Insider’s list of top AI influencers in enterprise technology.
Cloud companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have been building AI offerings for years, and now they are opening the door to generative AI.
AI and cloud have long been top priorities for customers‘ technology needs. This year, generative AI took hold of the world.
Microsoft got a head start with its multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the maker of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud soon followed suit with their own investments and AI products — Google invested in the AI startup Anthropic. While AWS has long dominated the cloud industry, now it’s finding playing catch-up in the AI sector.
Analysts say generative AI could drive cloud adoption. At the same time, it’s too early for AI to drive up cloud sales for companies other than Microsoft. Cloud giants such as Microsoft and other enterprise technology companies including Databricks are figuring out how customers can best use generative AI.
Insider identified the top 100 people who make AI intelligent. Here are our picks for enterprise technology.Dario Amodei, Anthropic
Amodei is a cofounder and CEO of Anthropic, an AI startup in which Amazon recently invested more than $1 billion. Amodei was the VP of research at OpenAI until he left in late 2020 to build „safer AI“ and cofounded the rival startup. Earlier this year, Anthropic released Claude 2, a chatbot the company’s huge foundation model powers. Google is also an Anthropic investor.Greg Brockman, OpenAI
Brockman is the president, chair, and cofounder of OpenAI. He was the CTO of Stripe until he left to start the AI company in 2015 with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others. In late 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm and launched the current generative-AI boom. Earlier this year, it released GPT-4, considered the most powerful AI model so far. The company is valued at a staggering $90 billion, according to a September Wall Street Journal report.Clem Delangue, Hugging Face
Delangue wants to make AI accessible to every company. Delangue is the cofounder and CEO of Hugging Face, an open-source platform where scientists, researchers, and engineers build, train, and deploy AI models. „If we don’t support openness, open science, and open-source AI, just a few companies will be able to do it,“ Delangue told Business Insider. He wants to follow in the footsteps of companies such as Red Hat by making open-source AI a profitable endeavor. Hugging Face’s platform is mostly free but has a paid premium version, which large companies primarily use. Investors include Amazon, Google, Nvidia, IBM, and Salesforce. It was most recently at a $4.5 billion valuation.Aidan Gomez, Cohere
Gomez was a research intern at Google Brain in 2017 when he coauthored a paper on training AI models to better understand language. That paper introduced the revolutionary Transformer architecture, the basis for the generative-AI technology storming the business world today, including Generative Pre-trained Transformers, or GPT. In 2019, Gomez cofounded Cohere, which has become a leading rival of OpenAI, especially for enterprise companies because it promises to keep their data secure.
