Remove Generative AI Remove Open Source Remove Revenue
article thumbnail

Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time. trillion by 2030.

article thumbnail

The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

VC Cafe

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever.

Vertical 170
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Weekly #Firgun Newsletter – November 29 2024

VC Cafe

Way to go Maor Sason and team Appcharge on your $26M series A to help gaming companies keep more of their in-app-purchases revenue! Great stuff Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on your $25M series A (weeks after a $21M seed) at a $500M valuation , to pioneer scalable, cost efficient generative AI training!

Israel 78
article thumbnail

Generative AI will really take off when it moves from playful to useful

VC Cafe

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

article thumbnail

Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – October 25 2024

VC Cafe

The actual list is much longer: Runway launched Act-One Ideogram released new Canvas photo editing OpenAI launched Voice mode in EU Perplexity released Reasoning Mode Genmo released New open source AI video Mochi 1 But that’s all I have time to cover this week! AI companies have reached a combined value of $9 trillion.

Israel 78
article thumbnail

How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

This is going to be BIG.

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. That doesn’t even scrape the surface of the issues around deepfakes and generating images of others. That’s why I’m bullish on creator tools like Highnote.

article thumbnail

The Evolution of Tech Wars: Past, Present, and Future

VC Cafe

App Store Wars: Apple dominated the app store wars, building a walled garden around its App Store and generating significant revenue from app sales and in-app purchases. We are seeing some of this play out in the generative AI space, where the cloud providers are active investors to attract future revenue.