Who are the leading AI researchers?
AI Visibility Ranking
Brands ordered by GenRank score for this question.
DirectionalQuestion-level figures rest on at most 6 answers per brand, so treat them as direction, not a verdict; the category ranking is the number to judge by. Scores are for the week of 2026-11-08.
| Rank | Brand | Named by | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geoffrey Hinton | 6/6 | 79.3 |
| 2 | Yann LeCun | 6/6 | 66.6 |
| 3 | Yoshua Bengio | 5/6 | 64.5 |
| 4 | Ilya Sutskever | 4/6 | 54.1 |
| 5 | Fei-Fei Li | 6/6 | 53.2 |
| 6 | Demis Hassabis | 5/6 | 52.7 |
| 7 | Dario Amodei | 5/6 | 42.7 |
| 8 | Andrew Ng | 4/6 | 35.7 |
| 9 | Noam Shazeer | 2/6 | 27.4 |
| 10 | Stuart Russell | 3/6 | 25.0 |
Sources these answers cited
The sites each surface's answer cited this week. The logos are the surfaces that cited the site.
| Source | Cited by |
|---|---|
| aimagazine.comTop 10: AI Leaders - AI Magazine |   2 surfaces |
| time.commedia · The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025 - TIME | 2 surfaces |
| ai-hive.netAI Experts | leaders in AI research and business | AI HIVE | 1 surfaces |
| aiia-ai.orgtop ai scientist | 1 surfaces |
| anodot.comTop 10 Thought Leaders in AI/ML We’re Following | 1 surfaces |
| archivemacropolo.orgThe Global AI Talent Tracker 3.0 — Where the World's Top AI Researchers ... | 1 surfaces |
| awards.acm.orgAssociation for Computing Machinery |  1 surfaces |
| caniphish.comThe 12 Most Famous AI Researchers In 2026 - caniphish.com | 1 surfaces |
| codecarbon.comTop 9 AI Researchers by Citations and Influence in 2026 | 1 surfaces |
| crfm.stanford.edupublic · Stanford CRFM | 1 surfaces |
| cs.stanford.edupublic · Christopher Manning | Computer Science | 1 surfaces |
| deepmind.googleAlphaGo — Google DeepMind | 1 surfaces |
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Rank trend
Rank trends are drawn once two weekly editions under the same methodology exist. Only the first edition is in so far.