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AI News: Amazon adds GPT-style Q&A to Alexa, Meta recruits 100+ AI engineers, India launches BharatGPT.
Marco Fazio
July 01, 2025
⏱️ 5 min read
Top 3 Things in This Week’s Edition:
◆ AI biz idea: Build a €10K/month real estate staging SaaS in 12 months
◆ AI News: Meta’s $100M hiring spree, Amazon upgrades Alexa with LLMs
◆ Top AI stocks & unicorns: This week’s winners and new $2B fundraises
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This Week’s Verified AI Business Ideas
1. CTGT.ai – $7.2M Raised (Hard)
Founder: Cyril Gorlla (USA)
What it does: AI platform for customizing LLMs with safety guardrails.
Growth: Bootstrapped → YC → raised from Gradient Ventures + General Catalyst. Clients include Fortune 10s.
2. Synthflow AI – $20K MRR (Medium)
Founders: Nils Rottgardt & Rico Weigand (Germany)
What it does: Voice AI agents for customer service & sales.
Growth: Product Hunt + SEO drove 1,000+ paying customers in 6 months.
3. Helper-AI – $3.5K in 2 Months (Easy)
Founder: Prince (India)
What it does: Chrome extension that adds GPT-4 to any page.
Growth: Solo-built in 60 days, sold $29 licenses via Gumroad.
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Global Weekly AI News – July 1, 2025
🇺🇸 United States
Amazon upgrades Alexa with Titan LLM, now in all Echo devices.
Meta scales up $100M+ hiring for its “Superintelligence” Lab.
IBM + NASA launch EarthScan AI for wildfire and drought tracking.
🇮🇳 India
Jio & Stability AI announce BharatGPT in 12 local languages.
ByteDance spins off MiniMax, a multimodal LLM lab.
Ola Electric starts integrating agentic AI into scooters.
🇪🇺 Europe
France commits to training 100K citizens in AI use by 2026.
Germany mandates AI explainability for enterprise applications.
EU Sandbox pilot launches real-world GenAI experiments.
🌍 Africa
Nigeria expands AI doctor assistant pilot to 1,200 clinics.
South Africa unveils new LLMs in Zulu and Afrikaans, backed by $25M.
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This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds
Company | Round | Focus | Notable Backers |
|---|---|---|---|
xAI Holdings | $10B | Grok LLM, compute expansion | Morgan Stanley syndicate |
Synthflow AI | $20M | AI agents for call centers | Undisclosed |
ShopOS | $20M | AI-native ecommerce stack | Binny Bansal (Flipkart) |
Mandolin | $40M | AI for insurance claim verification | A16Z, General Catalyst |
TopK | €4.6M | AI-native enterprise search | Credo Ventures |
Top 10 AI Unicorns – Weekly Moves
Rank | Company | Valuation | Update |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | OpenAI | $300B | Acquires Crossing Minds team for GPT recsys |
2 | Anthropic | $61.5B | No update |
3 | Databricks | $62B | Adds real-time agents via Lilac acquisition |
4 | Hugging Face | $4.5B | Launches Transformers.js for browser inference |
5 | Scale AI | $18B | Gets $14B Meta contract for data labeling |
6 | Anduril | $28B | Lands $1B+ drone defense deal |
7 | Inflection AI | $4B | Co-founder moves to DeepMind |
8 | Cohere | $5.5B | Launches enterprise fine-tuning API |
9 | Adept AI | $1B | No update |
10 | Synthesia | $2.1B | Expands dubbing to 40 languages |
Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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