Only 4 months ago we examined in the same column, the excessive valuation jumps a lot (all?) AI startups inside that months.
Well, February showed that a kind of madness can occur in just one short month.
The 12 months is still young, but AI valuations already reach amazing heights. Softbankplanned investments price $ 40 billion Openai It could use a valuation of almost $ 300 billion, it is going to almost double its valuation from October.
Creator Chatgpt Is not the only one to experience such an increase in valuation.
Perhaps the most tasty eyes, for the first time reported last week and only closed days ago- AnthropicFresh financing round $ 3.5 billion led by LightSpeed Partners This valued at $ 61.5 billion.
The latest Anthropica valuation will likely be greater than three times, because it was just a 12 months ago, when it was valued at $ 18.5 billion. The round can even be valued by the anthropijnik greater than Elon Musk‘S XAI – which was priced at $ 50 million in November, $ 6 billion in a series C (in which LightSpeed also participated) – so how long does any of us imagine that XAI will take up raising with a larger valuation?
That’s not all. Just a week earlier, Together AIwhich creates a cloud platform for programmers to rely on open and non -standard artificial intelligence models, collected a funding round of $ 305 million General catalyst and Saudi Arabia Prosperity7 ventures with a valuation of $ 3.3 billion.
The latest valuation is over 160% jump from $ 1.25 billion AI has been priced Salesforce Ventures 1 He led a round of $ 106 million for the Menlo Park startup in California in March last 12 months.
Wait, there is more
Earlier in February, startup Artificial Intelligence Tech based in San Francisco Harvey collected a round of $ 300 million led by Capital sequoia This values a startup of $ 3 billion on report. It was in July last 12 months, when Harvey collected a C series price $ 100 million led by GV with the participation of comparable to OpenaiIN Small everlasting and sequoia capital with a valuation of $ 1.5 billion.
So in about 200 days the startup really doubled its valuation by $ 1.5 billion? As for investors, Sequoia has really seen enough in the last five months to place even extra money, but from half of the shares he would receive only five months ago?
Perhaps nothing is really much like AI Research Lab Safe overintension conducting talks about collecting one other $ 1 billion in a round led by Greenoaks Capital Partners This appreciates the startup of $ 30 billion, Bloomberg reported.
This is a six -time increase in comparison with $ 5 billion in SSI, price in September, on Reuters. SSI, co -founder OpenaiFormer major scientist Ilya SUTSKEVERHe desires to develop protected artificial intelligence systems, but does not generate revenues and does not even intend to sell AI in the near future. So the company without revenues or product has increased the valuation by $ 5 billion a month in the last five months?
None of this takes into account Thoughtful machine laboratorylatest startup by the former Openai CTO Mira Muratiplans to boost $ 1 billion with a valuation of $ 9 billion, for business confidentiality. Since this is the first startup increase, you can’t calculate the huge valuation jump.
Of course, it seems like a broken album, but the current trend of startups of artificial intelligence with high valuations and small revenues-sometimes even any product-member finally ends. Even people with a product still have to point out a real business strategy.
VC, which loudly regretted the lack of liquidity, which they encounter because of the slow IPO and the market of mergers and acquisitions, invest money balls in the start -up AI, which might take over a decade to ever get a return – if they ever do it – because of the very still fingertip market of artificial intelligence.
But as we said 4 months ago – it never ends.