Larry Page and Sergey Brin—co-founders of Google and its parent Alphabet Inc.—have vaulted into the top five of the world’s richest individuals, following a dramatic rally in Alphabet’s stock driven by renewed investor enthusiasm for its artificial-intelligence push.
According to real-time billionaire tracking, Page’s net worth surged to approximately $262.2 billion, while Brin’s wealth surged to around $243.1 billion — fortunes that have climbed by over $100 billion each over the year, thanks to a roughly 70–72% year-to-date increase in Alphabet’s share price.
The jump reflects strong market confidence in Alphabet’s AI roadmap — notably the successful rollout of its latest AI model, which analysts say significantly enhanced the company’s future growth prospects.
With this surge, Page and Brin have leapfrogged past longtime billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison, reshuffling the global wealth rankings in favour of the Google co-founders.
The update underscores how sweeping investor optimism around AI and cloud-driven growth can rapidly reshape fortunes — transforming tech founders’ stakes into multibillion-dollar wealth almost overnight.
