Google held its Google Cloud Next convention in Las Vegas this week, the place it introduced dozens of latest options, like its subsequent era AI processing chip, known as Ironwood, and its newest AI mannequin, Gemini 2.5 Flash.
It additionally introduced a protracted checklist of AI startups which have signed to make use of its cloud. Among them are a few of the most watched startups on this planet. As we beforehand reported, this checklist consists of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup based by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
It additionally consists of:
Anysphere, which makes the uber-popular AI-powered code editor Cursor. Google says Cursor is utilizing Anthropic’s Claude fashions on Google Cloud. Cursor was not too long ago valued at $10 billion, sources have advised TechCrunch. Its greatest rival might be GitHub CoPilot, so that will make Microsoft one in all its prime opponents.
Hebbia makes use of AI to go looking giant paperwork and reply questions, which has made it successful within the authorized trade. Andreessen Horowitz led, whereas Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Peter Thiel participated in its $130 million Series B. It is utilizing Google’s Gemini fashions, Google says.
Magic is constructing frontier fashions to automate coding in addition to analysis. Its alternative of Google Cloud is probably going considerably apparent, provided that its 2024 $320 million fundraising spherical included Alphabet’s CapitalG and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as traders. It’s tapping Google Cloud for GPUs, in accordance with Google.
Physical Intelligence is engaged on growing foundational software program for robots and has a who’s-who roster of co-founders, together with solo investor extraordinaire Lachy Groom. It raised $400 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation in November from backers together with Sequoia, Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, and Thrive Capital. A number of of its founders have deep ties to Google, having beforehand labored at Google DeepMind, together with Karol Hausman and Chelsea Finn.
Photoroom is without doubt one of the hottest AI startups in Paris, Europe’s heart of AI. It affords AI picture modifying and is utilizing Google Cloud’s Veo 2 video producing mannequin and its text-to-image mannequin Imagen 3.
Synthesia is constructing merchandise that make extremely real looking AI avatars and is utilizing varied Google fashions. It raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion spherical in January led by NEA however with GV (previously often known as Google Ventures) among the many traders.
All in all, Google Cloud is accumulating a formidable checklist of startups to bolster its race towards Microsoft Azure, and to some extent AWS, for AI workloads.
In addition, Google introduced that it added Lightspeed to VC companions along with Sequoia and Y Combinator. Google Cloud grants portfolio firms from its accomplice traders entry to its AI chips and fashions. Lightspeed’s AI portfolio firms can qualify for $150,000 in cloud credit, Google mentioned. So it has plans to persuade much more rising star startups to hitch its cloud.
Here are the remainder of the AI startups that Google showcased this week:
- Augment Code — AI software program coding agent
- Autoscience — scientific analysis AI brokers
- Big Sur AI — customized suggestions for e-commerce
- Captions — speaking video creator and video editor
- Eon.io — autonomous enterprise backup and restoration
- fal is — textual content to picture, and picture to video
- Spot AI — AI for safety cameras
- Story — blockchain for storing and licensing mental property
- StudyHall AI — coaches college students on studying, writing, and examination prep
- Ubie — Japanese healthcare symptom analyzer
- Udio — music creation
- Ufonia — agent for medical healthcare consultations with sufferers
- Wagestream — monetary well-being platform constructed by charities
- Wondercraft — GenAI real looking audio content material
