Topic: ai startup
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Unconventional AI Secures Record $475M Seed Funding
Unconventional AI, founded by former Databricks AI head Naveen Rao, has raised a record $475 million in seed funding at a $4.5 billion valuation, marking the start of a larger round targeting up to $1 billion. The startup is backed by major investors like Andreessen Horowitz and aims to build nov...
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Jeff Bezos Returns as Co-CEO of AI Startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos is returning to an operational role as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI venture he is backing with $6.2 billion in funding. The startup, co-led by seasoned tech executive Vik Bajaj, aims to develop advanced AI products for engineering and manufacturing sectors like computing and ...
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Yann LeCun's AI 'World Model' Startup Targets $5 Billion Valuation
Yann LeCun has launched the startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), which is seeking €500 million in funding at a €3 billion valuation, reflecting high investor interest in projects led by top AI researchers. AMI will focus on developing "world model AI," a system designed to understand envi...
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Launch Your AI Startup: A Step-by-Step Guide
Julie Bornstein's AI fashion startup, Daydream, faced a significant challenge in moving from a promising AI demo to a reliable application, illustrating a broader industry hurdle in turning AI hype into practical productivity gains. The core difficulty involved accurately interpreting nuanced use...
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Cavela Raises $6.6M to Slash Pre-Tariff Manufacturing Costs
Cavela, an AI-powered sourcing platform, secured $6.6 million in seed funding to help businesses automate supplier discovery and negotiation across over 40 countries, addressing challenges from shifting global trade policies. The platform uses AI agents to handle the entire supplier search proces...
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Velents.ai Secures $1.5M to Launch First Arabic AI Employee
Velents.ai raised $1.5 million to launch Agent.sa, the Middle East's first fully Arabic-speaking AI employee, aiming to transform enterprise operations with language-specific automation. Founded in 2021, the startup expanded from recruitment services to enterprise AI solutions, with Agent.sa hand...
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Phia Founders: How AI is Revolutionizing Online Shopping
Phia, founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is an AI-driven tool that helps online shoppers make smarter, more sustainable purchasing decisions by addressing the market gap for a digital personal shopper. The service compares prices across retailers and integrates with over 150 second-hand p...
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Sesame AI, from Oculus founders, raises $250M and launches beta
Sesame has raised $250 million in Series B funding and is launching a limited beta program for its AI-powered smart glasses, led by former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. The company's AI assistant generates natural, expressive speech directly, as demonstrated in early demos that attracted over a milli...
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Liberate AI Raises $50M to Transform Insurance Back Offices
Liberate secured $50 million in Series B funding, valuing the AI company at $300 million, to expand its global deployment of intelligent agents for automating insurance operations. The company develops AI systems, including the voice assistant Nicole, that handle end-to-end tasks like sales, clai...
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AI Expert Andrew Tulloch Joins Meta from Thinking Machines Lab
Meta has hired Andrew Tulloch, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, as part of its aggressive strategy to lead in artificial intelligence. The recruitment follows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to acquire the startup and reportedly offering Tulloch a compensation...
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Unlock Your Codebase with Macroscope: AI-Powered Bug Fixing
Macroscope is an AI-driven platform that automates codebase management, bug detection, and provides natural language insights for engineering teams and product leaders. Founded by former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour, the tool integrates with GitHub and other systems to analyze code and...
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Sierra, Co-Founded by Bret Taylor, Raises $350M at $10B Valuation
Sierra, an AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, has raised $350 million in funding, reaching a $10 billion valuation led by Greenoaks Capital. The company has quickly gained hundreds of enterprise clients, including SoFi and Brex, and has raised a total of $635 million since...
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Artisan AI Returns to LinkedIn After Brief Ban
Artisan AI was temporarily banned from LinkedIn due to unauthorized use of LinkedIn's name on its website and issues with third-party data scraping, which violates the platform's terms of service. The ban, which lasted two weeks, generated significant publicity and unexpectedly improved the compa...
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Marissa Mayer Shuts Down AI Startup, Sells Assets to New Venture
Marissa Mayer is shutting down her consumer software venture Sunshine and transferring its assets to a new AI company called Dazzle, which will focus on developing an AI personal assistant. Sunshine's products, including a contact management app and later AI-enhanced event and photo sharing featu...
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Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney Over AI-Generated DC Characters
Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging the AI company allows users to generate unauthorized images of characters like Superman and Batman. The lawsuit claims Midjourney knowingly removed safeguards against copyright infringement to maximize profits, despite being aw...
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Yann LeCun to Leave Meta for AI Startup
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, is leaving the company to start his own AI startup focused on developing "world models" that understand the physical environment through video and spatial data. World models aim to simulate cause-and-effect relationships and grasp fundamental physics, repres...
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Users Chat for Hours Daily with Tavus AI's Santa
Tavus has launched an upgraded AI Santa for the second year, offering free, personalized video chats where the AI can now perceive user expressions and remember past conversations to create a more human-like interaction. The experience is highly engaging, with millions of interactions expected, b...
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Brands Can Now Use Famous AI Voices in Ads
ElevenLabs has launched the Iconic Voice Marketplace, enabling brands to license AI-generated voices of famous personalities ethically, with a consent-based model that ensures responsible usage and fair compensation. The platform serves as an intermediary, connecting businesses with rights holder...
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