A chipmaker's equity book grows tenfold to $99 billion

Claim

Nvidia's equity book grew tenfold to $99 billion, plus a $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face and $105 billion in credit for an Ohio site, while Berkshire bought $10 billion of Alphabet's AI raise at a discount and the boom minted a record 3,795 billionaires worth $15.1 trillion, 27% of it held by 29 people.

Reported metric: $99B book / 3,795 billionaires

Reporting date: 2026-09-06 (not necessarily the event date)

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