List reveals 75 US AI founders with billionaire status, led by OpenAI team
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-08-25
Joseph Jacks compiled a list of AI founders in the US with net worths exceeding $1 billion, totaling 75 individuals currently. OpenAI's founding team dominates the list: Greg Brockman is estimated at $25.5B, Ilya Sutskever at $13.8B, Sam Altman at over $3.3B, and Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman, and Andrej Karpathy each over $1.5B. The list also includes founders from Anthropic and others. The author questions how the length of this list will change in 1 to 5 years.
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