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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

Reid Hoffman joins Mosaic Ventures as an advisory partner

The Next Web

One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands

Hacker News

This month

Finance7 min read

The IPO Window Is Closing. Here Are 8 Startups To Watch.

Crunchbase
Dev2 min read

AI startup Cognition set to raise around US$1B at a US$47B value

Hacker News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five Underappreciated Truths About the AI Economy: Learnings From DVC’s State Of AI Report

Unite.AI

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

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

TechCrunch

Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

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

How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to kingmake AI startups 

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

The Real Reason OpenAI Shut Sora Down Is a Warning to Every AI Startup

Futurism

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

TechCrunch

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9–15 March)

The Next Web

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
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