ByteDance's Zhang Yiming retakes China's richest spot on AI

Hurun's list shows ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming back on top of China's rich list with $100 billion, up 43%, almost entirely from AI. ByteDance's Doubao is China's most-used AI assistant. 160 listers, one in ten, now make their money from AI; DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng debuts at seventh.

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