Not Sam Altman, Jensen Huang; this billionaire gains most from AI deals in 2025, net worth surges to $350 billion
AI infrastructure deals take the world by storm in 2025; Companies like OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and others announced multibillion-dollar AI deals last month.
These AI deals have caused valuations of companies like Oracle, OpenAI, and Nvidia to soar, according to a new report from Forbes. As a result, the billionaire founders, executives, and investors tied to these firms’ massive AI data center deployments benefited the most.
“There is so much impatience and desire to move fast and fear of being left behind that there is such a high premium on getting the best possible as quickly as possible,” Stella Biderman, chief executive of AI nonprofit EleutherAI, told Forbes.
According to the publication, these AI deals have led to an explosive increase in the net worth of at least 20 of the top billionaires. Together, they have added more than $450 billion to their wealth since January 1 this year.
Which AI billionaire earned the most?
Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison has emerged as the big winner of the AI race.
The eighty-year-old actor added $140 billion to his fortune last year, thanks to a 73 percent increase in Oracle shares.
Shares of Oracle have soared on forecasts that revenue from cloud infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence will rise from $18 billion this year to $144 billion in the next four years.
Last month, Ellison replaced Elon Musk as the richest person in the world for a time.
Minutes after markets opened, Ellison’s Oracle Corp. its shares skyrocketed by more than a third; This was enough for Ellison to temporarily take the title away from long-time holder Elon Musk and pass it on to the software giant’s co-founder.
Larry Ellison owns nearly 40% of Oracle, meaning his shares, which soared in just over half an hour after the stock market opened, added $100 billion to his net worth.
Larry Ellison net worth
According to Forbes, as of October 10 this year, Larry Ellison’s net worth was $349.4. This is a 66.6% increase from December 31 last year, when his net worth was $209.7.
The increase in Ellion’s net worth reflected investors’ expectations that computers would take over many jobs now done by humans and that Oracle would benefit from this.
