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AI News: India’s $12B compute push, Meta’s music AI, Rwanda’s new lab & more
Marco Fazio
June 19, 2025
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Top 3 Things in This Week’s Edition
◆ How a non-technical founder scaled an AI side hustle from Reddit to $226K/month
◆ India commits $12B to national GPU infrastructure—largest in Global South
◆ 3 real indie AI tools making $1.5K to $226K/month, all built in under 90 days
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Weekly Latestly AI Business Ideas
1. FormulaBot – $226K Monthly Revenue (Advanced)
Founder: David Bressler
What it does: Turn plain-English requests into Excel/Sheets formulas.
Growth: Built MVP during paternity leave, went viral on Reddit/Product Hunt, scaled to 5,000 paying users using Bubble + OpenAI.
Revenue: Now doing $226K/month.
You could build: AI agents for other work tools (Airtable, Notion, Figma).
2. Bluedot – $1.5K Monthly Revenue (Easy-Medium)
Founders: Ruslan Halilov & team
What it does: Chrome extension that transcribes, summarizes, and clips Google Meet calls in real time — no bots needed.
Growth: Hit $1.5K/month and 500 DAUs within 60 days of launch.
3. Magai – $40K Monthly Revenue (Medium)
Founder: Dustin Stout
What it does: Bundles GPT-4, Claude, DALL·E, and more into a single AI content workspace.
Growth: Solo founder, scaled from zero to $40K/month in under a year.
Bonus: Features include PDF readers, agents, blog generators, and customizable personas.
Global Weekly AI Update – June 19, 2025
🇺🇸 US & Canada
Meta Launches Audiobox: Open-source AI music generation tool for vocals & soundscapes—competing with Suno/Udio. (Meta blog)
FTC Probes AI Claims: Investigating generative-AI startups over alleged misrepresentation of fine-tuning and data sources. (Bloomberg)
🇮🇳 India
$12B "BharatCompute" Plan: Deploying 30,000 GPUs across data centres by 2026 to boost AI infrastructure. (Times of India)
Agri-Tech Spike: Over 200 agri-AI startups launched this quarter using computer vision for crop/pest projects. (Inc42)
🇪🇺 Europe
France Enacts LLM Transparency Law: Public AI models must disclose training data, compute costs & carbon footprint. (Le Monde)
Cambridge MedAI Expansion: DeepMind opens radiology & disease diagnosis division in Cambridge. (Financial Times)
🇨🇳 China
Baidu ERNIE Export OK’d: First Chinese LLM approved for export to Southeast Asia. (SCMP)
ByteDance Buys Chip Firm: Acquires Lixin Semiconductor to secure AI compute supply. (Reuters)
🇿🇦 Africa
Rwanda’s AI Safety Lab: Kigali chosen as site for the continent’s first AI safety research facility, backed by Google & AU. (TechCabal)
Startup Spotlight – The FormulaBot Playbook
David Bressler, a data analyst with zero coding background, launched ExcelFormulaBot from scratch using Bubble and GPT-3. He posted it on Reddit, went viral, added Stripe after a $4,000 OpenAI bill, and never looked back.
Key Milestones:
Built MVP during paternity leave in 6 weeks
Reddit: 10,000 upvotes → Product Hunt: $2.4K in 24h
Now: $226,000/month in recurring revenue
Stack: Bubble, OpenAI, Stripe
Playbook:
Build something people Google daily
Use no-code tools
Ship fast, post faster
Charge before you’re “ready”
“If you can write Reddit posts, you can build an AI business.” – David, Founder FormulaBot
This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds
Company | Amount Raised | Description | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
Krea AI | $35M (Series A) | AI image generation for e-commerce | Sequoia, FirstMark |
Eluna | $60M (Seed + A) | Multimodal agents by ex-Anthropic team | a16z, Elad Gil |
Fluxon | $12M (Seed) | No-code builder + backend AI automation | Initialized Capital |
Uizard | $24M (Series A) | GPT-powered UI/UX prototyping tool | Insight Partners |
Chroma | $50M (Series B) | Open-source vector database for LLMs | Coatue, Quiet Capital |
Top 10 AI Unicorns – This Week’s Moves
Rank | Company | Valuation | This Week’s Move |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | OpenAI | $300B | Partnered with PwC to embed GPT‑5 into enterprise workflow tools |
2 | Anthropic | $61.5B | No updates |
3 | Databricks | $62B | Acquired Lilac to boost real-time data agent capabilities |
4 | Hugging Face | $4.5B | Released Transformers.js for browser-native inference |
5 | Scale AI | $25B | Finalizing $10B round with UAE’s Mubadala |
6 | Anduril | $28B | Secured new $1B defense drone contract |
7 | Inflection | $4B | Co-founder Suleyman joins Google DeepMind |
8 | Cohere | $5.5B | Launched enterprise finetuning-as-a-service API |
9 | Adept AI | $1B | No updates |
10 | Synthesia | $2.1B | Rolled out enterprise-level multilingual dubbing solution |
Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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