2025 TIME100 AI: The 100 most influential names in the field of artificial intelligence have been listed! There's a Turk on the list.
Artificial intelligence is no longer just shaping the technology agenda, but also shaping numerous areas from art and culture to the economy. In this context, the US-based weekly news magazine TIME has published a significant study on the AI sector.
TIME ANNOUNCES THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL NAMES IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE , ONE OF WHICH ARE TURKSAccording to a report in Werbtekno, the magazine has published a new list called "2025 TIME100 AI." This list includes the 100 most influential people working in the artificial intelligence sector in 2025. Moreover, one of the names on the list is Turkish.
The 2025 TIME100 AI list includes tech influencers like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang (CEO of NVIDIA), Andy Jassy (CEO of Amazon), and Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic). The only Turk on the list is new media artist Refik Anadol .
(New media artist Refik Anadol)
The cover design for the special issue featuring the 2025 TIME100 AI list was created by Refik Anadol. According to Anadolu Agency (AA), Anadol trained his studio's AI system with an archive of more than 5,000 magazine covers spanning over 100 years.
Anadol also received support from Nvidia and Google Cloud on the project. Meta's Llama and Google's Gemini models were also used in some stages of the system.
Refik Anadol and his team analyzed all the covers of TIME magazine by extracting thematic and historical data and used this data to run the artificial intelligence system in two different modes titled "Future cover" and "Archive dream".
The TIME cover was created in "archive dream" mode, blending the magazine's century-long archive with Anadol's interpretation. The main cover image was generated by AI, while details such as the text, the exhibition context, and the Anadol silhouette added for scale were determined by human guidance. The cover can be viewed online as a continuous video loop.
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