Thanks to artificial intelligence, DeepSeek’s founder, Alphabet’s CEO, four CoreWeave execs and a bunch of other tech tycoons have joined Forbes’ billionaires list for the first time.
A wash in venture capital money and investor delirium for all things AI, no group has gotten richer or gained more billionaires over the past year than the planet’s tech moguls. As a group, they’re the wealthiest industry on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, worth a collective $3.2 trillion.
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A wash in venture capital money and investor delirium for all things AI, no group has gotten richer or gained more billionaires over the past year than the planet’s tech moguls. As a group, they’re the wealthiest industry on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, worth a collective $3.2 trillion.
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00:00No group has gotten richer, adding $600 billion to their net worth, or gained more billionaires
00:06over the past year than the planet's tech moguls.
00:10As a group, they're the wealthiest industry on Forbes' 2025 World's Billionaires list,
00:16worth a collective $3.2 trillion.
00:20The AI arms race, promoted by ChatGPT's release in 2022, is in full swing.
00:26After excitement, new large-language model releases and a growing list of business applications
00:30for AI have pushed up tech valuations and minted a bunch of new billionaires.
00:36The seven former OpenAI employees, who left to co-found Anthropic in 2021, are now billionaires,
00:42thanks to a massive $3.5 billion funding round at a $61.5 billion valuation announced in
00:49March.
00:51And DeepSeek, founded by Chinese hedge fund manager and new billionaire Liang Wenfeng,
00:56took the world by storm with the release of its R1 reasoning model in January, claiming
01:01it's cheaper to train yet still rivals the performance of OpenAI's latest models.
01:07On the business applications side, translation services entrepreneur Phil Shaw of TransPerfect,
01:14Duolingo co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, and AI game creator Yao Runhao have
01:21gone all-in on AI and reached billionaire status in the process.
01:26Meanwhile, venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale landed on the Forbes list for the first time
01:31this year, thanks to his estimated stakes in Palantir, which has seen its stock soar
01:36by 225% over the last 12 months, and Andro, which is in talks to raise money from private
01:43investors at a $28 billion valuation.
01:46The AI bubble hasn't burst yet, and there's no telling when, or if, it will.