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AI boom-created new billionaires of 2025The AI boom is becoming “the largest wealth creation spree in recent history”. In just a few short years, dozens of entrepreneurs and technologists have crossed into billionaire status thanks to the artificial intelligence gold rush.Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, stands out with an estimated net worth of $6 billion. His company provides cloud infrastructure optimized for AI workloads, a sector that has seen explosive demand as AI models become increasingly compute-intensive.Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo, co-founders of Scale AI, are currently two of the world’s youngest billionaires. The pair met when working for social question-and-answer website Quora, and started Scale AI in 2016. The San Francisco-based firm provides data annotation and other services that are used to build, test, and refine AI systems.Three of OpenAI’s most prominent alumni, Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, and Mira Murati all helm companies valued in the billions.Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021. The company is responsible for Claude, which as of January 2025 had 105 million monthly users. Sutskever co-founded Safe Superintelligence in 2024.The company is valued at over $30 billion, with investment from firms like Andreesen Horowitz and Alphabet. Last but not least is Mira Murati, also founded Thinking Machines Lab in February 2025, raising $2 billion from a consortium of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD.