Hurun Research Institute today released the "2023 Hurun Global 500" (2023 Hurun Global 500), which lists the world's top 500 non-state-owned enterprises, ranking them according to their market value or valuation.It is understood that the threshold for entering the Hurun Global 500 has increased by 7% from last year, that is, 14.5 billion yuan to 217 billion yuan. The total value increased by 12% from last year, or 42 trillion yuan, to 382 trillion yuan.
The value of 337 companies increased, of which 48 were new to the list. The value of 163 companies decreased or remained unchanged, and another 48 companies were removed from the list.
56% of companies are direct-to-consumer, and 44% are B2B companies. 53% of companies sell physical products and 47% sell software and services.
Five industries account for half of the Hurun Global 500 in value terms, led by financial services, followed by consumer goods, software and services, healthcare and retail.
It is worth noting thatOpenAI ranks among Hurun Global 500 for the first time with a value of US$50 billion, and it is currently in talks to raise a new round of financing at a valuation of $86 billion.
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman previously announced plans to be implemented in 2024: including GPT-5, better voice models, video models, reasoning capabilities, higher rate limits, etc.
In 2024, OpenAI will also conduct in-depth research on AGI (artificial general intelligence). Compared with the overwhelming popularity of AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content), AGI is still in the research stage.