AI website/app maker orchids announced $2M in seed funding The startup's product can not only create and deploy a design agency-quality website but also clone existing websites with high accuracy https://
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Orchids AI Platform Raises $2M for Website Creation
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Willow Secures $4.2M Seed Funding for Voice-First AI Interface
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Willow announced $4.2M in a seed round, led by Box Group and others
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The company is building an AI-powered voice-first interface to enable computing devices to understand user intent, tone, and context, and take relevant actionspic.twitter.com/iXxDl8H76VWillow announced $4.2M in a seed round, led by Box Group and others The company is building an AI-powered voice-first interface to enable computing devices to understand user intent, tone, and context, and take relevant actions
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2B for Multimodal AI
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just announced a $2B raise with plans to share its first product in a “couple of months.” She said the co is building multimodal AI with a major open source component for teams developing custom models
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI Startup Unveils First Product
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AI NEWS: Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s secretive AI startup is FINALLY set to unveil its first product Plus, more news from Mistral, Runway, Willow, and orchids. Here's everything you need to know:
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Celebrating OpenAI API’s 5th Anniversary and the Future of AI Agents
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A little something for my French-speaking followers this Bastille Day week Loved talking with @SebCouasnon on his podcast Tech 45’ about the 5th anniversary of the @OpenAI API, the quiet engine behind the AI startup boom, and where we’re headed with agents.
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Compute, Talent, and Product Differentiation in AI Deployment
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Agree on compute and power. Talent isn’t just names on a roster. It matters how inspired and empowered those people are. And, they still have to figure out how they use the model. For some new product? How that compete with what already exists without being 10x better? Or
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AI Infrastructure and Team Inspiration Key to Competitive Advantage
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Team that is actually inspired to do their best work. Which money alone can’t buy. Besides that it’s all about AI infra and some unique angle on product. I don’t see any path to them catching up in a meaningful way. If I could put odds on it, I’d say less than 1% chance they
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AI Textbooks Oversimplify Building Billion Dollar Startups
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AI textbooks leave doing a $1B startup as an exercise for the reader.
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AI Researcher Startups Never Fail Due to Acquihire Option
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No startup founded by AI researchers ever fails, because in the worst case it gets acquihired.
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Zuckerberg’s Acquisition Strategy: Instagram and Oculus Lessons
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He's never done anything like this. He acquired Instagram(a photo app). Very different than foundational models. And the founders left because they disagreed with Zuck. Then he acquired Oculus, and fired the founder, @PalmerLuckey
, and then Oculus never reached its potential.