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MAY 14, 2024

The generative AI market is exploding globally, with venture capitalists pouring $12.8 While still in its early days, this transformative technology is seeing rapid adoption by consumers and businesses alike. Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally.

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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While incumbents like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have vast resources and existing integrations, startups have the advantage of speed, focus, and the ability to attract top AI talent interested in building from the ground up. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

His new book Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation, explains how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. In the digital age, technology has pervasive impacts, and data plays a central role in transforming customer value propositions, operations, and the structure of industries. [02:44]

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion on 78 generative AI deals —almost as much as was invested in all of the previous 5 years combined, according to PitchBook data. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 In 2022, VCs poured $1.37

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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. So far in 2023, generative AI startups raised $16 billion, according to Dealroom. billion, a 2.5x

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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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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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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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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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MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! With the rapid advancement of generative AI, we’re seeing content creation, distribution and monetisation being disrupted faster than ever before.

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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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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The country ranks 3rd globally in private AI investment, demonstrating its strong position in the global AI market. The new AI landscape included in the report (below) is a great evolution of the Israeli Generative AI landscape we (Remagine Ventures) published in Calcalist in May 2024. Vertical AI is a stronghold.

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JUNE 2, 2024

Funding for AI startups has cooled in recent months. 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.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like any new and emerging technology, the Metaverse has faced its share of challenges and criticisms. Layoffs, technology difficulties and expensive hardware didn’t massively help build a positive story. Like any new and emerging technology, the Metaverse has faced its share of challenges and criticisms.

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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 9, 2024

Here’s where the money is flowing in Agentic AI October 2024 broke a record in global venture capital deployed, $32 billion in a single month, with AI attracting $12.2B, or 38% of the total funding. For founders and investors willing to bet big on this shift, the opportunity is unprecedented.

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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. Well done Ari Recht and team Odigos on your $13M seed extension to automate distributed data tracing in order to make it easier to detect performance issues in complex data systems using open source technologies! via Trung T. Keep on creating!

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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. That’s all for this week.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Although GenAI is a revolutionary technology, incumbents in the infrastructure domain are aggressively investing. Many startups have created so-called “wrappers” around platforms like ChatGPT and other Gen AI technologies. These vertices offer the highest potential to disrupt established markets.

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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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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.

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is only 2 years old, considering the amount of capital that has been invested in generative AI startups since. This analysis spotlights 10 key trends set to redefine media, entertainment, gaming, and commercedomains where technological disruption is felt most profoundly.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Until now, the majority of the value in generative AI has been captured by the infrastructure layer: foundational models (LLMs), the cloud providers and the hardware infrastructure/ data centres. However now, the AI landscape is undergoing a significant shift, prompting a crucial question: Where will the future value of AI accrue?

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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?

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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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JANUARY 8, 2025

Government software AI software to automate government administrative tasks Target large-scale operations like form processing, application reviews Build solutions for citizen-facing services (DMV, permits, licenses) 2. Here are some key areas and related startup opportunities: AI for the Physical World ? One million jobs 2.0

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