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What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap
Building a strong AI product is only half the battle. The harder problem is making sure it still exists as a standalone business once the big labs catch up.
The AI graveyard: what actually killed these products and startups
From a $230 million wearable to OpenAI's own stumbles, here is what the wreckage of the past two years teaches us about where AI money goes wrong.
Four months old, $85 million raised. Can Hang Ten Systems really build enterprise software with two engineers instead of thirty?
Hang Ten Systems just closed a $53 million follow-on seed round, five weeks after its first. The pitch: AI can shrink a 30-person software project down to a team of two or four.
AI startups jumped from one story to six in a week. What is that telling us?
Our own tag for AI startups went from a single piece to six in seven days. Here is what that shape looks like from inside the newsroom, and what would confirm the pattern.
The AI researcher who taught robots to imagine, and just left Google DeepMind to do it full-time
Danijar Hafner spent years training AI agents to plan for situations they have never seen. Now he has a stealth startup, a room full of humanoid robots, and a conviction that the approach is ready for the real world.
Mira Murati's AI Lab Is in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $40 Billion Valuation
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking fresh funding at a valuation more than three times higher than its last round, even as some co-founders have left.
Ollie Wants to Run Your Family's Life Without Selling Your Data
The San Diego startup has quietly earned a security certification that most consumer AI assistants skip. Its bet: privacy is the one thing Big Tech cannot easily copy.
A Russian Maths Startup Found a Way for AI Models to Share Intelligence Without Swapping Words
Mostik, a small team of mathematicians, built a technique that lets two AI systems pool their abilities at a fraction of the usual cost. Think of it as a shortcut that makes a cheap, compact model punch well above its weight.
AI startup Wonderful hits $5 billion valuation after raising $550 million in six months
The Israeli-Dutch company more than doubled its value since its last funding round. Its secret weapon: teams of engineers who move into clients' offices and wire up AI tools by hand.
The AI cop whisperer: Blue Voice raises $6 million to give officers instant access to the rules they police by
A Harvard Law dropout built an AI tool that answers officers' policy questions in the field. It now serves 225 agencies across 25 states, and its backers say it could reduce both crime and misconduct.
AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hit $500 Million Gross Run Rate in Eight Months
Demand for human-verified AI training data is minting fast-growing startups. Micro1's revenue explosion shows the market is big enough for several players, and the ethical debates are heating up.
Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation
The European startup that lets anyone build web apps by typing plain-language instructions has doubled its valuation in eight months and now hosts 60 million user projects.
Four startups betting the next wave of AI runs on something better than transformers
The neural network design powering every major chatbot is hitting real limits. A small group of companies thinks it has found a way around them.
OpenAI Buys Presentation Startup NextSlide
The small AI tool that turned rough notes into polished slides is now inside ChatGPT's walls. Here is what we know about the deal.
The team behind Spotify's recommendation engine just raised $10 million to do the same thing for online shopping
Malachyte wants your favourite store to know what you need before you even search for it, using real-time signals instead of last month's purchase history.