Based on one of TIME’s two cover photos, some of those people appear to be Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Tesla’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, AMD’s Lisa Su, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and World Labs’s Fei-Fei Li — all individuals who raced “both beside and against each other.”
It’s never been about heroes or people who made a positive difference. It’s not a prize. It’s simply those who were major news-makers in that year.
Which it seems most people have forgotten. I remember when Trump got put on it last year and everyone was raging.