The newspaper said its decision reflects Huang’s central role in the large-scale expansion of artificial intelligence, a technology capable of reshaping the global economy. According to FT, the Nvidia chief executive has been a key participant in one of the largest private-sector investment programs in history, supporting the U.S. economy and fueling a stock market boom. He has also played a decisive role in advancing technologies with the potential to transform entire industries.
In an interview with the publication, Huang described Nvidia as one of the most important technology companies in history. He noted that the computing technologies the company has been developing for more than 30 years are now fundamentally reshaping the entire computing landscape.
In 2024, FT named U.S. President Donald Trump — elected to a second term — as Person of the Year. In 2023, the title went to Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, CEO of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.
FT’s 2025 choice aligns with Time magazine’s decision to name the “architects of artificial intelligence” as its Person of the Year. The editors explained that in 2025 the full potential of AI became clear, leaving “no path backward or possibility of rejection.” Time’s cover featured Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, X owner Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and ImageNet founder Fei-Fei Li.
