{"id":379475,"date":"2025-12-31T08:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:44:30","slug":"something-else-ai-is-creating-young-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379475\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Else AI Is Creating: Young Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Artificial intelligence didn&#8217;t just dominate headlines in 2025\u2014it quietly turned more than 50 people into billionaires, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aliciapark\/2025\/12\/25\/ai-minted-more-than-50-new-billionaires-in-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>. An unprecedented surge of investment into AI models, infrastructure, and workplace tools reshaped the global wealth rankings, with founders of data-labeling firms, chip suppliers, cloud providers, and coding assistants joining the ultra-rich. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/29\/technology\/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> also takes a look at new members of the nine-figure club, noting that most (though not all) are young men who got rich quickly. They include:&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                      Edwin Chen, CEO of Surge AI, who has by far the biggest net worth of the new group at $18 billion.  Lucy Guo, a co-founder of Scale AI. (Fellow co-founder Alexandr Wang was already a billionaire.)  Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, co-founders of Sierra.  Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midh, co-founders of Mercor.  Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin, co-founders of Lovable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The Times collects this quote from Winston Weinberg, a 30-year-old co-founder of legal software startup Harvey, on his new wealth: &#8220;Yeah, sure it&#8217;s in the billions, but it&#8217;s on paper.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Artificial intelligence didn&#8217;t just dominate headlines in 2025\u2014it quietly turned more than 50 people into billionaires, reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,184,181,507,15885,13652,185483,1282,1283,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-379475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-billionaire","13":"tag-billionaires","14":"tag-forbes-billionaire-list","15":"tag-meta","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}