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Updates on AI Startups
Every AI story we track on AI Startups — 41 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.
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Today's stories
This week

Business & Enterprise2 min read
Reid Hoffman joins Mosaic Ventures as an advisory partner
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise4 min read
One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
Hacker News
This month


The UK unveils a £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme for domestic AI startups focused on public services, amid growing opposition to Palantir contracts (Jim Pickard/Financial Times)
Techmeme

Finance9 min read
Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More
Forbes

Business & Enterprise3 min read
Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
Covered by 2 sources

AI Research1 min read
Nvidia in $6 billion deal to create competitor to Chinese AI models — WSJ
TASS English
Business & Enterprise4 min read
AI startup Micro1 wants to challenge Google's winning bid for Spirit Airlines data with a higher offer
Business Insider
AI Research3 min read
Why Jeff Dean says he left Google after 27 years to build a 4-person AI startup
Business Insider

Business & Enterprise2 min read
Stripe Nears Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter for over $7B
Covered by 2 sources
Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (Financial Times)
Techmeme

AI Research4 min read
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6bn, its biggest deal yet
Covered by 2 sources
AI Research5 min read
Departing Google chief scientist Jeff Dean has been in talks for a $10 billion valuation for his new AI startup
Business Insider

Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Covered by 2 sources

Agents4 min read
China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Jeff Dean's hour-by-hour breakdown of his Google exit: an 'emotional' video chat, Yoga at 7, and 'unemployed' at 11:59
Business Insider
Business & Enterprise5 min read
Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup
Business Insider
Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Techmeme
Business & Enterprise5 min read
Jeff Dean's new startup pitch deck slides are an insane flex
Business Insider

AI Research4 min read
[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
Latent.Space

Business & Enterprise4 min read
Five Underappreciated Truths About the AI Economy: Learnings From DVC’s State Of AI Report
Unite.AI

Business & Enterprise3 min read
Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
The Next Web

Design5 min read
Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building
The Next Web

Business & Enterprise4 min read
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups
TechCrunch

Lovable CEO says Europe’s AI startups have a confidence problem, not a talent problem
The Next Web

UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
The Next Web

US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
The Next Web





OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund
TechCrunch


Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups
TechCrunch


Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas
Futurism


Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market
The Guardian
That's everything we have on AI Startups right now
