OpenAI旗下的ChatGPT行動應用本週全球消費者支出突破30億美元大關。追殺 OpenAI 。向來主打「最安全、最乖」的Claude (Anthropic公司拚上市)，竟然被中共資助的駭客組織攻破防線。Builder.ai 的估值在幾個月內從 15 億美元跌至零。它的倒閉預示著更大範圍的經濟衰退。 a new wave of billionaires. 人工智慧英雄出青少年 人才湧入創新風土絕佳之舊金山和矽谷: Joseph Reth to build Autopoiesis. Mr. Foody, center, founded Mercor with his high school friends Adarsh Hiremath,：16歲的Toby Brown的的人工智慧平台Beem已獲得100萬美元的融資， 在加州創立自己的公司。 “他們彼此之間聯繫緊密，互相幫助，相互競爭。這共同創造了一種不可思議的能量。” .....28 歲的 Alexandr Wang，曾領導新創公司 ScaleAI. 現在負責Meta 超級智慧實驗室。
A fast-growing cohort of chief executives in their 20s have flocked to San Francisco’s A.I. boom.Credit...Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid questions over the sales of an A.I. product. Its downfall hints at a broader downturn.
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has created a new wave of billionaires at an unprecedented pace. By 2025, nearly 70% of AI billionaires amassed their fortunes in less than five years, fueled by the explosive growth of startups such as OpenAI and Anthropic. These companies, valued in the billions, helped generate 498 unicorns collectively worth $2.7 trillion. Founders like Mira Murati and Michael Truell symbolize this fast-track wealth creation, with most fortunes tied up in private equity. San Francisco has emerged as the global hub of this AI-driven wealth, now home to 82 billionaires.
Mr. Foody, center, founded Mercor with his high school friends Adarsh Hiremath, left, the company’s chief technology officer, and Surya Midha, right, the chief operating officer.Credit...Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
Mr. Foody runs Mercor, which provides automatic screening of résumés and A.I. job interviews. He established the company with two high school friends from San Jose, Calif., Surya Midha and Adarsh Hiremath. Mr. Midha, 22, is Mercor’s chief operating officer and Mr. Hiremath, 22, the chief technology officer.
In February, they raised $100 million, bringing Mercor’s total funding to more than $132 million and valuing the start-up at $2 billion. Investors include the venture capital firms General Catalyst and Benchmark.
Among others, there are also Scott Wu, 28, of Cognition AI, which makes a software coding assistant; Michael Truell, 24, of Cursor, which sells an A.I. code editor; and Roy Lee, 21, of Cluely, an A.I. software start-up. Perhaps the most prominent is Alexandr Wang, 28, who led the start-up Scale AI before Meta tapped him in June to run its new superintelligence lab.
Their growing ranks have injected a dose of youthful élan to the A.I. frenzy, which has been dominated by longtime tech giants like Google and Nvidia and decade-old start-ups like OpenAI.
其中還包括軟體程式設計助理公司 Cognition AI 的 28 歲創辦人 Scott Wu；銷售人工智慧程式碼編輯器的 Cursor 的 24 歲創辦人 Michael Truell；以及人工智慧軟體新創公司 Cluely 的 21 歲創辦人 Roy Lee。
或許最引人注目的是 28 歲的 Alexandr Wang，他曾領導新創公司 Scale AI，之後 Meta 於今年 6 月任命他負責其新的超級智慧實驗室。
Pete Koomen, incubator’s most recent cohort of participants this year was 24, down from 30 in 2022.
“This is a group of largely young founders that have picked up everything and moved and gone all in on a crazy dream,” he said. “They’re all in close proximity with each other. They’re helping each other out. They’re competing with each other. It just creates this incredible energy.”
Y Combinator 的普通合夥人 Pete Koomen 表示，這家舊金山孵化器今年最新一批參與者的年齡中位數為 24 歲，低於 2022 年的 30 歲。
The 20-Somethings Are Swarming San Francisco’s A.I. Boom
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.
From left, the chief executives Brendan Foody of Mercor, Karun Kaushik of Delve and Jaspar Carmichael-Jack of Artisan.Credit...Carolyn Fong for The New York Times, Charlotte Hadden for The New York Times
Brendan Foody had just finished his sophomore year at Georgetown University in 2023 when he dropped out to jump into the artificial intelligence fray in San Francisco.
Karun Kaushik dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that year to move to California after constructing an A.I. tool in his dorm room. And Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, who was traveling the world after high school, had the same idea in 2022.
Now Mr. Foody, 22, Mr. Kaushik, 21, and Mr. Carmichael-Jack, 23, are each running A.I. start-ups within a 30-minute walk of one another in San Francisco. They have raised millions of dollars for their businesses and are supervising dozens of employees. They all have a dream that their companies will make it big.
“When ChatGPT came out, it was so clear to me that this is obviously going to be a paradigm shift,” said Mr. Carmichael-Jack, the chief executive of Artisan, which makes an A.I. sales assistant and has raised more than $35 million in funding. “I knew I wanted to be involved in that.”
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The young AI prodigy buzzing across Silicon Valley is Toby Brown, a 16-year-old who has secured a $1 million deal for his AI platform, Beem,according to BBC News and Sky News. He's put his GCSEs on hold to focus on building his company in California. Beem is described as a computer that brings files to you, with the ability to scale and handle various tasks, like automatically booking flights based on user preferences. Toby received the funding from Silicon Valley investors after his AI platform gained attention from major tech companies in San Francisco.
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