From helping to answer emails to translating legal documents, artificial intelligence (AI) is now part of almost every aspect of life.
Meanwhile, organizations like Microsoft, Apple, and Britain's National Health Service (NHS) have invested large sums in the latest intelligence software.
And for some of the people behind this AI boom, there have been tremendous profits.
According to Forbes' "Real Time Billionaires" list, the top new AI billionaire is Jensen Huang, CEO of chipmaker Nvidia, with a staggering fortune of $113 billion (£151 billion).
Mr. Huang joins big tech names like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who have also invested heavily in AI recently.
But it's not just the leaders of large, established companies who have been immensely enriched by AI.
At just 26 years old, Alexandr Wang has become the youngest self-made billionaire, with a fortune of $2.7 billion (£3.6 billion) thanks to his company Scale AI.
Here are the richest and youngest AI billionaires who are getting rich off the tech boom:
Jensen Huang – $113 billion (£151 billion)
Age: 62
Company: Nvidia
Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, the world's largest maker of powerful chips used in AI. Known for his leather jacket and rockstar style, Huang has led Nvidia to a valuation of $4 trillion by July 2025.
Originally specializing in gaming graphics cards, Nvidia became essential for AI because of the chips' capacity to process complex calculations. Huang owns 3% of Nvidia, with values that have increased 300% in the last year alone.
Alexandr Wang – $2.7 billion (£3.6 billion)
Age: 28
Company: Scale AI
In 2016, at the age of 19, Wang dropped out of MIT to found Scale AI, a company that helps companies use data for AI applications. Today, the company has over 300 clients, including Google, Meta, and General Motors. He owns 14% of Scale AI, which was valued at $2024 billion in 14.
Sam Altman – $1.4 billion (£1.9 billion)
Age: 40
Company: OpenAI (ChatGPT)
Altman is one of the most well-known figures in AI as the CEO of OpenAI. His wealth comes not from OpenAI (he doesn't own any shares in the company), but from investments in Stripe, Reddit, and Helion, a company working on nuclear fusion. He started his career by selling the company Loopt for $42 million.
Phil Shawe – $1.3 billion (£1.8 billion)
Age: 55
Company: TransPerfect
Phil Shawe is the co-founder and CEO of TransPerfect, the world's largest translation and localization company, which uses AI for legal, healthcare, and film/gaming translations. Shawe owns 99% of the company, which generated $1.3 billion in revenue in 2024.
Dario Amodei – £901 million ($1.2 billion)
Age: 42
Company: Anthropic
Former OpenAI VP Dario Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela. He has contributed to the development of reinforcement learning — a technique that teaches AIs to learn from human responses. In March 2025, Anthropic was valued at $61.5 billion, making Amodei a billionaire.
Liang Wenfeng – £751 million ($1 billion)
Age: 40
Company: DeepSeek
Little known in the West, Wenfeng rose to fame after introducing DeepSeek-R1, a language model that outperformed ChatGPT on several metrics, with only 5% of the operating cost. DeepSeek caused Nvidia's stock to fall 17% in one day, wiping $600 billion off its market value.
Wenfeng does not come from the field of computer engineering, but from finance, as the founder of the High-Flyer fund.
Yao Runhao – £977 million ($1.3 billion)
Age: 37
Company: Paper Games
Yao founded Paper Games in 2013 and is now its CEO. The company is best known in China for its dating simulator "Love and Deepspace," which uses AI to create virtual characters that "flirt" with users over phone calls.
About 6 million people play the game every month, mostly women in China. The company employs about 2,000 people and focuses solely on the Chinese market.
At a time when artificial intelligence is changing the way we work, communicate and live, these individuals have not only become symbols of this transformation - but also billionaires of a new technological era. /GazetaExpress/
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