Time magazine yesterday named eight key architects of artificial intelligence (AI) its Person of the Year, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su (蘇姿丰).
The cover image pays homage to the 1932 photograph “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” depicting eight key figures of AI development sitting on a steel beam high in the sky.
In addition to Huang and Su, both Taiwanese-American, it pictures Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li (李飛飛).
Photo: Screen grab from Time magazine’s Web site
“Huang and other tech titans grabbed the wheel of history, developing technology and making decisions that are reshaping the information landscape, the climate, and our livelihoods,” Time magazine wrote.
Huang, now 62 years old and the eighth richest person in the world, saw his company rise from relative obscurity to “the most valuable company in the world, thanks to a near-monopoly on the advanced chips powering an AI boom,” it said.
Nvidia is not only a corporate giant, but “has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics,” the article said, adding that Huang often talks with US President Donald Trump, who recently told him: “You’re taking over the world, Jensen.”
Su said in the article that, “2025 is the year that AI became really productive for enterprises,” with the rise of coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, which are now used across AI companies.
In an interview with Time in November, Huang said: “Every industry needs [AI], every company uses it, and every nation needs to build it.”
That was two days after Nvidia became the world’s first US$5 trillion company, surpassing Wall Street’s earnings expectations.
While skeptics suspect AI could be a bubble and warn of its dangers, the revolution’s leaders see it as “the dawn of a new era of abundance,” Time wrote.
“There’s a belief that the world’s GDP is somehow limited at US$100 trillion,” Huang said in the article. “AI is going to cause that US$100 trillion to become US$500 trillion.”
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