KARACHI (Rafiq Mangat) There has been a big change in the balance of wealth in Asia, where Zhang Yiming, the founder of Tik Tok’s company Byte Dance, has become the richest person in the region with a total wealth of 292 trillion 4 billion rupees (105.5 billion dollars), surpassing Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, whose wealth is estimated at 290 trillion 11 billion rupees (104.8 billion dollars). Yes, Elon Musk is the richest, the wealth is about 2769 trillion rupees, Google co-founder Larry Page is the owner of 811 billion and the second richest person in the world, – Zhang’s wealth has increased by 33 trillion 22 billion rupees (12 billion dollars) in just one month and after 2019, a total increase of about 254 trillion 67 billion rupees (92 billion dollars) has been recorded. Artificial intelligence is playing a key role in development. Mukesh Ambani, the third richest person in Asia, is 225 trillion 5 billion rupees (81.3 billion dollars). Zhang Yiming owns about 21 percent of the company’s shares, which is directly contributing to the increase in the company’s value. According to the report, Zhang Yiming’s wealth increased by $12 billion during September 2026 alone, largely due to the new valuation of the company by BlackRock and Fidelity. When Bloomberg started calculating his wealth in 2019, he was worth just 36 trillion rupees ($13 billion), so his fortune has now increased almost eightfold. Although TikTok has faced regulatory pressure and possible sanctions in the US, the company’s growth has continued. Tik Tok’s daily active users have exceeded one billion worldwide, while the Chinese app Duo’s users are also in the hundreds of millions, further strengthening the company’s revenue and database. According to experts, ByteDance invested heavily in artificial intelligence during the US pressure and used data from its social media platforms to train AI models, which could become the company’s biggest development tool in the future.