By 2025, thanks to artificial intelligence With the booming development of the technology industry, the global billionaire community has achieved record wealth growth.
According to Forbes, more than 340 new billionaires were created globally in the past year, a 50% increase over the average of the past five years; the total wealth of billionaires reached $18.7 trillion, an increase of $3.6 trillion year-on-year, and an increase of $10 trillion compared to 2020.
The wealthiest individuals on the rich list have also seen a significant increase in their net worth. To date, the number of billionaires with assets exceeding $100 billion has reached a record 19, compared to only one person, Amazon , six years ago. Bezos alone.
The statistics also found that the total wealth of the world's top ten billionaires increased by more than $700 billion in the past year. Elon Musk alone saw his wealth increase by $330.9 billion, which is more than $70 billion higher than the total wealth of Larry Page, who ranked second. This means that by 2025, Musk will have accumulated more wealth than anyone else on Earth will have accumulated in a lifetime.
Musk's ability to achieve such a significant wealth increase in just one year is due to his holdings in Tesla. Both his privately owned company, SpaceX, saw their value soar this year, with SpaceX's market capitalization more than doubling to $800 billion.
Elon Musk was not the billionaire who set a record for the largest single-day increase in net worth this year. On September 10th, Oracle... Oracle co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison gained nearly $100 billion in wealth as Oracle 's stock price soared 36%, setting a world record.
Oracle's stock price subsequently fell by about 40% recently due to underperforming results, but Ellison's wealth has still increased by nearly $40 billion since the beginning of the year.
Besides these two billionaires who have amassed fortunes through investments in the tech industry, Google's two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have also seen their wealth skyrocket due to artificial intelligence . Google's recent release of the Gemini 3 model has not only attracted significant market attention but has also helped Google's stock price rise sharply.
Meanwhile, GPU manufacturer Nvidia Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has benefited from Nvidia 's outstanding performance, propelling him up the wealth rankings. Nvidia's stock price has steadily risen this year, with an annual increase of 30.37%, and the company is currently the world's most valuable publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of $4.58 trillion.
Besides these well-known billionaires, a large portion of this year's newly minted billionaires also come from the artificial intelligence industry, and nearly two-thirds of the new tycoons are self-made, such as Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek in China, and the seven key employees who left OpenAI this year.
(Article source: CLS)
