The AI growth has created a record-breaking wave of latest billionaires and excessive firm valuations prior to now yr at a price unprecedented in historical past, in keeping with CNBC.
CB Insights reviews there at the moment are 498 AI “unicorns” (personal firms price no less than $1 billion) with a mixed worth of $2.7 trillion — and 100 of them had been based after 2023. In complete, greater than 1,300 AI startups have been valued at $100 million or extra.
Giant rounds of capital for firms like Anthropic, OpenAI, Anysphere and Protected Superintelligence have created new paper fortunes, with a number of founders now multi-billionaires, no less than on paper.