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Amazon’s agent push, SoftBank’s $500B comeback, new EU regulations, and unicorn valuation shifts.
Marco Fazio
August 26, 2025
Top 3 Things in This Edition
AI Biz Spotlight: EasyAds hits $40K/month automating ad copy
AI Pulse: Masayoshi Son’s AI comeback, Amazon bets on agents, Meta-former launches GPT-5 rival
Capital & Unicorn Watch: Thinking Machines raises $2B, Anthropic valued at $61B
AI Business Story of the Week
EasyAds – $40K/month Automating Ad Copy
Founder: Jon (Solo, 27)
Jon tapped into a simple yet painful bottleneck: small business owners spending hours drafting ad copy. His solution, EasyAds, uses GPT-4 + A/B testing loops to generate high-converting ad scripts for social and search platforms—complete with headline hooks, image captions, and CTAs.
Launch was lean: no website, just Twitter threads with before/after transformations. Clients signed up via DM; revenue ramped from $100/day to $40K/month, all managed solo via Zapier and Stripe. What looks like simple copy actually solves ad fatigue, scaling creativity with autonomy.
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Global Weekly AI News (Aug 19–26)
🇺🇸 US & Canada
SoftBank stages AI comeback. Masayoshi Son leads a bold $500B push into chips and data centers via the Stargate AI venture.
Amazon doubles down on agents. AGI Lab focuses on simulated environments for AI that learns via interaction—not just language.
Meta-former Parag Agrawal launches Parallel. Claims 10% higher accuracy than GPT-5 on select benchmarks.
🇪🇺 Europe
The EU AI Act begins enforcement: AI models must be labeled, audited, and explainable—or face fines.
Scale AI’s Lucy Guo, now Meta’s “AI czar,” embodies Europe-meets-the-U.S. ambition and controversy—ROI-led leadership over élite credentials.
🇨🇳 China
Thinking Machines Lab, led by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, raised $2B at a $12B valuation from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Cisco, and even Albania’s government.
01.AI quietly churns toward unicorn status via low-cost open-source infrastructure—just 2,000 GPUs, $3M in spend.
🇮🇳 India
India ramps local compute access: 40K GPUs now available to startups; four firms building India-specific LLMs for regional use cases.
️🌍 Global
Amazon’s agent push, SoftBank’s infrastructure narrative, and India’s GPU surge testify—AI is entering the steady-state of industrial platforms, not hype.
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This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds
Company | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|
Thinking Machines Lab | AGI infrastructure (Mira Murati's lab) | $2B Seed |
Rillet | Automated SME accounting using AI | $70M Series B |
TinyFish | AI agents for browsing/automation | $47M Series A |
Lyra | AI conferencing tools + sentiment analysis | $6M Seed |
Twelve Labs | Video search via computer vision | $50M Series B |
Total funding rose from $520M to $735M, signaling continued investor confidence. Source: Latestly AI Research (analysis of IEA, company filings, press releases) → Licensing Available
AI Unicorns — This Week’s Credit Moves
Company | Valuation | Notable Developments |
|---|---|---|
OpenAI | $300B | Launches global social-good AI fund |
Anthropic | $61.5B | Enterprise Claude adoption rounds up |
Databricks | $100B+ | Pipeline AI + Lakehouse earnings surge |
Mistral | ~$6B | “Le Chat” enterprise bot boosts contracts |
Perplexity | $18B | Commits revenue-sharing with publishers |
Cohere | ~$5.5B | Crosses $100M ARR milestone |
Inflection AI | $4B | Attracts DeepMind-caliber hires |
Runway | $2B | Debuts Gen‑3 Alpha for creators |
Synthesia | $2.1B | Adds multilingual dubbing capabilities |
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Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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