Bloomberg: ByteDance Founder Zhang Yiming Overtakes Adani as Asia's Richest at $105B on TikTok and AI Boom
Summary
ByteDance's Zhang Yiming has passed Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person at $105B, an 8x jump from March 2019, per Bloomberg. The move is driven by ByteDance's TikTok US Oracle-Silver Lake joint venture (closed January 2026) and the Doubao chatbot passing 75M MAUs, with the company on pace to spend ~$70B on AI infra in 2026.
Originally reported by bloomberg.com
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