Original author: XHunt Operations Team

Original editor: Biteye core contributor Denise

In the current era of information explosion, simply counting fan numbers can no longer measure a person's true influence. To find a genuine industry consensus, XHunt has exclusively released a new AI influence ranking.

Using the AI KOL Followers (core circle followers) as a hard indicator, the ranking updates in real time with influence, helping you filter out 90% of the noise and go straight to the source of change.

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👇 Below is the complete list of the top 100 influential accounts in the English-speaking region compiled this time (ranked based on a snapshot of information as of May 15, 2026)

This is the source of the AI storm, where most seats in the Top 100 are occupied by executives from tech companies and cutting-edge scientists. There is @karpathy, who excels at explaining the principles of large models, @sama, who decides industry rhythm, and @jeffdean, who drives Google AI's roadmap. In their information streams, a tweet sent out by a researcher late at night is very likely to evolve into a consensus for the entire industry six months later.

🏆 Complete list of top 100 influential accounts in the English-speaking region

1. Andrej Karpathy@karpathy

AI KOL Followers: 4221 | Followers: 2455804

Founder of Eureka Labs, former member of the founding team of OpenAI, former head of Tesla AI, the man who training large models, AI coding, and agents directly fed into your mouth, a top preacher that makes engineers want to get up in the middle of the night to open their IDEs after hearing him speak.

2. Sam Altman@sama

AI KOL Followers: 3841 | Followers: 4822283

OpenAI CEO, the absolute master of GPT and Codex, a universe-level man whose posts automatically start highlighting points in the entire AI circle.

3. Greg Brockman@gdb

AI KOL Followers: 3202 | Followers: 975960

President and co-founder of OpenAI, the one who throws hard-core daily updates of product, research, developer ecosystem, and infrastructure progress at you like an official construction log.

4. Jeff Dean@jeffdean

AI KOL Followers: 3133 | Followers: 438941

Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind/Google Research, head of Gemini, the hardest core navigator of the route from where Google AI technology comes from to where it's going.

5. Ilya Sutskever@ilyasut

AI KOL Followers: 3083 | Followers: 674642

Co-founder of SSI, former chief scientist of OpenAI, one of the most watched researchers in the age of large models, a deep thinker whose every casual remark can be analyzed for a long time by the entire circle.

6. Yann LeCun@ylecun

AI KOL Followers: 2992 | Followers: 1159418

Co-founder and executive chairman of AMI Labs, former chief scientist of Meta AI, one of the three giants of deep learning, a Turing Award winner, a long-term resident heavyweight in debates on AI routes, open source, world models, and the essence of intelligence.

7. Demis Hassabis@demishassabis

AI KOL Followers: 2931 | Followers: 917939

CEO of Google DeepMind, a super promoter of AlphaFold, scientific intelligence, and AGI narrative, Nobel Prize winner, the man who truly brings AI from chat boxes to scientific discovery.

8. Andrew Ng@andrewyng

AI KOL Followers: 2710 | Followers: 1526147

Stanford professor, former leader of Google Brain and Baidu AI teams, a long-term preacher of AI education and application implementation, turning high-tech into courses, methodologies, and roadmaps that entrepreneurs can directly copy.

9. Elon Musk@elonmusk

AI KOL Followers: 2559 | Followers: 239786568

The mega amplifier behind xAI, Tesla, and SpaceX, wanting models, robots, computing power, and platforms all at once, a universe-level player whose tweets sometimes explode more than press conferences.

10. François Chollet@fchollet

AI KOL Followers: 2392 | Followers: 663386

Creator of the Keras deep learning framework, former chief researcher at Google AI, author of "Deep Learning with Python," known for his pragmatic view and deep insights into the nature of neural networks.

11. Mira Murati@miramurati

AI KOL Followers: 2378 | Followers: 528503

Founder of Thinking Machines, former CTO of OpenAI, bringing cutting-edge models, AI products, and next-generation intelligent systems back from the realm of mysticism to the practical filter of products and code.

12. Jim Fan@drjimfan

AI KOL Followers: 2377 | Followers: 406748

A core figure in the NVIDIA robotics direction, a hard-core project commentator pulling agents, simulations, embodied intelligence, and Physical AGI out from the screen to show you.

13. Geoffrey Hinton@geoffreyhinton

AI KOL Followers: 2319 | Followers: 590509

One of the founders of deep learning, Nobel laureate in physics, a wise elder of AI risks, neural networks, and machine intelligence, a strong stabilizer in safety discussions.

14. Fei-Fei Li@drfeifei

AI KOL Followers: 2314 | Followers: 662302

Stanford professor, CEO of World Labs, a long-term promoter of visual intelligence and human-centered AI, a true worldly understanding with a mix of work and street signs.

15. Logan Kilpatrick@officiallogank

AI KOL Followers: 2307 | Followers: 306018

An important communicator for Google AI Studio/Gemini API ecosystem, pulling developer tools from magic back into the realms of products, code, and money.

16. AK@_akhaliq

AI KOL Followers: 2300 | Followers: 492866

AI paper radar in the Hugging Face/Gradio ecosystem, high-frequency reposts of models, papers, and open-source projects, recognized as the most influential "top information hub" in the AI developer community.

17. Patrick Collison@patrickc

AI KOL Followers: 2293 | Followers: 852722

CEO of Stripe, co-founder of Arc Institute, putting AI into the macro framework of research organizations, infrastructure, and entrepreneurship.

18. hardmaru@hardmaru

AI KOL Followers: 2242 | Followers: 405741

CEO of Sakana AI, former head of Google Brain's Tokyo team, a natural inspiration from the world for agents, evolutionary algorithms, and collective intelligence, a hard-core research interpreter with high information density.

19. Dwarkesh Pate@dwarkesh_sp

AI KOL Followers: 2208 | Followers: 228237

Host of the top tech podcast Dwarkesh Podcast, renowned for conducting in-depth high-quality long interviews with core AI scientists and hardcore scholars, acclaimed as one of the best interlocutors in the global tech community.

20. Noam Brown@polynoamial

AI KOL Followers: 2194 | Followers: 106294

Leading AI researcher at OpenAI, led the development of milestone AIs (Pluribus, Cicero) that swept human poker and diplomacy games, a leading figure in global game theory and large model reasoning computation.

21. Lilian Weng@lilianweng

AI KOL Followers: 2191 | Followers: 218811

Co-founder of Thinking Machines, former research head at OpenAI, a long-term tool for blogging and notes influencing developers and researchers.

22. John Schulman@johnschulman2

AI KOL Followers: 2172 | Followers: 74482

Co-founder and chief scientist at Thinking Machines Lab, co-founder of OpenAI, the first author of the PPO algorithm and core lead in developing ChatGPT, a towering scientist in global reinforcement learning and AI alignment.

23. clem@clementdelangue

AI KOL Followers: 2167 | Followers: 292471

CEO of Hugging Face, a long-term ambition promoter of open-source models and developer communities, a community infrastructure madman that nurtures the open AI ecosystem.

24. Jack Clark@jackclarksf

AI KOL Followers: 2165 | Followers: 129669

Core figure in Anthropic's policy and communication, author of Import AI, a calm actor in AI safety, policy, and industry dynamics.

25. Soumith Chintala@soumithchintala

AI KOL Followers: 2126 | Followers: 300733

Co-founder of PyTorch, former core leader at Meta AI, CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, pulling fundamental tools, robots, and AI engineering culture back into practical product code and money.

26. Alexandr Wang@alexandr_wang

AI KOL Followers: 2115 | Followers: 454990

Founder of Scale AI, head of Meta AI, the executor of the hard work and exhausting tasks of data, labeling, and training infrastructure.

27. Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

Co-founder of fast.ai/Answer.AI, former founding president of Kaggle, the king of breakdown tutorials that teach AI to ordinary developers, making tools truly efficient for Alpha players.

28. Garry Tan@garrytan

CEO of a top incubator YC, looking at AI from the perspective of entrepreneurs and early companies, transforming demos into idea hunters for companies.

29. Thomas Wolf@thom_wolf

Co-founder of Hugging Face, a long-term visionary for open-source models, developer ecosystems, and AI moonshots.

30. Chris Olah@ch402

AI KOL Followers: 1992 | Followers: 143978

Researcher in interpretability at Anthropic, an internal adventurer of models who tears apart the black box of neural networks for you.

31. Oriol Vinyals@oriolvinyalsml

AI KOL Followers: 1990 | Followers: 201743

VP of research at Google DeepMind, one of the heads of Gemini, a live commentator on the model routes of DeepMind's AlphaStar, AlphaFold, and AlphaCode series.

32. Jan Leike@janleike

Leader of the alignment science team at Anthropic, former head of the alignment team at OpenAI, a long-term thinker on the more serious side of AI safety.

33. David@davidsholz

Founder and CEO of Midjourney, an aesthetic evolution promoter turning generative images into a public creation scene.

34. Miles Brundage@miles_brundage

Founder of AVERI, former senior consultant for AGI readiness at OpenAI, a researcher of AI policy and governance, a calm observer designing institutional frameworks that installs brakes on the AI tech frenzy.

35. John Carmack@id_aa_carmack

Founder and CEO of Keen Technologies, founder of Id Software, former CTO of Oculus, old-school engineer now working on AGI, the hardcore future god pulling AI back from magic into product code and cash.

36. Aravind Srinivas@aravsrinivas

AI KOL Followers: 1907 | Followers: 509159

CEO of Perplexity, a practitioner rewriting search entry for AI search and answer engines.

37. Jason Wei@_jasonwei

AI KOL Followers: 1867 | Followers: 107565

Meta AI researcher, background researcher from OpenAI/Google, a model capability hunter who thoroughly explains large model reasoning, emergence capabilities, and scaling boundaries.

38. Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

AI KOL Followers: 1851 | Followers: 6768992

CEO of Google/Alphabet, turning Gemini, AI search, and the full stack AI transformation at Google into a giant steering commander.

39. Sara Hooker@sarahookr

AI KOL Followers: 1847 | Followers: 61061

Researcher with backgrounds at Cohere/Google Brain/DeepMind, exploring another path towards open models and evolving intelligent systems.

40. swyx@swyx

Host of Latent Space newsletter and podcast, core curator of AI Engineer Summit, and a long-term promoter of the AI Engineer community, a builder connecting developers, entrepreneurs, and the tool ecosystem, acting as the atmosphere detector for what builders are actually discussing.

41. sarah guo@saranormous

Founder of Conviction, focusing exclusively on AI-native companies, an Alpha investment hunter watching which new workflows are being favored by capital and entrepreneurs.

42. Robert Scoble@scobleizer

Silicon Valley tech observer, former Microsoft, Rackspace, and Fast Company executive, author of eight books on future technologies, a long-term follower of the next wave of cool things in AI, robotics, spatial computing, and new hardware (with a built-in filter).

43. Lex Fridman@lexfridman

Host of long interview podcasts, MIT research scientist, a technologist + life thinker connecting AI, robotics, science, and humanities into a web.

44. Eric Jang@ericjang11

Former senior researcher at Google DeepMind Robotics, a researcher of robotics and machine learning, an engineering thought output machine that takes AI from papers to the robotic limbs.

45. Ethan Mollick@emollick

Bestselling author for The New York Times, Wharton professor, turning AI, innovation, and entrepreneurship into a tool for "how ordinary people and organizations can use AI" for employers to share.

46. Christopher Manning@chrmanning

AI KOL Followers: 1710 | Followers: 162941

Representative figure in Stanford NLP, a core professor of CS224n and StanfordNLP, thoroughly explaining language models from academic sources.

47. Simon Willison@simonw

Author of Datasette, co-creator of Django, deconstructs LLMs, tool calls, and AI programming into terminologies for developers to run code.

48. Wojciech Zaremba@woj_zaremba

One of the co-founders of OpenAI, a player behind the scenes presenting the resilience and long-term safety of AI to founders' deeper thinking.

49. Emad@emostaque

Co-founder of Stability AI, now founder of Intelligent Internet, one of the pioneers for radical open AI narratives that push forward open models, sovereign AI, and inference infrastructure.

50. Amjad Masad@amasad

CEO of Replit, turning AI programming tools and online development environments into products that make coding in the future feel more like playing together.

51. Riley Goodside@goodside

Former researcher at Google DeepMind, previously the world's first Staff Prompt Engineer at Scale AI, an AI phenomenon observer with a large number of real chatbot screenshots and prompt experiments, a top hunter capturing model behavior changes.

52. Alec Radford@alecrad

Early core researcher at OpenAI, now an independent researcher (consultant at Thinking Machines Lab), a pathfinder in the model architecture of multimodal capabilities like GPT and CLIP.

53. Daniel Gross@danielgross

Executive at Meta Superintelligence Labs, an AI entrepreneur and investor, connecting cutting-edge AI companies and talent networks into high-density networking nodes.

54. Chelsea Finn@chelseabfinn

Stanford professor, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, a practical player turning robotics learning and generalization into embodied intelligence that truly works.

55. Sasha Rush@srush_nlp

Researcher at Cursor, professor at Cornell, a significant figure in NLP education and open-source circles, a practical disassembler in the intersection of language models, tools, and developer education.

56. Mark Chen@markchen90

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, the core voice communicating the pulse of cutting-edge model research organizations and technical directions.

57. Boris Cherny@bcherny

Creator and head of Anthropic Claude Code, former Principal Engineer at Meta, interpreting how AI programming tools are integrated into developer workflows in real practical cases.

58. Nathan Lambert@natolambert

Researcher at Allen AI, author of Interconnects, a technical analysis master presenting open models, reinforcement learning, and inference in a more contextual manner.

59. Sholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

Researcher at Anthropic, turning reinforcement learning expansion and optimizing intelligent costs into a hard-core executor making the model capacity continue to get stronger and cheaper.

60. Pieter Abbeel@pabbeel

Professor at UC Berkeley, Amazon Scholar, representing robotics learning, turning results from robot, reinforcement learning, and AI laboratories into practical embodied intelligent roles.

61. Dylan Patel@dylan522p

Founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis, explaining the supply chain of GPUs, computing power, and AI infrastructure, a supplier intelligence king uncovering who’s really buying.

62. Percy Liang@percyliang

Stanford professor, director of Stanford CRFM, co-founder of Together AI, clearly organizing foundational models, NLP, and evaluation systems into open model academic assessments.

63. Peter Steinberger@steipete

Creator of OpenClaw, joined OpenAI in February 2026, a high-frequency output machine discussing practical development tools like AI programming, agents, and OpenCode.

64. Aran Komatsuzaki@arankomatsuzaki

Core researcher at EleutherAI, co-author of GPT-J, a pioneer transmitting the pulse of the open-source model world in real-time.

65. Amanda Askell@amandaaskell

Leader of the alignment team at Anthropic, former policy researcher at OpenAI, a wake-up call in ethics discussing how AI should be safer and more beneficial.

66. Dario Amodei@darioamodei

CEO of Anthropic, a key figure behind Claude, the captain steering the narrative of safety, products, and long-term vision for model companies.

67. Sergey Levine@svlevine

Professor at UC Berkeley, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, describing the hard-core progress of Physical AI in robotics learning and reinforcement learning as a live commentator.

68. Guillermo Rauch@rauchg

CEO of Vercel, combining front-end development, AI application deployment, and developer experience into a deployment infrastructure maniac for faster AI application launches.

69. Aaron Levie@levie

CEO of Box, an enterprise-level implementor looking at future offices from dimensions of enterprise content, knowledge management, and AI workflows.

70. Satya Nadella@satyanadella

CEO of Microsoft, a giant AI transformation executor squeezing Copilot, OpenAI collaboration, and Microsoft’s full AI application into every product nook.

71. Reid Hoffman@reidhoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn, investor, and board member at Microsoft, a strategic chess player discussing AI entrepreneurship, social changes, and new research organizations from a long-term perspective.

72. will depue@willdepue

Former member of OpenAI, practical experience output on Sora, o3/4o post-training and pre-training, sharing experiences on multimodal and reasoning model training.

73. Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

Member of the White House-related AI team, his observations focusing on AI, policy, and intersections in the entrepreneurial ecosystem act as a dense information station.

74. Liam Fedus@liamfedus

Member of Periodic Labs, former VP of training at OpenAI, an industrial-grade practitioner ensuring AI enters laboratories and manufacturing sites.

75. Susan Zhang@suchenzang

Researcher at Google DeepMind, transmitting real-time research intelligence for the frontiers of large models and intelligent systems across companies.

76. Teknium@teknium

Former co-founder of Nous Research, current head of Hermes Agent, pushing open-source agents and open-source model communities into a hard-core force of open Alpha players.

77. Sam Bowman@sleepinyourhat

Researcher at Anthropic, professor at NYU, turning AI alignment, LLM, and effective altruism into a clear voice at the intersection of academic and safety discussions.

78. Nando de Freitas@nandodf

Researcher of intelligence and consciousness, a long-term thinker discussing how to align AI with freer and more compassionate systems woven with a little philosophy.

79. Richard Socher@RichardSocher

CEO of You.com & Self-Improvement, former chief scientist at Salesforce, making AI search, NLP, and self-improvement systems practical with productization efforts.

80. martin_casado@martin_casado

Partner at a16z, assessing the AI technology cycle from the perspective of infrastructure, enterprise software, and investment, a master of judging the direction of money and changes in architecture.

81. Suhail@suhail

Founder of Mixpanel and serial entrepreneur, quickly digesting product, entrepreneurship, and AI tool information while synchronizing on Twitter at the forefront.

82. Sebastien Bubeck@sebastienbubeck

Researcher at OpenAI, former AI VP at Microsoft, frequently focusing on model capabilities, making discussions centered on whether "large models will think."

83. Igor Babuschkin@ibab

Former co-founder of xAI, sharing the latest models, training methods, and early intelligence in building early AI companies.

84. David Sacks@davidsacks

Tech entrepreneur and investor, an AI discussion sharp-edge player producing sharp viewpoints from the startup, policy, and technology industry angles.

85. Jerry Tworek@millionint

CEO of Core Automation, former RL VP at OpenAI, researching various models of RL and automation forefront practices while frequently publishing sharp opinions.

86. Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleyman

CEO of Microsoft AI, co-founder of DeepMind/Inflection AI, articulating the important voices of productization concerning AI products, assistants, and social impact.

87.@levelsio @levelsio

Independent entrepreneur, a sample of independent development Alpha combining AI, automation, and the commercialization of small products, playing tools to the fullest.

88. Ben Thompson@benthompson

Author of Stratechery, analyzing business strategies of tech companies especially regarding AI platforms with deep analytical insights.

89. Shane Gu@shaneguml

Senior Staff AE at Google DeepMind, turning the engineering perspective of Gemini/Veo Thinking and GPT-4 into a live commentator on multimodal and reasoning systems.

90. Christian Szegedy@chrszegedy

Deep learning researcher, important author of networks like Inception, understanding today’s AI history from a research and model structure perspective, a living dictionary.

91. near@nearcyan

High-frequency participant in the AI community, an all-around surfer researching and participating in cutting-edge discussions on algorithms, models, and products.

92. Deedy@deedydas

Partner at Menlo Ventures, previously at Glean/Google Search, an investment radar tracking trends in companies like Anthropic and Goodfire.

93. Sebastian Raschka@rasbt

ML/AI research engineer and author, turning practical content on building large language models from scratch into a tutorial fanatic aiming to genuinely understand model principles.

94. rohan anil@arohan

Co-founder of Core Automation and member of the tech team, making deep learning and neural network base capabilities into practical applications of AI.

95. Emmett Shear@eshear

CEO of Softmax, crossing AI, gaming, and collaborative systems into large-scale multi-user learning environments.

96. Horace He@chhillee

Member of Thinking Machines, former member of PyTorch, known for long technical posts and systemic thought output machines focusing on hardcore engineering details.

97. John Collison@collision

Co-founder of Stripe, turning tech entrepreneurship, payment infrastructure, and company building into strategic players of companies and infrastructure in the AI era.

98. Tim Dettmers@tim_dettmers

Author of bitsandbytes, professor at CMU, and researcher at Allen AI, ensuring training efficiency, quantization, and large model engineering as hardcore infrastructure guardians.

99. Kyunghyun Cho@kchonyc

Professor at NYU, researcher in machine learning and NLP, turning academic discussions into solid and active academic voices within the model community.

100. Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath

Investor and tech commentator, harvesting real-time information differentials regarding AI from macro funding and tech narratives.

This is the complete list of the XHunt global AI influence Top 100 in the English-speaking region.

It is not difficult to see that the information flow in the English-speaking region can be considered the center of the AI storm, primarily dominated by executives from tech giants, researchers from top laboratories, and builders of underlying infrastructure. They discuss parameters of large models, the boundaries of AI's future, and the routes to AGI.

In contrast to the hardcore forefront of the English-speaking region, the AI ecosystem in the Chinese-speaking region resembles a front-line application workshop under heavy fire: here lies a vibrant group of practical people. Some are crazily iterating products, some are maintaining high-star open-source projects, some are exploring ways for AI to earn money overseas, and others commit their daily efforts to translating complex industry changes into language that ordinary people can understand.

Tomorrow, we will release "Exclusive: The Top 100 AI Influencers in the Chinese-speaking Region."

Let’s explore who is truly leading industry consensus closer to application and monetization in the Chinese-speaking circle?

Which builders deserve your special attention?

Note: The English ranking standard for AI influence is based on the Top 5500 KOLs in the English-speaking area, ranked in real-time by their follower counts, with content predominantly in English. Only accounts with AI tweet proportions ≥ 40% are displayed.

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