It seems like not a day goes by without billionaire Elon Musk making headlines - and in the future, we may be calling him a trillionaire.

The boss of Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter) is the world's richest person.

He became the first to achieve a net worth of more than half a trillion dollars (£370.9bn) in October 2025, according to Forbes, and a month later, Tesla shareholders approved a record-breaking pay deal that could be worth $1trillion.

Musk has charged ahead with human brain chip trials at his firm Neuralink and tried to take a major role in the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence, despite warning that the tech could lead to humanity's extinction.

But he is also known for using his social media platform to air his views on a vast array of topics, particularly politics.