Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su Left Off TIME's 2026 AI 100 List

The list also includes celebrities Ben Affleck and Paris Hilton alongside major tech executives and policymakers. Among the other honorees are Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, and Satya Nadella. Parker's profile appears under the Thinkers category and focuses on data center energy and water consumption, Nvidia's tripling of Scope 3 emissions in two years, and the Rubin platform's shift to 100% liquid cooling. "Nvidia is at the center of the AI revolution," Parker told TIME.

TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote in an accompanying article that the selection was led by editor Ayesha Javed and that the 100 honorees represent the year's "key storylines and who, in our opinion, are having the most influence in driving these developments." The list, now in its fourth year, appears to focus especially on featuring new additions to TIME's community of AI leaders, Tom's Hardware notes.

Lisa Su's omission is marked by her strong track record with TIME. The magazine named her its 2024 CEO of the Year, put her on the 2024 AI list and the main TIME100 in 2025, and included her among December's Architects of AI. Huang and Su's absence stands out given that the list includes Nvidia's HBM supplier, two of its biggest GPU cloud customers, its custom-accelerator rivals, and China, which is trying and so far struggling to replace Nvidia altogether, according to Tom's Hardware.