
Larry Ellison
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Born1944-08-17
Occupationactor, aircraft pilot, businessperson, computer scientist
EmployerAmdahl Corporation, Ampex
Positionboard member, chairperson, chief executive officer
EducationSouth Shore High School, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Highlights
“For these models to reach their peak value, you need to train them not just on publicly available data, but make privately owned data available for those models as well,”
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source“AI changes everything. That’s saying a lot, but it is close,”
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source“The great opportunity is the use of these remarkable electronic brains to solve society’s most-enduring problems… We will live better lives through better health care, homes, productivity at work.”
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source“There are a lot of brilliant, really brilliant scientists in our business. Bill, forgive me, there are a lot of people in the world smarter than Bill Gates. There are very few people in the world that have his focus and endurance.”
inkl.com2025-08-19Source“Today, 18 months later, I think it’s very, very clear: AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before,”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“The secret is to get all that data in one place. Without having the basic data, the AI model doesn’t have the context and cannot answer the [specific] questions about your country.”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“We will soon have not only artificial intelligence but also — much sooner than anticipated —artificial general intelligence and then, in the not-too-distant future, artificial superintelligence.”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“I can go on and on, but AI will fundamentally change our lives in medicine, agriculture, and robotics across the board.”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“And we’re short. We are expanding as fast as we can. It’s really interesting. It’s an exciting opportunity. But it’s challenging when there’s more demand than supply.”
crn.comSource“There’s actually more demand for AI processing than there is available capacity,”
crn.comSource“People talk about ChatGPT being really cool because it can write my high-school essay for me,”
crn.comSource“The other guys can’t do that … can’t do it dynamically.”
crn.comSource“They run their workload and the moment their workload is through running, we can reallocate that cluster or break that cluster up and allocate it to other users,”
crn.comSource“Well, how about reducing hospital readmissions at MD Anderson by 30 percent? You decide which is more important. … And GPT is very cool. There are other applications other than generative language in these large language models.”
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“For these models to reach their peak value, you need to train them not just on publicly available data, but make privately owned data available for those models as well,”
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source“AI changes everything. That’s saying a lot, but it is close,”
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source“The great opportunity is the use of these remarkable electronic brains to solve society’s most-enduring problems… We will live better lives through better health care, homes, productivity at work.”
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source“There are a lot of brilliant, really brilliant scientists in our business. Bill, forgive me, there are a lot of people in the world smarter than Bill Gates. There are very few people in the world that have his focus and endurance.”
inkl.com2025-08-19Source“Today, 18 months later, I think it’s very, very clear: AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before,”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“The secret is to get all that data in one place. Without having the basic data, the AI model doesn’t have the context and cannot answer the [specific] questions about your country.”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“We will soon have not only artificial intelligence but also — much sooner than anticipated —artificial general intelligence and then, in the not-too-distant future, artificial superintelligence.”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“I can go on and on, but AI will fundamentally change our lives in medicine, agriculture, and robotics across the board.”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“And we’re short. We are expanding as fast as we can. It’s really interesting. It’s an exciting opportunity. But it’s challenging when there’s more demand than supply.”
crn.comSource“There’s actually more demand for AI processing than there is available capacity,”
crn.comSource“People talk about ChatGPT being really cool because it can write my high-school essay for me,”
crn.comSource“The other guys can’t do that … can’t do it dynamically.”
crn.comSource“They run their workload and the moment their workload is through running, we can reallocate that cluster or break that cluster up and allocate it to other users,”
crn.comSource“Well, how about reducing hospital readmissions at MD Anderson by 30 percent? You decide which is more important. … And GPT is very cool. There are other applications other than generative language in these large language models.”
crn.comSource“Thank God we have these coding tools now that allow us to build a comprehensive set of software — agent-based software — to automate an ecosystem like health care or financial services,”
qz.com2026-03-11Source“That’s what we’re doing at Oracle,”
qz.com2026-03-11Source“That’s why we think we’re a disruptor.”
qz.com2026-03-11Source“That is why we think we are a disruptor. That is why we think the SaaS-apocalypse applies to others, but not to us.”
qz.com2026-03-11Source“even larger and more valuable”
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source“the largest and fastest-growing business in human history,”
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source“That’s the big step — that’s the missing link — we need to unify all of the national data, put it into a database where it’s easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like,”
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source“way ahead of the other hyperscalers in terms of our network and our ability to do AI.”
crn.comSourceWorks Timeline
2003
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In the News
- "Oracle's Crash Has Cost Larry Ellison $213 Billion. Now It Could End His Son's $110 Billion Media Empire Dream" - 24/7 Wall St.247wallst.com · 2026-07-21
- This US tech billionaire once begged power companies to keep his electricity on, faced rejection from almost every investor, now owns a $300 million Hawaiian island - The Economic Timesm.economictimes.com · 2026-07-20
- Billionaire Larry Ellison once struggled to pay his electricity bills to keep his computer running. Now, the Oracle co-founder has written a $300 million cheque to buy a Hawaiian island three times the size of San Francisco - The Times of Indiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2026-07-19
- Oracle's Larry Ellison downplays software apocalypse fears: 'We think the SaaSpocalypse applies to others, but not to us' | Business Insider Africaafrica.businessinsider.com · 2026-03-10
- Oracle's Larry Ellison is down an unmatched $49 billion this year after the plunge in software stocks | Business Insider Africaafrica.businessinsider.com · 2026-02-05
- Larry Ellison Drops To World’s No. 6 Richest Behind Mark Zuckerberg As Oracle Shares Dipforbes.com · 2026-01-27
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- Larry Ellison: Elon Musk briefly lost his title as world’s richest person | CNN Businesscnn.com · 2025-09-10
- Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison on track to make record $88Baxios.com · 2025-09-10
- Larry Ellison is world's second-richest person after Oracle rally | Fortunefortune.com · 2025-07-16
- Larry Ellison: Who Is He, How Did He Become World’s Second-Richest Person - Bloombergbloomberg.com · 2025-07-16
- Inside Larry Ellison’s Nearly $2 Billion Property Portfoliorobbreport.com · 2025-07-04
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