{"id":1021059,"date":"2026-07-15T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021059"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:39:01","slug":"richest-ai-founder-isnt-sam-altman-or-dario-amodei-its-this-chinese-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/richest-ai-founder-isnt-sam-altman-or-dario-amodei-its-this-chinese-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Richest AI founder isn\u2019t Sam Altman or Dario Amodei \u2014 It\u2019s this Chinese Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Samuel Altman is actually far behind in that race; Bloomberg\u2019s Billionaires Index does not even list him among the Top 500 richest people. <\/p>\n<p>Although the ChatGPT maker\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Samuel Altman is actually far behind in that race; Bloomberg\u2019s Billionaires Index does not even list him among the Top 500 richest people. Although the ChatGPT maker\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021060,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021059\/revisions\/1021060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}