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Indian origin AI Architects under TIME spotlight
Karandeep Anand and Sriram Krishnan, the CEO of Character.AI and Senior White House Policy Adviser on AI, were highlighted for their contributions.
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Staff Reporter - Thu, 11, Dec 2025
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Karandeep Anand and Sriram Krishnan / Karandeep Anand and Sriram Krishnan via LinkedIn
Two Indian origin tech moguls have found their place in TIME Person of the Year's spotlight on 'Architect of AI.' Featuring Karandeep Anand and Sriram Krishnan, TIME highlights the revolution that the technology brings across sectors.
The duo work as the two sides of the same coin, while Anand runs an AI company, Krishnan sets a nation's AI vision, right from the White House.
Anand is the CEO of Character.AI, a popular AI chatbot platform allowing users to create and converse with personalized AI characters for roleplay, learning, and companionship.
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With around 20 million monthly active users in 2025, mostly Gen Z, the tool has made waves in the tech world, while tackling its fair share of controversies and lawsuits over teen safety concerns.
A graduate of International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Anand is an industry veteran. Before joining Character.AI, he spent 15 years at Microsoft and 6 years at Facebook.
Along with Anand, Sriram Krishnan also basks in this year's TIME spotlight. While Anand creates, Krishnan shines at enabling and regulating the world of AI.
As Senior White House Policy Adviser on AI within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, he has emerged as a leading voice for America's accelerationist AI agenda.
Krishnan was a key architect of the American AI Action Plan, aimed at bolstering U.S. dominance and countering China's advances in the intensifying global AI competition.
Apart from his policy formulation experience at the White House, he has also worked as a General Partner at Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and before that, led product and business units at Meta, X and Microsoft.
He rose to greater prominence following China's 2025 DeepSeek breakthrough, which sparked a significant pivot in U.S. AI policy and triggered an AI race between the two countries.
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