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2024 Wrapped

Nearly 1 in 4 new startups is an AI company

December 24, 2024

Investors say ‘AI washing’ is making it harder to find lucrative opportunities.

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Politics

David Sacks’ ‘AI czar’ role deepens ties between White House and VC

December 6, 2024

Sacks has said that he could not assume a full-time role with The White House, due to the key person provision in his contract.

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Weekend Analysis

Do small language models hold the key to enterprise AI adoption?

October 25, 2024

These pared-down AI models are everything their large counterparts aren’t—and they’re finding a foothold with corporate customers.

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Mega-Funds

General Catalyst’s $8B haul cements return of mega-funds

October 24, 2024

General Catalyst has raised $6 billion for its Fund XII and an additional $2B for separately managed accounts for select LPs

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VC Fundraising

Khosla partner leaves to launch $50M AI fund

October 8, 2024

Sandhya Venkatachalam was an investor at Social Capital before joining Khosla Ventures in 2020.

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AI

OpenAI valuation surpasses every VC-backed IPO

October 2, 2024

The round, one of the largest in VC history, puts OpenAI’s valuation above Meta’s at the social media giant’s IPO

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IPO

Cerebras bets that AI hype matters more than profitability in IPO

October 1, 2024

Cerebras recorded a net loss of $66.6 million for the six months of 2024

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Market Analysis

Predicting AI’s future from Y Combinator’s new cohort

September 25, 2024

The accelerator is the most active investor in companies using LLMs for multi-step tasks that require reasoning.

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Corporate VC

Salesforce’s VC arm just doubled its AI firepower to $1B

September 16, 2024

In less than 18 months, Salesforce Ventures has secured $1 billion to invest in AI.

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Startups

OpenAI’s voice mode lead leaves to launch startup

September 10, 2024

Alexis Conneau, a former researcher at Facebook AI Research, is launching a new startup.

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Weekend Analysis

‘Doomer’ agenda: VC, founder opponents to California AI safety bill weigh in

September 6, 2024

SB 1047, the first-of-its kind legislation regulating AI safety, sailed through California’s legislature. But investors and startup founders say the bill hurts rather than helps them.

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Startups

OpenAI’s Sutskever and super-angel Gross land $1B for AI safety startup

September 4, 2024

SSI’s rapid ascent to unicorn status underscores the ability of highly sought-after researchers to command tremendous amounts of capital in a scorching-hot market.

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AI

OpenAI wants to join the $100B club. History shows it’s not a smooth road.

September 3, 2024

Only four companies have ever hit the $100 billion valuation mark in a VC financing round. Two of them went on to see their valuations cut.

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AI

Can crypto alleviate AI’s computing crunch? Not so fast.

August 8, 2024

Generative AI is proving to be an expensive endeavor. Some investors point to crypto technologies to alleviate the crunch, but others are skeptical.

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Exclusive

General Catalyst-led round values young AI safety startup Haize Labs at $100M

August 5, 2024

Founded less than one year ago by three recent Harvard graduates, Haize Labs is now valued at $100 million.

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Weekend Analysis

If AI’s a rising tide, why isn’t it lifting more boats?

June 28, 2024

Almost two years later, the initial signs of a massive disruption in the tech world have evaporated. AI may still be the future, but how will the startups survive until that future arrives?

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AI

Market Map: Mega-deals dominate AI’s horizontal platform startups

June 20, 2024

Mega-deals are fueling the horizontal platforms segment of AI and machine learning.

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Weekend Analysis

The AI safety movement is on the ropes

May 31, 2024

Makers of large language models are finding they have no choice but to sideline safety as they put out fires and deal with competition.

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