Richest AI founder isn’t Sam Altman or Dario Amodei — It’s this Chinese Billionaire
One would think that the brains behind the top rivalling artificial intelligence startups on the rise, Anthropic and OpenAI, are the richest AI founders in the world. Shockingly, neither Dario Amodei nor Sam Altman make the cut. Ironically, OpenAI’s Samuel Altman is actually far behind in that race; Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index does not even list him among the Top 500 richest people.
Although the ChatGPT maker’s co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, still rounds out that the Top 100 billionaires tally, Chinese AI rival DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng easily left all these names behind this week.
