AI unicorns surge with nearly 500 companies valued at over $1 billion, creating wealth at a record pace.

[Chain News] PANews, August 10 news, it is reported that the artificial intelligence industry has created dozens of new billionaires this year, making the AI boom quickly become the largest wealth creation surge in modern history. This year, massive financing from startups like Anthropic, Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI, Anysphere has created huge paper wealth and pushed valuations to record levels. According to data platform data, there are currently 498 AI "unicorn" companies, which are private AI companies valued at over $1 billion, with a total value of $2.7 trillion. Of these, exactly 100 were established after 2023. The data platform states that there are currently over 1,300 AI startups valued at over $100 million. In addition, with the soaring stock prices of listed AI-related companies such as NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, and others, along with infrastructure companies building data centers and computing capabilities, as well as huge salaries for AI engineers, AI is creating personal wealth on a scale that makes the last two tech waves look like warm-ups. Andrew McAfee, a chief researcher at MIT, stated: "Looking back at over 100 years of data, we have never seen such scale and speed of wealth creation." "This is unprecedented."