NSFW AI chatbot startup Oh scores £3.7m - UKTN

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ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.

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‘She never sleeps’: This platform wants to be OnlyFans for the AI era | CNN Business

OhChat is an eight-month-old startup using artificial intelligence to build lifelike digital doubles of public figures, coming amid growing concerns around AI’s role in intimacy and labor.

‘She never sleeps’: This platform wants to be OnlyFans for the AI era | CNN Business

OhChat is an eight-month-old startup using artificial intelligence to build lifelike digital doubles of public figures, coming amid growing concerns around AI’s role in intimacy and labor.

ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time | TechCrunch

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform | Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform --- When AI erotic companion startup Oh raised a $4.5m funding round in January, it had something few in the shadowy new sector could boast. A roster of named investors, publicly backing the company. VCs are often bound by “vice clauses”, which prohibit firms from investing in controversial products like pornography or weapons. As a result, startups working on ethically contentious products often rely on angel investors and family offices to stay afloat. But Oh, which generates NSFW adult content and conversations with both fictional characters as well as bots based on real people, has tapped into a group of seemingly less squeamish investors: crypto VCs. It’s drawn backing from the likes of Tangent, Kosmos Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Bodhi Ventures and Tagus Capital. “Raising money for a business like this from non-crypto VCs is very difficult,” says Oh founder and CEO Nic Young, who positions the startup as a “decentralised platform” and offers payments via crypto. “A lot of crypto VCs don’t have vice clauses — it’s more liberal and free.” Oh wants to use those fresh funds to build the “AI OnlyFans”, with plans to roll out autonomous scantily clad bots that can market themselves on social media and direct message users with spicy conversation starters. The biggest challenge? Convincing enough users it’s not that weird turning to AI when you’re looking for romance. https://lnkd.in/eRF7a5Dn

alphaXiv Raises $7M Seed Round to Bridge the AI Research-to-Practice Divide

/PRNewswire/ -- alphaXiv, a platform reimagining how AI practitioners discover and apply the latest research, today announced its $7M Seed round. The funding...

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Why AI agent startup /dev/agents commanded a massive $56M seed round at a $500M valuation | TechCrunch

/dev/agents, a new company by the developers of Android, believes a new operating system is needed to fully realize the potential of AI agents.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads business hits $1 billion run rate as Europe gets self-serve access

That figure comes from multiplying current monthly ad revenue by 12, so it's a snapshot of where things stand today.

Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good  - Humanity AI

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Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform

London-based Oh has won the backing of less risk-averse investors

OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push

OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment ‌to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and ‌will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit. After its ​early models saw strong resonance with consumers, OpenAI has been working aggressively to sign corporate contracts and establish a large presence in the business world where its AI will see large-scale deployment. The new firm, called OpenAI Deployment Company, will help the ChatGPT maker embed engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment into ​organizations that ​will then work closely with various ​teams to identify where AI ‌can make the biggest impact, OpenAI said.