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JANUARY 13, 2023

A new landscape by Greenfield Partners mapped 25 startups (and several unicorns) operating in this space was published by Calcalist in Jan 2023. The Israeli open source startup landscape (credit: Greenfield Partners). The Israeli Generative AI landscape. Open source tech.

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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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MAY 30, 2024

An interesting new report by Dealroom and Flow Partners breaks down the massive investment that the “Magnificent Seven” (or M7 for short) are plowing into AI across verticals. It’s impossible to ignore the impact that Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Tesla/xAI have on AI.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Main takeaways from “Into the Metaverse” The event opened with a presentation by Hamza Khan , a Partner at McKinsey & Company and author of the “ Value creation in the metaverse ” report shared it will take time for VR to become mainstream and enable “fully immersive 3D worlds” but there’s a ton of innovation happening in web 2.5

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Ten principles for building strong vertical AI businesses , by Bessemer Venture Partners MEDIA OF THE WEEK Cybersecurity and vertical AI deemed highest potential areas of investment by 25 early stage Israeli VCs in latest report ( source ) One of the big problems of venture capital these days is the lack of liquidity.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. The companies created in this stage will likely start from a vertical, like video or email, and evolve over time.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

VCs see Agentic AI as $4 Trillion Opportunity “A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity to reimagine software, services, and work” Insight Partners A new report by Battery Ventures is calling it the Coming AI Market “Supercycle”. This isn’t just automation ; it’s autonomous problem-solving.

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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. APPOINTMENTS Way to go Koren Gilbai on joining Founders Fund as Partner to cover Israeli investments! Congrats Lia Cromwell on your promotion to Partner at UpWest ! Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee.

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MAY 21, 2024

I suspect many of the first-wave of GenAI startups targeting the application layer will fall victim to this as the big platforms expand and partner to offer similar features. If you want to learn more about these advantages, I recommend Harry Stabbings “ 20 Minute VC ” podcast featuring Sarah Tavel , a partner at Benchmark.

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APRIL 15, 2024

But in the coming age of generative AI, endless synthetic content and misinformation – there might be an opportunity for traditional media companies to regain their reputation as a 4th branch within a democracy. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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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?ro

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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. Databricks secured a new $10B funding round at a $62B valuation and Perplexity raised $500M at $9 billion valuation.

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