Most influential people of the 21st century

We asked 10 models: The most influential people of the 21st century so far. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models
49%
Same model, run twice
79%
Different picks
22

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

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.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Elon Musk
  2. Barack Obama
  3. Xi Jinping
  4. Vladimir Putin
  5. Jeff Bezos
  6. Mark Zuckerberg
  7. Angela Merkel
  8. Sam Altman
  9. Greta Thunberg
  10. Donald Trump

83% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Xi Jinping
  2. Vladimir Putin
  3. Donald Trump
  4. Barack Obama
  5. Elon Musk
  6. Mark Zuckerberg
  7. Narendra Modi
  8. Bill Gates
  9. Jeff Bezos
  10. Greta Thunberg

53% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Xi Jinping
  3. Vladimir Putin
  4. Mark Zuckerberg
  5. Elon Musk
  6. Barack Obama
  7. Donald Trump
  8. Osama bin Laden
  9. Jeff Bezos
  10. Larry Page

57% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Jeff Bezos
  2. Mark Zuckerberg
  3. Xi Jinping
  4. Elon Musk
  5. Tim Berners-Lee
  6. Angela Merkel
  7. Jensen Huang
  8. Donald Trump
  9. Tim Cook
  10. Sam Altman

40% with consensus · 35% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Barack Obama
  2. Elon Musk
  3. Mark Zuckerberg
  4. Donald Trump
  5. Steve Jobs
  6. Xi Jinping
  7. Vladimir Putin
  8. Jeff Bezos
  9. Angela Merkel
  10. Larry Page

63% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Xi Jinping
  2. Steve Jobs
  3. Barack Obama
  4. Vladimir Putin
  5. Angela Merkel
  6. Mark Zuckerberg
  7. Elon Musk
  8. Pope Francis
  9. Sundar Pichai
  10. Tim Berners-Lee

57% with consensus · 71% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Xi Jinping
  2. Vladimir Putin
  3. Barack Obama
  4. Elon Musk
  5. Mark Zuckerberg
  6. Steve Jobs
  7. Jeff Bezos
  8. Angela Merkel
  9. Donald Trump
  10. Greta Thunberg

71% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Barack Obama
  2. Elon Musk
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Vladimir Putin
  5. Xi Jinping
  6. Mark Zuckerberg
  7. Jeff Bezos
  8. Tim Berners-Lee
  9. Taylor Swift
  10. Angela Merkel

62% with consensus · 72% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Elon Musk
  2. Barack Obama
  3. Xi Jinping
  4. Jeff Bezos
  5. Angela Merkel
  6. Vladimir Putin
  7. Greta Thunberg
  8. Satya Nadella
  9. Narendra Modi
  10. Sundar Pichai

75% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Elon Musk
  2. Steve Jobs
  3. Mark Zuckerberg
  4. Bill Gates
  5. Barack Obama
  6. Jeff Bezos
  7. Xi Jinping
  8. Greta Thunberg
  9. Vladimir Putin
  10. Taylor Swift

67% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 28 (lightest) to 87 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5484240594959678759
GPT-6 Luna485629416482403928
Gemini 4 Argon425634426561493249
Qwen 3.8 Flash402934342838283832
DeepSeek V4 Pro594142343949805456
GLM-5.3496465283975544441
Kimi K3598261384975544937
MiniMax M3674049288054545755
Mistral Large 4873932385444495755
Nemotron 3 Ultra592849325641375555