AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace

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Artificial intelligence attempts have been printed in dozens of new billionaires this year, and recently contributed to a AI explosion, which has become the biggest frenzy of creating the biggest authority in the recent history.

This year, anthropic, safe super -Superstelligigers, Openai, Anysphere and other initiatives, box office records for donation gathering tours created great new paper delegations and valued towards record levels. According to CB InSights, there are currently 498 AI “unicorn horse” or special AI companies with a value of 1 billion dollars or more. The company said that 100 have been established since 2023.

With rising stock prices Nvidia– Meta– Microsoft And other AI -related companies, data centers and infrastructure companies that make large payments for information processing power and AI engineers, AI creates a personal detection on a scale similar to heating of the last two technology waves.

MIT’s chief researcher Andrew McAfee said, “Based on more than 100 years of data, we have never seen that reserve was created at this dimension and speed.” He said. “It was not seen.”

A new billionaire crops rise with sky rocket values. In March, Bloomberg The total net value of four of the largest private AI companies is estimated to create at least 15 billionaires with $ 38 billion. Since then, more than a dozen unicorn horse has been crowned.

Mira Murati, who left AI last September, launched the laboratory of thinking machines in February. According to reports, until July, the largest seed tour in history has collected $ 2 billion and gave the company a value of $ 12 billion.

Anthropic artificial intelligence is in talks to collect $ 5 billion in a valuation of $ 170 billion, which is about three times its valuation in March. According to people familiar with the company, CEO Dario Amodei and the other six founders are probably multibillionaer.

Anysphere In a June donation, a valuation of $ 9.9 billion worth $ 9.9 billion and only weeks later was offered a valuation of 18 billion dollars to $ 20 billion, and probably made a billionaire of 25 -year -old founder and CEO Michael Truell.

In most private companies, most of the Creation of AI reserves makes it difficult for self -owners and founders to make money. In contrast to the explosion of DOT-Com the end of the 1990s, a company’s flood may remain special for longer for a longer period of time considering the continuous investment from today’s AI initiatives, venture capital funds, dominant reserve funds, family offices and other technology investors.

At the same time, the rapid growth of secondary markets allows private companies to sell their shares to other investors and provide liquidity. Structured secondary sales or tender offers are becoming widespread. Many founders can borrow against their own equity.

Open AI organizes negotiations for a secondary share sale to provide cash to employees. The proposal of $ 500 billion follows the company’s donation collection process, which provides a valuation of $ 300 billion in March.

Dozens of private firms are purchased or merged and also provides liquidity. After investing $ 14.3 billion in Scalant AI, Meta joined the AI team of the founder Alexandr Wang Meta. According to CB InSights, since 2023, there have been 73 liquidity events including merger and infections, cycles, reverse merger or institutional majority shares. Following the Meta agreement, Lucy Guo, the founding partner of Scale AI, left the company in 2018 and bought a mansion for about $ 30 million in La’s Hollywood Hills.

Nevertheless, the AI fluctuation is largely centered in the Gulf Region, which reminds me of the Dot-Com period. According to the Silicon Valley Institute of Regional Research, Silicon Valley companies provided more than $ 35 billion attempt finance last year. According to New World Wealth and Henley & Partners, San Francisco has more billionaires than New York, and the 82. The millionaire population of the Gulf Region has doubled in the last decade compared to the 45%growth of New York.

According to Sotheby’s International Realty, last year, last year in San Francisco, San Francisco was sold over $ 20 million more houses. Rising rents, house prices and demand in the city point to a sharp turn for a city that is largely attributed to AI, faced a “apocalypse cycle” just a few years ago.

“This AI wave is surprising how geographically concentrates,” McAfee, the co -director of MIT’s digital economic initiative. He said. “There are people who know how to find and finance technology companies. I have heard that people have been saying ‘the end of this Silicon Valley’ or another place ‘New Silicon Valley’. But the Silicon Valley is still Silicon Valley.”

With time and first public offers, most of today’s private AI rejoice will eventually become more liquid and provide a historical opportunity for the Rating Management companies. According to technical consultants, all major private banks, Telhouse, independent consultants and boutique companies comply with their elite, hoping to win their business.

However, like Dot-com millionaires, AI wealthy attraction can be difficult for traditional Return management companies. Simon Krinsky, former General Manager of Hall Capital Partners in Pathstone and San Francisco, said that most of the AI reserve is locked in private companies and therefore could not be converted into reserve management accounts.

“I can say that a much higher percentage of the ultimate reserve created is not liquid.” He said. “There are ways to get liquidity, but it is small compared to being employed on commodity or Google” or another megacap public technology company.

In the end, these reserves will be liquid and will be awarded by Ratif management companies. Krinsky said that AI assets will follow similar customer patterns with the new rich spot-competitions of the 1990s. Initially, DOT-Commers used their excessive liquidity and assets to invest in similar technology companies that they know through their colleagues or common investors. He said the same applies to the wealthy AI.

“Everyone has returned and invested in the same companies that created their own reserves with friends.” He said.

After discovering the dangers of concentration in a highly variable and speculative industry, Dot-Commers returned to the rule of reserve. And many have led their capital and skills to rediscover their industry in their images. For example, Netscape’s founder, Jim Clark, helped to launch MyCFO, a response to the bankers and the industry.

Kinksy said that today’s AI entrepreneurs will follow the same path, and that AI’s traditional functions of wealth management – if they change – have a great potential.

However, ultimately, ultra -rich founders will discover the traditional, personalized service needs that only private reserve management teams can provide, whether taxes, inheritance and real estate planning or philanthropist advice and portfolio construction.

“In the early 2000s, after people were beaten or bruise, they came to employ a professional manager to appreciate diversification to some extent and perhaps to protect them from them.” He said. “I am waiting for a similar trend with the AI group.”