10 AI Startups to Watch in 2024

Báo Quốc TếBáo Quốc Tế29/07/2024


OpenAI, Perplexity and Suno... are three of the names on Bloomberg's second annual ranking of AI startups.
10 công ty khởi nghiệp AI đáng chú ý trong năm 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a dizzying pace, with the technology capable of doing everything from composing pop ballads to writing code. And while it’s still early days, the implications for humans are good, bad, and inevitable.

The explosion in innovation has led to more funding, with tens of billions of dollars invested in AI companies in the first half of this year alone. Here are the 10 biggest, most important, and best-funded startups to watch in 2024, along with six of the most important emerging companies in the industry.

OpenAI

  • CEO: Sam Altman
  • Products: ChatGPT Chatbot, GPT-4o AI model
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Valuation: $86 billion

Open AI introduced the world to what AI can do with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022. Since then, the company has continued to push the boundaries of the technology. It has developed software that can generate impressively realistic videos, and its AI can respond in near real-time to user questions in a human-like voice. (These products have yet to be rolled out to the general public.) One of the more “crazy” events in OpenAI’s history was the company’s reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman just five days after he was fired in November 2023, along with a number of other events that have some AI safety advocates worried.

Anthropic

  • CEO Dario Amodei
  • Products: Claude AI model and chatbot
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Valuation: $18.2 billion

Founded by former OpenAI employees, Anthropic is OpenAI’s main rival in the world of large language models, the technology that has fueled some of the most dazzling AI achievements of the era. The startup has come close to matching OpenAI in both performance and funding from the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc.

Anthropic said its most recent model outperformed OpenAI on key assessments of coding and text-based reasoning. With a focus on creating tools for businesses, the company has expanded its enterprise business with a number of partners, including Bridgewater Associates, Salesforce, and Pfizer, among others.

Led by Daniela Amodei, Anthropic focuses on safety and recently published research that sheds light on the still-mysterious ways synthetic AI works.

Suno

  • CEO Mikey Shulman
  • Product AI Music Player
  • Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Valuation: $500 million

Or command Suno, for example, "Sing me a reggae ballad about anchovies on pizza," and the software will do its thing, generating a surprisingly complex, human-sounding song in seconds, complete with vocals and rhyming lyrics.

Suno is at the forefront of a new crop of AI startups building tools to automate the music-making process. Suno’s technological innovation has made it popular with users and, predictably, attracted the ire of the music industry. Generative AI must be trained on massive troves of data, which in this case meant Suno had to absorb a lot of songs. In June, the world’s largest record labels sued Suno and competitor Udio, alleging that their training data included a large number of copyrighted recordings, kicking off what could be a landmark lawsuit in the AI ​​industry.

Perplexity

  • CEO Aravind Srinivas
  • Product: AI Search Engine
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Valuation: $1 billion

Founded in 2022, Perplexity has accelerated its journey from a tiny startup to one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched and controversial startups. Hailed as a Google-buster, the AI-powered search engine is in the final stages of new funding that would value the company at $3 billion, making the startup a model for AI tools that are rethinking basic internet services like search. Perplexity’s investors include tech titans like Jeff Bezos, SoftBank, and Nvidia. With products that provide conversational search results and news summaries, the company has spooked the publishing world, drawing accusations of plagiarism and raising concerns that writers’ work could be included in traffic-driving AI products.

Mistral

  • CEO Arthur Mensch
  • Products: Open source LLM, developer tools and chatbots
  • Location: Paris
  • Valuation: $6 billion

The most famous AI companies with the most famous models tend to be from the United States or China: Mistral is an exception. The Paris startup, founded in 2023 by French alumni of Google DeepMind and Meta Platforms Inc., has released a series of popular large language models, mostly open-source technology, along with developer tools, a chatbot (Le Chat) and an AI programming product (Codestral). It’s all part of Mistral’s push to position itself as an independent alternative to Silicon Valley, although the startup has also signed deals with U.S. tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. aimed at attracting more attention across the Atlantic.

xAI

  • CEO Elon Musk
  • Product: Grok Chatbot
  • Location: Bay Area
  • Valuation: $24 billion

Elon Musk's new startup raised billions of dollars earlier this year on a pledge to build an anti-woke chatbot "with a rebellious personality." Grok, as the bot is called, was trained on posts from the site X (formerly known as Twitter) and is now available to paid subscribers of the network. "We want to try to be the funniest AI," Musk said at a conference earlier this year. "If we're going to die, at least we should die laughing." This is a personal matter for Musk, a former co-founder of OpenAI, who has had a bitter feud with the startup that included a lawsuit, which he later dropped. Next, xAI is using part of its billion-dollar war chest to develop a supercomputer facility in Memphis.

Scale AI

  • CEO: Alexandr Wang
  • Product: Data labeling service to build AI products
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Valuation: $13.8 billion

The output of an AI system is only as good as the data it receives. Scale’s platform cleans up troves of data by combining software and human labor to sift through and label images, text, and audio that feed into large language models. The startup counts AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Meta as customers, in addition to the U.S. Department of Defense. That seemingly insatiable appetite for data has made Scale one of the most valuable AI startups in the world.

Cohere

  • CEO: Aidan Gomez
  • Products: Business models including Command R+
  • Location: Toronto
  • Valuation; $5.5 billion

Cohere doesn’t have a great consumer chatbot that can discuss the weather or write a poem. The company builds large language models almost exclusively for its enterprise clients, which include Salesforce Inc. and Accenture. CEO Aidan Gomez is an AI whiz, one of the former Google engineers who co-wrote “Attention Is All You Need,” a seminal 2017 AI paper that helped usher in the current AI era. Cohere’s investors include big names like Nvidia Corp. and Oracle Corp. The company’s latest model, Command R+, is cheaper than OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, and while it doesn’t perform as well in terms of raw capabilities, Cohere says it’s better for some business-centric tasks.

CoreWeave

  • CEO: Michael Intrator
  • Product: Computational Infrastructure Services
  • Location: Roseland, New Jersey
  • Valuation: $19 billion

No one, not OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, has enough graphics processors for all the AI ​​work they want to do. Enter CoreWeave, a cloud computing power provider that rents chips to a new generation of companies desperate for capacity. Even Microsoft reportedly signed a deal with CoreWeave to get access to more GPUs. CoreWeave more than doubled its valuation in April, vaulting it into the ranks of the most valuable startups in the US as it raised billions of dollars in debt and equity. Its focus on Bitcoin mining has helped it turn a profit in the past.

ElevenLabs

  • CEO Mati Staniszewski
  • Product: AI voice generation software
  • Location: New York
  • Valuation: $1.1 billion

In a crucial election year, ElevenLabs’ technology is causing a stir. The company is at the forefront of voice-cloning AI, with software that can copy a person’s voice, turn text into human-like speech, and translate speech from one language to another. The technology is used by AI video startups like HeyGen and Captions as well as individuals. Virginia lawmaker Jennifer Wexton, for example, created a copy of her voice to help her communicate after a neurological condition affected her ability to speak. Earlier this year, ElevenLabs banned a user for creating fake audio of President Joe Biden urging people not to vote in the New Hampshire primary.

Competitors

OpenAI may grab the headlines, but a quieter group of startups is emerging around the world with big funding, famous founders, and great potential.

Cognition AI

Cognition is part of a new breed of AI coding companies vying to replace market leader GitHub Copilot. The startup is backed by Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm Founders Fund and has a team of athletic programmers (think the Olympics, but for solving programming puzzles). With a product called Devin, billed as “the first AI software engineer,” Cognition claims to have made a breakthrough in the reasoning capabilities of AI models.

Helsing

Helsing has emerged as one of Europe’s hottest startups focused on modernizing the military and countering Russian electronic warfare. Valued at $5.4 billion, the company has won a German contract for fighter jets and has also signed deals with Airbus SE and Saab AB to build autonomous software capabilities for weapons.

Imbue

Imbue is building AI models to design “agents,” a new frontier of tools that can handle complex tasks for users. For starters, the Nvidia-backed company is focused on developing systems with superior programming and reasoning capabilities. It’s also the rare multibillion-dollar AI startup to have a female CEO, with Kanjun Qiu leading the company.

Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever was a key figure in the rise of OpenAI as co-founder and chief scientist, and he later toppled the company by voting to oust CEO Altman. Sutskever is currently working on Safe Superintelligence, which aims to create a safe, robust AI system without any short-term deadlines for building the product. The star researcher declined to disclose how much funding he has raised, but given his standing in the industry, funding is probably not an issue.

01.AI

As the AI ​​competition between the United States and China heats up, many are keeping an eye on 01.AI. Founded by tech pioneer Kai-Fu Lee, the Chinese startup has achieved a multibillion-dollar valuation in just a few months, and its newly launched Yi-Large is now considered by some to be one of the world’s leading AI models.

Covariant

Covariant is one of several companies trying to realize a dream even older than AI: intelligent robots. Created by early employees of OpenAI, the Bay Area startup has raised more than $200 million for its software that helps robots perform warehouse tasks. In March, the company released its first multimodal robotics platform model, which is like a large language model but for real-world machines.



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