AI AI Yo! Two desi lads in Silicon Valley become youngest self

TOI correspondent from Washington: In a stunning testament to the boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI), three 22-year-old high school friends from Silicon Valley, including two Indian-Americans, have become the world's youngest self-made billionaires. Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, co-founders of the San Francisco-based AI recruiting platform Mercor, achieved the staggering feat after their company recently secured $350 million in funding, valuing the firm at $10 billion. This milestone dethrones Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire at 23. The $10 billion valuation gives each of the three founders, who hold roughly 22 percent stakes, a net worth exceeding $2 billion. Foody is the CEO of the company; Hiremath, whose parents emigrated from Karnata