AI-first companies make up 46% of 2024’s unicorn cohort, with GenAI ventures representing 24%.
New GenAI unicorns include:
– Cursor (AI coding assistant) by Anysphere
– Perplexity (AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time answers to any question)
– Safe Superintelligence Inc. (Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy’s lab building – you guessed it – safe superintelligence)
– xAI (“AI company with the mission of advancing scientific discovery and gaining a deeper understanding of our universe”)
– Xaira Therapeutics (discovering and developing life-changing medicines through AI)
Other AI unicorns:
– Huntress (advanced threat detection and actionable cybersecurity information)
– Motional (driverless technology and autonomous vehicles)
– Saronic Technologies (developing intelligent autonomous surface vessels for the navy)
– Celestial AI (optical scale-up networks for accelerated computing)
– Altana (data management services for the global supply chain)
