20 Billionaires Who Gained Combined $460B Through AI Investments in 2025

While ethical and moral debates carry on regarding the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives, you can expect AI to remain a powerful presence in the tech and business worlds for a long time to come — it is generating an absolutely enormous amount of wealth, after all.

Over the course of 2025, at least 20 billionaires have made nearly $500 billion in additional profits thanks to their investments in AI alone, per a recent Forbes report. Many have managed to do so via deals of somewhat circular complexity. Forbes gives an excellent example with American tech company Nvidia, which invested $100 billion in AI developer OpenAI — and now OpenAI will spend an extraordinary amount of money on Nvidia GPUs to expand the power and reach of its own data centers. By investing in OpenAI, Nvidia essentially invested in, and guaranteed, its own profits.

That profit circularity has driven many of the year’s larger AI-related deals and investments, and has generated an incredible amount of wealth for tech CEOs, developers and billionaires. One such figure is Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who made a staggering $140 billion in 2025 thanks to Oracle’s ambitious investments in cloud infrastructure to support AI. Of the many billionaires who have profited from 2025’s AI gold rush, none have made more this year than Ellison.

That said, a number of other billionaires have made vast sums with investments similar to Ellison’s. Forbes recently charted those 20 billionaires who’ve cumulatively made $460 billion via AI investments in 2025, and from that list GOBankingRates has organized the billionaires from highest to lowest in terms of how many billions were individually earned.

• Net worth in October: $1 billion
• Net increase ($): $0.3 billion
• Net increase (%): 42.9%

• Net worth in October: $1.8 billion
• Net increase ($): $0.4 billion
• Net increase (%): 30.4%

• Net worth in October: $1.5 billion
• Net increase ($): $0.6 billion
• Net increase (%): 59.6%

• Net worth in October: $1.6 billion
• Net increase ($): $1.2 billion
• Net increase (%): 300%

• Net worth in October: $3.3 billion
• Net increase ($): $1.2 billion
• Net increase (%): 57.1%

• Net worth in October: $8.1 billion
• Net increase ($): $2.2 billion
• Net increase (%): 36.1%

• Net worth in October: $3.3 billion
• Net increase ($): $2.3 billion
• Net increase (%): 230%

• Net worth in October: $4.1 billion
• Net increase ($): $2.6 billion
• Net increase (%): 166.2%

• Net worth in October: $4.2 billion
• Net increase ($): $2.9 billion
• Net increase (%): 223.1%

• Net worth in October: $5.7 billion
• Net increase ($): $4 billion
• Net increase (%): 235.3%

• Net worth in October: $9.1 billion
• Net increase ($): $6.4 billion
• Net increase (%): 237%

• Net worth in October: $31.7 billion
• Net increase ($): $8.8 billion
• Net increase (%): 38.2%

• Net worth in October: $157.7 billion
• Net increase ($): $33.4 billion
• Net increase (%): 26.8%

• Net worth in October: $150.7 billion
• Net increase ($): $35 billion
• Net increase (%): 30.2%

• Net worth in October: $188.9 billion
• Net increase ($): $39.9 billion
• Net increase (%): 26.8%

• Net worth in October: $245.9
• Net increase ($): $43.4 billion
• Net increase (%): 21.5%

• Net worth in October: $74.2 billion
• Net increase ($): $43.5 billion
• Net increase (%): 142%

• Net worth in October: $164.2 billion
• Net increase ($): $47 billion
• Net increase (%): 40%

• Net worth in October: $203.6 billion
• Net increase ($): $47.6 billion
• Net increase (%): $30.5%

• Net worth in October: $349.4 billion
• Net increase ($): $139.7 billion
• Net increase (%): 66.6%

Disclaimer: Figures were accurate as of Oct 7, 2025 and subject to change.