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Top 3 Things in This Edition

1. AI Business Story: Jenny Wang's Alta app channels Clueless vibes into $11M seed buzz.

2. Premium: AI dot-com Unicorns Bubble

3. Global Pulse: Mistral doubles valuation; ProRata raises $40M for fair AI-powered search; Unitree eyes a $7B IPO.

AI Founder Spotlight

Jenny Wang — Founder of Alta AI Fashion Styler

What she built: Alta, a stylish AI app letting users get outfit help and curated shopping recommendations that feel like a personal stylist in your pocket. Think AI meets Cher from Clueless.

How she launched it:

• Built from a designer’s POV using GPT and stylist data models—launched in June 2025.

• Drove virality through influencer shares and wardrobe challenges on Instagram.

• Secured $11M in seed funding and high-profile partnerships with stylist Meredith Koop and luxury seller Gab Waller.

• Focused on inclusivity—Alta elevates emerging designers often overlooked in algorithmic feeds.

What you can learn:

1. Pick a niche pain with cultural flair.

2. Collaborate with influencers—let your product recruit your early users.

3. Launch early and refine with live feedback.

4. Infuse values—help underrepresented creators surface.

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Global AI News Highlights (Sept 2 – Sept 9)

🇺🇸 US & Canada

• ProRata.ai raises $40M Series B to help publishers monetize AI search ethically — aims to power “Gist Answer” engines for top-tier news sites.

• Cato Networks acquires Aim Security, its first AI startup, to embed proactive AI threat detection into enterprise firewalls.

• Replit CEO: “Vibe coding is the new normal.” Solo app development with AI now mainstream—ARR grew from $10M to $100M in 6 months.

🇪🇺 Europe

• Mistral AI doubles valuation to €12B after €1.7B investment round led by ASML, expanding its global GPU footprint.

• French media AI startup Wizdeo launches GPT-Presenter, a virtual news anchor used by 20+ digital publishers in France and Belgium.

• Germany expands “AI Duales”—vocational training tracks focused on AI ops, available to high school students from January 2026.

🇨🇳 China

• Unitree Robotics eyes $7B IPO, positioning as the “Boston Dynamics of Asia.” The humanoid robot maker has backing from Alibaba and Tencent.

• Baidu’s ErnieBot 5.0 enters pilot in legal sector, summarizing case files and automating paralegal workflows in real-time.

• ByteDance's MiniMax launches open-source “OpenMini”, a 7B parameter model trained on multilingual social media data.

🇮🇳 India

• Sierra nears $350M round at $10B valuation, with backing from Lightspeed and SoftBank. Their agent platform aims to replace customer support.

• TCS pilots “AI-first onboarding”, reducing employee orientation from 4 days to 2 hours using chat-based learning flows.

• Infosys launches retail AI suite, offering predictive checkout, stock alerting, and regional personalization tools for e-commerce clients.

🌍 Africa

• Kenya’s SynBioAI secures $5M to expand AI-generated crop inputs, enabling biofertilizer mapping via drone data and GPT analysis.

• Rwanda’s AI Safety Lab partners with Meta, offering workshops on responsible LLM deployment across East Africa.

• Nigeria’s NairaMind launches AI tutor for financial literacy, with local dialect support in Pidgin, Yoruba, and Hausa.

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