Hurun Institute officially released the "2026 Global Unicorn List" in Guangzhou on June 25, 2026. According to the report, the AI boom is reshaping the business landscape with unprecedented power, and the total value of global unicorn companies has increased by 43% year-on-year, reaching 5.4 trillion yuan.
The financial technology sector maintains a slight advantage in numbers, with 216 companies, but the industry's focus has fully shifted to large-scale models and artificial intelligence. Currently, there are 215 unicorn companies in the AI field, an increase of 87 companies from last year, accounting for 36% of the total value in the ranking, nearly three times that of the financial technology sector.
Amid the wave of value concentration in top companies driven by AI, companies related to large-scale models have shown dominant valuation expressions. The parent company of Claude, Anthropic, ranked first in the world with a valuation of 6.6 trillion yuan, increasing its value by 6.1 trillion yuan within a year and setting a new record on the list. OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, ranked second in the world with a valuation of 5.8 trillion yuan, while ByteDance ranked third with a valuation of 3.3 trillion yuan.
