With a net worth of $908 billion, Elon Musk again tops the Forbes 400, a ranking of the nation's wealthiest billionaires that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest person in Florida.
There are 49 Florida residents on the list.
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Forbes said Musk's place at the top of its 45th annual Forbes 400 ranking shows "the wealth gap is widening, even among the ultra-rich." Those on the ranking, released Tuesday, are worth a record $8 trillion, up from $6.6 trillion a year ago. Together, the 20 richest billionaires account for $4 trillion of the total, up from $970 billion from last year.
"Elon Musk's trillionaire moment was short-lived, but the wealth controlled by the top 20 is massive," Forbes said.
Billionaires on the list from Florida, and how they rank nationally, are:
- No. 2 - Jeff Bezos, 62, $378 billion (Amazon)
- No. 7 - Larry Ellison, 82, $204 billion (Oracle)
- No. 15 - Thomas Peterffy, 81, $107 billion (discount brokerage)
- No. 20 - Ken Griffin, 57, $60.5 billion (hedge funds)
- No. 39 - David Tepper, 69, $28.5 billion (hedge funds)
- No. 56 - Stephen Ross, 86, $21.5 billion (real estate)
- No. 68 - Antonio Gracia, 55, $17.1 billion (investments)
- No. 70 - Shahid Khan, 76, $16.5 billion (sports teams, auto parts)
- No. 90 - J. Christopher Reyes, 72, and Jude Reyes, 70, $14.3 billion each (food distribution)
- No. 96 - Robert Duggan, 82, $13.4 billion (pharmaceuticals)
- No. 109 - Josh Harris, 61, $12.4 billion (private equity)
- No. 120 - Terrence Pegula, 75, $11.8 billion (natural gas)
- No. 128 - Orlando Bravo, 55, $11.6 billion (private equity)
- No. 132 - Micky Arison & family, 77, $11.5 billion (Carnival Cruises)
- No. 146 - Stephen Bisciotti, 66, $10.7 billion (staffing, Baltimore Ravens)
- No. 153 - Elisabeth DeLuca & family, 79, $10.2 billion (Subway)
- No. 156 - Jeff Greene, 71, $10.1 billion (real estate, investments)
- No. 170 - John Overdeck, 56, $9.3 billion (hedge funds)
- No. 175 - Todd Boehly, 52, $9.2 billion (finance)
- No. 177 - Igor Olenicoff, 83, $9.1 billion (real estate)
- No. 181 - Sami Mnaymneh, 65, $9 billion (private equity)
- No. 196 - James Clark, 82, $8.4 billion (Netscape, investments)
- No. 199 - Dirk Ziff, 62, $8.3 billion (investments)
- No. 211 - Paul Tudor Jones, II, 71, $8.1 billion (hedge funds)
- No. 245 - Donald Trump, 80, $7 billion (real estate)
- No. 251 - Charles B. Johnson, 93 (Franklin Templeton) and Ronald Wanek, 85 (furniture), $6.9 billion each
- No. 264 - Tom Golisano, 84, $6.4 billion (payroll services)
- No. 269 - Peter Cancro, 69 (Jersey Mike's Subs) and John Henry, 77 (sports), $6.2 billion each
- No. 277 - Rakesh Gangwal, 73, $6.1 billion (airline)
- No. 287 - Isaac Perlmutter, 83 (Marvel comics); Russell Savage, 56 (energy drinks); and Jeff Skoll, 61 (EBay), $5.9 billion each
- No. 293 - Robert Rich, Jr., 85 (frozen foods) and Reinhold Schmieding, 71 (medical devices), $5.8 billion each
- No. 336 - Richard Schulze, 85, $5.1 billion (Best Buy)
- No. 343 - Todd Christopher, 63 (hair care products); Scott Kapnick, 67 (private equity); and David MacNeil, 67 (automobile accessories), $5 billion each
- No. 353 - Robert Johnson & family, 79, $4.9 billion (Johnson & Johnson, New York Jets)
- No. 356 - Abel Avellan, 55 (telecoms); C. Dean Metropoulos, 80 (investments); Daniel Och, 65 (hedge funds); and Herbert Wertheim, 87 (investments), $4.8 billion each
- No. 367 - Michael Jordan, 63, $4.7 billion (Charlotte Hornets, investments)
- No. 375 - Michael Saylor, 61, $4.6 billion, (cryptocurrency)
- No. 380 - Edward DeBartolo, Jr., 79, $4.5 billion (shopping centers)
Even with the list threshold rising to a record $4.4 billion — up from $3.8 billion in 2025 — strong financial growth allowed 34 newcomers to join it. Notably, a record 590 U.S. billionaires were "too poor to make the cut," Forbes said.
Many of the 34 newcomers made their fortunes in artificial intelligence, including Cognition AI cofounder Steven Hao, six Anthropic cofounders and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman.
The AI sector has come under intense scrutiny in Congress this week as high-profile tech leaders push for federal safety regulations and a reduced pace of innovation. These warnings follow mounting concerns about existential risks posed by advanced AI systems, echoed in an essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and supported by xAI's Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
The list includes 62 women, including 13 who are self-made. Alice Walton remains the richest American woman, while ABC Supply cofounder Diane Hendricks is the richest self-made woman.
Ten listees are younger than 40, up from four in 2025. The oldest is 97-year-old timber billionaire Archie Aldis Emmerson, and the average age is 70.
The top 10 billionaires are
- Elon Musk, 55, $908 billion (SpaceX and Tesla)
- Jeff Bezos, 62, $378 billion (Amazon)
- Larry Page, 53, $278 billion (Google)
- Michael Dell, 61, $263 billion (Dell Technologies)
- Sergey Brin, 53, $256 billion (Google)
- Mark Zuckerberg, 42, $212 billion (Facebook)
- Larry Ellison, 82, $204 billion (Oracle)
- Jensen Huang, 63, $199 billion (semiconductors)
- Steve Ballmer, 70, $156 billion (Microsoft)
- Warren Buffett, 96, $144 billion (Berkshire Hathaway)