Authors: XHunt Data & Algorithm Team, Amelia, Denise, Biteye Content Team This time, we won't look at the number of followers, traffic, or media exposure. Ask onlyAuthors: XHunt Data & Algorithm Team, Amelia, Denise, Biteye Content Team This time, we won't look at the number of followers, traffic, or media exposure. Ask only

Global AI Social Influence Top 100 Final List

2026/03/04 09:12
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Authors: XHunt Data & Algorithm Team, Amelia, Denise, Biteye Content Team

This time, we won't look at the number of followers, traffic, or media exposure.

Global AI Social Influence Top 100 Final List

Ask only one question:

Who is being simultaneously monitored by the world's most critical AI decision-makers?

We selected the founders, chief scientists, and product managers of core labs such as OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic as "seed nodes," and through reverse penetration of social graphs, found the accounts they followed most frequently.

The results are quite interesting: the top spots weren't held by big investors, but by people who were actually building things.

Full list of Top 100

(Note: The ranking is based on the number of times the account is followed by Top AI leaders)

  1. @karpathy - Andrej Karpathy - Former Tesla AI Director, Founding Member of OpenAI, Top AI Technical Mentor

  2. @sama - Sam Altman - CEO of OpenAI, a key driver of the global AI wave

  3. @ylecun - Yann LeCun - Former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award winner, one of the three giants of deep learning

  4. @gdb - Greg Brockman - Co-founder and President of OpenAI, a top engineering expert

  5. @OfficialLoganK - Logan Kilpatrick - Head of Developer Relations at Google, key driver of the Gemini ecosystem

  6. @JeffDean - Jeff Dean - Chief Scientist at Google, Founder of Google Brain, and a leading expert in distributed systems.

  7. @demishassabis - Demis Hassabis - CEO of Google DeepMind, Nobel laureate

  8. @elonmusk - Elon Musk - Founder of xAI, CEO of Tesla & SpaceX, and a leading figure in the tech world.

  9. @ilyasut - Ilya Sutskever - Founder of SSI, former Chief Scientist of OpenAI, and a pioneer of deep learning.

  10. @OpenAI - OpenAI - Official OpenAI account, parent company of ChatGPT and Sora

  11. @miramurati - Mira Murati - Former CTO of OpenAI, Head of Product Implementation at ChatGPT

  12. @AndrewYNg - Andrew Ng - Founder of Coursera, a leading figure in AI education

  13. @AnthropicAI - Anthropic - Anthropic official account, Claude model developer, focusing on AI security.

  14. @alexandr_wang - Alexandr Wang - Founder of Scale AI, Head of a Data Labeling Empire

  15. @AravSrinivas - Aravind Srinivas - CEO of Perplexity AI, AI Search Pioneer

  16. @DrJimFan - Jim Fan - Director of NVIDIA Robotics Lab, Embodied Intelligence Expert

  17. @levie - Aaron Levie - CEO of Box, observer of enterprise AI applications

  18. @steipete - Peter Steinberger - Founder of OpenClaw, builder of the local AI agent ecosystem

  19. @deedydas - Deedy Das - Partner at Menlo Ventures, deeply involved in Anthropic investments

  20. @polynoamial - Noam Brown - OpenAI Researcher, core contributor to the O1 model

  21. @jackclarkSF - Jack Clark - Co-founder of Anthropic, Co-Director of AI Index

  22. @_akhaliq - AK - Member of Hugging Face, the world's fastest AI paper abstract broadcaster

  23. @emollick - Ethan Mollick - Wharton School Professor, a leading expert in AI business applications and innovation.

  24. @alexalbert__ - Alex Albert - Anthropic Developer Relations, Claude, Tip Expert

  25. @lulumeservey - Lulu Cheng Meservey - Founder and Senior Communications Officer at Rostra, specializing in AI brand storytelling

  26. @AIatMeta - AI at Meta - Meta AI official account, Llama open-source model release source

  27. @ClementDelangue - Clem Delangue - CEO of Hugging Face, leader of the open source community

  28. @sriramk - Sriram Krishnan - Former partner at a16z, senior AI policy advisor at the White House, and host of a technology podcast.

  29. @romainhuet - Romain Huet - OpenAI Developer Experience Lead, API Ecosystem Promoter

  30. @AmandaAskell - Amanda Askell - Chief Philosopher at Anthropic, focusing on AI alignment and technology ethics research.

  31. @mustafasuleyman - Mustafa Suleyman - Microsoft AI CEO, DeepMind co-founder

  32. @sundarpichai - Sundar Pichai - CEO of Google and Alphabet, leader in AI transformation

  33. @bcherny - Boris Cherny - Anthropic Engineer, Claude Code Developer

  34. @goodside - Riley Goodside - Scale AI Prompt Engineer, Prompt Master

  35. @EMostaque - Emad Mostaque - Founder of Stability AI, advocate for open-source AI

  36. @hardmaru - Hardmaru - Sakana AI co-founder, pioneer of generative art

  37. @GoogleDeepMind - Google DeepMind - Official Google DeepMind website, the forefront of AGI exploration.

  38. @ibab - Igor Babuschkin - Co-founder of xAI, former DeepMind researcher

  39. @OriolVinyalsML - Oriol Vinyals - VP of Research, Co-Head of Gemini at DeepMind

  40. @DarioAmodei - Dario Amodei - CEO of Anthropic, key decision-maker for the Claude model

  41. @_sholtodouglas - Sholto Douglas - Anthropic Researcher, former DeepMind RL Expert

  42. @zoink - Dylan Field - CEO of Figma, a driving force behind the AI-driven transformation of design tools

  43. @drfeifei - Fei-Fei Li - Stanford Professor, ImageNet Creator, Godmother of AI Vision

  44. @soumithchintala - Soumith Chintala - Father of PyTorch, founder of open-source deep learning

  45. @jeremyphoward - Jeremy Howard - Founder of fast.ai , an educator who has demystified deep learning.

  46. @mntruell - Michael Truell - CEO of Cursor, a leader in AI code editors

  47. @fchollet - François Chollet - Author of Keras, former senior researcher at Google, creator of Keras and ARC-AGI

  48. @woj_zaremba - Wojciech Zaremba - Co-founder and Core Researcher of OpenAI

  49. @tbpn - TBPN - The Big Post-Normal, a deep-dive tech podcast focusing on the AI ​​venture capital community.

  50. @claudeai - Claude - Claude's official account, Anthropic's AI assistant.

  51. @paulg - Paul Graham - Founder of YC, godfather of startups

  52. @joannejang - Joanne Jang - Head of Model Behavior at OpenAI

  53. @Miles_Brundage - Miles Brundage - Former Head of Policy Research at OpenAI

  54. @dylan522p - Dylan Patel - Founder of SemiAnalysis, AI Chip and Computing Analyst

  55. @rowancheung - Rowan Cheung - Founder of The Rundown AI, a prominent AI news influencer

  56. @arthurmensch - Arthur Mensch - CEO of Mistral AI, a leading figure in European AI.

  57. @karinanguyen_ - Karina Nguyen - Anthropic Product Expert, former OpenAI Researcher

  58. @willdepue - Will Depue - OpenAI Applications Researcher, Sora Team Member

  59. @_jasonwei - Jason Wei - Meta Researcher, originator of the concept of CoT (Concept of Chain of Thought).

  60. @bradlightcap - Brad Lightcap - COO and Head of Commercialization at OpenAI

  61. @erikbryn - Erik Brynjolfsson - Director of HAI, Stanford University, Digital Economist

  62. @aidan_mclau - Aidan McLaughlin - Research Scientist at OpenAI

  63. @MillionInt - Jerry Tworek - Former VP of Reinforcement Learning at OpenAI

  64. @saranormous - Sarah Guo - Founder of Conviction, a well-known investor in the AI ​​sector

  65. @theo - Theo - Founder of T3.gg , renowned full-stack developer and YouTuber

  66. @SebastienBubeck - Sebastien Bubeck - OpenAI Researcher, former Vice President and Distinguished Scientist of Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, and former Microsoft Fields Medal winner.

  67. @BorisMPower - Boris Power - Head of Applied Research at OpenAI

  68. @goodfellow_ian - Ian Goodfellow - Senior Scientist at DeepMind, father of GANs, author of classic deep learning textbooks

  69. @GavinSBaker - Gavin Baker - CIO of Atreides Management, technology investor

  70. @Teknium - Co-founder of Teknium - Nous Research, expert in creating ultra-fine-tuned open-source models.

  71. @thsottiaux - Tibo - Founder of Tweet Hunter, AI Social Growth Expert

  72. @TheRealAdamG - Adam.GPT - Head of OpenAI Launch Marketing (GTM)

  73. @ShaneLegg - Shane Legg - Chief AGI Scientist & Co-founder at Google DeepMind

  74. @bobmcgrewai - Bob McGrew - Former VP of Research at OpenAI

  75. @shivon - Shivon Zilis - Executive at Neuralink, AI and Biointelligence Researcher

  76. @npew - Peter Welinder - VP of Product Development at OpenAI

  77. @eshear - Emmett Shear - Former CEO of Twitch, and former interim CEO of OpenAI

  78. @btaylor - Bret Taylor - Co-founder of Sierra, Chairman of the Board of OpenAI

  79. @jaltma - Jack Altman - Partner at Benchmark, Founder of Alt

  80. @reidhoffman - Reid Hoffman - Founder of LinkedIn, Co-founder of Inflection AI

  81. @tobi - Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify, a driving force behind AI applications in e-commerce.

  82. @lexfridman - Lex Fridman - Top podcast host, in-depth interviews with AI giants

  83. @natfriedman - Nat Friedman - Former CEO of GitHub, top AI investor

  84. @gregisenberg - Greg Isenberg - CEO of Late Checkout, AI Community Design Expert

  85. @mckaywrigley - McKay Wrigley - Leading expert in AI programming tutorials, founder of Takeoff AI

  86. @janleike - Jan Leike - Head of Alignment at Anthropic, former OpenAI Super Alignment Core

  87. @amasad - Amjad Masad - CEO of Replit, AI programming promoter

  88. @thedankoe - Dan Koe - Focusing on deep work and personal branding in the AI ​​era

  89. @huggingface - Hugging Face - The official Hugging Face GitHub repository for AI, a hub for open-source models.

  90. @Suhail - Suhail Doshi - Founder of Mixpanel, top AI developer tools investor

  91. @mattshumer_ - Matt Shumer - CEO of HyperWrite, focusing on AI-powered writing and office automation.

  92. @awilkinson - Andrew Wilkinson - Founder of Tiny, seasoned technology investor

  93. @balajis - Balaji Srinivasan - Former CTO of Coinbase, originator of the concept of a network nation

  94. @vkhosla - Vinod Khosla - Founder of Khosla Ventures, Early Investor in OpenAI

  95. @simonw - Simon Willison - Co-creator of the Django framework, author of Datasette

  96. @DavidSacks - David Sacks - Founder of Craft Ventures, seasoned investor in the AI ​​sector

  97. @Jason - Jason Calacanis - Renowned angel investor and All-In podcast host

  98. @BillGates - Bill Gates - Founder of Microsoft, focused on the social impact of AI

  99. @rileybrown - Riley Brown - AI video creation expert, promoting new AI creation tools

  100. @antonosika - Anton Osika - Founder of Lovable, a pioneer in GPT-4 automated programming.

Why is this list worth saving?

  1. Noise reduction: We filtered out 90% of the "AI marketing accounts," leaving only those who actually write code, make decisions, and invest in projects.

  2. Watch the trends: When Karpathy, Sama, and LeCun all follow the same person (like @_akhaliq ), every tweet that person posts could be the next Alpha.

  3. Find tools: The list includes many independent developers like @mckaywrigley , who are frontline practitioners in the implementation of AI applications.

suggestion:

  1. Follow this list.

  2. I brush for 10 minutes every morning.

  3. Say goodbye to information anxiety, and you will see the highest level of truth.

After all, in this era, your following list defines the boundaries of your knowledge.

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