What one needs to build a tech unicorn: A dream, some employees and lots of AI hype
Investors’ appetite to back companies created by breakaway former employees of top AI labs is insatiable. Last July, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer, Mira Murati, raised $2 billion—a record for a seed round—for her new company, Thinking Machines Lab, valuing it at $12 billion despite not having released any product. In 2026’s crop of AI unicorns, Redwood City-based Humans&, built by a team of former Anthropic and xAI talent (among others), was valued at $4.48 billion just four months after its founding.
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