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Google’s Gemini Comes to Android Auto + Harvey AI Eyes $5B Valuation+ AI Side Hustle You Can Start Today
This week in AI: Google Gemini, Harvey AI Transforming Legal Workflows and becoming a Newsletter Curator with AI
Marco Fazio
May 16, 2025
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Top 3 Things in This Week’s Edition:
◆ Google’s Gemini Comes to Android Auto
◆ Harvey AI: Transforming Legal Workflows with Generative AI
◆ Earning $1.5K/month as a newsletter curator through AI
Global Weekly AI Update — May 16, 2025
🇺🇸 US & Canada
◆ U.S. Scraps AI Chip Export Curbs
Trump administration reverses Biden-era restrictions on AI chip exports, benefiting Nvidia and AMD.
AP News
◆ Republicans Move to Block State AI Laws
New budget bill provision seeks to ban state-level AI regulation for 10 years.
The Guardian
◆ Harvey AI Eyes $5B Valuation
Legal tech startup in talks to raise $250M after tripling revenue in 2025.
Reuters
🌍 Middle East
◆ AMD & Nvidia Join $10B Saudi AI Plan
Partnership with Humain to build AI computing centers powering 500MW capacity.
Times of India
🌏 Asia-Pacific
◆ Google’s Gemini Comes to Android Auto
New assistant lets drivers message, plan, and manage tasks via natural voice.
Scottish Sun
◆ Gemini Expands to Wear OS 6
Google AI now on smartwatches, unifying AI experience across Android devices.
Times of India
🌍 Africa
◆ Nigeria Introduces National AI Council
New council formed to draft policy and attract investment in AI across health, agriculture, and fintech sectors.
TechCabal
◆ AI Startup InstaDeep Expands Across Africa
Tunis-founded InstaDeep opens offices in Lagos and Nairobi, aiming to scale AI-driven logistics and biotech solutions.
Quartz Africa
Founder Story of the Week
Harvey AI: Transforming Legal Workflows with Generative AI
Founded in 2022 by Gabe Pereyra and Winston Weinberg, Harvey AI is revolutionizing legal workflows by integrating generative AI into tasks like document review, contract drafting, and legal research. The company has already partnered with major firms such as PwC and targets elite law firms and large enterprises. Reuters
Harvey AI is in advanced talks to raise over $250 million at a $5 billion valuation, just months after being valued at $3 billion. Its revenue run rate jumped from $50 million to $75 million between January and April 2025. Reuters
Initially incubated with OpenAI, Harvey now integrates models from Anthropic and Google. The company is part of a broader wave of AI adoption in legal tech, where funding hit $2.1 billion in 2024. Analysts estimate up to 44% of legal work could soon be automated. Reuters
Latestly AI Business Ideas – From Easy to Advanced
◆ Easy: AI-Powered Newsletter Curator
Use GPT-4 to summarize trending news in any niche (tech, finance, health) and automatically send daily or weekly emails.
Potential: $300-$1,500/month through subscriptions and sponsorships
◆ Medium: Personalized AI Resume Builder
Offer a service that creates tailored resumes and cover letters using user input plus GPT-4’s language skills.
Integrate LinkedIn scraping and ATS keyword optimization for better results.
Charge $150–$400 per resume package.
◆ Hard: AI-Driven Customer Support Chatbot SaaS
Build a chatbot platform that uses GPT-4 + fine-tuned domain models to provide industry-specific support (e.g., healthcare, fintech)
Include real-time sentiment analysis and auto-escalation features
Charge $99–$1,200/month depending on user volume and customization
This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds
Company | Amount Raised/Sought | Description | Lead Investor |
|---|---|---|---|
Layer AI | $20M | Workflow automation AI for B2B SaaS | Sequoia Capital |
Perplexity AI | $62.7M | AI-powered search engine | IVP |
Zeta Alpha | $14.4M | AI-powered enterprise search & knowledge graphs | Point Nine |
Synthflow | $7.4M | AI agents for customer support | Accel |
Lamini | $25M | Enterprise-grade LLM infrastructure for developers | Stanford StartX |
Top 10 Pure-Play AI Unicorns – This Week’s Moves
Rank | Company | Valuation (USD) | This Week’s Move |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | OpenAI | $80B | Launched ChatGPT desktop app + GPT-4o |
2 | Anthropic | $18.4B ↑ | Closed $2B round, launched Claude 3.5 |
3 | Databricks | $43B | Announced AI-native data warehouse upgrade |
4 | Hugging Face | $5B ↑ | Raised $500M Series D, expanded AWS deal |
5 | Scale AI | $7.3B | Won $250M Pentagon data labeling contract |
6 | Anduril | $9B ↑ | Acquired AI drone startup for defense push |
7 | Inflection AI | $4B | CEO Mustafa Suleyman joined Microsoft AI |
8 | Cohere | $2.5B ↑ | Released Command-R+ open-weight model |
9 | Runway ML | $1.5B | Released Gen-3 Alpha for video generation |
10 | Synthesia | $1.2B ↑ | Closed $100M round, launched avatar studio |
Marco Fazio Editor,
Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30
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