Every era of technology is shaped by a small number of people who see what is possible before the market does, and then do the harder work of building it. The individuals featured here have done exactly that. Their work spans the full stack of artificial intelligence: the research that taught machines to see, the chips that power modern computing, and the models redefining how people work.

We feature them because their paths hold lessons for the founders, operators, and investors we work with: conviction held through long stretches of doubt, the discipline to turn breakthroughs into products and companies, and the judgment to scale when the stakes are highest. These are the people builders look up to, and their decisions will shape the industries, markets, and capital flows of the next decade. They are not affiliated with WEAL28H and do not endorse it, and their inclusion is not a recommendation regarding any security.

  1. 01COMPUTE

    Lisa Su

    Chair and CEO, AMD

    Led AMD's turnaround into a leading force in high-performance and AI computing.

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  2. 02AI FOUNDATIONS

    Fei-Fei Li

    Professor, Stanford University · Co-founder and CEO, World Labs

    Created ImageNet, the dataset that helped launch the modern era of computer vision.

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  3. 03COMPUTE

    Jensen Huang

    Founder, President and CEO, NVIDIA

    Built NVIDIA's GPU platform into the computing foundation of modern AI.

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  4. 04FRONTIER MODELS

    Mira Murati

    Founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab

    Led ChatGPT's development as OpenAI's CTO, then founded Thinking Machines Lab.

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  5. 05FRONTIER MODELS

    Sam Altman

    Co-founder and CEO, OpenAI

    Brought generative AI to hundreds of millions of people through ChatGPT.

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  6. 06FRONTIER MODELS

    Dario Amodei

    Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic, building frontier AI with safety research at its core.

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Titles current as of October 2026.