On 28 August 2025, New York (the United States of America, USA)-based TIME, a 102-year-old global media brand, released its third annual TIME100 AI list, recognising the 100 most influential individuals in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape around the world. The list highlights Innovators, Leaders, Shapers, and Thinkers shaping AI’s future.
- Indian-origin Ravi Kumar Singisetti, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, a Teaneck, New Jersey (USA)-based Information Technology (IT) Company, has been named to the 2025 TIME 100 AI list (under Leaders).
Note: The TIME100 AI list was first launched in 2023, following the global recognition of AI after OpenAI released Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT).
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- What? 2025 TIME100 World’s Most Influential People in AICategories: Innovators, Leaders, Shapers, and Thinkers
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- Position: CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
About Ravi Kumar Singisetti: Ravi Kumar Singisetti was appointed CEO of Cognizant in January 2023 and joined the board of directors for the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) in 2024.
- He began his career as a nuclear scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) of India.
Award: In 2025, he was honoured with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), the highest accolade awarded by the Government of India (GoI) for overseas Indians.
- PBSA is conferred by the President of India as a part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Conventions organized annually since 2003.
2025 TIME100 AI List
From the Past: Only 16 honourees from previous editions returned in 2025.
Others Featured: Notable honourees who joined the TIME100 AI community in 2025 include:
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
- Elon Musk, Founder of xAI
- Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank
- Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, European Commission); and
- David Sacks (White House AI and Crypto czar).
vi.The 2025 list also features advocates and critics, including Pope Leo XIV (Leader, Catholic Church in Vatican City), Yoshua Bengio (Co-president and scientific director, LawZero), and Clara Chappaz (Minister Delegate of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies, France).
Cover Story: The 2025 TIME100 AI issue features a worldwide cover designed by Refik Anadol, a Turkish American media artist and the Director and co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio (RAS) in Los Angeles, California (USA).
- Refik Anadol has also been featured on the list (under Innovators), exploring AI’s creative possibilities.
TIME’s AI Initiatives:
TIME is deepening its AI coverage through new initiatives, including the “In the Loop” newsletter, authored by Perrigo and Andrew R. Chow.
- TIME, in partnership with Scale AI, launched the first AI audio briefings in June 2025.
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