Cusman AI, founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, develops an AI-powered customer success platform that unifies data from CRM, support, analytics, billing, and NPS systems to enable proactive engagement, health scoring, automated workflows, and multi-channel outreach for B2B…
F2 is an AI platform purpose-built for private markets investors to screen, diligence, underwrite, and monitor deals by structuring and querying a firm’s historical institutional knowledge inside native Excel workflows. Founded in 2025 as a spinout from Arc Technologies, it…
Plot (plot.so) is an AI-powered video social listening and creative intelligence platform that monitors social videos 24/7, using multi-modal analysis of audio, visuals, and captions to capture user-generated content (UGC) at scale—including untagged mentions—and converts signals into actionable workflows for…
MNX (mnx.fi), operating as the AI Exchange, is a decentralized futures exchange that offers leveraged trading and prediction markets on AI-economy assets, including private company valuation futures (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), AI-related equity perpetuals (e.g., Nvidia, Samsung), compute rental rates (e.g.,…
Merge Labs (Merge.io) is a San Francisco-based research lab developing high-bandwidth, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that connect with neurons using molecules rather than electrodes and transmit data via ultrasound, integrating directly with advanced AI systems without brain implants. The company…
humans& (humansand.ai) is a human-centric frontier AI lab developing models and systems that enhance collaboration, communication, and decision-making by acting as connective tissue for organizations and communities. Founded in September 2025, it emphasizes AI augmentation of human relationships and coordination…
Michael Saylor recently credited Bitcoin’s price slump to an “AI summer,” with fundraising and institutional capital moving out of Bitcoin and into artificial intelligence infrastructure. Are astronomical predictions for the Bitcoin price still possible? You’ve heard the million dollar BTC…
There have been AI booms before. From the 1950s to 1970s, as technologists at Dartmouth predicted that human-level intelligence was just a generation away. By the mid-1970s, the first AI winter had set in. But, by the 1980s, “Expert Systems,”…
BCG today declared that companies have entered a new era of competition defined by token consumption, not model access. The June 23, 2026 article “The Era of Token-Based Competition Is Here. Is Your AI Strategy Ready?” argues that AI models…
McKinsey released fresh analysis today stating that data infrastructure and governance have become the central bottleneck as companies move AI pilots into production. The June 23, 2026 article, “AI data readiness: The key to scaling impact,” concludes that while pilot…