Three 22-year-old friends, including two Indian-Americans, have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires after their artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Mercor, secured $350 million in funding.

The milestone has placed them ahead of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who first entered the Forbes Billionaires List at the age of 23 in 2008.

The new billionaires, Adarsh Hiremath, Surya Midha, and Brendan Foody, each own roughly 22 per cent of Mercor, which is now valued at around $10 billion. Their journey from school friends to tech tycoons has attracted global attention, as they have now broken every previous record for wealth creation at such a young age.

Hiremath and Midha, both of Indian origin, were raised in California’s San Jose area and studied at Bellarmine College Preparatory

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