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And thanks to artificial intelligence, the trend of developing blockbuster companies at home is sure to continue. Mark Cubanthe billionaire former principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Shark Tank star, recently said that AI will help create the world’s first trillionaire.
“We haven’t seen the best or the craziest of what (AI) can do,” Cuban told the High Performance podcast in a PERIOD published last summer. “And not only do I think it could make a trillionaire, but it could just be some dude in the basement. That’s how crazy it is.”
Take OpenAI, for example, which was formed in the living room of cofounder and president Greg Brockman in 2015. OpenAI is reportedly competing for an $800 billion valuation as it pursues additional funding. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, worth about $2 billion.
Although that’s a long way from AI creating the world’s first trillionaire, a September 2024 report by wealth tracking service Informa Connect says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is on pace to become a trillionaire by 2027.
“There is something bigger and better that a new entrepreneur does,” Cuban said. “But AI just brings everything down.”
How Mark Cuban uses AI
Cuban appears to be a firm believer in the power of AI, and says we’re only in the “preseason” of what the technology can really do.
“As it becomes more advanced—and I’m not saying we’re going to get the Terminator—I’m not saying suddenly there will be robots that are smarter than people, like in the movie,” he said. High Performance. “But we will find ways to make our lives better, more interesting, to work better, more effectively.”
Cuban also said he uses AI for almost everything. He gives an example of how he uses it to track health metrics because he suffers from atrial fibrillation (“A-fib”).
She needs to keep track of when she takes medication and exercises, and uses ChatGPT to help her record it. He also asked ChatGPT to let him know if something he wrote didn’t seem right or something he should be concerned about.
“And damn if it doesn’t,” Cuban said. “Now you have to be careful. It’s like talking to a friend who you think knows a lot about something. You still have to be careful and talk to an expert, but you can do the process and just find out the things I didn’t know to look for are just stupid.”
Cuban touches on one of the biggest concerns when it comes to rely on AI for making important decisions related to health or life. While ChatGPT serves as an accessible way to get advice, and even therapyexperts warn that the technology still has limitations and will make mistakes.
To combat this, Cuban said, he challenged the AI tools he used on many questions and did his own research.
“There are times when I don’t think the answer is what it should be, or I think it’s wrong. And I say, ‘I don’t think you’re right. I need you to show me evidence of how you made this decision,'” he explained. “And it’s no different than talking to a friend or a co-worker and just calling bulls***.”
And on the hot topic of whether AI will take everyone’s jobs, Cuban said no.
“I can just keep doing all the s*** that I’ve tried with AI, and I’m not here to tell you that it’s going to take over everyone’s job. It won’t,” he predicted. “But the things you want to do, if you’re creative, innovative, whatever it is – or you’re just tired – it can be the best alternative to boredom.”
A version of this story was published by Fortune.com on July 7, 2025.
