PANews, August 10 news, according to CNBC reports, the artificial intelligence industry has created dozens of new billionaires this year, making the AI boom rapidly become the largest wealth creation surge in modern history. This year, massive funding for startups such as Anthropic, Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI, and Anysphere has generated enormous paper wealth and pushed valuations to record levels. According to CB Insights, there are currently 498 AI 'unicorn' companies, i.e., privately held AI companies valued at over $1 billion, with a total value of $2.7 trillion. The company stated that there are currently more than 1,300 AI startups valued at over $100 million. Coupled with the soaring stock prices of AI-related publicly listed companies like Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, and others, as well as infrastructure companies building data centers and computing capabilities, and the huge salaries of AI engineers, artificial intelligence is creating personal wealth on a scale that makes the last two tech booms look like warm-ups. MIT chief researcher Andrew McAfee stated, 'Looking back at more than 100 years of data, we have never seen such a scale and speed of wealth creation.'