AI's Ascent: 55 US Startups Soar with $100M+ in Funding!
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Key Takeaways
“Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?”
“Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?”
“Witness AI detects employee use of unapproved tools, blocking attacks, and ensuring compliance.”
“AI development felt like magic at first, the author reports.”
“This is a design memo and roadmap to organize where the project stands now and which direction to go next.”
“The scramble to exploit artificial intelligence is happening across the retail spectrum, from the highest echelons of luxury goods to the most pragmatic of convenience.”
“Its growth trajectory is widely cited as one of the fastest in the history of developer tools, and now it's about to grow in Enterprise domains globally.”
“The article focuses on how the author collaborated with Gemini 3.0 Pro during the development process.”
“Sam Altman confirms faster Codex is coming, following OpenAI’s recent multi billion dollar partnership with Cerebras.”
“The funding is being used to accelerate Harmonic’s momentum in developing Aristotle, which the company claims is the world’s […]”
“Bloomberg described the investment as a $252 million seed round...”
“Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others.”
“Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.”
“Google Antigravity marks the beginning of the "agent-first" era, It isn't just a Copilot, it’s a platform where you stop being the typist and start being the architect.”
“The article's introduction states the intention to share the process, the approach, and 'empirical rules' to keep in mind when using AI.”
“The article mentions utilizing Gemini 2.5 Flash's '1 million token' context window.”
“Available first to Claude Max subscribers, the research preview empowers Anthropic's chatbot to handle complex tasks.”
“Retailers are starting to confront a problem that sits behind much of the hype around AI shopping: as customers turn to chatbots and automated assistants to decide what to buy, retailers risk losing control over how their products are shown, sold, and bundled.”
“Meet Qira, a personal ambient intelligence system that works across your devices.”
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“"AntiGravityで書いてみた感想 リリースされたばかりのAntiGravityを使ってみました。 WindSurfを使っていたのですが、Antigravityはエージェントとして自立的に動作するところがかなり使いやすく感じました。圧倒的にプロンプト入力量が減った感触です。"”
“Ford says the new generation of BlueCruise will be 30% cheaper to build than the current technology.”
“An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.”
“DeepSeek mHC reimagines some of the established assumtions about AI scale.”
“Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations.”
“Antigravity は、AI エージェントを中心(Agent-First)に据えた統合開発環境(IDE)であり、開発者の生産性を飛躍的に向上させることを目指しています。”
“将技术的复杂性留给自己,将创作的纯粹性还给用户。”
“ちなみに、この記事は8割以上人力で書いてます。”
“European female founders continued their strong fundraising run into December, securing significant capital across artificial intelligence, biotechnology, sustainable…”
“It was only a matter of time before someone took a Tamagotchi-like toy and crammed AI into it.”
“The article quotes Wang Chen, the founder, stating that they believe financial investment is an important testing ground for AI technology.”
“"Human brains are the only embodied AI brains that have been successfully realized in the world, and we have no reason not to use them as a blueprint for technological iteration."”
“I’m working on a system where Gemini responds to the user’s activity using voice only feedback. Challenges are reducing latency and responding to changes in user activity/interrupting the current audio flow to keep things fluid.”
“The author mentions using ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor extensively in personal mobile app development.”
“This is built to make sure, you never have to repeat same stuff across AI :)”
“Exclusive: Memories.ai's wearable pin is now more lightweight and records for longer.”
“According to the publication, it’s expected to produce more natural-sounding speech than OpenAI’s current models.”
“Airloom claims that its structures require 40 percent less mass than a traditional one while delivering the same output. It also says the Airloom's towers require 42 percent fewer parts and 96 percent fewer unique parts. In combination, the company says its approach is 85 percent faster to deploy and 47 percent less expensive than horizontal axis wind turbines.”
“Early gains include more natural, emotional speech, faster responses and real-time interruption handling key for a companion-style AI that proactively helps users.”
“Huawei used its New Year message to highlight progress across its Ascend AI and Kunpeng CPU ecosystems, pointing to the rollout of Atlas 900 supernodes and rapid growth in domestic developer adoption as “a solid foundation for computing.””
“AI agents apply performance optimizations across diverse layers of the software stack and that the type of optimization significantly affects pull request acceptance rates and review times.”
“OpenAI is intensifying its audio AI push with a new model and audio-first devices planned for 2026, aiming to make voice the primary AI interface.”
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“Mozilla officially appointed Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as the new CEO and immediately announced the controversial "AI-first" strategy.”
“"I am working on a financial analysis rag bot it is like user can upload a financial report and on that they can ask any question regarding to that . I am facing issues so if anyone has worked on same problem or has came across a repo like this kindly DM pls help we can make this project together"”
“"Hitting the ChatGPT API and displaying the response on the screen." This is something anyone can implement now, in a weekend hackathon or a few hours of personal development...”
“The code is a messy but works for my needs.”
“If there isn’t something else out there and it’s really just LLM‘s then I’m not sure how the world can improve much with a confidently incorrect faster way to Google that tells you not to worry”
“"I realized, 'Ah, I wasn't trusted this much.'"”
“"I don't buy it. Like, I really don't," said Victoria Samson, a space-security specialist at the Secure World Foundation.”
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