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Recent digital and, specifically, AI technologies and models both changed the ways people interact with the world and facilitated AI-corporate boom that created AI’s billionaires, mostly from the US and China. Quite notable: the “AI-boom” has been the quickest and largest “wealth creation venture” in modern history: the world-wide AI-connected firms and companies are presently most active wealth-creators, according to Forbes.
Background
Wide AI models deployment’s process commercially started just about a decade ago as a handful of digital technology tools; however, it rapidly expanded into an ever-evolving numbers AI platforms actively serving changing customers’ needs.
The onelittleweb company has analyzed during August 2024-July 2025 the top 10 chatbots from a market of over 10,500 AI tools generating nearly 100 billion web visits.
Among main outcome of the company’s recent study, there are the following:
= AI tools ad models – dominated by Chatbots – have created huge profits for developers generating the AI-driven market spanning over 10,500 tools; and top 10 AI chatbots alone captured 58.8% of that traffic, which is a sign of increasing consolidation in consumers and users’ interest.
= The top 10 Chatbots attracted 55.88 billion visits yearly; these world-wide leading chatbots have already “solidified their positions as the gravitational centers of the AI universe”.
= ChatGPT continues to dominate the global AI market: its yearly visits skyrocketed by 106% over the year-over-year account, growing from 22.6 billion to 46.6 billion. The AI tools’ market share is extremely surprising: in mid-2025, the ChatGPT models accounted for 48.36% of all AI web traffic (amounting to 10,500+ tools). In order to define the perspectives, the study revealed that the next nine world-wide chatbots combined could make only about 10.5 percent.
Reference and citations from “The AI ‘Big Bang’ Study 2025” by Sujan Sarkar in: https://onelittleweb.com/data-studies/best-ai-chatbots/
The exponential AI growth was facilitated in great extent by the blockbusters’ fundraising rounds during the last year for such models as, e.g. Anthropic, Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI, Anysphere and other AI startups. Actually, it is through these tech-giants the growth of new “digital billionaires” exploded.
As analytics confirm, “with time, and IPOs, many of today’s private AI fortunes will eventually become more liquid, providing a historic opportunity for wealth management firms”. The AI deployment has been both quick and profitable: the “boom” has become “the largest wealth creation spree in recent history”, noted CNBS.
Reference to Robert Frank, “AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace”, in: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/ai-artificial-intelligence-billionaires-wealth.html
Most popular AI Chatbots
With 46.59B visits globally, ChatGPT accounts for more than 83% of total traffic among the top 10 chatbots; the second most-used chatbot, DeepSeek is at 2.74B visits and has barely 6% of ChatGPT’s traffic; the third is Gemini with 1.66B visits.
The rest of the list includes a mix of US, Chinese and European companies: thus, e.g. Claude with 1.15B visits; Perplexity, with 1.47B; Microsoft Copilot, with 957.19M; Poe, with 378.05M; Mistral, with 101.39M; and Meta AI, with 130.35M visits annually.
Sources: a) https://onelittleweb.com/; and b) https://www.voronoiapp.com/technology/The-10-Most-Used-AI-Chatbots-in-2025-6302
In just a few short years, dozens of digital entrepreneurs and technologists -mostly from the US and China – have become billionaires due to active involvement in the AI’s “golden rush”.
Below is the list -devised by Forbes- of the most notable AI billionaires by Autumn 2025 revealing the leaders’ names, company’s title and estimate net worth (in $ billions):
Michael Intrator CoreWeave $6.0
Alexandr Wang Meta $3.6
Joe Lonsdale 8VC/Palantir $3.4
Brett Adcock Figure AI $1.5
Michael Truell Anysphere over $1.3
Lucy Guo Passes $1.3
Yao Runhao Paper Games $1.3
Dario Amodei Anthropic $1.2
Liang Wenfeng DeepSeek $1.0
Aravind Srinivas Perplexity over $1
Ilya Sutskever Safe Superintelligence over $1
Mira Murati Thinking Machines Lab over $1
There are already about five hundred so-called “AI-unicorns,” or private AI companies with valuations of $1 billion or more, with a combined value of $2.7 trillion; just one hundred of them was crated since 2023.
There are more than 1,300 AI startups globally, with valuations of over $100 million, the CNBC confirms.
Source and citation from: https://www.cnbc.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/