They say that who does not risk does not win. If for something they have characterized the three years we have been Armament career for AIit has been precisely because of the huge sums of money with which risk capital investors have watered companies that develop this technology. These investments have made the main actors in that new industry Milmillonarios has been made In record time.
In fact, As he pointed out Forbesin 2024, advances in this technology have promoted unprecedented growth in the technological sector, creating 46 new millmillonarios and consolidating To technological giants They have opted for this technology.
According to Forbes estimates, the combined heritage of technological leaders related to the development of AI has already reached The 3.2 billion dollarswith an increase of 600,000 million dollars in just one year. This economic impulse makes the artificial intelligence sector the most lucrative of 2024, benefiting both large Magnates with consolidated fortunesas to small entrepreneurs who have become new millmillionaires.
The golden year for artificial intelligence
Since Openai launched the chatgpt model in 2022, competition in the sector intensified with new models and AI applications that quickly captured the attention of investors. Among the great market movements, the case of Anthropic stands out for its success.
Founded in 2021 by seven former employees of OpenAI, the company reached an assessment of 61.5 billion after A financing round of 3.5 billion. That has turned its founding partners, Dario and Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Christopher Olah, in new millmillonarios thanks to the good results demonstrated by her hybrid model Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Its estimated heritage is 1.2 billion euros eacheither.
Something similar has happened with, Sam Altman, former head of the founders of Anthropic who, after a year in which Openai has become The great rival to beatthe CEO of the company consolidates its assets and its entry into the list of Milmillonarios de Forbes. Sam Altman has an estimated fortune in some 1.4 billion dollarsdespite what Your salary is lower than that of its software engineers.
The great whales of technology
The great technological magnates have managed to capitalize on the Boom of Artificial Intelligence, significantly increasing their fortunes in the last year. Elon Musk, for example, managed to expand its heritage thanks to Xai and recent integration with x.
Similarly, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has seen how His fortune increased in 21.7 billion dollars Thanks to the demand for chips for the manufacture of the company it founded.
In the same line is Larry Ellison, co -founder of Oracle, who saw his fortune as in 2024 It grew at 51,000 million dollars Thanks to great collaborations in AI projects. Among them, Stargate, the 500,000 million dollar agreement Between Oracle, Softbank, OpenAi, Nvidia and Microsoft that has the approval of the US government.
Alphabet didn’t get far behind in this race. The launch of your Gemini 2.0 model fired the value of the company’s shares. That increase added 30,000 million dollars more to the coffers of each of its founders, Serguéi Brin and Larry Page.
In fact, the profitability of Google’s AI has reached such an extreme, that even the PICHAI SUCKING ACTION PACKAGECEO of the company, has made it one of the new millmillonarians who enters this year to be part of the Forbes list, with a heritage of 1.1 billion dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg too has added about 39,000 million dollars to your fortune thanks to Meta AI initiatives. That positioned him as the second richest person in the world, with an estimated heritage of 216,000 million.
The new pond fish
While the giants maintain their domain, a group of emerging entrepreneurs has achieved the status of billionaires thanks to the glowing success of their AI startups. Among the most prominent cases we find Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Deepseek, whose technology aims to compete with Openai at a much lower cost.
Another notable incorporation has been Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, who already briefly entered the exclusive Milmillonarios Club in 2021, but his fortune was diminished by investors’ swings. In 2025, the child prodigy of data labeling for AI has returned strongly after raising more than 1,000 million dollars for its company and closing a key contract with the US Department of Defense. That has reported an estimated fortune of 2,000 million dollars At 28 years.
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