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Elon’s xAI raises $8B, TikTok tests AI ads, India targets open-source LLMs
Marco Fazio
July 29, 2025
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Top 3 Things in This Week’s Edition
◆ AI Business: $15K/mo podcast repurposing service using Whisper + Pika
◆ AI News: xAI raises $8B, TikTok tests AI ads, India goes open-source
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Latestly AI Business Idea
RepurposePod – $15K/month turning podcast episodes into viral shorts
Founder: Ryan Zhang (USA)
What it does: Uses AI to transform long-form podcasts into short, high-performing clips for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
How It Works:
Transcribes episodes with Whisper
Extracts hook-worthy moments with ChatGPT
Auto-edits into visual shorts with Pika, Runway, or Descript
Clients: Coaches, creators & B2B podcasters
Revenue: $15K+/month recurring
Why it works: Viral video = free distribution, and most podcasters don’t know how to do it.
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Weekly Global AI News
🇺🇸 United States & Canada
xAI Raises $8B: Elon Musk’s AI company closes $8B round led by Sequoia. Valued at $24B.
TikTok Tests AI Ads: Launches AI-generated video ad scripts + avatars for SMBs.
ChatGPT Adds “Code Reviewer” Mode: Now offers inline comments and debugging suggestions for devs.
🇮🇳 India
Govt Launches OpenLLM India: New $200M fund to support home-grown open-source models in 12 languages.
Flipkart Integrates AI Search: Whisper + vision search integration for voice + image queries.
🇪🇺 Europe
Mistral Launches Mixtral 8x22B: Latest MoE model open-sourced with top-tier performance.
France Considers AI Disclosure Laws: Drafting bill requiring watermarking + labeling of AI content.
🇨🇳 China
ByteDance Launches VideoGen: New AI tool turns text into vertical videos, integrated into CapCut.
Alibaba Cloud Offers $1 Model Access: Launches $1 API access to Qwen-2 for startups.
🌍 Africa
Kenya Tests AI in Classrooms: Pilot underway in Nairobi using ChatGPT-like tutors for STEM subjects.
Nigeria Launches AI for Crop Disease Detection: Farmers can now use voice + photo inputs for instant diagnosis.
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This Week’s Top 5 AI Fundraising Rounds
Company | Funding | Focus | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
xAI (Elon Musk) | $8B | Multimodal foundation model & Grok chatbot | Sequoia, a16z |
Syntheia | $21M | AI for pharmaceutical data management | Lightspeed, Intel Capital |
Voicenotes AI | $4.2M | AI for sales call summarization & CRM sync | Y Combinator, SV Angel |
LegalMind | $6M | Legal research automation | Accel, Greylock |
PromptLoop | $3.5M | AI spreadsheet copilots | Craft Ventures |
Top 10 AI Unicorns – This Week’s Moves
Rank | Company | Valuation | This Week’s Move |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | OpenAI | $300B | Adds code reviewer mode in ChatGPT |
2 | Anthropic | $61.5B | Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now default in Claude |
3 | Databricks | $62B | Launches AI Data Assistant for analysts |
4 | Mistral | $6B | Releases Mixtral 8x22B open-source model |
5 | Perplexity | $1.5B | Hits 100M+ monthly visits |
6 | Scale AI | $18B | Signs new multi-year deal with U.S. DoD |
7 | Cohere | $5.5B | Partners with SAP to deliver enterprise models |
8 | Inflection AI | $4B | Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft |
9 | Runway | $2B | Releases Gen-3 Alpha with improved quality |
10 | Synthesia | $2.1B | Adds lip-syncing for 40+ languages |
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Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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