AI's Ascent: 55 US Startups Soar with $100M+ in Funding!
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“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?”
“Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers”
“China's generative AI models are expected to capture approximately 15% of the global market share by November 2025.”
“Ben Horowitz calls it “one of the best funds.””
“China's mostly coal-based thermal power generation fell in 2025 for the first time in 10 years, government data showed on Monday, as growing renewable generation met growth in electricity demand even as overall power usage hit a record.”
“The deal is being led by Singapore’s GIC and U.S. investor Coatue, each contributing roughly $1.5 billion, as part of a planned raise of $25 billion or more at a staggering $350 billion valuation.”
“2025年中国跨境电商进出口2.75万亿元,比2020年增长69.7%.”
“AI is no longer an assistant!”
“Anthropic is seeking a new round of significant funding, targeting a valuation of $350 billion.”
“The post OpenAI backer Sequoia Capital in talks to join Anthropic’s proposed $25B mega round appeared on SiliconANGLE.”
“We launched ChatGPT as a research preview to understand what would happen if we put frontier intelligence directly in people's hands.”
“Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI”
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“The team focused on housekeeping this past month (closing almost 6k issues!) and feature u……”
“About 40% of today’s jobs did not exist 85 years ago, suggesting new roles may emerge even as old ones fade.”
“By September, we were tired of avoiding the term due to the lack of a clear definition, and defined agents as 'tools that execute in a loop to achieve a goal...' ”
“The Summit E13 AI Evo is now on sale.”
“Anthropic officially launched the public beta for Structured Outputs in November 2025!”
“A documentary about Google DeepMind has become wildly popular.”
“This article is perfect for those familiar with Python and image generation AI, including users of Stable Diffusion, FLUX, ComfyUI, and Diffusers.”
“2025: Not only a victory for electric vehicles over gasoline cars, but also a deep impact from the Chinese industry chain, rapid iteration, and user-centric thinking on traditional car manufacturing models.”
“Physical AI, which combines "seeing", "thinking", and "moving", is gaining momentum.”
“Zunda-mon: "I was bored during the New Year, so I had ChatGPT summarize the search history of 2025!"”
“The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025.”
“OpenAI released o1 and o1-mini in September 2024, starting a revolution in 'inference'...”
“The app racked up 1 million downloads in its first five days, despite being iOS-only and requiring an invite.”
“The report shows that despite a threefold increase in generative AI usage by 2025, information leakage risks have only doubled, demonstrating the effectiveness of the current security measures!”
“The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI...”
“The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI...”
“OpenAI has signaled its intentions to become a major player in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) with a $252 million investment in Merge Labs.”
“Reading it felt less like “the future is here” and more like “this is where we actually landed.””
“As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges...”
“Adobe's research highlights a significant increase in AI-driven traffic in retail.”
“NVIDIA AI Open-Sourced KVzap: A SOTA KV Cache Pruning Method that Delivers near-Lossless 2x-4x Compression.”
“NVIDIA AI Open-Sourced KVzap: A SOTA KV Cache Pruning Method that Delivers near-Lossless 2x-4x Compression.”
“Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a year-long initiative.”
“DeepRoute.ai is expanding its technology beyond automotive applications, with the potential market size for spatial-temporal intelligence solutions expected to reach 270.2 billion yuan by 2035.”
“OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT Translate, a free translation service hosted on a standalone web page.”
“Bloomberg described the investment as a $252 million seed round...”
“Wikimedia Enterprise announced new paid partnerships with companies like Amazon and Meta, aligning with Wikipedia's 25th anniversary.”
“In 2025, we saw the rise of AI copilots across almost...”
“Finding all PDF files related to customer X, product Y between 2023-2025.”
“Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others.”
“President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation this Wednesday, imposing a 25% tariff on advanced AI chips produced outside the US, transported through the US, and then exported to third-country customers.”
“Merge Labs describes itself as a 'research laboratory' dedicated to 'connecting biological intelligence with artificial intelligence to maximize human capabilities.'”
“But now the iPhone maker is struggling …”
“OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup.”
“Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.”
“Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he welcomes AI training on the site's human-curated content but that companies "should probably chip in and pay for your fair share of the cost that you're putting on us."”
“The split came out to 52% augmentation and 45% automation on Claude.ai, a slight shift from January 2025 when augmentation led 55% to 41%.”
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