Artificial intelligence in 2025 The investment boom has fueled a surge in the net worth of America's wealthiest tech billionaires. However, the recent stock market rally has slowed as market concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble grow.
According to foreign media data, as of the close of trading on Christmas Eve, the top ten U.S. tech founders and CEOs had a net worth of nearly $2.5 trillion, including cash, equity, and other investments. This figure represents an increase of over $550 billion from $1.9 trillion at the beginning of the year. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 ... The S&P 500 rose by about 18%.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang saw the most significant increase in wealth. Elon Musk topped the list with a net worth of $645 billion, a nearly 50% increase this year. He reached a $1 trillion compensation agreement with Tesla shareholders, and the valuation of his rocket company SpaceX soared to $800 billion.
Another big winner of the artificial intelligence boom is Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of AI chip manufacturer Nvidia , whose market capitalization once reached $5 trillion this year. Huang ranks as the eighth richest tech executive in the United States with a net worth of $156 billion. (According to Securities Times ) According to a filing with the stock exchange, Jensen Huang sold more than $1 billion worth of stock this year.
Another tech billionaire worth mentioning is Oracle. Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Three months ago, Oracle announced a $300 billion data center deal with OpenAI. Following the transaction, Ellison's net worth soared. However, due to concerns about how the group would finance its data center expansion, Oracle 's stock price fell 40% from its September peak, and Ellison's net worth was surpassed by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
This year, Google's stock price surged nearly 66% thanks to advancements in its internal AI models and chips, and Page and Brin's net worth increased by $270 billion and $255 billion, respectively.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of tech giant Meta, has seen his wealth ranking drop following the recent plunge in the company's stock price as investors become increasingly wary of its massive spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and salaries for top AI researchers.
Microsoft Bill Gates, the founder of Amazon, is the only tech billionaire on this year's list whose net worth at the end of the year is lower than at the beginning. In addition, Amazon... Founder Jeff Bezos also sold $5.6 billion worth of stock this year.
However, in recent months, market gains have slowed due to concerns about an investment bubble triggered by artificial intelligence, and some of the profits of tech billionaires have been cut. Jason Furman, a Harvard economics professor and advisor to the startup OpenAI, said, "There is still a huge question mark about whether everything invested in artificial intelligence will pay off, but at least for now, investors are still betting that it will."
(Article source: CBN)
