> Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money.
I agree with your general premise but that one sounds like bullshit to me. Tons of people who otherwise don't know anything about LLMs know about these companies specifically because they are worth a lot of money, and of course tons of people know who OpenAI is because of ChatGPT.
You're one of those people who needs to expand their worldview, then.
I live in a progressive city in North Carolina and constantly find that when people have never heard of them things that every HN reader (and probably every Bay Area resident, I dunno) would know about. Bubbles are real.
You're grossly overestimating how many people care about big companies, at least on a daily basis. Most people don't invest in anything and will never get a job at a big American company. They do know about ChatGPT but that doesn't mean they know who makes it.
go ask 100 random people across the world and I bet less than 20 will know both those company names.
I'd go with fewer than 5.