Hurun Global Unicorn Top Three All Have Built Large Models

Odaily Planet Daily News, June 25, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2026 Global Unicorn List" in Guangzhou. The top three unicorns all have large model businesses:

Claude's parent company, Anthropic, became the world's most valuable unicorn with a value of 6.6 trillion RMB, setting a Hurun Unicorn List record with an annual increase of 6.1 trillion RMB;

ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI, ranked second with a value of 5.8 trillion RMB;

Doubao's parent company, ByteDance, ranked third with a value of 3.3 trillion RMB.

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