… Meanwhile, adjacent categories like AI companions or AI content generation apps remain fragmented and wide open to competition, which represents both a risk and an opportunity depending on which players move first. OpenAI started experimenting with ads in ChatGPT in February. …
… That competition has been building for nearly a year in markets like India, one of the fastest-growing AI user bases in the world. OpenAI drew first blood there in August of last year, launching ChatGPT Go at roughly $4.60 a month — a fraction of its standard $20 Plus plan. …
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… It reopened questions about the country’s long-term AI strategy and whether India could afford to remain dependent on a small number of foreign frontier AI providers. “It completely changes things,” said Aakrit Vaish, founder of Indian AI venture platform Activate , referring to Anthropic’s decisio… …
… Topics AI , Anthropic , Claude , OpenAI Related Venture Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup AI IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed AI OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team L…
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… OpenAI is expected to file for an initial public offering, setting the stage for an IPO season that will pit the two largest AI labs against each other and test the market’s resolve and interest in artificial intelligence. …
… So on the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what’s looking like a hot IPO summer. “We have SpaceX not only sucking up just a huge chunk of the money that’s available on public markets, but also really stress testing the limits of what a pu… …
… Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are moving fast into vertical software markets — what some are calling the SaaSpocalypse . “At Datadog we saw this clearly,” Mehmood said. “A big part of our multicloud business came from e-commerce businesses who did not want to run on Amazon, right? … We are absolute… …
… For Newton, these are all signs of the vast potential of the legal AI market. He has reason to be optimistic. The Canada-based Clio was valued at $5 billion when it raised a $500 million Series G last November. …