🔥 From VC bets to workplace evolution
Venture Capital embraces AI for new acquisition strategies, while the technology redefines work and faces ongoing challenges in complex reasoning.
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
Venture Capital firms are adopting a private equity approach, using AI to acquire and scale traditional businesses and automating operations for increased efficiency.
Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistants, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, highlighting strong investor confidence in AI developer tools.
Meanwhile, generative AI is actively being integrated into business processes, transforming the landscape of work, with significant potential in the public sector (AI could support 41% of the time).
However, studies suggest Large Language Models have had limited labor market effects so far, and Apple's research indicates that AI reasoning models "collapse" when tackling complex problems.
Y Combinator's latest "Request for Startups" is heavily focused on AI, reflecting its continued belief in the transformative potential of this technology across various industries.
🦾 AI daily pulse
This is interesting news about VCs experimenting with the PE playbook based on AI tools. [LINK]
Series C and Scale. Cursor maker Anysphere raises $900M at $9.9B valuation, hits $500M in ARR. [LINK]
“Companies are moving from asking, ‘What is our AI strategy?’ to experimenting . . . implementing generative AI into processes,” said Karin Kimbrough, chief economist at LinkedIn. “It is starting to change the landscape of work.” ....". [LINK]
⚡️ Top trends
"According to our work, approximately 41% of public sector time is spent on activities that could be supported through the use of generative AI. This figure is varied across different areas of the public sector, ranging from a high of 49% in Education to a low of 33% in Healthcare. The figure is lower for frontline workers (38%) than it is for nonfrontline workers (47%). [LINK]
Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Apple research reveals that reasoning models collapse while solving complex problems. [LINK]
Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users. [LINK]
🔮 What else
Y Combinator's latest request for startups is basically an AI wishlist. [LINK]
Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025
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