Top 100 AI Contributors 2026

Geoffrey Hinton

University of Toronto / Google (emeritus)

Yoshua Bengio

LawZero / Université de Montréal / Mila

Yann LeCun

AMI Labs / NYU

Demis Hassabis

Google DeepMind / Isomorphic Labs

Andrew Ng

DeepLearning.AI / Stanford / Landing AI

Ilya Sutskever

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)

Dario Amodei

Anthropic

Sam Altman

OpenAI

Fei-Fei Li

Stanford / World Labs

Andrej Karpathy

Anthropic / Eureka Labs (paused)

Jensen Huang

NVIDIA

Ian Goodfellow

Google DeepMind

Jeff Dean

Google DeepMind

Noam Shazeer

OpenAI

Alec Radford

Independent / Thinking Machines Lab (adviser)

Jürgen Schmidhuber

KAUST / IDSIA

Stuart Russell

UC Berkeley / CHAI

Pieter Abbeel

UC Berkeley / Amazon

David Silver

Ineffable Intelligence (founder)

Oriol Vinyals

Google DeepMind

Percy Liang

Stanford / Together AI

Sebastian Thrun

Sage AI Labs / Stanford

Jeremy Howard

answer.ai / fast.ai

Kai-Fu Lee

Sinovation Ventures / 01.AI

Timnit Gebru

DAIR Institute

John Schulman

Thinking Machines Lab

Margaret Mitchell

Hugging Face

Clément Delangue

Hugging Face

Satya Nadella

Microsoft

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta

Sundar Pichai

Google / Alphabet

Elon Musk

xAI / Tesla / SpaceX

Michael I. Jordan

UC Berkeley

Christopher Manning

Stanford NLP Group

John Hopfield

Princeton University (emeritus)

Mustafa Suleyman

Microsoft AI

Daniela Amodei

Anthropic

Alexandr Wang

Meta Superintelligence Labs / Scale AI (founder)

Cassie Kozyrkov

Kozyr

Eliezer Yudkowsky

MIRI

Aidan Gomez

Cohere

Arthur Mensch

Mistral AI

Lex Fridman

MIT / Lex Fridman Podcast

Mira Murati

Thinking Machines Lab

Ashish Vaswani

NVIDIA / Essential AI (founder)

Lilian Weng

Independent

Quoc V. Le

Google DeepMind

Sergey Levine

UC Berkeley / Physical Intelligence

Chelsea Finn

Stanford / Physical Intelligence

Sara Hooker

Adaption Labs

Chris Olah

Anthropic

Douwe Kiela

Google DeepMind / Contextual AI (founder)

Daphne Koller

insitro

Gary Marcus

Independent / NYU (emeritus)

Yejin Choi

Stanford HAI / NVIDIA

Kaiming He

MIT / Google DeepMind

Ross Girshick

Anthropic

Aravind Srinivas

Perplexity AI

Liang Wenfeng

DeepSeek

Robin Li

Baidu

Zhilin Yang

Moonshot AI / Kimi

Yi Zeng

Chinese Academy of Sciences / BAISI

Raia Hadsell

Google DeepMind

Daniela Rus

MIT CSAIL

Jitendra Malik

UC Berkeley / Amazon

Sébastien Bubeck

OpenAI

Arvind Narayanan

Princeton University

Jason Wei

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Wang Xingxing

Unitree Robotics

Pascale Fung

AMI Labs / HKUST

Jared Kaplan

Anthropic

Harrison Chase

LangChain

Bernhard Schölkopf

ELLIS Institute Tübingen / Max Planck

Jan Leike

Anthropic

Jakub Pachocki

OpenAI

Tristan Harris

Center for Humane Technology

Abeba Birhane

Trinity College Dublin / AI Accountability Lab

Shengjia Zhao

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Sasha Luccioni

Sustainable AI Group

Nathan Lambert

Independent / Interconnects

Tri Dao

Together AI / Princeton

Guillaume Lample

Mistral AI

Hugo Touvron

Meta AI (FAIR)

Mark Chen

OpenAI

Tom Brown

Anthropic

Rene Haas

Arm / SoftBank Group International

Bill Dally

NVIDIA / Stanford

Amnon Shashua

Mobileye / Hebrew University

Alexandr Zhavoronkov

Insilico Medicine

Pushmeet Kohli

Google DeepMind

François Chollet

Ndea / ARC Prize Foundation

Aleksander Mądry

MIT

Dawn Song

UC Berkeley / Oasis Labs

Anca Dragan

Google DeepMind

Thomas Wolf

Hugging Face

Kyunghyun Cho

NYU

Shakir Mohamed

Google DeepMind

Emily Bender

University of Washington

Albert Gu

CMU / Cartesia

Joelle Pineau

Cohere / McGill