U.S. tech giants add $2.4 trillion to market cap in 2023 U.S. tech giants add $2.4 trillion to market cap in 2023
The explosion in market value has been fueled in part by widespread enthusiasm for generative AI.
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Updated: Oct. 17, 2023 at 5:47 pm UTC
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U.S. tech giants experienced a remarkable $2.4 trillion surge in market capitalization, largely propelled by widespread enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023, according to Accel’s annual Euroscape report.
According to the report, technology behemoths such as Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Nvidia all witnessed a substantial 36% year-on-year increase in their stock values. Notably, Nvidia emerged as the frontrunner, breaching the $1 trillion market cap threshold, largely due to its AI chip manufacturing operations.
AI’s meteoric rise
Much of the tech industry’s meteoric rise can be attributed to the sudden and fervent interest in generative AI products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Anthropic’s Claude.
While OpenAI was at the forefront of this movement, other technology firms also enjoyed substantial growth, either through the development of AI software or through strategic acquisitions of AI startups.
It’s worth noting that the United States played a pivotal role in this generative AI boom, with OpenAI securing the most substantial funding of any AI company this year, amounting to $10 billion from Microsoft, with an additional $1.3 billion infusion later.
Anthropic, a key competitor in the generative AI sector, has also attracted substantial funding from Amazon and other investors this past year.
In contrast, Europe’s generative AI funding lagged significantly, amassing only around $500 million. French startups like Hugging Face, Poolside, and Mistral AI secured $235 million, $126 million, and $113 million, respectively.
Additionally, the year also witnessed a resurgence in the growth of tech unicorns, restoring their numbers to pre-pandemic levels. Impressively, generative AI companies constituted a substantial 80% of U.S. unicorns, while they represented only 40% in Europe and Israel.
“Generative AI is redefining the potential of software, bringing the opportunities for enterprise automation and productivity improvement to a new level.” Philippe Botteri, a partner at Accel said.
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Microsoft
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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company committed to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence helps all of humanity.
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