Google co-founder Sergey Brin leapt past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the world’s fourth-richest person on Tuesday (US time). The Alphabet board member and billionaire’s net worth expanded by $2.4 billion in a day after the tech giant’s shares closed a bit higher than 1%, to $317, this week, according to Forbes. Amazon, on the other, recorded a lukewarm gain of just under 0.5%.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin net worth
Witnessing a $2.4 billion boost to his net worth from Monday, Brin is now estimated to be worth $240 billion. He has now slipped past Bezos, who is projected to have a net worth of $239.9 billion, according to Forbes’ December 9 report.
As of December 11, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index also indicated that Brin has climbed ranks to become the fourth richest person in the world, staying right above Bezos. However, this particular index suggested that that the Google co-founder’s revised estimated net worth is $255 billion.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk still stayed on top as the richest man alive, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at No 2 and Brin’s fellow Google genius Larry Page at No 3 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In late November, Page leapt over Ellison to become the world’s No 2 richest for the first time, as per Forbes. This jump was also fuelled by Alphabet shared advancing 5.8% to around $317 at the time, while Oracle’s shares fell 1.5% to below $196.
US government x Google’s Gemini partnership for AI switch
The billionaire leap for Brin also came shortly after the the US Department of Defence, now dubbed the War Department, announced that it was picking Google Cloud’s Gemini as part of the US government’s “AI-first” workforce initiative.
“This past July, President Donald Trump instituted a mandate to achieve an unprecedented level of AI technological superiority,” the December 9 press release stated. “The War Department is delivering on this mandate, ensuring it is not just ink on paper. In response to this directive, AI capabilities have now reached all desktops in the Pentagon and in American military installations around the world.”
The news release further added, “The first instance on GenAI.mil, Gemini for Government, empowers intelligent agentic workflows, unleashes experimentation, and ushers in an AI-driven culture change that will dominate the digital battlefield for years to come. Gemini for Government is the embodiment of American AI excellence, placing unmatched analytical and creative power directly into the hands of the world’s most dominant fighting force.”