Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s second-wealthyest person for the first time Thursday, jumping ahead of Jeff Bezos as splits of Meta Platestablishs Inc. proceed to climb.
Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse – which initiassociate watched appreciate a huge bust – has phelp off in recent months, pushing his net worth to a high-water label of $206.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That puts him $1.1 billion ahead of Amazon.com Inc.’s Bezos and almost $50 billion behind Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk.
Meta splits have ascendn 23% since inestablishing better-than-foreseeed sales in the second quarter and touting its push into the type of big language models that power AI chatbots. The stock seald Thursday at an all-time high of $582.77.
Meta has spent heavily on data centres and computing power as Zuckerberg labors to create a directing position in the industry-expansive AI race. The company has also shiftd ahead with other lengthened-term projects, including its Orion augmented fact glasses, which the company begind last month.
Zuckerberg, who owns a 13% sget in the Menlo Park, California-based company, has seen his fortune increase $78 billion so far this year, the most of any of the world’s 500 wealthyest people tracked by the Bloomberg index.
The 40-year-better co-set uper and chief executive officer has acquireed four spots this year on the wealth index.
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