Top 100 AI Contributors 2026

Geoffrey Hinton

University of Toronto / Google (emeritus)

Yoshua Bengio

Mila / Université de Montréal

Yann LeCun

Meta AI / 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

Eureka Labs (founder)

Jensen Huang

NVIDIA

Ian Goodfellow

Google DeepMind

Jeff Dean

Google DeepMind

Noam Shazeer

Google DeepMind

Alec Radford

OpenAI

Jürgen Schmidhuber

KAUST / IDSIA

Stuart Russell

UC Berkeley / CHAI

Pieter Abbeel

UC Berkeley / Covariant

David Silver

Ineffable Intelligence (founder)

Oriol Vinyals

Google DeepMind

Percy Liang

Stanford / Together AI

Sebastian Thrun

Kitty Hawk / Stanford

Jeremy Howard

answer.ai / fast.ai

Kai-Fu Lee

Sinovation Ventures / 01.AI

Timnit Gebru

DAIR Institute

John Schulman

Anthropic (formerly OpenAI)

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

Scale AI

Cassie Kozyrkov

Google / Data Scientific

Eliezer Yudkowsky

MIRI

Aidan Gomez

Cohere

Arthur Mensch

Mistral AI

Lex Fridman

MIT / Lex Fridman Podcast

Mira Murati

Thinking Machines Lab

Ashish Vaswani

Essential AI

Lilian Weng

OpenAI

Quoc V. Le

Google DeepMind

Sergey Levine

UC Berkeley

Chelsea Finn

Stanford / Physical Intelligence

Sara Hooker

Cohere for AI

Chris Olah

Anthropic

Douwe Kiela

Contextual AI

Daphne Koller

insitro

Gary Marcus

Independent / NYU (emeritus)

Yejin Choi

UW / Allen AI

Kaiming He

MIT

Ross Girshick

Meta AI (FAIR)

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 / Meta AI

Sébastien Bubeck

OpenAI

Arvind Narayanan

Princeton University

Jason Wei

OpenAI

Richard Socher

You.com

Pascale Fung

HKUST / EMNLP

Oren Etzioni

AI2 (former) / TrueMedia.org

Harrison Chase

LangChain

Bernhard Schölkopf

Max Planck Institute / ETH Zürich

Jan Leike

Anthropic

Aza Raskin

Center for Humane Technology

Tristan Harris

Center for Humane Technology

Abeba Birhane

Trinity College Dublin / Mozilla

Connor Leahy

Conjecture

Sasha Luccioni

Hugging Face

Nathan Lambert

Allen AI / RLHF Blog

Tri Dao

Together AI / Princeton

Guillaume Lample

Meta AI (FAIR)

Hugo Touvron

Meta AI (FAIR)

Emad Mostaque

Stability AI (founder)

Tom Brown

Independent

Rene Haas

Arm

Bill Dally

NVIDIA / Stanford

Amnon Shashua

Mobileye / Hebrew University

Alexandr Zhavoronkov

Insilico Medicine

Pushmeet Kohli

Google DeepMind

François Chollet

Google / ARC Prize

Aleksander Mądry

MIT

Dawn Song

UC Berkeley / Oasis Labs

Anca Dragan

Google DeepMind

Thomas Wolf

Hugging Face

Kyunghyun Cho

NYU / Genentech

Shakir Mohamed

Google DeepMind

Emily Bender

University of Washington

Albert Gu

CMU / Cartesia

Joelle Pineau

Meta AI (FAIR) / McGill