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MARCH 14, 2025

Cohere debuted Command-A , a generative AI model aimed at complex enterprise tasks that can run on minimal compute. billion and Sony is experimenting with AI-powered characters on Playstation. Great stuff Noam Maital and team Darwin AI on your $5M seed round to build the secure AI hub for governments!

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A new report by F2 Venture Capital, Google Cloud and Deloitte Israel shines a spotlight onto the buzzing emerging AI landscape in Israel so I couldn’t resist covering it. On a high level: The Israeli AI startup ecosystem is booming, with over 2,150 active AI companies, representing ~30% of the local tech sector.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The second report, by Startup Nation Central (SNC) Policy Institute paints a similar picture but points a picture at the governments proposed judicial reform as the cause for reduced foreign investor activity (down 40% year over year up to Q3 2023). The actual amount might be higher as companies choose to stay in stealth for longer.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Despite the war in Israel over the past 9 months, both the rate of capital raising and exits of Israeli cyber startups in the first half of 2024 were the highest since 2021. Q2 2024 is already a record quarter for venture capital investment in Generative AI startups, with the quarter not yet closed. BRINGTHEMHOME.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

In November 2022 I published a post titled “ generative AI will go mainstream when it goes from playful to useful “, and I think you will agree that this transition is in full swing. 2023 was the year generative AI went mainstream The pace of advancement in generative AI has been astounding.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek AI sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments. A new foundation model called Magma , claims to be the first for multimodal AI agents. Microsoft unveiled the 3.8B-parameter parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s just been the first anniversary since ChatGPT burst into the world and launched the term ‘generative AI’ into the mainstream. It’s been a big year for AI. billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook.

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