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🗞️In this edition
Apple Is Building an App Store for AI
$700M Startup: Experience Doesn't Matter Anymore
OpenAI Just Backed a 9-Month-Old Startup at $650M
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Meta's New AI Doesn't Just Get Better. It Gets Better at Getting Better.
The Hire That Reveals Exactly How Serious Apple's AI Comeback Is
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What's happening:
Siri will support multiple third-party AI services instead of just ChatGPT. Users choose which AI handles each task. Apple takes a cut from AI subscription sales.
When AI becomes apps to buy and sell, the platform wins.
Why this is important:
The company is focusing on building the best platform to run AI instead of competing with OpenAI. Microsoft struggles selling Copilot because customers want choice.
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What's happening:
The Nvidia-backed AI search startup opened a Singapore office and is hiring people who ignore the status quo. Most of their code is written by AI now.
Why this is important:
Exa builds search infrastructure for AI applications, not humans.
The company serves thousands of customers including Cursor. They assess candidates by flying them to San Francisco to work for two days. Character matters more than credentials.
The startup rebuilding search just declared traditional resumes dead.
What's happening:
The company backed Isara with $94 million at a $650 million valuation. Two 23-year-old founders built software that lets thousands of AI agents communicate and solve problems together.
Why this is important:
Isara builds the architecture for AI agents to align goals and exchange data across complex tasks.
Unlike isolated models, these agents collaborate like coordinated teams. First customers are investment firms using predictive modeling. The company hired from Google, Meta, and OpenAI.
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Meta's New AI Doesn't Just Get Better. It Gets Better at Getting Better. – Most AI gets better at tasks. Meta's HyperAgents rewrites the rules of how it learns. That's a different category of dangerous.
The Hire That Reveals Exactly How Serious Apple's AI Comeback Is – Apple just hired the woman who built Google Assistant to lead its AI future. Something big is coming, and they need her to sell it.
Google's Music AI Is Now Open to Anyone Building the Future – Google just released an AI that generates full songs with vocals, lyrics, and structure. Every app that needs music just changed forever.
Apple wants to become the platform that AI runs on, not a player in the AI race itself. Exa is betting that search needs to be rebuilt from scratch for a world where the user is a machine, not a human. And OpenAI just backed a startup building swarms of agents that collaborate the way teams do.
The next decade of AI won't be won by the best model. It will be won by whoever controls the layer beneath it.
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