Not every AI task needs the largest or most expensive model. Model routing promises to match each request with the right model based on accuracy, cost, speed and privacy, but it also introduces a new control point with its own security risks, commercial conflicts and potential for lock-in.
After years of limited venture activity, Israeli EdTech may be entering a new chapter. The founders of Moovit and Outbrain are joining a growing group of entrepreneurs using AI to reimagine tutoring, personalised learning, reading and what students can create.
AI may live in the cloud, but the cloud is running out of places to live. As power, water, land and regulation constrain traditional data centres, compute is moving into containers, converted warehouses, power stations, ships and even orbit.
The government wants 100,000 GPUs, sovereign AI infrastructure and national strength in Cyber AI, Physical AI and deepfake defense. The opportunity for startups is in the layers Israel can actually win.
AI has made company creation faster than ever. But for VCs, allocating capital has become more complicated, more concentrated and more consequential.
The recent clash between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the use of its models for military purposes sent shockwaves through the tech and defense worlds. If a private company can dictate operational terms to a superpower based on its internal…
In a nondescript building in Tel Aviv, engineers are helping design Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell chips—the same technology that will power tomorrow’s AI revolution. Nearby, Amazon’s Annapurna Labs, an Israeli startup acquired 10 years ago is now dubbed ‘Amazon’s secret sauce…
AI agents are becoming increasingly useful in business contexts, but they still face serious limitations such as reliability and cost, and are most effective when tailored to specific functions like sales development.
The Moneyball thesis is simple: Using statistical analysis, small-market teams can compete by buying assets that are undervalued by other teams and selling ones that are overvalued by other teams. Vault is an AI powered predictive marketing and analytics platform that simulates the global content market to predict consumer demands.
Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post I collected the Israeli startup landscape maps for AI, Braintech, food tech, industry 4.0, Retail tech, self driving, brain tech and more.
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