Denis Yarats
Source of wealth: Artificial intelligence
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The scale of their wealth
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Denis Yarats's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country
Denis Yarats could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 0.9 years.
But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country
On the other end, Denis Yarats could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 0.4 years.
Education
Buying the future
Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country
Denis Yarats could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 0.6 years.
And yes, we can also compare it with a rich country
But they couldn't just cover the cost of a poor country; Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, and Denis Yarats could pay for it entirely for 0.8 years.
Research
The monopoly on progress
Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country
Denis Yarats could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with over 260,000,000 inhabitants, for 3.5 years.
And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide
But even if we compare the total wealth of Denis Yarats with Israel, the country that invests the most per capita in research in the world, they could cover the total cost of the system for 0.1 years.
Gold
Everyday luxuries
Denis Yarats's fortune is equivalent to 14 tons of gold. It's hard to process, since we don't usually keep a handful of gold bars in our piggy banks.
A standard gold ring usually weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18 karats.
Based on today's gold price (excluding the jeweler's commission, shipping, or anything else), that ring would be worth $549.34.
Denis Yarats could buy 3,822,788 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and way too many gifts!!
And if you're struggling to visualize that many rings, it would take 1 trucks to transport them. Although Denis Yarats will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.
Biography
Denis Yarats is the chief technology officer and cofounder of AI search startup Perplexity, which hit a $20 billion valuation in 2025.
Perplexity uses a mix of AI models to summarize information from different websites and provides footnote-style citations to the source.
The startup is backed by investors including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, AI pioneer Yann LeCun and Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean.
Originally from Belarus, Yarats cofounded Perplexity in August 2022 with Aravind Srinivas, Andy Konwinski and Johnny Ho.
Before starting Perplexity, Yarats was a research scientist at Meta's Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab and helped create search engine Bing at Microsoft.
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