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OpenAI funds, EU AI Act live, Tesla AI chips, Skild’s robot brain
Marco Fazio
August 12, 2025
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Top 3 Things in This Week’s Edition
◆ AI Biz: BetterPic’s part-time founder hits $270K MRR
◆ AI News: OpenAI’s $200M fund + Europe’s AI Act enforcement
◆ AI Global Moves: Tesla streamlines AI chips, Skild debuts robot brain
AI Business Idea of the Week
BetterPic – $270K/month with AI photo enhancements
Founder: Ricardo (Part-time creator)
What it does: Using AI, he edits and enhances photos for clients (portraits, professional shots, social media), all automated with tools like Lightroom+AI plugins.
Results: Started part-time, hit $1.5K/month → soared to $270K/month MRR in 18 months.
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Global Weekly AI News (Aug 12th)
🇺🇸 US & Canada
OpenAI launches $200M Social Good Fund for nonprofits in healthcare, education, and public services
ChatGPT surpasses 700M weekly users — still ahead of Gemini and Claude
Mark Cuban says U.S. must keep investing in AI R&D to stay ahead of China
🇪🇺 Europe
EU AI Act enforcement begins — public-facing systems must now label all AI-generated content
UK government reports outdated power infrastructure is slowing AI data center rollout
🇨🇳 China
Baidu prepares to launch ERNIE 5.0 with major upgrades to reasoning and task performance
ByteDance eyes global rollout of MiniMax, its commercial-grade multimodal model
🇮🇳 India
ET Soonicorns Summit 2025 focuses on AI infra and product-led growth in tier-2 cities
Jio launches AI-powered WhatsApp support in 8 Indian languages
🌍 Africa
Nigeria pilots voice-based AI diagnostic tools in rural clinics
Rwanda opens Google-backed AI Safety Lab to combat bias and misinformation
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Top 5 AI Startup Funding Rounds
Company | Why It Matters |
|---|---|
Perle AI | Fast-growing enterprise tools, raised recently |
Periodic Labs | Deep AI for biotech R&D, boosted in Series A |
August Health | AI-powered senior care tools, scaling quickly |
Casap | Fintech AI reducing fraud in payments |
Thinking Machines | AGI-focused startup by ex-OpenAI CTO |
Top AI Unicorns – This Week’s Movements
Company | What’s New |
|---|---|
OpenAI | Launches $200M social impact fund |
Anthropic | Claude continues expanding enterprise usage |
Databricks | Adds AI assistant features for data analysts |
Mistral | Grows open-source LLM capabilities |
Perplexity | Expands its AI browser with new features |
Scale AI | Secures large government AI contracts |
Cohere | Strengthens enterprise model training partnerships |
Inflection AI | Grows DeepMind talent pool |
Runway | Upgrades Gen-3 Alpha platform for creators |
Synthesia | Adds auto dubbing in 40+ languages |
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Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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