Time Magazine has named its Person of the Year, and the title goes not to a single figure, but to “the architects of AI.”
The publication selected the collective group of builders behind today’s most influential artificial intelligence systems, highlighting the people whose work has rapidly reshaped technology, business, and global infrastructure.
Within that group, the cover story places particular emphasis on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company now produces chips used across much of the AI industry.
According to the legacy outlet, Nvidia’s hardware has become central to the development and deployment of advanced AI tools. The feature outlines Huang’s role in guiding the company from a gaming-focused chipmaker to one of the world's most valuable companies, with processors that support large-scale model training, data centers, and enterprise AI applications.
Huang told Time that AI is “the single most impactful technology of our time.”
The announcement arrives during a significant shift in how AI is intersecting with entertainment and consumer technology. According to CNN, Disney has confirmed a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and a licensing deal that allows more than 200 Disney characters to appear on Sora, the company’s video-generation platform.
Characters included in the agreement range from classic icons like Mickey and Minnie Mouse to figures from franchises such as Frozen, Moana, Toy Story, Marvel, and Star Wars. The deal also permits ChatGPT users to request images featuring the licensed characters.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the collaboration aims to expand the company’s storytelling capabilities through generative AI while maintaining protections for creators and copyrighted material.
He noted that the agreement includes guardrails governing how the characters can be used on OpenAI platforms.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Disney “the global gold standard for storytelling” and said the partnership illustrates how creative industries and AI developers can operate under structured licensing terms.
