The combined fortune of Google's co-founders has increased by more than $18 billion after the company announced a search engine powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
Larry Page's net worth rose $9.4 billion to $106.9 billion, while Sergey Brin's net worth rose $8.9 billion to $102.1 billion this week, their biggest weekly gains since February 2021, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
At an annual developer event on May 10, Google said it will begin testing a more conversational search engine and make AI-powered chatbots more widely available.
The upgrade will help the tech giant assert its dominance in the increasingly competitive AI sector. Shares of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, rose nearly 1% on May 12 after rising 8.6% in the previous two days.
Larry Page (left) and Sergey Brin, the two co-founders of Google, have recently stepped up the application of artificial intelligence to the world's most popular search engine. Photo: The Verge
Google’s two co-founders are among the top earners of 2023. They have each pocketed more than $22 billion so far this year, and are now ranked eighth and ninth on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s richest billionaires.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is another beneficiary of the AI boom, investing in startups in the field despite calls to slow down research due to concerns over China's technological development.
The bulk of his $23.6 billion fortune is still tied to Alphabet, where he is the third-largest individual shareholder. His net worth also increased by $1.8 billion this week.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Although the two men no longer hold executive roles at Google, they still serve on the board of directors and have significant influence on the group's decision-making with approximately 85.8% of Class B shares, equivalent to 51.2% of Google's voting rights .
Nguyen Tuyet (According to Bloomberg, History Computer)
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