs & NLP | China | 68.6 | 75.0 | 65.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Travis Oliphant Creator of NumPy & SciPy; Founder, Quansight and OpenTeams · Quansight · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 68.5 | 70.0 | 50.0 | 72.0 | 94.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Harrison Chase Co-founder & CEO, LangChain · LangChain · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 68.5 | 44.0 | 65.0 | 74.0 | 84.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Rishi Bommasani Society Lead, Center for Research on Foundation Models · Stanford University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 68.4 | 66.0 | 52.0 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 82.0 | Holding | |
| Dylan Hadfield-Menell Assistant Professor, MIT · MIT · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 68.4 | 74.0 | 55.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | 72.0 | Ascendant | |
| Neil Lawrence DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom | Theory & foundations | United Kingdom | 68.4 | 74.0 | 48.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | 65.0 | Fading | |
| Chitwan Saharia Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United States | Generative models | United States | 68.3 | 76.0 | 78.0 | 52.0 | 50.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Csaba Szepesvári Research Scientist, Google DeepMind; Professor, University of Alberta · Google DeepMind / University of Alberta · Canada | Theory & foundations | Canada | 68.2 | 80.0 | 60.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Naveen Rao VP of Generative AI, Databricks · Databricks · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 68.2 | 54.0 | 74.0 | 66.0 | 72.0 | 78.0 | Waning | |
| Matthew Peters Principal Research Scientist · Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 68.2 | 84.0 | 68.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Masashi Sugiyama Director, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project; Professor, University of Tokyo · RIKEN AIP / University of Tokyo · Japan | Theory & foundations | Japan | 68.0 | 78.0 | 50.0 | 64.0 | 82.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Dan Fu Assistant Professor, UC San Diego; Member of Technical Staff, Together AI · UC San Diego / Together AI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 67.9 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Matthew Tancik Research Scientist · Luma AI · United States | Computer vision | United States | 67.9 | 80.0 | 66.0 | 54.0 | 60.0 | 76.0 | Holding | |
| Ruslan Salakhutdinov Professor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University / Apple · United States | Deep learning pioneer | United States | 67.8 | 84.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | 72.0 | 55.0 | Fading | |
| Yossi Adi Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Research Scientist, Meta AI · Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Meta AI · Israel | Speech & audio | Israel | 67.8 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 54.0 | 56.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Adam Gleave Founder & CEO, FAR.AI · FAR.AI · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 67.8 | 66.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | Holding | |
| Mitesh Khapra Associate Professor, IIT Madras; Co-founder, AI4Bharat · IIT Madras / AI4Bharat · India | LLMs & NLP | India | 67.8 | 66.0 | 58.0 | 64.0 | 78.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Daniel Gross AI investor & entrepreneur · NFDG / Meta Superintelligence Labs · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 67.7 | 38.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Razvan Pascanu Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Deep learning pioneer | United Kingdom | 67.6 | 76.0 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Scott Aaronson Schlumberger Chair Professor, UT Austin · University of Texas at Austin · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 67.6 | 80.0 | 50.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Tuomas Haarnoja Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 67.5 | 76.0 | 72.0 | 55.0 | 55.0 | 75.0 | Ascendant | |
| Animesh Garg Assistant Professor; Senior Research Scientist · Georgia Tech / NVIDIA · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 67.5 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 60.0 | 78.0 | Holding | |
| Jan Kautz VP of Learning & Perception Research · NVIDIA · United States | Computer vision | United States | 67.5 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Eric Steinberger Co-founder & CEO, Magic · Magic AI · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 67.4 | 56.0 | 76.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Kristen Grauman Professor · University of Texas at Austin / Meta AI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 67.4 | 74.0 | 56.0 | 64.0 | 74.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Piotr Dabkowski Co-founder & CTO, ElevenLabs · ElevenLabs · United Kingdom | Speech & audio | United Kingdom | 67.3 | 55.0 | 78.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 90.0 | Waning | |
| Amir Gholami Research Scientist, UC Berkeley; co-founder, TogetherCompute/efficient-AI ventures · UC Berkeley · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 67.3 | 70.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | Rising | |
| Christian Szegedy Co-founder / Research Lead · Morph Labs (formerly xAI, Google Brain) · United States | Computer vision | United States | 67.3 | 85.0 | 63.0 | 62.0 | 62.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Lu Qi Founder, Chairman and CEO · MiraclePlus (Qi Ji Chuang Tan) · China | AI policy & society | China | 67.2 | 48.0 | 55.0 | 85.0 | 85.0 | 72.0 | Ascendant | |
| Rumman Chowdhury CEO and co-founder; US Science Envoy for AI · Humane Intelligence · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 67.2 | 52.0 | 50.0 | 82.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | Rising | |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky Co-founder & Senior Research Fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute · Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 67.2 | 62.0 | 35.0 | 90.0 | 88.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Horace He Member of Technical Staff · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 67.1 | 56.0 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 58.0 | 85.0 | Ascendant | |
| Solon Barocas Principal Researcher; Adjunct Professor · Microsoft Research / Cornell University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 67.0 | 70.0 | 45.0 | 74.0 | 78.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Mary Phuong Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 67.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | 62.0 | 56.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Rich Caruana Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research · Microsoft Research · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 67.0 | 76.0 | 55.0 | 70.0 | 68.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Surya Ganguli Associate Professor, Applied Physics, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 66.9 | 78.0 | 52.0 | 68.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Omar Sanseviero AI Developer Experience Lead · Google DeepMind · France | Open-source & tools | France | 66.9 | 45.0 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 82.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Daniel Han Co-founder, Unsloth AI · Unsloth AI · Australia | Open-source & tools | Australia | 66.9 | 52.0 | 64.0 | 60.0 | 76.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sanjeev Arora Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University · Princeton University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 66.8 | 86.0 | 52.0 | 70.0 | 74.0 | 50.0 | Fading | |
| Ethan Mollick Associate Professor of Management · Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 66.8 | 50.0 | 45.0 | 88.0 | 70.0 | 90.0 | Waning | |
| Tom Schaul Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 66.8 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Zhuohan Li Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 66.8 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Rohit Girdhar Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR) · Meta AI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 66.7 | 73.0 | 74.0 | 50.0 | 52.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Stephen Casper AI Safety Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute · UK AI Safety Institute · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 66.7 | 62.0 | 65.0 | 66.0 | 64.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Mikey Shulman Co-founder & CEO, Suno · Suno · United States | Speech & audio | United States | 66.4 | 50.0 | 76.0 | 60.0 | 60.0 | 88.0 | Ascendant | |
| Inioluwa Deborah Raji Researcher; Assistant Professor (incoming) · UC Berkeley / Mozilla · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 66.4 | 64.0 | 45.0 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | Rising | |
| Meredith Whittaker President · Signal Foundation · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 66.3 | 55.0 | 42.0 | 85.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | Fading | |
| Matteo Hessel Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 66.3 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 55.0 | 62.0 | 70.0 | Waning | |
| William Falcon Creator of PyTorch Lightning; Founder & CEO, Lightning AI · Lightning AI · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 66.2 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 62.0 | 82.0 | 74.0 | Rising | |
| Luciano Floridi Professor; Founding Director, Digital Ethics Center · Yale University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 66.2 | 70.0 | 38.0 | 80.0 | 76.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Wei-Ning Hsu Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR) · Meta AI · United States | Speech & audio | United States | 66.1 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 50.0 | 52.0 | 78.0 | Rising | |
| Latanya Sweeney Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology · Harvard University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 66.1 | 78.0 | 38.0 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 65.0 | Fading | |
| Toru Nishikawa Co-founder, President & CEO, Preferred Networks · Preferred Networks · Japan | Frontier lab leader | Japan | 66.1 | 58.0 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 75.0 | 72.0 | Rising | |
| Bin Yu Chancellor's Distinguished Professor, Statistics & EECS, UC Berkeley · University of California, Berkeley · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 66.0 | 80.0 | 45.0 | 70.0 | 78.0 | 58.0 | Fading | |
| Junnan Li Research Scientist (formerly Salesforce Research) · Salesforce Research (alumnus) · Singapore | Multimodal & agents | Singapore | 66.0 | 76.0 | 66.0 | 52.0 | 54.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jerry Liu Co-founder & CEO, LlamaIndex · LlamaIndex · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 66.0 | 44.0 | 62.0 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Manish Gupta Director, Google DeepMind India · Google DeepMind · India | Systems & efficiency | India | 66.0 | 65.0 | 60.0 | 62.0 | 75.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Andreas Krause Professor of Computer Science; Chair of the ETH AI Center · ETH Zurich · Switzerland | Theory & foundations | Switzerland | 66.0 | 76.0 | 54.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Francis Bach Research Director, Inria; Professor, École Normale Supérieure · Inria / ENS Paris · France | Theory & foundations | France | 65.8 | 84.0 | 45.0 | 70.0 | 76.0 | 54.0 | Fading | |
| Mihaela van der Schaar John Humphrey Plummer Professor of ML, AI and Medicine · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom | Theory & foundations | United Kingdom | 65.8 | 72.0 | 52.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Deepak Narayanan Senior Research Scientist (ADLR) · NVIDIA · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 65.8 | 64.0 | 70.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Hung-yi Lee Professor · National Taiwan University · Taiwan | Speech & audio | Taiwan | 65.7 | 66.0 | 50.0 | 70.0 | 74.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Gillian Hadfield Professor of Computer Science and Government; Director · Johns Hopkins University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 65.6 | 58.0 | 48.0 | 78.0 | 74.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Ming-Hsuan Yang Professor, UC Merced; Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · UC Merced / Google DeepMind · United States | Computer vision | United States | 65.6 | 80.0 | 56.0 | 56.0 | 68.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Karina Nguyen Research lead · OpenAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 65.6 | 52.0 | 74.0 | 65.0 | 52.0 | 86.0 | Ascendant | |
| Peter Bartlett Professor, EECS & Statistics, UC Berkeley; Senior Researcher, Google DeepMind · UC Berkeley / Google DeepMind · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 65.5 | 82.0 | 52.0 | 62.0 | 70.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Jesse Mu Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic · Anthropic · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 65.5 | 62.0 | 74.0 | 58.0 | 54.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Sergey Tulyakov Distinguished Scientist / Lead, Creative Vision · Snap Inc. · United States | Generative models | United States | 65.5 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Han Xiao Vice President of AI · Elastic · Germany | Open-source & tools | Germany | 65.4 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 62.0 | 75.0 | 76.0 | Waning | |
| Jared Quincy Davis Founder & CEO, Foundry · Foundry · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 65.3 | 56.0 | 70.0 | 62.0 | 64.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| William Freeman Professor of EECS, MIT; Research Scientist, Google · MIT CSAIL / Google · United States | Computer vision | United States | 65.3 | 85.0 | 47.0 | 64.0 | 80.0 | 50.0 | Fading | |
| Yinhan Liu Co-founder, Birch AI / LLM Researcher · Independent / Birch AI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 65.1 | 82.0 | 64.0 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 66.0 | Ascendant | |
| Marc Deisenroth DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning and AI, UCL · University College London · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 65.1 | 72.0 | 50.0 | 62.0 | 75.0 | 68.0 | Waning | |
| Vincent Sitzmann Co-founder · World Labs · United States | Computer vision | United States | 65.1 | 66.0 | 70.0 | 55.0 | 52.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Nick Bostrom Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative · Macrostrategy Research Initiative · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 65.0 | 65.0 | 35.0 | 90.0 | 82.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Stefano Soatto VP, AWS AI; Professor, UCLA · Amazon AWS AI / UCLA · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 64.9 | 72.0 | 66.0 | 60.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Arthur Zucker Machine Learning Engineer; Transformers maintainer · Hugging Face · France | Open-source & tools | France | 64.9 | 50.0 | 64.0 | 56.0 | 78.0 | 82.0 | Ascendant | |
| Gennady Pekhimenko Associate Professor, University of Toronto; CEO, CentML · University of Toronto / CentML · Canada | Systems & efficiency | Canada | 64.9 | 66.0 | 64.0 | 56.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | Holding | |
| Tengyu Ma Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 64.8 | 74.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 58.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Jürgen Schmidhuber Director, AI Initiative, KAUST; Scientific Director, IDSIA · KAUST / IDSIA · Saudi Arabia | Deep learning pioneer | Saudi Arabia | 64.7 | 90.0 | 36.0 | 78.0 | 75.0 | 44.0 | Fading | |
| Behnam Neyshabur Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 64.7 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 56.0 | 52.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Yu Zhang Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | Speech & audio | United States | 64.7 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 52.0 | 52.0 | 76.0 | Ascendant | |
| Alexei Baevski Research Scientist (formerly Meta AI / FAIR) · Meta AI (alumnus) · United States | Speech & audio | United States | 64.7 | 80.0 | 66.0 | 50.0 | 52.0 | 70.0 | Rising | |
| Gary Marcus Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science; AI commentator and author · New York University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 64.7 | 58.0 | 38.0 | 92.0 | 60.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Christopher De Sa Associate Professor, Cornell University · Cornell University · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 64.7 | 70.0 | 62.0 | 56.0 | 60.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Andrew Tulloch Co-founder · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 64.7 | 58.0 | 74.0 | 52.0 | 55.0 | 84.0 | Ascendant | |
| Jiajun Wu Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University · Stanford University · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 64.5 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 60.0 | 75.0 | Fading | |
| Abeba Birhane Senior Advisor in AI Accountability; Assistant Professor · Mozilla Foundation / Trinity College Dublin · Ireland | AI policy & society | Ireland | 64.5 | 60.0 | 42.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | 82.0 | Fading | |
| Dan Alistarh Professor · Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) · Austria | Systems & efficiency | Austria | 64.4 | 68.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Emad Mostaque Founder, Intelligent Internet; former CEO, Stability AI · Intelligent Internet · United Kingdom | Generative models | United Kingdom | 64.3 | 46.0 | 64.0 | 76.0 | 78.0 | 64.0 | Holding | |
| Zhe Gan Research Scientist, Apple · Apple · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 64.3 | 68.0 | 72.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 78.0 | Fading | |
| Leland McInnes Researcher; creator of UMAP and HDBSCAN · Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing · Canada | Open-source & tools | Canada | 64.3 | 72.0 | 48.0 | 58.0 | 80.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Jinwoo Shin Professor, KAIST; KAIST AI Graduate School · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) · South Korea | Generative models | South Korea | 64.3 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 55.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Sean Lie Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer · Cerebras Systems · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 64.3 | 55.0 | 74.0 | 58.0 | 52.0 | 82.0 | Waning | |
| Yu Wang Director of the Education Development Unit (EDU) · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) · China | AI hardware & chips | China | 64.2 | 70.0 | 60.0 | 55.0 | 65.0 | 70.0 | Holding | |
| Helen Toner Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants · Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 64.2 | 50.0 | 48.0 | 82.0 | 68.0 | 80.0 | Fading | |
| Eric Zelikman Research scientist · xAI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 64.2 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 55.0 | 48.0 | 84.0 | Fading | |
| Sayash Kapoor Ph.D. candidate / researcher, Center for Information Technology Policy · Princeton University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 64.1 | 58.0 | 45.0 | 78.0 | 60.0 | 84.0 | Waning | |
| Lior Wolf Professor of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University · Tel Aviv University · Israel | Computer vision | Israel | 64.1 | 74.0 | 55.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Hao Su Associate Professor of Computer Science · UC San Diego · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 64.1 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 66.0 | 70.0 | Holding | |
| Stéphane Mallat Professor, Collège de France; Chair of Data Sciences · Collège de France / ENS Paris · France | Theory & foundations | France | 64.0 | 82.0 | 45.0 | 64.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | Fading | |
| Wing Lian Creator of Axolotl; Founder, OpenAccess AI Collective · Axolotl AI · United States | Open-source & tools | United States | 64.0 | 48.0 | 60.0 | 60.0 | 76.0 | 82.0 | Rising | |
| Markus Anderljung Director of Policy and Research · Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) · United Kingdom | AI policy & society | United Kingdom | 64.0 | 52.0 | 50.0 | 76.0 | 68.0 | 80.0 | Ascendant | |
| Hunter Lightman Research scientist · OpenAI · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 64.0 | 55.0 | 78.0 | 50.0 | 45.0 | 90.0 | Ascendant | |
| Shinji Watanabe Associate Professor · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Speech & audio | United States | 64.0 | 68.0 | 52.0 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Mohit Bansal Professor · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 64.0 | 66.0 | 52.0 | 64.0 | 68.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Sandra Wachter Professor of Technology and Regulation · Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford · United Kingdom | AI policy & society | United Kingdom | 63.9 | 66.0 | 38.0 | 78.0 | 66.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Jan Hendrik Kirchner Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI · OpenAI · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 63.9 | 60.0 | 72.0 | 60.0 | 52.0 | 74.0 | Ascendant | |
| Illia Polosukhin Co-founder, NEAR Protocol · NEAR Protocol / NEAR AI · United States | LLMs & NLP | United States | 63.8 | 84.0 | 50.0 | 62.0 | 64.0 | 56.0 | Fading | |
| Daniel Ho Professor of Law and Computer Science; Director, RegLab · Stanford University · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 63.8 | 62.0 | 42.0 | 74.0 | 70.0 | 76.0 | Rising | |
| Xun Huang Research Scientist · NVIDIA · United States | Generative models | United States | 63.8 | 74.0 | 68.0 | 50.0 | 48.0 | 74.0 | Ascendant | |
| Audrey Tang Cyber Ambassador; former Minister of Digital Affairs · Taiwan (Government / Collective Intelligence Project) · Taiwan | AI policy & society | Taiwan | 63.7 | 45.0 | 42.0 | 84.0 | 78.0 | 80.0 | Fading | |
| Tom Lieberum Research Engineer, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 63.7 | 58.0 | 70.0 | 56.0 | 56.0 | 78.0 | Ascendant | |
| Chen Yunji Professor, Institute of Computing Technology; co-founder, Cambricon · Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT) · China | AI hardware & chips | China | 63.6 | 76.0 | 58.0 | 55.0 | 65.0 | 62.0 | Ascendant | |
| Virginia Dignum Professor of Responsible AI · Umeå University · Sweden | AI policy & society | Sweden | 63.6 | 60.0 | 40.0 | 76.0 | 74.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Stefanie Tellex Professor of Computer Science · Brown University · United States | Robotics & embodied AI | United States | 63.6 | 68.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | 65.0 | 65.0 | Fading | |
| Elias Frantar Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 63.6 | 62.0 | 66.0 | 55.0 | 54.0 | 80.0 | Rising | |
| Yasaman Bahri Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 63.5 | 70.0 | 66.0 | 56.0 | 52.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Andreas Blattmann Co-founder · Black Forest Labs · Germany | Generative models | Germany | 63.5 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 48.0 | 50.0 | 83.0 | Rising | |
| Yann Dauphin Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United States | Deep learning pioneer | United States | 63.3 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 54.0 | 52.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Léon Bottou Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR) · Meta AI (FAIR) · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 63.2 | 84.0 | 49.0 | 68.0 | 66.0 | 46.0 | Fading | |
| Jan Brauner AI Safety Researcher, Oxford / Krueger Lab · University of Oxford · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 63.2 | 58.0 | 55.0 | 70.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | Holding | |
| Pushpak Bhattacharyya Professor of Computer Science, IIT Bombay · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · India | LLMs & NLP | India | 63.1 | 68.0 | 45.0 | 66.0 | 80.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Andrea Vedaldi Professor of Computer Vision · University of Oxford / Meta AI · United Kingdom | Multimodal & agents | United Kingdom | 63.0 | 70.0 | 55.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Nicholas Harris Co-founder & CEO · Lightmatter · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 63.0 | 54.0 | 68.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 80.0 | Waning | |
| Taesung Park Research Scientist · Adobe Research · United States | Generative models | United States | 62.9 | 74.0 | 64.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Jacob Hilton Researcher, Alignment Research Center · Alignment Research Center (ARC) · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 62.8 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Shannon Vallor Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and AI; Director, Centre for Technomoral Futures · University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom | AI policy & society | United Kingdom | 62.7 | 58.0 | 38.0 | 80.0 | 70.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Andrew Gordon Wilson Associate Professor, Courant Institute & Center for Data Science, NYU · New York University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 62.6 | 72.0 | 52.0 | 62.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Scott Emmons Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 62.6 | 58.0 | 70.0 | 58.0 | 54.0 | 72.0 | Rising | |
| Bowen Zhang Co-founder · Thinking Machines Lab · United States | Frontier lab leader | United States | 62.6 | 55.0 | 72.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 85.0 | Ascendant | |
| Yi Zeng Professor; Director, International Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · China | AI policy & society | China | 62.5 | 55.0 | 42.0 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| David Abel Senior Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Reinforcement learning | United Kingdom | 62.5 | 66.0 | 62.0 | 60.0 | 55.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Tomas Mikolov Senior Researcher, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU) · CIIRC, Czech Technical University in Prague · Czechia | LLMs & NLP | Czechia | 62.4 | 88.0 | 42.0 | 60.0 | 64.0 | 55.0 | Fading | |
| Atticus Geiger Research Lead, Pr(Ai)²R Group · Pr(Ai)²R Group · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 62.4 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 58.0 | 72.0 | Holding | |
| Robert Nishihara Co-founder · Anyscale · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 62.2 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 55.0 | 68.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Cewu Lu Professor, John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · China | Robotics & embodied AI | China | 62.2 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 55.0 | 62.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Yu Su Associate Professor · Ohio State University · United States | Multimodal & agents | United States | 62.2 | 62.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Martin Wainwright Cecil H. Green Professor of EECS & Mathematics, MIT · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 62.1 | 84.0 | 39.0 | 64.0 | 74.0 | 49.0 | Fading | |
| Carl Vondrick Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University · Columbia University · United States | Computer vision | United States | 62.1 | 70.0 | 55.0 | 54.0 | 58.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Jordi Pont-Tuset Research Scientist, Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind · Switzerland | Multimodal & agents | Switzerland | 62.1 | 62.0 | 72.0 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 74.0 | Fading | |
| Andreas Köpf AI researcher; OpenAssistant lead · Aleph Alpha · Germany | Open-source & tools | Germany | 62.1 | 54.0 | 60.0 | 58.0 | 74.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Nathan Srebro Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 62.0 | 78.0 | 45.0 | 62.0 | 66.0 | 58.0 | Fading | |
| Sylvain Gugger Machine Learning Engineer; creator of Accelerate · Jane Street · France | Open-source & tools | France | 62.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 80.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Yutaka Matsuo Professor, Graduate School of Engineering · University of Tokyo · Japan | AI policy & society | Japan | 62.0 | 56.0 | 54.0 | 68.0 | 72.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Mehdi Cherti Researcher, LAION / Jülich Supercomputing Centre · LAION / Forschungszentrum Jülich · Germany | Multimodal & agents | Germany | 61.9 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 50.0 | 68.0 | 70.0 | Holding | |
| Sungjin Ahn Associate Professor, KAIST · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) · South Korea | Generative models | South Korea | 61.8 | 68.0 | 55.0 | 55.0 | 58.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Quentin Lhoest Machine Learning Engineer; lead of Datasets · Hugging Face · France | Open-source & tools | France | 61.7 | 48.0 | 58.0 | 54.0 | 76.0 | 78.0 | Rising | |
| Alex Graves Research Scientist (formerly Google DeepMind) · Google DeepMind (alumnus) · United Kingdom | Speech & audio | United Kingdom | 61.6 | 88.0 | 46.0 | 64.0 | 66.0 | 40.0 | Fading | |
| Rodrigo Liang CEO and co-founder, SambaNova Systems · SambaNova Systems · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 61.6 | 46.0 | 70.0 | 60.0 | 56.0 | 78.0 | Rising | |
| Heiga Zen Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · Japan | Speech & audio | Japan | 61.5 | 67.0 | 60.0 | 55.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Andrew Saxe Professor, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL · University College London · United Kingdom | Theory & foundations | United Kingdom | 61.4 | 72.0 | 48.0 | 60.0 | 58.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Seth Lazar Professor of Philosophy; Director, Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab · Australian National University · Australia | AI policy & society | Australia | 61.3 | 56.0 | 40.0 | 76.0 | 66.0 | 74.0 | Rising | |
| Ting-Chun Wang Research Scientist · NVIDIA · United States | Generative models | United States | 61.3 | 72.0 | 64.0 | 48.0 | 48.0 | 70.0 | Waning | |
| Tegan Maharaj Assistant Professor, University of Toronto · University of Toronto · Canada | AI safety & alignment | Canada | 61.1 | 60.0 | 50.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | Holding | |
| Tatsuya Harada Professor, University of Tokyo; Team Director, RIKEN AIP · University of Tokyo / RIKEN AIP · Japan | Computer vision | Japan | 61.0 | 68.0 | 52.0 | 55.0 | 64.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Sunghun Kim President and Founder · Upstage AI · South Korea | Frontier lab leader | South Korea | 61.0 | 54.0 | 64.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 74.0 | Holding | |
| Andrew Brock Research Scientist · Google DeepMind · United Kingdom | Generative models | United Kingdom | 60.9 | 70.0 | 65.0 | 50.0 | 45.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Mike Zheng Shou Assistant Professor · National University of Singapore · Singapore | Multimodal & agents | Singapore | 60.8 | 60.0 | 55.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Cynthia Rudin Professor of Computer Science · Duke University · United States | AI safety & alignment | United States | 60.7 | 65.0 | 48.0 | 70.0 | 62.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Stuart Armstrong Co-founder & Chief Researcher, Aligned AI · Aligned AI · United Kingdom | AI safety & alignment | United Kingdom | 60.6 | 60.0 | 48.0 | 70.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Gu-Yeon Wei Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Harvard University · Harvard University · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 60.5 | 66.0 | 56.0 | 54.0 | 62.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Reiner Pope Co-founder & CEO · MatX · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 60.4 | 50.0 | 70.0 | 54.0 | 48.0 | 80.0 | Holding | |
| Raja Koduri Founder and CEO, Oxmiq Labs; former SVP and Chief Architect, Intel · Oxmiq Labs · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 60.3 | 48.0 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 58.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Andrew Owens Assistant Professor of EECS, University of Michigan · University of Michigan · United States | Computer vision | United States | 59.9 | 70.0 | 52.0 | 54.0 | 56.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Yann Ollivier Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR) · Meta AI (FAIR) · France | Theory & foundations | France | 59.8 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 54.0 | 52.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Jess Whittlestone Head of AI Policy · Centre for Long-Term Resilience · United Kingdom | AI policy & society | United Kingdom | 59.8 | 48.0 | 45.0 | 74.0 | 62.0 | 76.0 | Fading | |
| Jason Lee Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Princeton University · Princeton University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 59.6 | 70.0 | 52.0 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 66.0 | Fading | |
| Volkan Cevher Professor, School of Engineering, EPFL · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) · Switzerland | Theory & foundations | Switzerland | 59.6 | 70.0 | 52.0 | 54.0 | 56.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Suvrit Sra Professor, EECS & Co-founder, Pienso; MIT · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 59.5 | 70.0 | 50.0 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Tinghui Zhou Co-founder · Playground AI · United States | Generative models | United States | 59.4 | 66.0 | 60.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Marc'Aurelio Ranzato Research Scientist Director · Google DeepMind · United States | Deep learning pioneer | United States | 59.4 | 68.0 | 65.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Ljubisa Bajic Co-founder · Tenstorrent · Canada | AI hardware & chips | Canada | 59.4 | 50.0 | 66.0 | 56.0 | 54.0 | 72.0 | Fading | |
| Bo Zhang Academician, Department of Computer Science · Tsinghua University, Institute for Artificial Intelligence · China | Theory & foundations | China | 59.2 | 72.0 | 35.0 | 65.0 | 85.0 | 42.0 | Fading | |
| Rangharajan Venkatesan Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research · NVIDIA · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 59.2 | 60.0 | 64.0 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Philipp Moritz Co-founder · Anyscale · United States | Systems & efficiency | United States | 59.1 | 56.0 | 58.0 | 50.0 | 65.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Dennis Abts Distinguished Research Scientist · NVIDIA · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 59.0 | 52.0 | 66.0 | 55.0 | 54.0 | 68.0 | Fading | |
| Hyun Oh Song Professor, Seoul National University · Seoul National University · South Korea | Systems & efficiency | South Korea | 58.9 | 66.0 | 52.0 | 52.0 | 58.0 | 66.0 | Waning | |
| Hang Zhao Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University · Tsinghua University · China | Speech & audio | China | 58.8 | 66.0 | 56.0 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 70.0 | Fading | |
| Marietje Schaake International Policy Fellow; author · Stanford HAI / Cyber Policy Center · United States | AI policy & society | United States | 58.8 | 42.0 | 38.0 | 82.0 | 65.0 | 76.0 | Holding | |
| Carme Artigas Co-Chair, UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI · United Nations · Spain | AI policy & society | Spain | 58.8 | 38.0 | 42.0 | 76.0 | 70.0 | 78.0 | Holding | |
| Gavin Uberti CEO and co-founder, Etched · Etched · United States | AI hardware & chips | United States | 58.6 | 40.0 | 66.0 | 60.0 | 50.0 | 80.0 | Waning | |
| Niloy Mitra Professor of Computer Graphics · University College London / Adobe Research · United Kingdom | Generative models | United Kingdom | 58.1 | 64.0 | 52.0 | 54.0 | 58.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Nigel Toon CEO and co-founder, Graphcore · Graphcore · United Kingdom | AI hardware & chips | United Kingdom | 57.9 | 46.0 | 62.0 | 62.0 | 58.0 | 64.0 | Fading | |
| Cho-Jui Hsieh Associate Professor of Computer Science · UCLA / Google · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 57.8 | 66.0 | 50.0 | 55.0 | 55.0 | 62.0 | Fading | |
| Geoffrey Gordon Professor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 57.5 | 70.0 | 45.0 | 56.0 | 66.0 | 50.0 | Fading | |
| Joan Bruna Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics · New York University · United States | Theory & foundations | United States | 57.5 | 66.0 | 48.0 | 55.0 | 58.0 | 60.0 | Fading | |
| Sunita Sarawagi Institute Chair Professor, Computer Science · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · India | LLMs & NLP | India | 57.4 | 62.0 | 48.0 | 58.0 | 64.0 | 56.0 | Fading | |
| Aleksandra Faust Senior Staff Research Scientist Director · Google DeepMind · United States | Reinforcement learning | United States | 57.4 | 58.0 | 65.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 62.0 | New |
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