The architects of Artificial Intelligence Time person of the year

The prestigious American magazine has announced its double end-of-year cover, one with the initials AI behind scaffolding and the second with eight of the most important super-managers of American tech, sitting on the arm of a crane as in the iconic photo ‘Lunch on top of a skyscraper’ taken in 1932 by Charles Ebbets of the workers working on the construction of Rockefeller Center.

From left to right they recognize each other Mark Zuckerberg on Meta, Lisa Su di Amd, Elon Musk of Tesla, Gen-Hsun Husun ​​Huson on Nvidia, Sam Altman at OpenAi, Demis Hassabis at Google DeepMind, Dario Amodei of Antropic and Fei-Fei Lithe creator of ImageNet.

2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back.

For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the… pic.twitter.com/mEIKRiZfLo

— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2025