Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming Named to TIME's 2026 AI 100 List
TIME magazine has named Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming to its 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI, in the "AI Leaders" category. The list, unveiled on August 27, 2026, places Wu alongside SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman on the cover. Stanford professor and World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li also made the list, with the two being the only Chinese faces on the cover.
TIME magazine has released its 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in global AI, naming Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming in the "AI Leaders" category. The list was unveiled on August 27, 2026, and features Wu alongside SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in the cover's central position. Stanford professor and World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li also made the list, with the two being the only Chinese faces on the cover.
In its citation, TIME noted that since Jack Ma founded Alibaba in 1999, the company's role has evolved from an online trading platform and digital payments provider to a logistics innovator. Under Wu's leadership, Alibaba is pushing a transformation aimed at becoming a global leader in open-source AI.
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