... startup Safe Superintelligence (co-founded by Ilya Sutskever), reportedly raised around $2 billion at a valuation over $30 billion to develop safe AI systems. Furthermore, reports indicate that another AI industry star, Anthropic, is in the final stage of negotiations for a new round of $3–5 billion, which will raise its valuation to astronomical $170 billion. Such mega deals are giving rise to a new wave of "unicorns" and even "decacorns" (private companies valued at >$10 billion),...