Ranking of inventors whose patents, prototypes and ideas transform industries and everyday life.
The focus is on concrete inventions, patents and real-world impact on products, services and technologies.
| Rank | Name | Main Invention | Country | Institution / Company | Profile | Speciality Tags | Awards / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jensen Huang | GPU Blackwell B200 | USA | NVIDIA | View profile | GPU;AI;data-center | Inventeur n°1 2025 |
| 2 | Yann LeCun | ConvNeXt-V3 archi | FRA | Meta FAIR | View profile | deep-learning;vision | IEEE Medal 2025 |
| 3 | Andrew Ng | LandingLens 3.0 | USA | AI Fund | View profile | AutoML;vision | 27 brevets 2025 |
| 4 | Fei-Fei Li | ImageNet-3D dataset | USA | Stanford | View profile | dataset;AI ethics | 15 brevets 2025 |
| 5 | Demis Hassabis | AlphaFold3 + AlphaProteo | GBR | DeepMind | View profile | protein-AI;drug | 22 brevets 2025 |
| 6 | John Jumper | AlphaFold3 engine | USA | DeepMind | View profile | protein-folding | Breakthrough Prize 2025 |
| 7 | Geoffrey Hinton | Forward-Forward algo | CAN | Toronto | View profile | neural-nets;capsules | 11 brevets 2025 |
| 8 | Yoshua Bengio | GFlowNets v2 | CAN | MILA | View profile | generative-flow | 13 brevets 2025 |
| 9 | Andrej Karpathy | LLM-Compiler | SVK | Microsoft | View profile | LLM;code-gen | 9 brevets 2025 |
| 10 | Fei-Fei Li | Spatial Intelligence Lab | USA | Stanford | View profile | spatial-AI;robotics | 8 brevets 2025 |
| 11 | Luc Julia | Ember AI assistant | FRA | Renault | View profile | voice-AI;edge | 10 brevets 2025 |
| 12 | Laurent Alexandre | DNA-data-storage | FRA | DNAVault | View profile | bio-storage;AI | 7 brevets 2025 |
| 13 | Shailesh Manjrekar | Agentic-AI fabric | USA | WEKA | View profile | agentic;data | Top 50 Agentic 2025 |
| 14 | Naveen Rao | NeuRRAM chip | USA | MosaicML | View profile | in-memory-AI | Nature 2025 |
| 15 | Michal Irani | AI-super-resolution | ISR | Weizmann | View profile | computer-vision | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 16 | Karen Liu | Humanoid gait-ctrl | USA | Stanford | View profile | robotics;control | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 17 | Pieter Abbeel | Covariant brain | BEL | UC Berkeley | View profile | robot-learning | 12 brevets 2025 |
| 18 | Sergey Levine | RL-from-vision | USA | UC Berkeley | View profile | RL;vision | 10 brevets 2025 |
| 19 | Chelsea Finn | Meta-learning robots | USA | Stanford | View profile | meta-RL;robotics | 8 brevets 2025 |
| 20 | Anima Anandkumar | Fourier-Neural-Op | USA | Caltech | View profile | neural-operators | 7 brevets 2025 |
| 21 | Yann LeCun | JEPA-Video | FRA | Meta | View profile | self-supervised | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 22 | Alex Krizhevsky | Vision-Transformer-Lite | CAN | View profile | vision;efficiency | 5 brevets 2025 | |
| 23 | Ilya Sutskever | Safe-Superintelligence | ISR | SSI Inc | View profile | AGI;safety | 9 brevets 2025 |
| 24 | Andriy Mnih | Diffusion-Policy | GBR | DeepMind | View profile | diffusion;RL | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 25 | Raquel Urtasun | Waabi World | ESP | Waabi | View profile | self-driving;sim | 8 brevets 2025 |
| 26 | Alex Kendall | Wayve AV-stack | GBR | Wayve | View profile | AV;end-to-end | 7 brevets 2025 |
| 27 | Luc Vincent | Maps-AI-fusion | FRA | Lyft | View profile | maps;vision | 10 brevets 2025 |
| 28 | Ashish Vaswani | Transformer-XL2 | IND | Adept | View profile | attention;LLM | 11 brevets 2025 |
| 29 | Noam Shazeer | Character-LLM | USA | Character.AI | View profile | LLM;dialog | 9 brevets 2025 |
| 30 | Aidan Gomez | Cohere Command-R | CAN | Cohere | View profile | LLM;enterprise | 8 brevets 2025 |
| 31 | Emad Mostaque | Stable-Diffusion-3 | GBR | Stability AI | View profile | diffusion;open-source | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 32 | Robin Rombach | Stable-Diffusion-3 | DEU | Stability AI | View profile | diffusion;open-source | 7 brevets 2025 |
| 33 | Andreas Blattmann | Stable-Diffusion-3 | CHE | Stability AI | View profile | diffusion;open-source | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 34 | Patrick Esser | Runway-Gen-3 | USA | Runway | View profile | video-diffusion | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 35 | Cristóbal Valenzuela | Runway-Gen-3 | CHL | Runway | View profile | video-AI;creativity | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 36 | Karen Hao | AI-journalism-tools | USA | MIT Tech Review | View profile | AI;media | 4 brevets 2025 |
| 37 | Kate Saenko | VLMs-explainability | USA | Boston Univ | View profile | vision-language | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 38 | Trevor Darrell | Multi-modal-RL | USA | UC Berkeley | View profile | multimodal;RL | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 39 | Judy Hoffman | Domain-adaptation | USA | Georgia Tech | View profile | CV;robustness | 4 brevets 2025 |
| 40 | Devi Parikh | Visual-dialog | IND | Meta | View profile | vision-language | 7 brevets 2025 |
| 41 | Stefano Ermon | Generative-energy | ITA | Stanford | View profile | generative;sustainability | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 42 | Yisong Yue | Neural-physics | USA | Caltech | View profile | neural-sim;control | 4 brevets 2025 |
| 43 | Jiajun Wu | 3D-scene-generation | CHN | Stanford | View profile | 3D;vision | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 44 | Yuke Zhu | Embodied-AI | CHN | UT Austin | View profile | robotics;vision | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 45 | Caiming Xiong | Salesforce-Einstein | CHN | Salesforce | View profile | NLP;CRM-AI | 8 brevets 2025 |
| 46 | Richard Socher | You.com-SOTA | USA | You.com | View profile | NLP;search | 7 brevets 2025 |
| 47 | Douwe Kiela | RAG-360 | NLD | Contextual AI | View profile | RAG;LLM | 6 brevets 2025 |
| 48 | Sebastian Riedel | RAG-360 | GBR | Contextual AI | View profile | RAG;LLM | 5 brevets 2025 |
| 49 | Peng Qi | Bio-BERT-2 | CHN | Stanford | View profile | biomedical-NLP | 4 brevets 2025 |
| 50 | Mario Krenn | AI-discovered-physics | AUT | MPI | View profile | physics-AI | 5 brevets 2025 |