Khaberni - 2025 was a prosperous year for a group of American billionaires in the technology sector, as they managed to increase their net wealth by about 600 billion dollars during the year, according to the British newspaper Financial Times.
The total wealth of the richest 10 tech company founders and executives in the United States grew to 2.5 trillion dollars on December 24, the current, before the New York Stock Exchange closed for the Christmas holiday, compared to 1.9 trillion dollars at the beginning of 2025, according to the British newspaper.
These billionaires' wealth includes their liquid money, stocks, bonds, and other investments. The increase in their wealth reflects the gains that the American stock market achieved, with the Wall Street "Standard & Poor's-500" index rising by 18% during 2025.
The newspaper noted that technology sector billionaires in the US benefited from the injection of hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence sector investments, and the related services such as data centers.
💰 The richest 10 American billionaires in the technology sector
Here is a list of the richest 10 American billionaires in the technology sector according to their net wealth at the end of 2025, as reported by "Financial Times":
Elon Musk: 645 billion dollars
Larry Page: 270 billion dollars
Jeff Bezos: 255 billion dollars
Sergey Brin: 251 billion dollars
Larry Ellison: 251 billion dollars
Mark Zuckerberg: 236 billion dollars
Steve Ballmer: 170 billion dollars
Jensen Huang: 156 billion dollars
Michael Dell: 141 billion dollars
Bill Gates: 118 billion dollars
Major deals and agreements in 2025
Elon Musk, who owns Tesla for car manufacturing and SpaceX for space and X platform, tops the list of the richest businessmen in the American technology sector, and he is also the richest in the world, with a fortune estimated at about 645 billion dollars.
During 2025, Musk managed to reach an unprecedented deal with Tesla shareholders, under which he received a salary reaching a trillion dollars, in return for his commitment that the company would be the global leader in electric car technology, and related artificial intelligence applications, in the coming years, Musk also benefited from the increase in SpaceX's value to 800 billion dollars.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Alphabet, the owner of Google, managed to increase their net wealth during 2025 to take the second and fourth places respectively, due to the significant rise in Alphabet's shares.
Another billionaire, Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, achieved massive gains as the demand for the artificial intelligence chips his company produces soared, enabling him to agree on 100 billion dollars in investments with Open AI, thus raising Nvidia's market value this year to more than 4 trillion dollars.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, fell to the tenth position in the list of the wealthiest in American technology leaders, due to his sale of some of his shares in the giant company to fund his charitable projects.
Other prominent deals in the technology sector
The following are some of the prominent deals in the technology sector in 2025 according to Forbes:
- US President Donald Trump announced that Open AI, SoftBank of Japan, and Oracle Corporation of America would establish a new company named "Stargate" valued at 500 billion dollars. Trump described the deal as "the biggest artificial intelligence infrastructure project in history".
- Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle specializing in data technology, made a deal worth 300 billion dollars with Open AI to establish data centers over the next five years.
- Amazon announced it would invest up to 50 billion dollars to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure and computing capabilities for its US government customers.
- Disney announced investing a billion dollars in Open AI, which will allow users to create videos using its characters.
Fears of an "artificial intelligence bubble"
However, these billionaires' gains declined in recent months, according to Financial Times, due to fears of a bubble in the artificial intelligence sector, and its inability to generate the anticipated profits after the massive investments pumped into it.
The British newspaper quoted Jason Furman, a professor of economics at Harvard University and an advisor to Open AI, saying, "There is a big question about whether this investment (in artificial intelligence) will achieve the expected results, but investors are betting that it will."
Forbes website noted that with increasing investments in artificial intelligence, some investors are concerned that the stock values of giant technology companies are exaggerated and may collapse.
