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TIME100 AI 2025: Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S has been ranked among the top 100 tech CEOs founders and top executives who have contributed the most in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the TIME magazines annual TIME100 AI 2025 list with major names such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg Nvidia boss Jensen Huang and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ranking among the top 10. Who topped the TIME100 AI 2025 list? Surprisingly the coveted is not topped by any of the bigwigs including Musk Zuckerberg Sam Altman or Jensen but the honor is bestowed upon Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. Today TIME reveals the third annual TIME100 AI list recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. Our editors and reporters spent months researching candidates for the list including soliciting recommendations from industry leaders and dozens of expert sources. The result is a list of 100 leaders innovators shapers and thinkers who are building our AI future the TIME magazine said. The list was launched in 2023 when OpenAI launched ChatGPT marking a moment when many became aware of the AI’s potential to compete with and exceed the capabilities of humans writes TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs. Our aim was to show how the direction AI travels will be determined not by machines but by people—innovators advocates artists and everyone with a stake in the future of this technology.” Check out the top 10 names on the TIME100 AI 2025 list: Matthew Prince (Co-founder and CEO Cloudflare) Elon Musk (Founder xAI) Sam Altman (CEO OpenAI Jensen Huang (CEO Nvidia) Fidji Simo (CEO of Applications OpenAI) Mark Zuckerberg (Founder and CEO Meta) Andy Jassy (President & CEO Amazon) Allie K. Miller (CEO Open Machine) Dario Amodei (CEO Anthropic) Strive Masiyiwa (Founder and Executive Chairman Cassava Technologies) Where is Cognizant CEO ranked? The TIME magazine list has ranked Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S among top industry leaders whose contributions are shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Other top names in the list include Anthropogenic CEO Dario Amodei Cristiano Amon (President & CEO Qualcomm) Liang Wenfeng (CEO DeepSeek) Alexandr Wang & Nat Friedman (Superintelligent Lab Co-Leads Meta)  CC Wei (Chairman & CEO TSMC) and Steve Huffman the Co-founder and CEO of Reddit.