You've probably never heard of her, but she's the youngest billionaire and she comes from the world of AI.

According to Forbes, the 30-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of Scale AI is the youngest self-made billionaire.

Scale AI is an American company based in San Francisco that develops and provides solutions to accelerate the development of applications based on artificial intelligence – which you may have never heard of until now.

Their core business is data management and transformation into high-quality datasets, which are essential for training and improving AI models, the Telegraph reports.

Scale AI's services are used by major technology companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as the automotive industry, as well as a number of US government and defense institutions.

The nine-year-old company is currently in the process of raising capital, and will allow its early co-owners to sell their shares to outside investors.

This process should be completed by June 1 and could put Scale AI's valuation at up to $25 billion, or 80% more than the value reached last year in May, when the startup raised $1 billion in investment at a valuation of $13.8 billion.

The new round of investment in the company also brings a huge increase in the personal wealth of its founders, among whom stands out Lucy Guo – an American entrepreneur you may have never heard of until now.

She co-founded Scale AI when she was just 22 years old. She launched the startup alongside Alexander Wang, the current CEO, but due to mutual disagreements, she left the company after just two years, retaining about 5% of the ownership stake.

With an expected valuation of $25 billion, Guo leapt up the ladder of young wealthy women to number one. At just 30 years old and with a fortune of $1.25 billion, she topped Forbes' list of billionaires.

After leaving Scale AI, Guo started her own venture capital fund, Backend Capital, and in 2022 launched the platform Passes, a competitor to OnlyFans and Patreon, which allows content creators and celebrities to communicate directly and monetize fan relationships.

Passes has so far raised about $50 million in investments, worth about $150 million, so its total wealth, if that project is included, is even greater. /Telegraph/

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