Svmuu News: On June 25, the Hurun Research Institute released the “2026 Global Unicorn List” in Guangzhou. The top three unicorns on the list are all active in the large language model sector:
Anthropic, the parent company of Claude, became the world’s most valuable unicorn, valued at 6.6 trillion yuan, with a single-year increase of 6.1 trillion yuan—a record for the Hurun Unicorn List;
OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, ranked second with a valuation of 5.8 trillion yuan;
ByteDance, the parent company of Doubao, ranked third with a valuation of 3.3 trillion yuan.
DeepSeek topped the list of 308 newly emerging unicorns globally and, with a valuation of 340 billion yuan, ranked among the top 15 unicorns worldwide. The second-ranked new unicorn is Project Prometheus, a physical AI company co-founded by Jeff Bezos (valued at 258 billion yuan), while third place goes to Kalshi, a U.S.-based company in the compliance prediction market sector (valued at 150 billion yuan). (Jin Shi)