Mindshare · PeopleUpdated 2026-10-25 · 16 tracked · history since 2026-07-05
AI People Mindshare · Tracked Daily
Which people in AI draw the most attention, blending Hacker News mentions and Wikipedia pageviews. Tracked daily.
| # | Name | Share | 7d | HN 7d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 49.1% | +672 bps | 30 |
| 2 | Dario Amodei CEO, Anthropic | 13.7% | -167 bps | 4 |
| 3▲6 | Demis Hassabis CEO, Google DeepMind | 9.84% | +789 bps | 5 |
| 4▼1 | Jensen Huang CEO, NVIDIA | 9.70% | -243 bps | 1 |
| 5▲6 | Yann LeCun AI researcher | 5.23% | +405 bps | 3 |
| 6 | Andrej Karpathy AI researcher, educator | 3.71% | -3 bps | 2 |
| 7▲1 | Ilya Sutskever Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence | 3.18% | +79 bps | 1 |
| 8▼4 | Geoffrey Hinton AI researcher | 2.43% | -705 bps | 0 |
| 9▲1 | Mira Murati CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 1.10% | -13 bps | 0 |
| 10▲2 | Fei-Fei Li AI researcher | 0.82% | -21 bps | 0 |
| 11▼4 | Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI | 0.66% | -224 bps | 0 |
| 12▲1 | Arthur Mensch CEO, Mistral AI | 0.29% | +1 bps | 0 |
| 13▲1 | Aidan Gomez CEO, Cohere | 0.15% | -6 bps | 0 |
| 14▼9 | Simon Willison Developer, writer | 0.08% | -565 bps | 0 |
| 15 | Clem Delangue CEO, Hugging Face | 0.01% | 0 bps | 0 |
| 16 | Georgi Gerganov Creator, llama.cpp | 0.00% | 0 bps | 0 |
Share · % of this list's attention over the trailing 7 days. Index · share relative to the leader (100). Sources · Hacker News (60%) · Wikipedia pageviews (40%). Methodology
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Each tracked person gets a share of the attention across its list over the trailing 7 days. Sources: Hacker News (60%), Wikipedia pageviews (40%). Hacker News mentions count stories and comments containing the exact name. Full details on the methodology page.