AI’s New Rich Worth $59 Billion Benefit From Relentless Boom

The most recent crop of artificial intelligence billionaires could hardly be more unlikely. One is a published poet. Another is helping catalog associates of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. At least three have no college degrees. One even pleaded guilty to a felony.

Their businesses are also quite different from those of the first wave, which primarily made their fortunes on data centers, chips and the large language models using them. The newcomers are applying AI to other industries, such as law, healthcare, customer service and software development.

The goal for many is to build an AI ...