With the end of June, the asset data of the world's top 500 richest people in the first half of 2023 has also been freshly released.。According to Forbes and Bloomberg, the wealth of the world's richest 500 people increased by $852 billion in the first half of the year, the best half-year for billionaires since the second half of 2020.。

Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index earned an average of $14 million a day over the past six months.。The stock market rally is the main reason for the wealth growth of these wealthy individuals, with the S & P 500 up 16% in the first half of the year and the Nasdaq 100 up 39%, the best first half on record。

Specifically, Musk increased his net worth by $96.6 billion in the first half of the year, an increase close to the sum of the second and third place increments.。

Musk's wealth surge, mainly driven by Tesla's stock price "surge"。Tesla shares have risen about 158% since January 3.。From May 25 to June 12, Tesla's stock price rose for 12 consecutive trading days, climbing from $186 to $250, or 37%。It was the company's longest streak since it went public at the end of June 2010.。

The rising share price of Tesla is closely related to the company's outstanding performance in the past six months.。In terms of vehicle deliveries, Tesla's deliveries in the first quarter increased 36% year-on-year, and deliveries in the second quarter increased 83% year-on-year, exceeding market expectations.。So far, 889,015 vehicles have been delivered in the first half of the year, nearly half of the 1.8 million target for the year.。In terms of super charging piles, Tesla has brought in a number of U.S. automakers in North America, including Ford, General Motors and Rivian, which have announced that they will adopt Tesla's "NACS (North American Charging Standard)."。The International Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International) also came out to support NACS。Last week, the society said its goal was to make Tesla's charging connectors standard in the industry in six months or less.。

After Musk is Zuckerberg。Zuckerberg's Wealth Grows $58.9 Billion in First Half。Since January 3, Meta's share price has increased from 124 per share..$74 up to 286.$02, up about 130%。Unlike Tesla (above the picture), which has risen in volatility, Meta (below the picture) has been on a steady upward trend this year。

At the end of April, Meta reported first-quarter revenue, unexpectedly reversing three consecutive quarters of decline.。In the first quarter, Meta's revenue was 286.$4.5 billion, up 3% year-over-year, slightly above the company's guidance range of $26 billion to $28.5 billion。Meta does not plunge into the meta-universe as before, but claims to be both AI and meta-universe.。

In February, Meta launched a large language model, LLaMA, which, unlike chatbots such as ChatGPT, is an open-source "research tool" that can be made available to researchers and physical workers in government, community and academia under a non-commercial license.。In March, Meta launched another AI advertising optimization tool, Meta Advantage。Advantage + can use algorithms to generate targeted advertising content on different user data.。It is reported that the tool significantly improves advertising performance, customers spend $1 on Advantage + for advertising campaigns, can generate about $7 return。

On Thursday, Zuckerberg will also launch a new app "Thread"。The software is seen by Meta as an important "weapon" to challenge Twitter。Meta's Instagram is mainly in the form of pictures and videos, while Twitter focuses on text content output。Meta launched Threads to create a text-based discussion and interaction platform similar to Twitter.。

Although it has long been reported that Thread will be launched, the final launch time chosen by Zuckerberg is quite delicate。In the past two days, Twitter has been controversial about limiting the number of tweets users can view per day.。Musk first said that he would set the daily browsing limit for verified accounts to 6,000, while unverified old and new accounts would be 600 and 300, respectively.。But he soon changed his decision, adjusting the browsing limits for the three accounts to 10,000, 1,000 and 500.。This policy has triggered a large number of user dissatisfaction。Zuckerberg took advantage of this time to launch Thread, "the smell of gunpowder" is very strong.。If Thread can finally "defeat" Twitter, it will strengthen Meta's "hegemonic" position in social networks.。

This time Amazon's "head" Bezos ranked third with an increase of 47.4 billion US dollars.。Amazon's share price has also risen this year, but by less than Tesla and Meta, up about 52%。Compared to the above two companies, Amazon's painting style is more "steady and steady."。In the recent hot electric vehicles and AI track, Amazon has a layout。When it comes to electric cars, Amazon invests in US electric car maker Rivian。The company delivered 12,640 vehicles in the second quarter, exceeding estimates of 11,302.。On July 4, the company announced that it would leave the United States and officially go to sea.。In the coming weeks, Rivian will launch more than 300 plug-in delivery vehicles in German cities including Munich, Berlin and Dusseldorf.。

On the AI front, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Bedrock in April.。With Bedrock, customers can choose to use AI models from different providers, including AWS, through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)。According to Grand View Research estimates, Bedrock is Amazon's strongest move to date in the generative AI market, which could be worth close to $110 billion by 2030.。Recently, AWS announced the establishment of the Amazon Web Services Generative AI Innovation Center, which will help customers build and deploy generative AI solutions.。

In addition to the aforementioned "first runner-up," Oracle's Larry Ellison (Larry Ellison) and LVMH Group's Bernard Arnault followed in fourth and fifth place.。In addition, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin are also in the top 10 of the Incremental Wealth list.。Fueled by the AI frenzy, this time Nvidia's Huang Renxun rose $21.4 billion in the first half to rank 10th.。

Some people are happy and some are sad, and there are also wealthy people whose assets are shrinking in the first half of this year.。

Gautam Adani, the former chairman of India's richest man, lost $60.2 billion in net worth, cut his personal wealth and dropped his ranking from the world's top three to 20 after being embroiled in an accounting fraud and stock manipulation scandal in the first half of the year.。On January 27, the U.S. shorting agency Hindenburg Research ("Hindenburg") released a shorting report on Adani's companies, Adani's wealth evaporated on the same day about $20.8 billion, the largest one-day loss among the rich.。

Hindenburg also affected the net worth of another billionaire, Carl Icahn。In May, Hindenburg released a short report on Icahn Enterprises LP, a subsidiary of Carl Icahn, the "Wolf of Wall Street."。In the report, Hindenburg said Icahn Enterprises' shares may be overvalued by more than 75 percent。The stock plunged 20 percent on the day, the company's biggest one-day drop ever。The following day the share price fell further by 19.3%, with closing prices at their lowest level since December 2010。As a result, Icahn's net worth fell by $13.4 billion, or 57 percent, in the first half of the year, the largest decline in net worth among these wealthy individuals over the same period.。