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GenAI Unicorns

The detailed profiles of the top AI companies, learn more about people behind them, their visions, success story and money situation

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Inside MiniMax: Testing if AGI is Possible Without Infinite VC Money

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Jan 11, 2026

Inside MiniMax: Testing if AGI is Possible Without Infinite VC Money

From rejected pitches to 109% first-day surge: The AI Tiger that chose consumer scale over enterprise contracts, multimodality over language models, and open source over secrecy

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
The New Gold Standard: How NVIDIA Turned GPUs Into Currency

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Nov 8, 2025

The New Gold Standard: How NVIDIA Turned GPUs Into Currency

with an 18-month-old AI unicorn Nscale as an example

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Inside Cognition: Prodigy Culture, Devin, and the Trillion-Dollar Contest

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Sep 14, 2025

Inside Cognition: Prodigy Culture, Devin, and the Trillion-Dollar Contest

From math Olympiads to $10 billion in two years: what's their plan?

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Moonshot, ElevenLabs, xAI... Want More of These?

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Jul 19, 2025

Moonshot, ElevenLabs, xAI... Want More of These?

Circling back a few deep dives that we did in 2024 and 2025

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Inside Eleven Labs’ Unicorn Journey: from a weekend project to $3.3 billion

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Feb 9, 2025

Inside Eleven Labs’ Unicorn Journey: from a weekend project to $3.3 billion

How ElevenLabs became the go-to name in AI voice synthesis – without open-sourcing a thing

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
🦄 Every Gen AI and AI Infra Unicorn We Covered in 2024

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Dec 28, 2024

🦄 Every Gen AI and AI Infra Unicorn We Covered in 2024

A Year of Innovation: Revisiting the Trailblazing Companies Shaping the Future of AI

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Baichuan Intelligence: The AI Tiger Focused on Math and Healthcare

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Nov 30, 2024

Baichuan Intelligence: The AI Tiger Focused on Math and Healthcare

How Slower Thinking Could Lead to Bigger Results

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Inside Perplexity AI’s Unicorn Journey: from $500M to $9B in a Year

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Nov 16, 2024

Inside Perplexity AI’s Unicorn Journey: from $500M to $9B in a Year

How Perplexity AI is rewriting the rules of online search – one controversy at a time

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Glean: How to Outpace Competitors in Enterprise AI (and Frustrate OpenAI in the Process)

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Oct 12, 2024

Glean: How to Outpace Competitors in Enterprise AI (and Frustrate OpenAI in the Process)

Let’s explore in this new episode of the GenAI Unicorn Series

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
01.AI: How Kai-Fu Lee Shapes the AI Narrative in Both the U.S. and China

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Sep 6, 2024

01.AI: How Kai-Fu Lee Shapes the AI Narrative in Both the U.S. and China

From open-source models to practical applications, discover how 01.AI is bridging AI strengths between the U.S. and China

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
xAI: The game of catching up

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Jul 5, 2024

xAI: The game of catching up

Understanding Musk's X-Universe

Ksenia Se
Valeriia Kuka
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Moonshot AI: The Chinese Unicorn Revolutionizing Long-Context AI

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May 10, 2024

Moonshot AI: The Chinese Unicorn Revolutionizing Long-Context AI

How to Reach a $2.5 Billion Valuation in 1 Year, the Tech Behind the Models, AGI Layers, and Plans to Surpass Global Competitors

Ksenia Se
Valeriia Kuka
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Zhipu AI: The Rise of an AI Tiger Reaching for AGI

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May 3, 2024

Zhipu AI: The Rise of an AI Tiger Reaching for AGI

The only overview of Zhipu AI's technology, open-source efforts, partnerships, and future goals in English

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Valeriia Kuka
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Update to OpenAI Chronicle and Wrap-Up of the GenAI Unicorn Series

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Feb 2, 2024

Update to OpenAI Chronicle and Wrap-Up of the GenAI Unicorn Series

We Also Announce the Next Exciting Profile Series!

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Stability AI Chronicle: Why It Can Fail in 2024

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Jan 12, 2024

Stability AI Chronicle: Why It Can Fail in 2024

Investigating the Thin Line Between Genuine Innovation and Strategic Exaggeration in AI

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Mistral AI's Bold Journey

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Jan 5, 2024

Mistral AI's Bold Journey

From Paris to Global Stage: The Unconventional Rise of a French AI Unicorn and Its Open-Source Revolution

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
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AI21 Labs: Being in Amazon's Bedrock without any investment from Amazon

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Dec 15, 2023

AI21 Labs: Being in Amazon's Bedrock without any investment from Amazon

How AI21 Labs Maintains Independence and Innovation While Collaborating with Amazon, Distinguishing Itself from Industry Giants Like OpenAI

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
Valeriia Kuka
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Character AI's Journey: From Not Needed to Highly Valued

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Dec 1, 2023

Character AI's Journey: From Not Needed to Highly Valued

Challenging Conventions: How Character AI is Carving Its Niche Amidst Tech Titans (and Can It?)

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Replit: How to Compete Tech Giants by Democratizing AI in Coding

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Nov 17, 2023

Replit: How to Compete Tech Giants by Democratizing AI in Coding

Embracing an Egalitarian Approach to Compete with GitHub CoPilot, Amazon's Code Whisperer, Salesforce's CodeGen, and More in a Rapidly Evolving, Yet Complex Coding Environment

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
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Jasper AI: A Dilemma of a Thin Wrapper

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Nov 3, 2023

Jasper AI: A Dilemma of a Thin Wrapper

GPT's Blessing and Curse on The Unicorn Turned Underdog

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
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Runway Chronicles: Melding Art and AI in a Transient Tech Terrain

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Oct 6, 2023

Runway Chronicles: Melding Art and AI in a Transient Tech Terrain

Watch Runway's evolution, learn tech behind Stable Diffusion, as well as legal challenges, financials, and company's mission to democratize generative AI

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
Ksenia Se, +1
Lightricks: The Oldest Generative AI Unicorn

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Sep 29, 2023

Lightricks: The Oldest Generative AI Unicorn

How to leverage AI for creator economy

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
Valeriia Kuka
Ksenia Se, +2
Cohere AI Chronicle — Challenging Tech Giants With AI For All

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Sep 1, 2023

Cohere AI Chronicle — Challenging Tech Giants With AI For All

Bringing Google-Quality AI to Everyone While Addressing Concerns About LLMs Biases

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
Valeriia Kuka
Ksenia Se, +2
Democratizing AI: The Hugging Face Ethos of Accessible Machine Learning

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Aug 26, 2023

Democratizing AI: The Hugging Face Ethos of Accessible Machine Learning

How 3 founders turned their passion for sharing knowledge into a thriving ML community

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
Inflection AI: The Story of the Unforeseen and Secretive Unicorn with a $4 Billion Valuation

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Jul 21, 2023

Inflection AI: The Story of the Unforeseen and Secretive Unicorn with a $4 Billion Valuation

Discover what Reid Hoffman and Mustafa Suleyman, veterans of tech and AI, have been working on over the last year, along with their vision, mission, and thoughts about AI risks

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
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