Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, December 2nd.

Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, December 2025.

The planet's 10 richest people enter the last month of 2025 in an AI arms race.

After the mid-November launch of Google's Gemini 3 model, its parent

company, Alphabet, may have steered itself into the lead. That has made co-founder Larry Page

the world's second wealthiest person for the first time ever. Page is worth an estimated $262 billion

as of 12 a.m. Eastern Time on December 1st, up $30 billion

from November 1st, thanks to a 14% surge in the shares of Alphabet. Our top 10 richest people

in the world list is as of December 1st, 2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time. As a group, they're worth $2.4 trillion combined,

the same as last month. As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths

on our list may change on a daily basis. Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time

list of billionaires.

Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987.

In April 2025, we found 3,028 of them for our annual list.

Larry Page's Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, was the second biggest winner among the

world's top 10 wealthiest,

as his fortune soared by $27 billion to an estimated $242 billion, bumping Brin up one spot

to number five. Meanwhile, Warren Buffett, whose conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, disclosed

a nearly $5 billion stake in alphabet

in mid-November, was the third largest gainer, and the only member of this month's top

10, who didn't make last month's ranking.

Buffett, whose net worth rose by $9 billion to an estimated $152 billion, moved up from

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