TLDR: Google is ALL IN on AI agents
AI agents are deployed across their whole product ecosystem.
8 wild demos from Google I/O today:
1. An email agent to continuously organise all receipts in your inbox into a spreadsheet
BREAKING: AI Startup ElevenLabs reaches unicorn status (up from $100M) with an $80M Series B co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross.
Congrats to the team!
> Here's their seed pitch deck
This startup wants to overcome Open AI ⏳
They raised $113M within 4 weeks of incorporation.
It's called Mistral.
- Founded by former members of Google's DeepMind and Meta
Here's their pitch deck (yes, its a doc)
> 7 pages
a16z just released an enterprise AI report after speaking to dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
Thanks @sarahdingwang for this.
Here are 8 insightful slides:
1. For production use cases, OpenAI still has dominant market share.
VC-backed AI employee startups are a trend.
Here are some that raised in 2024 + total funding:
Software Engineer - Cognition ($21M+)
Software Engineer - Magic ($145M+)
Product Manager - Version Lens ($1.6M)
Data Scientist - TextQL ($4.1M)
Data Analyst - Fluent ($7.5M)
Chief
Skyfire raised a $8.5M Seed to allow AI to pay on behalf of humans
- It's a $250B+ market opportunity to be "the Visa/Mastercard for AI"
> 13 slide pitch deck
Foundational model wars over the past 12 months
OpenAI vs Google vs Anthropic vs 01 AI vs Meta vs Cohere vs Alibaba vs Mistral vs Databricks vs Nous Research & 10000+ more
NEW: Tezi raises a $9M Seed to build an autonomous AI recruiter
Max, the AI recruiter, is trained by top hiring managers & recruiters to handle the entire recruiting process. It sources candidates, screens applicants & schedules interviews.
Here's how it works:
Almost $14B raised by AI Startups in 2024 across 600+ rounds
Here's my complete database with info on the round, investors, etc
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