AI Billionaires 2025: 50 New Fortunes Created

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• The booming AI industry throughout 2025 will give birth to more than 50 new billionaires, driven by global investment of more than 200 billion US dollars or around half of the world’s total funding, massive expansion in the sectors of AI models, data centers, and AI-based audio, video and coding services.
• Forbes highlights a number of key AI billionaire figures, with Edwin Chen (Surge AI) becoming the new richest in 2025 thanks to assets of around 18 billion US dollars, followed by other names from AI companies such as Sierra, Scale AI, Cursor, and ElevenLabs, confirming that AI is now the foundation of the new global economy.

COMPASS.com – Artificial intelligence industry (artificial intelligence/AI) will become the new wealth creation machine throughout 2025. According to reports Forbes, Huge investment and expansion in the AI ​​sector gave birth to more than 50 new billionaires.

Dozens of billionaires were born in various parts of the world, from founders startup to infrastructure entrepreneurs data center. This cannot be separated from the massive adoption of AI in various sectors, such as cloud computing, data processing, AI agent services, to audio and video.

According to Crunchbase data, throughout 2025 more than 200 billion US dollars (around Rp. 3,354 trillion) will flow into the AI ​​sector, or the equivalent of around 50 percent of total global funding.

AI competition itself has heated up since ChatGPT started booming. Then DeepSeek from China released an AI model open-source which is more computationally efficient, followed by Anthropic’s jumbo funding which raised its valuation to 183 billion US dollars (around Rp. 3,069 trillion).

On the other hand, infrastructure spending also soared, marked by projects data center Stargate giant worth 500 billion US dollars (around Rp. 8,386 trillion), as well as investments of tens of billions of US dollars from Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft.

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The talent war and acquisitions are also said to have helped give birth to new billionaires, including from data labeling companies such as Scale AI and Surge AI.

Meanwhile, audio, video, and AI startups coding such as ElevenLabs and Cursor are also enjoying a surge in valuations thanks to the increasing use of AI in the world of work.

Forbes assess, this phenomenon confirms that AI has developed from just a technological trend into the foundation of a new economy that is reshaping the global industrial landscape, with the pace of investment and competition expected to continue into the future.

Who will be the new billionaires in 2025?

Well, unlike the list of the richest people in the world, Forbes It doesn’t specify who the 50 people who will become billionaires thanks to AI will be in 2025.

However, they mentioned several of the most striking figures, one of which was Edwin Chen, who is the founder and CEO of the AI ​​company founded in 2020, Surge AI.

Chen will become the new richest AI billionaire in 2025 with assets worth around 18 billion US dollars (around Rp. 301.9 trillion).

In less than five years, Chen built Surge AI with no funding venture capital to record revenue of 1.2 billion dollars (around Rp. 20.1 trillion) in 2024.

Surge AI, which offers a platform for machine learning (machine learning) and large language models (LLM), have large clients such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Mistral.

Now, the company’s valuation is estimated at 24 billion (around Rp. 402.5 trillion).

Apart from Chen, other billionaires who will get rich thanks to AI in 2025 are Bret Taylor from Sierra, Lucy Guo from Scale AI, and Piotr Dabkowski from ElevenLabs.

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Forbes noted that these three figures respectively have wealth of 2.5 billion US dollars (around Rp. 41.9 trillion), 1.4 billion US dollars (around Rp. 23.4 trillion), and 1.1 billion US dollars (around Rp. 18.4 trillion).

In full, here are several new billionaires who will gain wealth from the AI ​​sector throughout 2025 Forbesas summarized KompasTekno from Forbes.

• Edwin Chen – 18 billion US dollars or around Rp. 301.9 trillion (Surge AI)
• Bret Taylor & Clay Bavor – 2.5 billion US dollars each or around IDR 42 trillion (Sierra)
• Brendan Foody & Adarsh ​​Hiremath – 2.2 billion US dollars each or around IDR 36.9 trillion (Mercor)
• Anton Osika & Fabian Hedin – 1.6 billion US dollars each or around IDR 26.8 trillion (Lovable)
• Lucy Guo – 1.4 billion US dollars or around IDR 23.5 trillion (Scale AI)
• Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif & Arvid Lunnemark – 1.3 billion US dollars each or around IDR 21.8 trillion (Cursor)
• Mati Staniszewski & Piotr Dabkowski – 1.1 billion US dollars each or around IDR 18.5 trillion (ElevenLabs)

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