Published: Dec. 26, 2025 at 11:20 a.m. ET
This has been a great year for artificial-intelligence companies, which launched model after model and ramped up spending. AI has also made a lot of rich people much richer.
More than 50 individuals involved in the AI sector became billionaires this year, Forbes reported on Thursday. Many of those people are entrepreneurs involved in startups, such as the seven co-founders of Anthropic, which nearly tripled its valuation in less than a year.