AI Unicorns Grow to 200+ Companies But New Additions Drop in 2023

15 new AI unicorns joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in 2023, adding $21B in valuation. Top companies are Databricks, Cruise, and OpenAI.

New AI unicorns are in large language models, video generation, ML ops, analytics, AI platforms, and defense.

Notable companies include Cohere, Synthesia, CoreWeave, Quantexa, Replit, DeepL, Character.ai, Typeface, and Helsing.

Total AI unicorns on the board grew to 200+ companies, with increasing funding over the past decade.

But the number of new AI unicorns dropped significantly from 2022 to 2023.