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agent builder on top of its API platformDoti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silosSales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memesLindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platformMicrosoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud providerOpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center projectScale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AIPerplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI searchMistral AI plans IPOUK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAIAnthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for ClaudePresident Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive orderUK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracyFriend delays shipments of its AI companion pendantOpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing releaseAt the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnelDeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarksHere are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M, sources sayThe Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAIAI isn’t very good at history, new paper findsFTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concernsAmazon suspends US drone deliveries following crash at testing facilityAI startup Character AI tests games on the webPerplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionalsOpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup$200M woolly mammoths and a farewell to TikTokNord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help enterprises take AI projects from pilot to productionDespite VCs investing 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Amazon says it’ll spend $230 million on generative AI startups

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  • June 13, 2024
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Amazon says that it will commit up to $230 million to startups building generative AI-powered applications. The investment, roughly $80 million of which will fund Amazon’s second AWS Generative AI Accelerator program, aims to position AWS as an attractive cloud infrastructure choice for startups developing generative AI models to power their products, apps and services. […]

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