Elon Musk, the richest particular person on the earth since Could 2024, added $320 billion (or $875 million a day) between July 2025 and July 2026, based on an evaluation by BestBrokers. The report relies on the Forbes real-time billionaire record. Musk turned the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX went public on June 12 however misplaced and crown final month after the shares crashed and is the poorest he has been since December, with an estimated wealth of $690 billion.
Researchers at BestBrokers used the Wayback Machine to match the estimated web value of the world’s richest on July 27, 2025, and July 27, 2026, to calculate one-year share adjustments of their fortunes.
The previous yr has seen fast development in synthetic intelligence and know-how, and accordingly, tech entrepreneurs like Musk, Micheal Dell, Larry Web page, Sergey Brin and Giancarlo Devasini of stablecoin large Tether, gained probably the most on the Forbes billionaires record, as per BestBrokers.
After Musk, Dell Applied sciences founder and CEO Michael Dell recorded the second-largest improve, including $107.6 billion to his fortune over the identical interval.
The AI wave additionally noticed the fortune of DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng skyrocket from $1 billion in 2025 to $39.5 billion in 2026 – a whopping 3,850 per cent improve within the single yr. Liang is among the many prime 50 richest individuals on the earth.
Musk, who has been creating new wealth data since showing within the Forbes record for the primary time in 2021, is initially from South Africa. He moved to Canada earlier than his 18th birthday, labored quite a lot of jobs and earned a bachelor’s diploma in economics from College of Pennsylvania (after being transferred from Queen’s College in Ontario).
His first billion got here from a deal when a web based financial institution he co-founded merged with Peter Theil’s PayPal and was purchased by eBay for $1.4 billion in 2002.
