Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's net worth surpassed Warren Buffett's to reach £106.4 billion ($143.6 billion), according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires List. Buffett's net worth stood at £105.5 billion ($142.4 billion).
Huang's net worth has skyrocketed by almost £21.5 billion ($29 billion) in 2025 alone as his massive stake in Nvidia of over 800 million shares held across trusts, partnerships, and limited liability companies surged on investors betting on the company's dominance in the artificial intelligence race.
Nvidia's AI advantage is driven by its H100 and Blackwell chips, which are the top standard in AI training. Huang founded Nvidia in 1993, and today, its chips power almost everything: from OpenAI's large language models to Meta's data centres.
Huang has successfully expanded Nvidia beyond a chipmaker to a full-stack AI platform with software, networking, and data centre blueprints. Nvidia recently became the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalisation of over £2.9 trillion ($4 trillion). The stock price has recovered from the market crash in April due to US tariff fears and is up 22.81% year-to-date.
Despite the rapid market cap gains, analysts, including Wedbush's Dan Ives, see room for further upside, projecting a £3.7 trillion ($5 trillion) or even £4.4 trillion ($6 trillion) valuation in the next 12 to 18 months.
Huang has been consistently selling Nvidia shares as part of a prearranged plan. In 2024, he sold nearly £519 million ($700 million) worth of Nvidia shares. According to the latest filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the tech executive sold 225,000 Nvidia shares worth almost £26.9 million ($36.4 million) between 8th and 10th July across multiple trades under a March 10b5-1 trading plan. He sold a batch of stock worth almost £11.1 million ($15 million) under the plan in June. The chipmaker's quarterly Form 10-Q indicates that Huang intends to offload 6 million Nvidia shares by the end of 2025.
Prearranged stock sales are often leveraged by corporate insiders, including board members and top executives, to sell shares at predetermined intervals or prices for portfolio diversification or liquidity. This way, they avoid allegations of insider trading as the plan is established when they don't possess material non-public information.
Meanwhile, Buffett's net worth also rose sharply this decade, more than doubling from £50 billion ($67.5 billion) in 2020. The 94-year-old legendary investor is now prioritising his previously announced estate planning strategy.
According to a recent filing, he recently donated over 9.4 million Class B Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Gates Foundation Trust and over 2.9 million shares to his family foundations run by his children, Howard Graham Buffett, Peter Buffett, and Susan Alice Buffett.
Buffett's estate plan will also see his eldest son, Howard, become Berkshire Hathaway's non-executive chairman. Howard is of the view that it won't be easy to take on that role and distribute his father's wealth according to his wishes, but is confident his siblings will utilise their experiences to take risks that make a difference. 'I can tell you, we'll sit down in a room when the time comes, and we'll get it figured out pretty quickly,' he had said earlier.
Buffett's latest donation of over 12.3 million Berkshire class B shares is valued at almost £4.3 billion ($6 billion). The filing also showed that Buffett still holds 198,117 of class A Berkshire shares.
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