Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, February 3rd. Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest

people in the world, February 26. There was a significant shake-up among the world's top

10 richest people to start the year, with half of these billionaires switching spots on Forbes's real-time billionaires' ranking

in January. But one thing didn't change. Elon Musk is still the wealthiest person on the planet

by far, worth an estimated $775 billion as of 12 a.m. Eastern on February 1st. Musk added $48 billion to his fortune over the past month

and is now nearly half a trillion dollars richer than his runner-up, Google co-founder Larry Page,

who is worth an estimated $277 billion. Our top 10 richest people in the world list is as of February 1st,

2026 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time. As a group, they're worth $2.6 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. Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the first person ever worth $800 billion,

thanks to his artificial intelligence and social media company, XAI Holdings,

which raised $20 billion from private investors at a $250 billion valuation last month.

That boosted the value of Musk's estimated 49% stake

in XAI holdings by $62 billion to $122 billion. Musk became the first person ever worth $500 billion

in October, $600 billion on December 15th, and $700 billion on December 19th,

as the value of his two biggest assets, SpaceX and Tesla, continued to soar.

Not even Tesla's first ever annual revenue decline could disrupt his upward trajectory.

Larry Page, the world's second richest person for the third straight month,

was the second biggest gainer after Musk, adding $20 billion to his fortune,

as shares of Google's parent company Alphabet climbed by 8%.

His co-founder, Sergey Brin, jumped two spots to number three on Forbes's World Wealth ranking

thanks to an $18 billion increase in his net worth to an estimated $255 billion.

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