Half of the top ten richest people on the planet moved up or down on Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires ranking in a wild first month of the year.

Elon Musk has become the first person to surpass $800 billion in net worth following the merger of SpaceX and xAI, valued at $1.25 trillion. This deal boosted his fortune to $852 billion, with his SpaceX stake now his most valuable asset.

Billionaire Elon Musk saw his wealth soar in 2025, due to an 18.6% gain for Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock and a rising valuation for SpaceX ahead of a potential IPO. While Musk could become the world's first trillionaire,

Elon Musk is worth $779.7 billion, according to Forbes, meaning he's rich enough to purchase every major US sports league

Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos have gained a combined $100 billion in 2026 thanks to stock gains and xAI's valuation bump.

Elon Musk’s net worth has crossed the $600 billion mark, a figure so extreme it barely fits into familiar ideas of wealth. Most of it exists on paper, tied to stock and private companies, which rise and fall with the market.

This highlights the vast gulf between even the wealthiest of superheroes and the real-world financial elite. As a pivotal figure in the X-Men series, Professor X inherited much of his wealth, which is valued at approximately $3.

Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year