Дженсен Хуанг на CES 2025 / NVIDIA
Website Visual Capitalist in collaboration with Preply, has created a ranking of the 15 smartest CEOs in the United States, which includes the names of many tech leaders — the bosses of Nvidia, Adobe, and OpenAI, among others.
The rating compilers used the following criteria to determine the leaders linguistic analysiswho cited a recent study from Frontiers in Psychology that showed — people who use more complex sentence structures tend to perform better in uncertain decision-making scenarios, suggesting a link between language complexity and cognitive ability.
In total, more than 100 executives were analyzed (an average of 2.25 hours per participant), including the largest U.S. companies by market capitalization and some of the most widely heard (Sam Altman of OpenAI is one of them). The researchers assessed several cognitive and communication traits, including verbal ability, abstract and conceptual thinking, creativity, memory, and logical reasoning.
In the end, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang showed the highest intelligence, followed by Lockheed Martin’s Jim Tyklet and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. The full list can be found in the infographic below (but don’t look for Elon Musk there, as his cognitive abilities failed him this time).
Huang, who was born in Taiwan, founded Nvidia in 1993. In recent years, the boom in artificial intelligence has turned the chipmaker into a $3.42 trillion tech giant, while Jensen himself last year made a fortune of $122 billion and took the 11th place in the ranking of the world’s richest people. The Nvidia leader is known for working 14 hours a day and imposes similar principles on his employees. However, some of them, thanks to such conditions have made millions in earnings for themselves.
Musk, on the other hand, in addition to his business achievements and leadership position in the billionaire ranking, is better known for his continuous posting on Twitter with controversial public statements (especially as it relates to Ukraine). And, in addition to the fact that they provoke an outflow of advertisers from his social networkNow they also seem to raise doubts about the presence of intelligence.