Mindshare · PeopleUpdated 2026-10-04 · 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 | 32.7% | -682 bps | 60 |
| 2▲1 | Dario Amodei CEO, Anthropic | 21.8% | +210 bps | 23 |
| 3▼1 | Jensen Huang CEO, NVIDIA | 11.8% | -1206 bps | 15 |
| 4▲7 | Fei-Fei Li AI researcher | 10.3% | +929 bps | 14 |
| 5▲3 | Yann LeCun AI researcher | 7.24% | +590 bps | 16 |
| 6▲1 | Demis Hassabis CEO, Google DeepMind | 4.66% | +308 bps | 8 |
| 7▼3 | Geoffrey Hinton AI researcher | 4.62% | -15 bps | 7 |
| 8▼3 | Ilya Sutskever Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence | 2.07% | -23 bps | 1 |
| 9 | Andrej Karpathy AI researcher, educator | 2.03% | +82 bps | 3 |
| 10 | Simon Willison Developer, writer | 0.86% | -20 bps | 2 |
| 11▲2 | Mira Murati CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 0.82% | -3 bps | 0 |
| 12 | Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI | 0.78% | -13 bps | 0 |
| 13▼7 | Arthur Mensch CEO, Mistral AI | 0.21% | -150 bps | 0 |
| 14 | Aidan Gomez CEO, Cohere | 0.12% | -7 bps | 0 |
| 15 | Clem Delangue CEO, Hugging Face | 0.00% | -1 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.