Time's 2026 Top 100 AI People, Chinese Leaders Included

On August 27, Time magazine released its list of the 100 most influential people in AI for 2026, the fourth year of this list. Well-known figures like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk made the cover.

China had a strong showing, with Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming on the cover, along with ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo, Huawei's He Tingbo, SMIC's Liang Mengsong, BYD's Li Ke, Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, Agibot's Deng Taihua, Zhipu's Zhang Peng, and Shanghai AI Lab's Zhou Bowen.

These honorees span internet, semiconductors, EVs, and AI models, showing China's broad AI progress. The list also highlights the growing diversity in global AI competition.