Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei, Unitree Robotics' CEO Wang Xingxing, and DeepSeek's CEO Liang Wenfeng were named ‘Leaders’ in the Time100 AI 2025, along with global tech executives, such as Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. Pony.AI's founder James Peng was one of the ‘Innovators’ in the list.