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
- New market maps covering the latest AI startups: 1. AI for Accounting by a16z
- $1B+ raised last week by AI startups 9 startups building insane products you should know about:
- BREAKING: SSI raises a $1B round to build superintelligent AI - Rumoured to be valued at $5B - Backed by NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and SV Angel
- BREAKING: Mistral raises a $640M Series B led by General Catalyst at a $6B valuation. Here's their Seed pitch deck to remind you of their vision:
- 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 Like, comment for free access
