Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella has led Microsoft since 2014 and turned it into one of the central players in AI, through its long partnership with OpenAI, its own MAI models, and the Copilot assistants built into Windows and Office.

He is also unusually willing to say awkward things out loud, including that AI labs happily train on everyone else’s work while forbidding others from learning from theirs. Worth remembering that Microsoft has its own interests in making that argument.