New market maps covering the latest AI startups:

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1. Intelligent-first apps & infra from Insight Partners 2. Vertical AI apps + AI infra from Menlo Ventures

NEW: Simplismart raises a $7M Series A for its MLOps platform

Their platform helps engineers fine-tune, deploy generative AI models in production & has an inference engine that achieves 500+ t/s with Llama3.1 8B

> 7 slide pitch deck from @SimplismartHQ @SimplismartHQ

Menlo VC just dropped a deep dive on AI agents

Some insightful images:

1. A nice market map

x-axis = vertical, horizontal
y-axis = more or less LLM autonomy 2. Building blocks of the capabilities of AI agents and the freedom of control in an application

Skyfire raised a $8.5M Seed to allow AI to pay on behalf of humans

- It's a $250B+ market opportunity to be "the Visa/Mastercard for AI"

> 13 slide pitch deck

New market maps covering the latest AI startups:

1. AI x Design from Sapphire Ventures 2. AI x Gaming from Hartmann Capital

New market maps covering the latest AI startups:

1. AI Agents from Dawn Capital 2. AI scribes from a16z

Proofs raised a $2.6M Pre-Seed to build an AI agent for APIs

> 10 slide pitch deck

New market maps covering the latest AI startups:

1. AI for Accounting by a16z 2. Enterprise AI 55: 2024 Edition by IVP

8 predictions on the future of AI from @BessemerVP:

Prediction 1 @BessemerVP Prediction 2

Flybridge, a VC firm with over $1B AUM, created the AI Index.

- An equally weighted index of 28 public companies in AI

Returns? 116% from Jan'23 to May'24

It's outperforming the S&P500, NASDAQ, Bessemer Cloud Index & the F-Prime Fintech Index

28 Companies + multiples: Companies: Adobe, Alteryx, AMD, Arm, Astera Labs, Broadcom, C3 AI, Entegris, Equinix, Google, Hubspot, IBM, Marvell, Meta, Micron, Microsoft, MongoDB, Nice Systems, NVIDIA, Palantir, PANW, Qualcomm, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Simulations Plus, Snowflake, Synaptics, TSMC, UiPath

BVP just released their "State of the Cloud 2024" with a focus on AI

5 insightful slides you should see:

1. ChatGPT monthly site visits is neck-to-neck with leaders in the Attention Economy, such as Reddit & X 2. AI foundation models set the stage for Big Tech’s new battle-of-the-century

- 90% of private GenAI fundraising in 2023 was driven by corporate VCs

BREAKING: Mistral raises a $640M Series B led by General Catalyst at a $6B valuation.

Here's their Seed pitch deck to remind you of their vision:

5 new market maps in AI

1. AI code generation tools from Greylock 2. AI legal tools from Battery Ventures

AI agent infra in 2023 vs 2024 from @MadronaVentures @jturow

Summary of 6 key themes in 2024:

@MadronaVentures @jturow 1. Agent-specific developer tools

These tools natively support common design patterns (voting, ensembles, validation, “crews”), which will help more developers understand these patterns and put them to use to build agents.

3 areas where AI will revolutionize legal workflows from Battery Ventures:

- Legal Research and Review
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Patents and Intellectual Property

Deep dive + buyer personas: Buyer personas

New market maps covering the latest AI startups.

1. AI agents from Insight Partners 2. Generative AI app infrastructure from Sapphire Ventures

a16z just released their thesis on AI voice agents

Thanks @omooretweets & @illscience

3 market maps of B2B, B2C voice agents, AI voice agent infrastructure:

1. B2B voice agents

Businesses will replace labor with software. @omooretweets @illscience 2. B2C voice agents

Consumers get access to previously expensive services (therapy, coaching, etc.) + unlock new types of conversations including AI girlfriends, friendships.

$2B+ raised this week by AI startups

8 startups VCs backed building insane products you should know: 1. Praktika (@PraktikaEnglish)

Round: $35.5M Series A

Praktika is a language learning app that uses AI avatars to simulate real-life conversational scenarios.

Demo:

$1B+ raised last week by AI startups

9 startups building insane products you should know about: 1. Artisan AI (@GetArtisanAI)

Round: $7.3M Seed

Artisan AI develops fully autonomous AI employees called Artisans.

The first AI BDR employee, Ava, can prospect, craft hyper-personalized emails, reply to inquiries, and book meetings autonomously.

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TLDR: Google is ALL IN on AI agents

AI agents are deployed across their whole product ecosystem.

8 wild demos from Google I/O today:

1. An email agent to continuously organise all receipts in your inbox into a spreadsheet 2. An email agent to return an order

AI agents are one of the hottest areas of development & investment in AI

Here's a deep dive into the ecosystem from @Prosus_Ventures:

1. AI agents + AgentOps landscape

@Prosus_Ventures 2. What’s in an agent?

Agents can make decisions & take actions on their own following general instructions from a user.

They have 4 main components:

- LLM
- Tools: web search, code execution, etc
- Memory: access to knowledge such as databases
- Reflection & self-critiquing