Forbes 2025 list shows that in recent years, the wealth of those investing in artificial intelligence (AI) in the technology sector and the number of billionaires who have become billionaires from it are increasing globally.

Vinod Chaudhary is the only person from Nepal to be included in the list of the richest people in the world, which is published annually as the Forbes Billionaires List.

Among the top 10 billionaires, 7 are from the technology business sector. Of these, investors in the AI ​​sector have been mentioned in the analysis of Forbes that has flourished significantly this year . According to Forbes, there are currently 3,028 billionaires in the world. Their total wealth has reached 16.1 trillion dollars . In 2025, 46 billionaires have become from the AI ​​sector and their total wealth has been added to 600 billion dollars through investment in AI.

Forbes journalist Phoebe Liu has analyzed in the article "AI Boom Billionaires" that there are so many billionaires and so many assets in no other genre. Liu mentioned that AI has played a key role in the wealth growth of Elon Musk, the head of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Alphabet (Google), Jenson Huang of Nvidia, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Liang Wenfeng of Chinese startup Dipsic, who rose to number one on the Forbes list this time.

"Competition in the AI ​​sector, which started since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, has now advanced rapidly, the market valuation of technology companies has risen due to the new version of the large language model and the increasing use of AI in business, and it is giving birth to new billionaires," Liu wrote, "seven former employees who founded another AI company called OpenAI Anthropic in 2021 have now become billionaires. There are .' Giving the example of Alexander Wang, who became the world's youngest billionaire in 2021 at the age of 24 by establishing a

arms trading AI startup company, Forbes mentioned that he managed to re-enter the list in 2025 through an agreement with the US Department of Defense.

Elon, who was in second place last year with a total wealth of 195 billion dollars, has added 147 billion dollars to his wealth this time and won the first place in the Forbes list with a total of 342 billion dollars . Although representing the automotive sector such as SpaceX or Tesla, Musk was assured of a $6 billion investment by his AI company XAI last December. He recently sold his social network platform X to XAI for $33 billion through an all-stock deal.

Apart from XAI, Musk also got a good income from SpaceX, which makes advanced space-related equipment. While Tesla struggled at the start of the year, gradual improvements have helped Musk's wealth grow . Musk appears to have gotten richer because of his ties to the Trump administration, influencing federal policies in his favor. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg, who modified platforms including Facebook to suit Trump's policies by donating to Trump's inauguration ceremony, has become the second richest person in the Forbes list this time. Zuckerberg, who has amassed a total of $216 billion in assets, has also been helped by Meta's AI expansion.

Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, is now in third place last year. However, his wealth increased by 10 percent to 215 billion dollars. The 80-year-old Larry Ellison, who is number four, has a total wealth of 192 billion dollars, he is the co-founder and chief technology officer of the famous software company "Oracle". Bernard Arnault and his family, who are number five on Forbes' list of billionaires, have dropped $55 billion this time. As the richest person in the world last year, his wealth was the highest of 233 billion dollars . He was ranked first in 2021, 2023 and 2024. Arnault is the CEO of Louis Vuitton Moi Hennessy, a French luxury brand founded in 1987.

The 94-year-old Warren Buffett, a well-known investor in the capital market, is in sixth place with a total of $164 billion this year, adding $31 billion in assets. Last year also he was the sixth richest person in the world . According to Forbes, he is regarded as the most successful investor in human history. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are in seventh and eighth place respectively. Their total assets are $144 billion and $138 billion respectively. Although Larry stepped down as CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet in 2019 and Brin stepped down as chairman, they are both board members and major shareholders.

Spain's famous clothier Bricketa Amancio Ortega, representing the fashion and retail sector, is ranked ninth on the Forbes list. Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft, is the tenth richest person in the technology sector. Ortega's net worth this year is $124 billion and Ballmer's is $118 billion. Forbes has been making this list since 1987, and as always, this year, America has the highest number of billionaires at 902. Then there are 516 billionaires in China, including Hong Kong, and 205 billionaires in India. The total wealth of Indian billionaires is 1.1 trillion, which is about a quarter of India's GDP .

India's Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has dropped out of the top 10 places in the Forbes list and reached the 18th place with a fortune of $92.5 billion.

Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group, is on the 28th place in the world list with 56.3 billion dollars in assets. Savitri Jindal, India's richest female entrepreneur and the sixth richest woman in the world, and her family are ranked 56th in the Forbes list. His net worth is currently $35.5 billion.

Analysts estimate that many billionaires will have to face a challenging situation in the coming days as the new US government begins to impose one additional tax and their country-centric policy continues. Forbes estimates that new billionaires may be added significantly in the coming year as AI, electric vehicle, semiconductor chip, energy technology and other sectors are making good progress.