AI agents have a knack for appearing promising, only to go off the rails. But agentic startups remain super HOT. Below is a look at the top 20 agent startups by revenue as per CBInsights data: Here are some key things I noticed: - They are setting record ARR growth rates

Apple's AI strategy is increasingly resembling a pattern we've seen before (hint: it worked for the iPhone). Apple is testing "Veritas" internally *a secret AI-powered chatbot to rebuild Siri.* The weird thingy? There's no planned public release of the chatbot. Here's what

Sam Altman called ads "making dimes" six months ago. In a few months, OpenAI hired Facebook's monetization architect. Next they released GPT-5 with a real-time router (stick with me on this). Last week, they published a study (let's just call it a branding exercise) showing

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Everyone thinks VCs back bold, contrarian ideas. I crunched 3,256 AI deals from Jan-Aug 2025 (based on Bot Memo's proprietary data pipeline). The patterns I found will probably make you rethink everything about venture capital. One finding stood out: The city with the MOST

OpenAI claimed it's creating AI for everyone. Anthropic admitted its primary market is elite knowledge workers. After analyzing millions of Claude conversations, Anthropic's Economic Index reveals an uncomfortable truth: AI adoption may be creating a new digital divide between

I was wrong. In my analysis of 3256 AI startup deals (Jan-Aug 2025), I initially claimed that only a few TOP startups get funded. I amateurishly conflated the funding concentration with herd mentality. Of course, the power law will hold true. So I went back to the drawing

OpenAI just admitted 70% of ChatGPT isn't being used for work. Their "most comprehensive study ever" of 1.1M conversations reveals the enterprise AI revolution ain't happening. At least, not inside ChatGPT. Here's what 700M users are ACTUALLY doing with ChatGPT: 1/ 70% of the

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🌍 From Silicon Valley to the EU to Mumbai, August saw these 10 venture capital funds commit fresh capital: 1. Alumni Ventures: AI First Fund Focus: Multi‑stage (AI‑native startups) Geography: Las Vegas, US 2. Boundless Ventures Scale: ~$24–25M Focus: Pre‑Seed/Seed (AI‑native)

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The top 5 AI infrastructure trends for Q2 2025 (with their funding and number of companies leading them). 1. Inference Optimization: $75.6M | 6 Companies 2. Model Compression: $257.0M | 5 Companies 3. Adaptive AI: $90.4M | 4 Companies 4. Model Routing: $59.0M | 3 Companies 5.

I analyzed over 2400+ AI startup funding rounds from H1 2025 to find 5 NEW AI trends in Q2. They didn't even exist in Q1. VCs like a16z, Greylock, and Khosla have quietly moved into these AI infrastructure trends. In my complete emerging trend analysis, I share: - The 5

Across 2,400+ AI startup funding deals from Q2 and Q1, I discovered 5 completely NEW emerging trends. - $487.5M poured into the 20 AI startups driving trends. - VCs like a16z, Greylock, and Khosla are betting on them - 80.3% of funding went to just ONE category My full

AI bubble comic strips courtesy the Nano Banana image model by Google. My God, it's really fast. It generated the first comic in 14 seconds. The second one took more like 10.5 seconds. - The prompt creation itself took like 10 minutes. - There are spelling errors that the

I analyzed 2,400+ AI startup funding rounds from H1 2025. One trend exploded +1,500% in Q2 while everyone awaited GPT-5's release. VCs quietly moved $4.9B into these 7 specific AI trends that barely get media coverage. These trends form a complete AI production stack. Remove

I analyzed 2,400+ AI startup funding rounds from Q2 vs Q1. 7 tech categories exploded +250% 📈 - One trend hit 1,500% growth in Q2 - VCs are pouring millions into these specific niches Tomorrow I'm breaking down the trends smart money is pouring into with their investment

Post ChatGPT seed is the new Series A. In July, 128 seed deals brought in $3.1B (including Mira Murti's massive $2B deal for Thinking Machines Lab), closely followed by 96 Series A deals securing $2.7B. Both the titans, Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), closed 15