Hurun Global Unicorn Top Three All Deploy Large Models

Odaily Planet Daily reported on June 25 that the Hurun Research Institute released the "2026 Global Unicorn Index" in Guangzhou. The top three unicorns have all deployed large model businesses:

Anthropic, the parent company of Claude, became the world's most valuable unicorn with a valuation of 6.6 trillion RMB, setting a Hurun Unicorn Index record with a single-year increase of 6.1 trillion RMB;

OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, ranked second with a valuation of 5.8 trillion RMB;

ByteDance, the parent company of Doubao, ranked third with a valuation of 3.3 trillion RMB.

DeepSeek topped the list of 308 newly minted unicorn companies globally and entered the global top 15 unicorns with a valuation of 340 billion RMB. The second-ranked new unicorn was Project Prometheus (valued at 258 billion RMB), a physical AI company co-founded by Jeff Bezos, and the third was Kalshi (valued at 150 billion RMB), a compliant prediction market in the United States. (Jin Shi)