What are considered Megafunds?

With the crazy fundraising cycles, latest fund sizes - I am curious what you would consider a megafund? I always thought this was a fund which has a latest fund size of ~$10bn. However, is this still the case? There are plenty of funds (Genstar, Veritas) etc. that meet this bucket but aren't conventionally classified as megafunds. 

Thank you! 

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