At 81 years old, he has just taken the throne of the richest man, yet he is still discussing his fifth marriage.

Larry Ellison recently made headlines with a fortune that is 8 billion dollars more than Elon Musk.

On September 10, the founder of Oracle saw his net worth soar by over $100 billion in a single day, officially becoming the world's richest person. It's a bit ironic to say—he didn't rise to wealth through any new invention, but rather found a second spring using 40-year-old database technology amid the wave of AI infrastructure.

Oracle and OpenAI signed a $300 billion five-year deal, with stock prices soaring 40% in a day, the largest increase since 1992. The market is buzzing, and investors are betting: how did this “old relic” that was overshadowed by AWS and Azure come back to life?

The answer is simple - the AI era needs infrastructure, and enterprise-level databases are just the business of selling shovels.

But what this guy is even more amazing at is not doing business. At 81, he is still dating and just married a Chinese woman 47 years younger than him. He previously supported sailing competitions and tennis tournaments, bought 98% of the land in Hawaii, and established a cancer research center…

People in Silicon Valley say he is a weirdo: living in extreme luxury on one hand, and being obsessively disciplined on the other. He practices for several hours every day, only drinks water and green tea, and his skin looks twenty years younger than his peers. He almost lost his life surfing but continues to surf; this guy just can't sit still.

Son David acquired Paramount (Hollywood) for 8 billion dollars, and he also announced a 500 billion dollar AI data center project at the White House alongside Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman. The father controls Silicon Valley, while the son controls Hollywood, vividly linking the technology and media empires together.

Some say that Ellison is like a perpetual surfer — riding the waves, in the arena of love, at the center of power, charging wherever there's excitement. The position of the world's richest person may soon change hands again, but at this moment he proves to everyone: the old generation of tech giants is far from finished in the AI era, and may actually be the biggest winners.