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Jun 19 7 tweets 2 min read
Not even halfway through 2025 and we already have 24 AI companies in the US that raised $100M+ 💰

January

📢 @elevenlabsio raised $180M Series C at $3B+ valuation. Backers: ICONIQ Growth, a16z, Sequoia, NEA, Salesforce Ventures. They build synthetic voice AI.

📢 @hippocraticai raised $141M Series B at $1.6B+ valuation. Led by Kleiner Perkins with a16z, Nvidia, General Catalyst. Focused on LLMs for healthcare. February

📢 Harvey, AI legal tech, raised $300M Series D at $3B valuation. Led by Sequoia. OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil also joined.

📢 EnCharge AI, hardware startup, raised $100M Series B. Led by Tiger Global. Backed by Samsung Ventures, RTX Ventures.

📢 Eudia, another legal tech company, raised $105M Series A. Led by General Catalyst. Backers include Floodgate, Defy, and Everywhere Ventures.

📢 Abridge, healthcare AI transcription, raised $250M Series D at $2.75B valuation. Co-led by IVP and Elad Gil.

📢 Lambda, AI infra company, raised $480M Series D at ~$2.5B valuation. Co-led by SGW and Andra Capital, with Nvidia and ARK Invest.

📢 Together AI, open-source model infra, raised $305M Series B at $3.3B valuation. Co-led by Prosperity7 and General Catalyst.
Feb 19 10 tweets 3 min read
It's been another crazy few weeks in AI 👀

- Mistral le Chat
- Pika Video Editing
- OpenAI Intelligence Age
- France’s $112B AI Investment
- Elon Musk’s $97.4B offer for OpenAI
- Apple partners with Alibaba
- OpenAI’s GPT-5 Roadmap
- Adobe Firefly

Everything you need to know ⬇️ 1/ The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work

Blazingly fast new 1,000 words per second chat assistant from Mistral.

It uses Mistral's powerful state-of-the-art coding models and a lovely canvas to assist in many tasks

Jan 30, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Unpopular (gen z) opinion: I wish everyone still used Facebook

Where else can you find a single platform for all your friends, photos, events, groups, life updates, messages, birthday reminders, free & for sale, memes, etc. Social media peaked in 2011-2016 /-: Can someone explain why people stopped using facebook despite the enormous utility?? Feels like the "fake news" era and Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2016-2018 really set things back for Facebook. Or maybe cannibalization from Instagram.