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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

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It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill. TechEmpower can help In the era of LLMs and Generative AI, empty textboxes are a product mistake. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Even with the pop-up suggestions, we saw significant drop-off during user onboarding.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

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In December 2022, just a month after the introduction of ChatGPT, Google understood the risk as well and launched a ‘code red’ – a company-wide emergency effort to tackle generative AI and come back with an adequate response to ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing. The company raised a $ 25M series A in July 2022.

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Creative Automation: How Generative AI is reshaping creativity

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While the seemingly overnight success of ChatGPT was culmination of more than a decade of iterations in ‘creative automation’, the progress we’ve witnessed in AI over the last couple of years is poised to forever change the landscape of content creation. But Generative AI has yet to live to that hype.

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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

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But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI. Digiday reported conversations with media executives, with one publisher seeing a more than 50% decline in its search referral traffic since AI Overviews rolled out last year.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

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Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time. AI Static Analysis Tools – internal tooling that automatically triages and prioritises issues identified by other systems. trillion by 2030.

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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

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It’s only been a bit over a month since the start of 2025 past year has witnessed seismic shifts in technology, from breakthroughs in generative AI to emerging solutions in climate tech and healthcare.

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Q3 2024 Quarterly Emerging Sector Analysis

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There is an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation , driven by AI. For example, our portfolio company HourOne can generate high quality videos of people speaking in a talk show, completely generated with AI. billion in earn out based on performance.