According to CB Insights data, there are currently 498 AI "unicorn" companies worldwide valued at over $1 billion, with a total value of $2.7 trillion. Among them, 100 were established in 2023 and later, and the number of companies valued at over $100 million has exceeded 1,300. The core of this wealth feast is the astonishing fundraising ability and continuously rising valuations of AI startups. Anthropic is negotiating to raise $5 billion at a valuation of $170 billion, nearly doubling its valuation since March. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, completed a $2 billion seed round in July, setting the record for the largest seed round in history.

This round of wealth creation is not limited to startups; it includes the soaring stock prices of publicly traded tech giants such as Nvidia, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as the booming development of infrastructure companies like data centers, which together form the panorama of this AI wealth explosion. Andrew McAfee, a principal researcher at MIT, stated, "Looking back at the data from the past 100 years, we have never seen such a scale and speed of wealth creation; it is unprecedented."
This year's blockbuster funding rounds are mass-producing new billionaires. According to Bloomberg's estimate in March, the four largest private AI companies have created at least 15 billionaires, with a total net worth of 38 billion dollars. Since then, more than a dozen unicorn companies have emerged.

According to media reports citing informed sources, Anthropic AI's CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders are now likely billionaires with fortunes in the billions of dollars. Additionally, Anysphere was valued at $9.9 billion during its funding round in June, and a few weeks later, it reportedly received valuation offers between $18 billion and $20 billion, which is likely to make its 25-year-old founder and CEO Michael Truell a billionaire.