Afghanistan, Oct. 17 -- Elon Musk remains the world's richest person, with an estimated net worth of $908.5 billion, according to Forbes. The ranking comes a day after he unveiled a long-delayed Tesla Roadster that briefly took to the air using thrusters developed with SpaceX.

Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires ranking, last updated at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Friday, October 16, places Amazon founder Jeff Bezos second with $369.8 billion. Google co-founder Larry Page is third with $279.3 billion.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin ranks fourth with $257.1 billion, and Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is fifth with $243.3 billion.

Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell is sixth with $237 billion. He is followed by Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang ...