Most influential tech and AI accounts on Twitter

Requested by a visitor · October 26, 2026

We asked 10 models: The most influential tech and AI accounts on Twitter (X). Each named its own top 15.

Agreement between models: 71%
Same model, run twice: 79%
Different picks: 35

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

We asked 10 models: The most influential tech and AI accounts on Twitter (X). Each named its own top 15.

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#	Pick	Listed by	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	Elon Musk	10/10	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Claude Haiku 5.5 (#1) Owner of X, Tesla, SpaceX; posts move markets and AI discourse daily. GPT-6 Luna (#1) Owns X and shapes technology, AI, and platform discourse at enormous scale. Gemini 4 Argon (#1) Platform owner and tech titan whose posts instantly move markets and shape AI discourse. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#1) Largest platform owner; any post moves tech and AI discourse instantly. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#1) Owns the platform and drives the AI and tech narrative daily. GLM-5.3 (#1) His posts move markets and shape AI policy discourse like no one else. Kimi K3 (#1) Owner of X whose tweets single-handedly move markets and dominate tech discourse MiniMax M3 (#1) Owner of X, shapes platform policy and AI discourse daily. Mistral Large 4 (#1) Sets product and AI roadmaps that move markets and rivals. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#1) Owns X; drives tech/AI discourse daily.
2	Sam Altman	10/10	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Claude Haiku 5.5 (#2) OpenAI CEO whose announcements and posts shape the AI industry agenda. GPT-6 Luna (#2) OpenAI’s CEO; a central voice in AI development, policy, and public debate. Gemini 4 Argon (#2) OpenAI CEO whose cryptic and direct updates set the pace for the AI industry. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#2) Runs OpenAI, the company that ignited the modern AI boom. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#2) OpenAI CEO; his posts move the entire AI industry. GLM-5.3 (#2) OpenAI's CEO; his posts define much of the AI conversation. Kimi K3 (#2) OpenAI CEO whose posts set the agenda for the entire AI industry MiniMax M3 (#2) CEO of OpenAI, leading figure in generative AI development. Mistral Large 4 (#2) Shapes frontier AI policy, releases, and the public narrative around AGI. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#2) OpenAI CEO; defines generative AI narrative.
3	Demis Hassabis	10/10	6	4	8	5	6	7	6	3	3	3
MiniMax M3 (#3) Nobel-winning AI researcher, heads Google DeepMind. Mistral Large 4 (#3) Leads DeepMind science and turns research into widely used AI systems. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#3) DeepMind founder; steers Google AI research. GPT-6 Luna (#4) DeepMind cofounder leading a major frontier-AI organization. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#5) Nobel-winning DeepMind CEO behind AlphaFold and Gemini. Claude Haiku 5.5 (#6) Google DeepMind leader; frequent authoritative commentary on frontier AI. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#6) DeepMind leader; shapes frontier AI and science discourse. Kimi K3 (#6) DeepMind leader steering frontier AI breakthroughs like AlphaFold and Gemini GLM-5.3 (#7) DeepMind leader; carries serious AI research authority. Gemini 4 Argon (#8) Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind CEO sharing breakthroughs at the frontier of scientific AI.
4	Yann LeCun	10/10	4	8	5	4	4	5	7	4	6	5
Claude Haiku 5.5 (#4) Meta chief AI scientist, outspoken voice on open-source and AI risk. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#4) Turing laureate and Meta chief scientist with contrarian AI influence. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#4) Meta's chief AI scientist; relentless, influential debate-setter. MiniMax M3 (#4) Pioneer of deep learning, Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Gemini 4 Argon (#5) Turing Award winner and Meta AI chief fiercely leading the open-source AI debate. GLM-5.3 (#5) Turing laureate who aggressively shapes AI debates daily. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#5) Meta chief AI scientist; deep-learning pioneer. Mistral Large 4 (#6) Foundational researcher whose critiques steer debate on model limits. Kimi K3 (#7) Meta AI chief scientist driving the most visible technical debates on AI's future GPT-6 Luna (#8) A pioneering AI researcher whose views strongly shape technical discussions.
5	Andrej Karpathy	10/10	3	5	3	3	3	3	5	6	8	15
Claude Haiku 5.5 (#3) Former Tesla and OpenAI researcher; widely followed for clear AI explainers. Gemini 4 Argon (#3) Premier AI educator and researcher whose technical insights are gospel for developers worldwide. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#3) Deep technical credibility; shapes how practitioners think about AI. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#3) Most respected technical voice explaining how AI actually works. GLM-5.3 (#3) Widely trusted technical educator; his threads set industry thinking. GPT-6 Luna (#5) Highly followed educator and practitioner explaining modern AI to broad audiences. Kimi K3 (#5) Lucid educator whose threads on AI research are universally read and cited MiniMax M3 (#6) Former Tesla/OpenAI, top AI educator and researcher. Mistral Large 4 (#8) Trusted technical voice who explains and popularizes modern deep learning. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#15) Former Tesla/OpenAI; influential educator & builder.
6	Satya Nadella	9/10	7	11	10	8	11	9	4		4	4
Kimi K3 (#4) Microsoft CEO whose AI partnership strategy reshapes enterprise tech conversations Mistral Large 4 (#4) Turned Microsoft into a default enterprise AI platform and partner. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#4) Microsoft CEO; integrates OpenAI into Azure/products. Claude Haiku 5.5 (#7) Microsoft CEO whose posts signal enterprise AI strategy to a large audience. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#8) Microsoft's AI strategy reaches billions via Copilot and OpenAI ties. GLM-5.3 (#9) Microsoft's AI strategy announcements ripple through tech Twitter. Gemini 4 Argon (#10) Microsoft CEO showcasing enterprise AI adoption and mega-scale infrastructure partnerships. GPT-6 Luna (#11) Microsoft’s CEO, steering one of the largest AI platforms and investments. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#11) Microsoft CEO; frames enterprise AI strategy and rollout.
7	Jensen Huang	8/10	11	12		7	8	11	3		5	7
Kimi K3 (#3) NVIDIA chief whose commentary shapes the AI hardware and compute narrative Mistral Large 4 (#5) Defines the hardware stack and economics powering the modern AI boom. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#7) Nvidia powers the AI hardware revolution; market bellwether. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#7) NVIDIA CEO; hardware backbone of modern AI. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#8) NVIDIA CEO; compute supply chain's most-watched voice. Claude Haiku 5.5 (#11) Nvidia CEO; his remarks on AI compute influence investors and policy. GPT-6 Luna (#12) NVIDIA’s leader at the center of the AI computing boom.
8	OpenAI	6/10	8	6	4		10	4		8
Gemini 4 Argon (#4) The primary source for industry-shifting announcements on ChatGPT, GPT models, and generative AI. GLM-5.3 (#4) Official announcements instantly reach the entire tech world. Claude Haiku 5.5 (#8) Official account driving product launches reaching huge AI audiences. MiniMax M3 (#8) Creator of ChatGPT, most-followed AI lab account. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#10) Primary product and safety announcements reach millions instantly.
9	Andrew Ng	6/10		3	12	6				5	11	6
GPT-6 Luna (#3) Leading AI educator and entrepreneur with broad influence across industry and academia. MiniMax M3 (#5) Massive AI educator, founder of deeplearning.ai. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#6) Decades defining AI education and industry adoption worldwide. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#6) AI educator; founder of DeepLearning.AI & Landing AI.
10	Marc Andreessen	6/10	5		7		12	15	9			14
Claude Haiku 5.5 (#5) Venture investor whose posts strongly influence tech policy and startup culture. Gemini 4 Argon (#7) Venture capital icon driving the techno-optimist movement and aggressive AI investment narratives. Kimi K3 (#9) VC titan whose manifestos and posts frame tech policy and startup debates Nemotron 3 Ultra (#14) a16z co-founder; amplifies AI startup trends & policy.
11	Geoffrey Hinton	5/10				9	15			7	7	10
MiniMax M3 (#7) Godfather of AI, Nobel laureate, influential safety voice. Mistral Large 4 (#7) Godfather of deep learning; warnings carry unmatched moral authority. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#9) Godfather of deep learning; his warnings dominate AI safety talk. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#10) Godfather of deep learning; Nobel laureate; warns on AI risk.
12	Sundar Pichai	7/10	9		14			8	14	15	13	8
GLM-5.3 (#8) Google's CEO posts on AI reach massive mainstream audiences. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#8) Alphabet/Google CEO; leads Gemini & AI-first strategy. Claude Haiku 5.5 (#9) Alphabet CEO; posts announce Google's AI products to mass audiences. MiniMax M3 (#15) Google CEO overseeing Gemini AI and major AI integration.
13	Lex Fridman	7/10			15	15	5	14	11	12		12
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#5) Amplifies AI researchers to enormous mainstream audiences. Kimi K3 (#11) Podcast host whose marathon interviews amplify every major AI figure's views MiniMax M3 (#12) Massive AI-focused podcast host with influential interviews. Nemotron 3 Ultra (#12) Podcaster; long-form interviews shape public AI understanding. GLM-5.3 (#14) Interviews and posts drive huge engagement across AI topics. Gemini 4 Argon (#15) Podcast host who curates deep conversations with the most powerful minds in tech.
14	Paul Graham	4/10	13		6		7		10
Gemini 4 Argon (#6) Y Combinator co-founder whose essays and tweets define startup culture and Silicon Valley philosophy. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (#7) Founder wisdom that still sets startup and tech culture. Kimi K3 (#10) Essayist and YC founder whose posts influence generations of tech founders Claude Haiku 5.5 (#13) Y Combinator co-founder whose essays and posts shape startup founders.
15	Mark Zuckerberg	6/10	10	15		14			8		14	11
Claude Haiku 5.5 (#10) Meta CEO; open-source AI strategy and product news reach wide attention. Qwen 3.8 Flash (#14) Meta's open-source Llama strategy shapes the entire AI ecosystem. GPT-6 Luna (#15) Meta’s CEO and a major force in open models and consumer technology.

20 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Andrej Karpathy#3 for Claude Haiku 5.5 #15 for Nemotron 3 Ultra
Marc Andreessen#5 for Claude Haiku 5.5 #15 for GLM-5.3
Lex Fridman#5 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash #15 for Qwen 3.8 Flash

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

xAI at #6, only GLM-5.3
Balaji Srinivasan at #9, only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Guillermo Rauch at #11, only Gemini 4 Argon
Jeff Dean at #11, only Qwen 3.8 Flash
Tim Cook at #12, only Qwen 3.8 Flash
Kai-Markus Mueller? No. at #12, only GLM-5.3
Stuart Russell at #12, only Mistral Large 4
Garry Tan at #13, only Gemini 4 Argon
Naval Ravikant at #13, only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Reid Hoffman at #15, only Claude Haiku 5.5
Mustafa Suleyman at #15, only Mistral Large 4

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Andrej Karpathy
Yann LeCun
Marc Andreessen
Demis Hassabis
Satya Nadella
OpenAI
Sundar Pichai
Mark Zuckerberg
Jensen Huang
DeepMind
Paul Graham
Gary Marcus
Reid Hoffman

84% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Andrew Ng
Demis Hassabis
Andrej Karpathy
OpenAI
NVIDIA
Yann LeCun
DeepMind
Ilya Sutskever
Satya Nadella
Jensen Huang
Greg Brockman
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg

78% with consensus · 62% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Andrej Karpathy
OpenAI
Yann LeCun
Paul Graham
Marc Andreessen
Demis Hassabis
Jim Fan
Satya Nadella
Guillermo Rauch
Andrew Ng
Garry Tan
Sundar Pichai
Lex Fridman

76% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Andrej Karpathy
Yann LeCun
Demis Hassabis
Andrew Ng
Jensen Huang
Satya Nadella
Geoffrey Hinton
Dario Amodei
Jeff Dean
Tim Cook
Ilya Sutskever
Mark Zuckerberg
Lex Fridman

85% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Andrej Karpathy
Yann LeCun
Lex Fridman
Demis Hassabis
Paul Graham
Jensen Huang
Balaji Srinivasan
OpenAI
Satya Nadella
Marc Andreessen
Naval Ravikant
Ilya Sutskever
Geoffrey Hinton

81% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Andrej Karpathy
OpenAI
Yann LeCun
xAI
Demis Hassabis
Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
DeepMind
Jensen Huang
Kai-Markus Mueller? No.
Jim Fan
Lex Fridman
Marc Andreessen

77% with consensus · 78% self-consistent

Kimi K3

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Jensen Huang
Satya Nadella
Andrej Karpathy
Demis Hassabis
Yann LeCun
Mark Zuckerberg
Marc Andreessen
Paul Graham
Lex Fridman
Dario Amodei
Gary Marcus
Sundar Pichai
Jim Fan

80% with consensus · 77% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Demis Hassabis
Yann LeCun
Andrew Ng
Andrej Karpathy
Geoffrey Hinton
OpenAI
Dario Amodei
Fei-Fei Li
NVIDIA
Lex Fridman
DeepMind
Anthropic
Sundar Pichai

85% with consensus · 68% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Demis Hassabis
Satya Nadella
Jensen Huang
Yann LeCun
Geoffrey Hinton
Andrej Karpathy
Dario Amodei
Fei-Fei Li
Andrew Ng
Stuart Russell
Sundar Pichai
Mark Zuckerberg
Mustafa Suleyman

85% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Demis Hassabis
Satya Nadella
Yann LeCun
Andrew Ng
Jensen Huang
Sundar Pichai
Fei-Fei Li
Geoffrey Hinton
Mark Zuckerberg
Lex Fridman
Greg Brockman
Marc Andreessen
Andrej Karpathy

86% with consensus · 72% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 64 (lightest) to 88 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		72	83	82	84	85	78	74	71	72
GPT-6 Luna	72		71	76	70	74	68	81	70	71
Gemini 4 Argon	83	71		76	82	86	71	70	65	64
Qwen 3.8 Flash	82	76	76		83	78	76	82	79	79
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	84	70	82	83		79	75	73	69	69
GLM-5.3	85	74	86	78	79		70	71	67	69
Kimi K3	78	68	71	76	75	70		67	81	76
MiniMax M3	74	81	70	82	73	71	67		81	80
Mistral Large 4	71	70	65	79	69	67	81	81		88
Nemotron 3 Ultra	72	71	64	79	69	69	76	80	88