Artificial Intelligence creates the world's new billionaires

In just a few years, dozens of entrepreneurs and tech professionals have become billionaires thanks to the AI rush, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com. It highlights the new class of company founders who will become some of the "AI billionaires” in 2025. The analysis is based on information provided by CNBC, which tracked the emerging wealth of AI companies around the world. Net worth data was collected from Forbes in August 2025.

According to CNBC, the AI boom is becoming "the largest wealth creation spree in recent history”.

• Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, leads the way with a net worth of $6 billion

Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, stands out among the new billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $6 billion, according to the cited source. His company provides cloud infrastructure optimized for AI workloads, a sector that has seen explosive demand as AI models become increasingly sought after.

The company launched its IPO (initial public offering) in March 2025 at $40 per share and has seen extreme volatility since then. The stock peaked at $183.58 on June 20, 2025, but is currently trading near $90.

CoreWeave has a strategic partnership with giant Nvidia Corp., which is not only its primary supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs) but also a major investor.

In second place on the list is Alexandr Wang, the AI director at Meta, with a fortune of $3.6 billion, and in third place is Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded companies such as Palantir Technologies, Addepar and OpenGov, with a fortune of $3.4 billion. Places 4-10 look like this: Brett Adcock (Figure AI, $1.5 billion); Michael Truell (Anysphere, $1.3 billion); Lucy Guo (Passes, $1.3 billion); Yao Runhao (Paper Games, $1.3 billion); Dario Amodei (Anthropic, $1.2 billion); Liang Wenfeng (DeepSeek, $1 billion); Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity, under $1 billion).

• Scale AI Co-Founders Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo - Two of the World's Youngest Billionaires

Alexander Wang and Lucy Guo, the co-founders of Scale AI, are currently two of the world's youngest billionaires. They met while working for the social question-and-answer site Quora and launched Scale AI in 2016. The San Francisco-based firm provides data annotation and other services used to build, test, and refine artificial intelligence systems. Guo has since founded Backend Ventures (a technology-focused venture capital firm) in 2019, and later Passes (a content creator monetization platform) in 2022.

More recently, in June 2025, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, a deal that also put Wang at the helm of Meta's Superintelligence Lab.

• OpenAI Alumni: Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, and Mira Murati

Three of the most prominent alumni of the artificial intelligence research institute OpenAI, Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, and Mira Murati, all lead companies valued at billions of dollars. Amodei, a former vice president of research at OpenAI, co-founded Anthropic in 2021. The company is responsible for Claude, which, as of January 2025, had 105 million monthly users. Sutskever, a former head of research at OpenAI, co-founded Safe Superintelligence in 2024. The company is valued at over $30 billion, with investments from firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Alphabet.

Finally, Mira Murati, a former CTO at OpenAI, founded Thinking Machines Lab in February 2025, raising $2 billion from a consortium of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD. The company is set to announce its first product later this year.