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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. They want to fund startups that enable generalist software developers to manage these teams of agents.

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MAY 17, 2022

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. AI Attack Surfaces. Massive Data Sets.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

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.

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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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MAY 23, 2023

There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world. More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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.

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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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APRIL 4, 2024

The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space. apply here: [link] ).

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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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JANUARY 13, 2023

Open source tech. The Israeli open source startup landscape (credit: Greenfield Partners). The Israeli Generative AI landscape. I published my first list of Israeli startups in Generative AI in Calcaslist back in October 2022.

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JULY 5, 2023

Is generative AI headed in the same direction? Generative AI, on the other hand, seems to be going from strength to strength. Have we reached generative AI peak? Are we on the way up or down in generative AI use and adoption? The post Has Generative AI hype peaked?

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

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.

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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).

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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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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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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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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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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 ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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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. 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.

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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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MAY 24, 2023

He also said they will release some open source models and that he’s excited about the progress in the open source community when it comes to LLMs (though he hopes to keep an edge). He said they will continue to share information and try to balance their new structure with developing the whole space.

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MAY 30, 2025

DeepSeek says its R1 update can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, and comes close to o3 and Gemini 2.5 Tencent has just open-sourced HunyuanPortrait , an AI framework that transforms static portraits into incredibly realistic animations with just one image and a video template.

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MAY 1, 2023

We are seeing some of this play out in the generative AI space, where the cloud providers are active investors to attract future revenue. Large Language Model (LLM) Wars: AI advancements have led to a competition between tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in the large language model (LLM) space. Space Race 2.0:

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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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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.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

One more impressive milestone is a new foundational AI model released by AI21 Labs this week, who unveiled a new family of open source language models called Jamba. billion annually since 2020.

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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. Companies such as Israeli startup Weavy.ai , which caters to professional designers.

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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 28, 2025

Amazon launched Alexa+ , an AI makeover of its home assistant. Alibaba Group has just released Wan2.1 , a family of open-source AI video models designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs. Also, NVIDIA released a foundation model for molecular biology.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

Iuri Struta , S& P Global ( source ) I was listening to Bret Taylor , the founder and CEO of Sierra, former co-CEO of Salesforce, ex CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI on the 20VC podcast. He talked about where we are in the timeline of generative AI and it made me realise that we’re making an interesting shift now.

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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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MAY 16, 2025

Chinese AI continues to make strides: ByteDance has introduced Agent TARS , an open-source AI tool designed for automating complex tasks by visually interpreting web content and interacting with system elements. The company is also looking to patent AI system to decipher animal sounds. Baidu, Inc.

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MAY 14, 2025

Those building the LLMs, the chips or the cloud environments needed to enable generative AI for both consumers and enterprises. Now we’re seeing the rise of AI Agents and automations, but also a growing number of ‘AI Wrapers’, built on the back of powerful AI models like those from OpenAI or Google.

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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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APRIL 25, 2025

The company reported that it’s AI summaries are now being used by 1.5 Adobe announced the integration of image-generation AI models from OpenAI and Google into its Firefly app. unveiled AvatarFX for cinematic video generation. billion monthly users. unveiled Ernie 4.5

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