📣The Ultimate Guide to AI Marketing Tools in 2025Plus: The VC Firms Most Exposed to AI - It seems like Cheating Pays Off in the AI World
Friday is here, fellow readers. Today, we share a practical guide to AI marketing, packed with insights you can apply to your work or ideas next week. We're also seeing a surprising trend that cheating apps are proving more profitable than educational AI tools and are attracting funding even without viable products. Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI may be filing for divorce soon. Stay curious, and have a great weekend!
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The VC Firms Most Exposed to AIVenture capitalists have poured $52.4B into AI startups since mid 2024, with SoftBank and Thrive Capital alone leading $20B, despite not even being in the top nine a year ago. The average AI deal now tops $372M, up from $96M two years ago.
Big bets include:
But not all returns are gold, some firms saw modest gains or quasi-acquisitions (e.g., Character.ai, Adept). Still, investor confidence is sky-high as enterprise and consumer demand surges. The AI race is barely getting started with major Data Centers, Robotics, and other infrastructure needed to grow and maintain LLMs, and perhaps even new devices that will be needed to be able to truly consume the output, this technology has a lot of room to grow and investors seem to be eager to throw even trillions at it. Some of these devices may serve our senses differently, from wearables to scary brain implants. Additionally, the evolution of agents is barely beginning, where machines will only communicate with other machines to accomplish their goals. This will bring a different communication form, traveling through different devices and formats, not needed for mortals to see or understand. I don't use RAG, I just retrieve documents
They say RAG is dead. They're wrong.
30 minutes to fix what's broken. Real tactics. No theory. It seems like Cheating Pays Off in the AI World
Andreessen Horowitz's $15M investment in Cluely signals a shift in AI startup strategy, prioritizing speed and controversy-driven marketing over traditional product development. Cluely gained attention by promoting itself as a tool to "cheat on everything," even without a functional product. a16z partner Bryan Kim believes that in the fast-moving AI landscape, rapid viral momentum, not perfection, is key to staying ahead, making Cluely’s controversial approach a potential new blueprint for consumer-facing AI startups. 🧠 Learning Corner.
Ideal for students, graduate researchers, and academics looking to study cutting-edge topics efficiently. Microsoft and OpenAI Disputes are just starting.
Microsoft no longer believes OpenAI can achieve AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), a foundational goal that once unified the two. Tensions are rising as OpenAI seeks to restructure into a for-profit company and renegotiate its contract with Microsoft, its largest backer. Some of their issues are:
Microsoft and OpenAI are locked in a high-stakes power struggle over the future of AGI, profit rights, and control over the most valuable AI technologies. The issues may continue to arise and OpenAI signed more contracts with other partners, gets more funding from different investors, and as they build apps that directly compete with Microsoft. We shall see how this divorce ends. Stay tuned. 🧰 AI ToolsBook Discovery
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Friday, June 27, 2025
📣The Ultimate Guide to AI Marketing Tools in 2025
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