$10K/mo with an AI photo tool

GPT-5’s memory test, Meta’s $100M+ hiring blitz, Alibaba’s new model, Africa's AI boom

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Top 3 Things in This Week’s Edition:
◆ French founder hits €10K/month with AI home-staging tool
◆ OpenAI quietly tests GPT-5 memory presets
◆ Africa, India, and China fast-track regional AI ecosystems

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AI Business Idea of the Week:

IACrea – €10K/mo with AI Home-Staging

Founder: Pauline Clavelloux (France)
What it does: Upload a photo of any property → AI redesigns it with modern furniture, clean layouts, and virtual décor.
Target users: Real estate agents, Airbnb hosts, interior designers
Growth: Pauline built this solo while working at IBM. In 18 months, she hit €10,000/month revenue with zero ads, just social media and partnerships.

This kind of SaaS is called a “vertical AI tool”—super specific and super valuable.

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Global Weekly AI News (July 15)

🇺🇸 US & Canada

  • OpenAI quietly tests GPT-5 “memory presets” — early users can save modes like therapist, coder, or co-founder.

  • Meta ramps up its $100M+ hiring blitz, building out teams for Llama 3 and GenAI projects across California and London.

  • NASA x IBM launch an AI that scans Earth’s satellite data for climate risks like wildfires and drought.

🇨🇳 China

  • Alibaba drops Qwen-2, a free LLM that beats GPT-4 in several benchmarks and is now built into Alipay.

  • ByteDance’s AI lab spins out as MiniMax, raising funds and launching a powerful multimodal model.

🌍 Africa

  • South Africa announces a $25M fund to build AI models for Zulu, Swahili, and 10+ local languages.

  • Nigeria’s Health Ministry launches a voice-based AI diagnostic tool to assist rural clinics with over 50 conditions.

🇮🇳 India

  • Jio + Stability AI announce BharatGPT, a multilingual model trained in 12 Indian languages—already shipping in mobile & TV apps.

🇪🇺 Europe

  • EU launches AI “sandbox” zones in 6 countries so startups can test AI features without full regulatory hurdles.

  • France starts a national AI training drive with free online courses and job subsidies for 100K+ workers.

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This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds

Company

Funding

What They Do

Lead Investors

Thinking Machines

$2B (Seed)

AGI startup by ex-OpenAI CTO

a16z

Helsing

€600M (Series C)

Military AI for aerial & underwater drones

Prima Materia, Spotify’s Ek

Pano AI

$44M (Series B)

Early wildfire detection via AI camera system

Initialized, Giant Ventures

Cluely

$15M (Seed)

AI job interview assistant for developers

Andreessen Horowitz

Repello AI

$1.2M (Seed)

Cybersecurity with LLMs for threat detection

Pi Ventures, Venture Highway

Top 10 AI Unicorns – This Week’s Moves

Rank

Company

Valuation

This Week’s Move

1

OpenAI

$300B

Testing GPT-5 memory presets with early users

2

Anthropic

$61.5B

Silent—Claude 3 usage steady

3

Databricks

$62B

Acquires Lilac to power real-time agent tools

4

Hugging Face

$4.5B

Releases Transformers.js for browser LLMs

5

Scale AI

$18B

Expands Meta partnership, boosting funding

6

Anduril

$28B

Wins $1B drone contract with US military

7

Inflection AI

$4B

Co-founder Mustafa joins DeepMind full-time

8

Cohere

$5.5B

Launches enterprise model fine-tuning API

9

Adept AI

$1B

Hires ex-Google PM for new interface direction

10

Synthesia

$2.1B

Adds new multilingual dubbing for business users

Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30

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