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TIME names the Architects of AI its Person of the Year
The people building AI became the year's defining story in the eyes of TIME
Key facts
- Date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Era
- The agentic age
- Interest
- Culture
- Threads
- Labs & people
- Announced
- 11 December 2025
- Pictured
- Huang, Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, Su, Amodei, Hassabis, Li
- Issue
- 29 December 2025 issue, on newsstands from 19 December
TIME named "The Architects of AI" its 2025 Person of the Year, a group honour for the leaders driving the AI build-out. One of its two covers featured Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Fei-Fei Li. TIME wrote that the debate about using AI responsibly had given way to a sprint to deploy it.
Sources
- TIME, Why the Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year, 2025-12-11
- TIME via PR Newswire, TIME Names the 2025 TIME Person of the Year: The Architects of AI, 2025-12-11
- TechCrunch, TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year, 2025-12-11