Since the breakthrough of ChatGPT in 2022, AI has become a mainstream topic.
Companies worldwide are investing billions and reimagining infrastructure to support AI.
Business Insider's AI Power List highlights key figures in AI for 2024, focusing on innovators who are shaping the field.
Key Individuals in AI
Technology Sector
Jonathan Ross: CEO of Groq
Marc Spieler: Senior Managing Director of Energy at Nvidia
Amin Vahdat: VP, GM of ML Systems at Google
Jimmy Ba: Founding Member of xAI and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
Jakub Pachocki: Chief Scientist at OpenAI
Lilian Weng: VP of Research, Safety at OpenAI
Michael Foster: Chief Data Officer at U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)
Elizabeth Kelly: Director of U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, NIST
Arati Prabhakar: Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Business Sector
Suchi Saria: CEO of Bayesian Health, Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Elad Gil: Angel investor
Pat Grady: Partner at Sequoia Capital
Matt McIlwain: Partner at Madrona Ventures
Matt Garman: CEO of AWS
John Giannandrea: SVP of Machine Learning and AI Strategy at Apple
Lila Ibrahim: COO of Google Deepmind
Alexandr Wang: CEO of Scale AI
Trishul Chilimbi: VP of Stores, Foundational AI at Amazon
Mikhail Parakhin: CTO of Shopify
Srini Venkatesan: CTO of PayPal
Sumit Rana: EVP, R&D at Epic Systems
Dr. Shiv Rao: Cofounder and CEO of Abridge
Lifestyle & Social Impact
Sasha Luccioni: AI & Climate Lead at Hugging Face
Lucian Grainge: CEO of Universal Music Group
Holly Herndon: Musician
Ian B. Crosby: Partner at Susman Godfrey
Camilo Fosto & Sebastian Acevedo: Cofounders of MemorableAI and Reddit
Matthieu Lorrain: Creative Lead at Google Deepmind
Matt Steiner: VP Monetization Infrastructure at Meta
Andrej Karpathy: Founder of Eureka Labs
Adeel Khan: CEO of MagicSchool
Luis Von Ahn: CEO of Duolingo
Anima Anandkumar: Professor at CalTech
Josh Parker: Senior Director of Corporate Sustainability at Nvidia
Alex Hanna: Director of Research at DAIR
Benjamin Huynh: Data Scientist and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Tawanna Petty: Tech Fellow at Social Science Research Council
Emma Strubell: Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
Credits
Reporting: Ben Bergman, Sri Muppidi, Darius Rafieyan, Leena Rao, Rebecca Torrence, Nathan McAlone, Lucia Moses, Lara O'Reilly, Dan Whateley, Rosalie Chan, Emma Cosgrove, Eugene Kim, Hugh Langley, Helen Li