Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now value round $206 billion, which places him within the No. 2 spot on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
Zuckerberg, who based Fb in 2004, has a 13% stake in Meta, which owns Fb, WhatsApp, Instagram, and the newer X competitor, Threads. The corporate has invested closely in synthetic intelligence in recent times.
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Zuckerberg noticed his web value enhance by $78 billion in 2024. Per Barrons, Meta shares have been up round 65% this 12 months (by means of Thursday’s shut).
“Throughout Fb and Instagram, advances in AI proceed to enhance the standard of suggestions and drive engagement,” Zuckerberg stated in August. In July, Zuckerberg printed a letter on Fb pushing for open-source AI.
Zuckerberg jumped barely forward of the present No. 3, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ($205 billion).
In the meantime, Zuckerberg is about $50 billion behind the world’s richest particular person, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whose web value is at the moment $256 billion, per Bloomberg.
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