INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas today, where it announced lots of brand-new features, like its next generation AI
processing chip, called Ironwood, and its most current AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash.It also announced a long list of AI start-ups that have
actually signed to utilize its cloud
Among them are some of the most viewed startups on the planet
As we previously reported, this list includes Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup established by OpenAI co-founder and previous chief
scientist Ilya Sutskever.It also consists of: Anysphere, that makes the uber-popular AI-powered code editor Cursor
Google states Cursor is using Anthropics Claude models on Google Cloud
Cursor was recently valued at $10 billion, sources have actually informed A Technology NewsRoom
Its most significant competitor is probably GitHub CoPilot, so that would make Microsoft among its top competitors.Hebbia utilizes AI to
browse large documents and respond to concerns, which has made it a hit in the legal industry
Andreessen Horowitz led, while Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Peter Thiel took part in its $130 million Series B.It is utilizing
Googles Gemini models, Google says.Magic is developing frontier models to automate coding along with research
Its option of Google Cloud is likely somewhat apparent, considered that its 2024 $320 million fundraising round included Alphabets CapitalG
and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as investors
Its tapping Google Cloud for GPUs, according to Google.Physical Intelligence is dealing with establishing foundational software for robots
and has a whos-who lineup of co-founders, consisting of solo investor extraordinaire Lachy Groom
It raised $400 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation in November from backers consisting of Sequoia, Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, and
A few of its creators have deep ties to Google, having formerly worked at Google DeepMind, including Karol Hausman and Chelsea
Finn.Photoroom is among the hottest AI start-ups in Paris, Europes center of AI
It offers AI image editing and is utilizing Google Clouds Veo 2 video producing model and its text-to-image model Imagen 3
Synthesia is developing items that make extremely sensible AI avatars and is using different Google models
It raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion round in January led by NEA but with GV (previously referred to as Google Ventures) amongst the
investors.All in all, Google Cloud is collecting an excellent list of startups to reinforce its race versus Microsoft Azure, and to some
level AWS, for AI workloads.In addition, Google announced that it included Lightspeed to VC partners in addition to Sequoia and Y Combinator
Google Cloud grants portfolio business from its partner investors access to its AI chips and designs
Lightspeeds AI portfolio companies can qualify for $150,000 in cloud credits, Google stated
It has plans to persuade even more rising star start-ups to join its cloud.Here are the rest of the AI startups that Google showcased this
week: Augment Code AI software coding agentAutoscience scientific research AI agentsBig Sur AI customized recommendations for
e-commerceCaptions talking video developer and video editorEon.io self-governing enterprise backup and recoveryfal is text to image, and
image to videoSpot AI for security camerasStory blockchain for saving and accrediting intellectual propertyStudyHall AI coaches students on
reading, composing, and exam prepUbie Japanese health care sign analyzerUdio music creationUfonia representative for medical health care
assessments with patientsWagestream financial wellness platform developed by charitiesWondercraft GenAI practical audio material
