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Fortune
Jessica Coacci

AI is already creating a billionaire boom: There are now 498 AI unicorns—and they're worth $2.7 trillion

Dario Amodei speaking on stage. (Credit: Chesnot—Getty Images)
  • AI is minting billion-dollar startups faster than the dot-com era, with 100 unicorns born in the last two years, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Scale AI. They join a total of nearly 500 AI companies with valuations of $1 billion or more, according to CB Insights. And the gold rush is far from over. 

No longer do business leaders need to spend decades building the next big thing to join the ranks of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos at the top of the billionaires club; they just need to build an AI company.

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