Time Magazine on Thursday named "Architects of AI" as the 2025 Person of the Year, selecting the “individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI.”

"2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back," Time Magazine posted on X. "For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year."

One of the cover images for the magazine resembles the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” 1930s photograph, showing eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google’s DeepMind division CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year, The Associated Press reported.

“This was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back or opting out,” Time Magazine editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote.

The magazine noted that CEOs of AI companies attended President Trump’s inauguration this year at the Capitol as a sign of the industry's prominence.

Last year, Trump was named the magazine's person of the year, after winning the presidential election a second time, succeeding Taylor Swift, who was the 2023 person of the year.

The magazine’s person of the year selection dates back to 1927, when its editors choose the person they say shaped headlines the most over the previous 12 months.