“Up more than 100 years of history, we have never seen wealth created in such magnitude and such speed, it is not precedents,” said Andrew McAfee, MIT principal researcher. In fact, according to our colleagues, new companies linked to artificial intelligence generate the greatest wave of wealth creation in recent history. This year, the successful collection of anthropic funds, safe superligence, Openai, Anysphere and other new companies have created immense fortunes and valuations promoted in record levels.
According to CB Insights, there are now 498 unicorn linked to AI, that is, private companies in the sector valued at $ 1 billion or more, for a combined value of $ 2,700 billion. One hundred of them were founded less than two years ago. According to the specialist, more than 1,300 new companies valued at more than $ 100 million are listed.
Four giants in the sector created at least 15 billionaires
Among the outbreak of Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft and others in the stock market, data centers and other infrastructure manufacturers, as well as the colossal remuneration of AI engineers, artificial intelligence allows many people to enrich themselves.
A new generation of billionaires arises, with dazzling valuations. In March, Bloomberg estimated that four of the largest private companies had created at least 15 billionaires for a total net fortune of $ 38 billion. Meanwhile, a dozen new companies in the sector have accessed the State of Unicorn. Example with Mira Murati, who left Openai last September and launched Thinking Machines Lab in February. In July, he raised no less than $ 2 billion during a historical round, promoting the company at $ 12 billion.
Currently in conversations to raise $ 5 billion, Anthrope AI is valued at $ 170 billion, almost three times its March recovery. His CEO, Dario Amodei, and his other founders are now probably billionaires. For its part, Anysphere was valued at almost $ 10 billion during a fundraising in June. A few weeks later, a new valuation of the company ranged between $ 18 and $ 20 billion, which probably made its young founder and CEO Michael Tuelll as a billionaire.
A high concentration in San Francisco
The fact is that the increase in AI is mainly concentrated in the San Francisco Bay region, remembering the era of Dotry.com. According to the New World Wealth company and the British consulting firm Henley & Partners, San Francisco now has more billionaires than New York: 82 against 66 for the big block. The millionaire population of the San Francisco Bay has doubled in the last decade, when its growth has been limited to 45 % in New York.
According to Sotheby’s International Realty, San Francisco registered more houses of more than $ 20 million last year than in any other year in history. The increase in rents, real estate prices and demand in the city, largely awarded to AI, marks a net reversion for a city that faces great difficulties only a few years ago. “The geographical concentration of this wave of AI is amazing,” explains Andrew McAfee, also co -director of the MIT digital economy initiative.
Source: BFM TV
