Jensen Huang’s $142B Fortune Nears Warren Buffett’s Throne—Just $2B Shy of the Oracle
Tech titan Jensen Huang's net worth rockets to $142 billion—nipping at Warren Buffett's heels with a mere $2 billion gap.
The AI boom catapults Nvidia's CEO into the financial stratosphere, turning silicon into gold faster than Buffett can say 'value investing.'
Who needs compound interest when you've got compute power? Huang's ascent proves silicon valleys run deeper than Omaha's cornfields.
Nvidia climbs while Warren slows down
Warren Buffett, 94, is still ahead — but barely. He’s worth $144 billion, which includes just a $2.19 billion bump this year, Bloomberg reported. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, has done alright in 2025. The stock is up around 5%, and that’s helped Warren stay in the lead. But the gap is shrinking fast. Nvidia is moving quicker, and Jensen could pass Warren if the stock keeps rising.
There’s more. Loop Capital analyst Ananda Baruah said this week in a note to clients that Nvidia’s value might hit $6 trillion. He told Forbes that this projection is based on Nvidia’s current trajectory and how fast the AI space is growing. If that happens, Jensen’s net worth could jump again — and easily push him ahead of Warren.
But there have been bumps. On January 27, Nvidia’s stock dropped 17% in a single day. That came after reports that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, was using Nvidia’s cheaper, stripped-down chips to run a new large language model. Investors panicked, and Nvidia’s market value dropped $600 billion — the biggest single-day loss ever for a U.S. company, CNBC said.
Then, on March 3, another hit came when President Donald TRUMP announced new tariffs on goods from Mexico, where Nvidia does part of its manufacturing. The stock dropped 9% that day. But since June, Nvidia has been recovering on Wall Street. The share price has climbed again, showing that investors are betting big on the company long-term.
Warren donates billions while Jensen holds firm
Warren is still giving away huge sums. On June 27, he gave $6 billion to five charities. That brings his total donations to over $60 billion in the last twenty years. In a statement, Warren said, “substantially more than my entire net worth in 2006.” That year, he was worth $46 billion and ranked right behind Bill Gates in global wealth rankings, Forbes said.
Jensen’s focus has been different. He hasn’t sold large shares or made massive donations. His wealth remains locked into Nvidia’s future. And if the company’s value keeps rising, he could soon leave Warren behind.
Jensen started Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. None of them had run a company before. Speaking on the “Acquired” podcast last October, Jensen said that helped them take the leap.
“If we realized the pain and suffering, just how vulnerable you’re going to feel, and the challenges that you’re going to endure, the embarrassment and the shame, and the list of all the things that go wrong, I don’t think anybody WOULD start a company.”
“I think that’s the superpower of an entrepreneur,” Jensen added. “They don’t know how hard it is, and they only ask themselves, ‘How hard can it be?’”
Now, he’s leading the most valuable tech company in the world, and could soon have more money than Warren, one of the richest men in history.
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