Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

Hinge Founder Justin McLeod Raises $18M for AI Dating Startup Overtone

Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18M for Overtone, an AI dating startup using voice and curated introductions to challenge swipe apps.

Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets may soon be capped per engineer as rising model costs force companies to tighten usage.

Open models are taking share from frontier labs as enterprises seek cheaper, customizable AI and less vendor lock-in.

Reflection AI signs a $1B compute deal with Nebius, underscoring the growing importance of compute deal spending in the open-model AI race.

Superhuman’s new AI email replies feature uses frontier models to draft more natural responses and could make inbox work much faster.

The AI talent shift is pulling top founders and executives back into hands-on roles at Anthropic and new startups as the race intensifies.

Uber product strategy is expanding into hotels, AI and autonomous data as the company pushes travel growth without becoming an everything app.

PixVerse says its video generation round reached $439M, pushing valuation above $2B as it expands world models and global sales.

Nous Research is reportedly raising at least $75M at a $1.5B valuation as demand for AI agents and Hermes heats up.

Satya Nadella warns AI models may make companies pay twice — in cash and proprietary data — and urges more control, routing and open-source use.