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Your Weekly Industry News Recap
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The Raise Recap
This Week in Research
Headliner: Agentic’s Plan to Make ChatGPT the Employee of the Month
ChatGPT Is Done Just Chatting—Agentic Wants It to Actually Work 🤖📡💼
Agentic’s platform turns passive chatbots into full-on digital employees, equipped with "connectors" to take real-world action—think updating records, fetching live data, and even kicking off transactions.
These agents can now choose which tools to use and when, boosting automation while slashing hallucinations. The result? Customized, high-trust AI workers for everything from support to logistics.
Your Weekly Industry News Recap
AI in the Terminal Is the New Cool
Forget flashy GUIs—developers are sliding back into the terminal with smarter AI coding tools. Old-school vibes with cutting-edge brains. ⌨️🧠 🔗 Read moreDigital Twins for Retail Content Creation
Microsoft’s pushing AI-generated product descriptions powered by “digital twins” of inventory. Goodbye stock photo, hello smart shelf storytelling. 🛒👯♂️ 🔗 Read moreMira Murati Launches “Thinking Machines Lab”
OpenAI’s CTO is building a new lab to rethink how machines think. 🤖🧠 Time to give AI some original thoughts. 🔗 Read moreAI Ethics Experts Say: Monitor AI’s Thoughts
Leading researchers want industry watchdogs to actually keep an eye on how models "think"—or hallucinate. 🕵️♀️🧠 🔗 Read moreCan GenAI and Copyright Coexist?
AI keeps remixing the web—but who owns the output? This copyright conundrum isn’t going away. 🎨📜 🔗 Read moreBuilding From Scratch Beats Plug-and-Play?
Some startups are ditching API shortcuts and building AI systems from the ground up. Grit over GitHub. 🛠️👨💻 🔗 Read moreCanada’s AI Voice Grows Louder in Global R&D
Montreal’s research spotlight brightens as North American AI gains serious academic firepower. 🍁📚🔗 Read moreThe Trust Factor in AI Governance
Forget just building better models—building trust into your AI governance is the next real challenge. 🤝⚖️ 🔗 Read moreMeta Makes Strategic AI Move
Meta’s latest AI acquisition has folks buzzing—is this the missing piece in Zuck’s machine learning game? 🧩📦 🔗 Read more
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This Week’s Raise Recap 📈💰
Everlab Raises $15M for Longevity AI – Living longer with a little AI help! Everlab just scored $15M to advance its anti-aging tech. 💉🧬 🔗 Read more
Metly Snags €520K to Speed Pharma Launches – This AI startup is streamlining how new meds hit the market, and just landed some early backing. 💊⚡ 🔗 Read more
Rwazi Gets $12M to Replace Gut Calls with AI – No more guessing—Rwazi’s data-driven AI wants to run the show. 📊🧠 🔗 Read more
Folio Raises $14M for Hotel FinOps AI – Hotel finances are about to get a lot smarter, thanks to Folio’s funding boost. 🏨💸 🔗 Read more
Surge AI Quietly Hits $1B Valuation – No flashy PR, just results—Surge AI joins the unicorn club without a sound. 🦄🤫 🔗 Read more
Paddle Raises $25M to Expand Globally – This payments powerhouse is scaling with help from a juicy investment round. 🌍💳 🔗 Read more
Nuvini’s AI SaaS Empire Grows in LATAM – The Brazilian firm bets big on smart SaaS tools, ROI, and Latin America's digital boom. 🌎📈 🔗 Read more
Greptile Eyes $180M Valuation After YC – Another Y Combinator darling is making waves—this time with AI-powered code knowledge. 🧠💻 🔗 Read more
Tavrn Raises $15M Series A – A new SaaS contender is in town—Tavrn’s fresh cash will power up its platform and scale. 🧑💻📊 🔗 Read more
Coverflow Nets $4.8M for Its Dev Stack – More fuel for dev-focused AI tools—Coverflow joins the race with some fresh seed funding. 🌱👨💻 🔗 Read more
Lovable Hits Unicorn Status with $200M Raise – This AI startup got loved up with a massive raise—$200M in just 8 months! 💖🦄 🔗 Read more
Quandri Raises $12M to Scale AI for Insurance – The Canadian firm wants to make insurance smoother using AI—and now they’ve got the cash. 🧾🇨🇦 🔗 Read more
Datavations Pulls $17M Series A – This analytics startup is getting serious about scaling its AI insights. 📊📈 🔗 Read more
FlyGuys Gets $13M for Reality Data Infra – Backed by Kevin O’Leary, this drone-data startup is ready to soar. 🚁🌐 🔗 Read more
Quandri Secures $16.5M CAD for Renewal Automation – North American insurers, meet your new AI assistant. 📃🤖 🔗 Read more
H2OK Raises $12M to Transform Manufacturing – These AI-powered sensors are coming for the CPG floor. 🏭🧪 🔗 Read more
Xtend Gets $30M Series B Extension – These autonomous drones mean business, and they just got more funding to prove it. 🛩️🎯 🔗 Read more
THIS WEEK IN RESEARCH
We’ve got Agent Memory Advances!
Anthropic drops research on long-range planning and reward mechanisms—more agent smarts incoming. 📄🧩🔗 Read moreHere’s the rundown of the paper: Memory in AI agents is currently limited because existing solutions use simple, narrow memory components that prevent them from personalizing, abstracting, or reliably recalling user information over time. To address this, a new system called MIRIX has been developed:
MIRIX is a modular, multi-agent memory system designed to enable language models (LLMs) to genuinely remember. Unlike previous systems, MIRIX goes beyond text to incorporate visual and multimodal experiences, making it more practical for real-world use. MIRIX has been validated in two challenging scenarios:
ScreenshotVQA: A multimodal benchmark involving nearly 20,000 high-resolution computer screenshots per sequence. MIRIX achieved 35% higher accuracy than the RAG baseline and reduced storage requirements by 99.9%.
LOCOMO: A long-form conversation benchmark with single-modal textual input. MIRIX achieved a state-of-the-art performance of 85.4%, significantly outperforming existing baselines.
A packaged application powered by MIRIX is available, which monitors screens in real-time, builds a personalized memory base, and offers intuitive visualization and secure local storage for privacy.
Stay well, and see you next week!
-✌🏽 Sam
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