And the figures agree with the expert. Since the beginning of the year, 53 new “unicorns” (private start-up has been valued at more than a billion dollars) have emerged. Among these, more than half are specialized in AI. They join an already impressive group, comprising 498 unicorns in this sector, for a total value estimated at 2,700 billion dollars. Note that some of them do not even have two years of existence.
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Billions and billions
Behind these figures hide trajectories that we know, others less. The American Anysphere, for example, start-ups specializing in developer tools, has doubled its valuation in a few weeks to reach almost $ 20 billion. Its young founder, Michael Truell, joined the billionaire club before his thirty years. Mira Murati, former Technical Director of Openai, launched her start-up Thinking Machines Lab in February. Five months later, she announced a lifting of $ 2 billion, enhancing her business at 12 billion.
Another example: Anthropic. The start-up has increased in a few months from 60 to 170 billion dollars in valuation and already discusses a new lifting of 5 billion. The famous Openai and his chatgpt, for its part, flirts with the 500 billion.
But the most emblematic figure of this new era is undoubtedly Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. The company provides the most powerful processors on the market, which have become essential to cause AI models. Its market capitalization exceeded $ 4,000 billion, becoming the most valued company in the world. This outbreak propelled Jensen Huang to the rank of 7th world fortune, with $ 159 billion, 44 billion more than a year ago.
The AI will create more than millionaires in five years than the Internet in twenty. “
San Francisco, the place to be
If this wealth is concentrated somewhere, it is in the bay of San Francisco. Near the famous Silicon Valley more precisely. According to New World Wealth and Henley & Partners, the region now has 82 billionaires, against 66 for New York. The number of millionaires has doubled there in ten years, growth that leaves far behind that of the big apple which, only climbed “45 %.
And it shows. Real estate prices are reaching heights. The median price of accommodation now exceeds a million dollars in the region, according to information from the French media. In some districts, rents have doubled in five years.
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A fever that is not likely to fall back, if we believe the boss of Nvidia. “”AI is the greatest equalizer of our time “estimated Jensen Huang last July in the all-in podcast. “”It will create more than millionaires in five years than the Internet in twenty. ” In any case, it seems to be well.
