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APRIL 30, 2023

ChatGPT has barely been out for six months, but it seems like generative AI automation has just taken a leap forward with AutoGPT. Driven by GPT4, AutoGPT is able to code, execute scripts and push the boundaries of what is possible with AI. Cointelegraph AutoGPT essentially creates its own list of prompts.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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! Today is ‘Black Friday’ – what bargains are you shopping for? Mazel tov Ori Soen and team Montara on your $5.4M

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JANUARY 17, 2024

2023 was the year of generative AI, but more specifically, the year we witnessed the power and potential of LLMs, large language models. Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. Visual generative AI made strides as well.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). AI hype cycle. How far can this tech go?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

The fields that generative AI addresses—knowledge work and creative work—comprise billions of workers. Generative AI can make these workers at least 10% more efficient and/or creative: they become not only faster and more efficient, but more capable than before. Sequoia, Generative AI: A Creative New World.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

And not a particular sector, but AI startups, in particular generative AI attracted close to $50 billion in funding last year, globally. Most of that funding went to foundational models like OpenAI, Anthropic and Inflection AI which collectively raised $18 billion in 2023. Generative AI is game changer.

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JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally. Are they too late?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. Maybe this is the gateway technology that allows the metaverse to take a leap forward and for us to finally get holodecks like in Star Trek. Critics pose a ton of ethical and legal questions.

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MAY 1, 2023

In the early days of the Internet, we witnessed the browser wars and as technology continued to advance, we saw the number of wars, and the number of players involved in them grow. We are seeing some of this play out in the generative AI space, where the cloud providers are active investors to attract future revenue.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Luma AI has introduced Ray2 Flash , an upgraded text-to-video model for fast generation. Reka AI launched Flash 3 Reasoning , an open-source 21B model. Alibaba Group also open-sourced its AI video generation model and made them freely available. Interesting news in gaming: Niantic, Inc.

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JUNE 2, 2024

The case for continued AI momentum: ? It’s still early innings for LLMs – Microsoft and Google are still early in their rollouts of generative AI in search, productivity software, cloud and more. Meta is working on its open source LLaMa. The post Is the GenAI revolution hype waning?

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JULY 29, 2024

To add more heat, Microsoft launched generative AI search results for Bing. Mistral AI released two new open-source LLM models (Nemo in partnership with NVIDIA ) and Large 2. AI at Meta launched LLaMa 3.1, the most powerful open source LLM to date. The US currently has more than 2.5x

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Sapphire Ventures created a dedicated landscape for AI powered design tools. There’s a whole range of startups in this space, including open source ComfyUI , which offers developers a powerful design companion. For founders and investors willing to bet big on this shift, the opportunity is unprecedented.

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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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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Generative AI now has the potential to exponentially grow the quantity of content created. Articles, ads, images, videos, voice, graphs, 3D objects, music, scientific papers… all can be created today with AI. Click on ‘source’ below to download a clickable PDF. Such a milestone!

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Until last week, when the news that a relatively unknown Chinese company called Deepseek, released its R1 reasoning model which is equivalent to the performance of ChatGPT’s o1 model, but is fully open-source and available at a fraction of the cost (3-5% of OpenAI’s model). AIface increasing challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Meta is on track to become the most used open source AI by the end of the year. – Startup Nation Central: One Year of Israeli Innovation in War NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Big congrats Oded Melamed and team Quantum Source on securing a $50 million series A to advance photonic quantum computers! via Trung T.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

which has become the most used open source LLM, Meta AI available across all their apps for free, a new affordable version of their Meta Quest VR headset, but perhaps most excitingly, Meta Orion, smart AR glasses with holographic display (still not officially launched). Well done Marina S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. AI in National Security.

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MAY 24, 2023

The best thing students can do to adjust to an AI powered workforce is to ‘lean in’ on the technology. On regulation, Sam believes there should be an international body that regulates AI. He’s not sure how much or how would it work but he sees it as a question of 1) law and 2) morals. Thanks for reading.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. This is an extension of the previous list with new sources and startup requests.

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JULY 20, 2024

OpenAI is talking to chip designers and announced it will work on a ‘search product’, NVIDIA and Mistral AI released Nemo, a new powerful open-source model, Amazon made a record $14.2 billion in revenue for ‘Prime Day’ is rolling out ‘Rufus’ generative AI assistant to all U.S.

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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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MARCH 6, 2025

Since then other Chinese companies including Alibaba and Bytedance have launched a number of models challenging the US companies, most are open-source and free or much cheaper than their US equivalents. This technological shift may require established players to adapt to avoid being outpaced by more agile competitors.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Introduces Click-to-Game AI Technolog y That Creates Playable 3-D Games in Under a Minute (disclosure: it’s one of our portfolio companies at Remagine Ventures ) GLOBAL Ten principles for building strong vertical AI businesses – by Bessemer Venture Partners Interesting slide deck by Evan Shap? 9 billion in 60 deals.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

NVIDIA introduced the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact generative AI supercomputer that delivers significant performance gains at half the previous model’s price. The Genesis physics engine is an open source model capable of creating 4D dynamical worlds based on real physics.

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