Tag: startups
All the articles with the tag "startups".
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Perceptron Mk1 Makes Video AI a Price Story
Perceptron launched Mk1, a video and embodied reasoning model priced far below frontier rivals. Physical AI needs cheap vision at scale.
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Q1 2026: $300 Billion in VC Funding. 4 Companies Got $188 Billion of It.
Venture capital hit $300B in Q1 2026, up 150% year over year. 80% went to AI. The four largest rounds in VC history all happened in the same quarter. This is not diversification. This is winner-take-most at a speed we have never seen before.
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74% of AI's Value Goes to 20% of Companies. The Other 80% Are Doing It Wrong.
PwC surveyed 1,217 executives across 25 industries. The leaders generate 7.2x more value from AI. The difference is not the tools. It is whether you redesigned the work or just bolted AI onto the old way.
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Yann LeCun Raised $1 Billion to Prove Every AI Company Is Wrong
AMI Labs just closed the largest seed round in European history. LeCun is betting against LLMs entirely, building JEPA world models instead. Either he is a visionary or he is about to burn a billion dollars in public.
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The OpenAI Graveyard: Every Deal and Product That Died.
Sora, the Disney billion-dollar deal, the Windsurf acquisition, Stargate, the in-chat checkout, GPT-4o, the Operator standalone, the AMD partnership. OpenAI announces like a kingdom and delivers like a startup.
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Robotics Startups Raised $1.2 Billion in a Single Week. The Money Has Made Its Decision.
Five robotics companies raised over $1.2 billion in seven days. Mind Robotics, Rhoda AI, Sunday, Oxa, Fauna Robotics. The venture capital world just declared that physical AI is no longer a research bet. It is an investment thesis.
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OpenAI Shut Down Sora. It Cost $15 Million a Day to Run and Made $2.1 Million Total.
OpenAI killed its AI video generator after burning $15 million per day in compute costs against $2.1 million in total lifetime revenue. But the real story is not about Sora. It is about the entire AI industry running on subsidized magic.
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ElevenLabs Hit $11 Billion in Three Years. Two Founders. Voice AI.
From a 2-person startup to an $11 billion valuation in roughly three years. ElevenLabs raised $500 million from Sequoia to build the future of synthetic voice. The speed is almost absurd.