# Generative AI

8 German AI startups to watch, according to VCs

Investors from Earlybird, General Catalyst, Merantix Capital and EQT Ventures share the startups on their watch list

Stability AI’s outgoing head of audio reckons GenAI is broken: here’s why

When Ed Newton-Rex quit Stability AI, he spelled out what's going wrong in generative AI. Now he tells Sifted how to fix it

How to use hackathons to unlock big ideas in AI

Hackathons are changing in the age of AI — here’s how to make the most out of them

Klu raises $1.7m to build the picks and shovels for GenAI

Klu is helping other businesses to employ generative AI models, and says it's so far seeing most traction from two types of company

Report: European SaaS back to 2019 levels with a GenAI boost

The latest Euroscape report shows a bounceback for European SaaS startups following the economic downturn

VCs, stop wasting your money on AI chatbots and invest in deeptech instead

The AI chatbot bubble is ready to burst and the survivors — if there are any — won’t be in Europe

‘The economics of trading equity for compute are not great’ — Mistral releases its first model

Mistral has released its first AI model after raising €105m, but the company says it may need to look at different funding routes in future

Europe’s generative AI startups, mapped

Europe already has around 150 startups working with generative AI. Here's the list

This AI girlfriend startup is making $100k a month fulfilling people’s fetishes

The AI girlfriends are here — and they’re as weird as you might imagine

Build-a-bot workshop: deepset.ai raises $30m for personalised AI models

The Berlin-based startup gives users the tools to build custom-made applications based on large-language models

The machines have eyes: How GenAI is giving warehouse robots vision

A Stuttgart-based startup has raised seed funding from two top VCs to develop its robot AI system

Roll over Oppenheimer: a new AI trained on the laws of physics could unlock the universe

BeyondMath is a Cambridge-based startup training AI models on the laws of physics. One day it might understand the universe better than humans

How healthtechs are — and should be — preparing for AI regulation

AI could revolutionise parts of healthtech, but regulation looms

Europe’s AI 'models-as-a-service' companies, compared

Generative AI for enterprise, or "ChatGPT for your business", is the new hot property in VC investment, but how do Europe's players stack up?

Meet the Big Tech Alumni building AI startups in Paris

Mistral's €105m raise is just the start — French AI founders think Paris is the place to be

Causaly raises $60m Series B to give scientists instant access to 'all of biology'

The startup's AI tool can make connections between 35m research papers to answer queries that could take researchers months to find manually

The startup creating AI jobs for humans: Prolific raises £25m

Prolific is raising money to meet growing demand for humans giving feedback to AI systems

If Sunak wants the UK to lead on AI, he needs to invite startups to his summit

Founders need to be part of the conversation if the UK is to become an AI superpower

Why nothing excites us more than the end of the world

News and entertainment media have made us fearful of AI, for better and for worse

See the pitch memo that raised €105m for four-week-old startup Mistral

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raises $19m from a16z, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

The startup uses generative AI to create synthetic voices for us in everything from movie dubbing to AI companion apps

Tony Blair thinks AI will save Britain, he’s just not quite sure how it should work

Tony Blair and William Hague have published a joint report laying out a vision for an "AI-powered UK"

Meta and Deepmind alumni raise €105m seed round to build OpenAI rival Mistral

The company will be devoting a large chunk of the money towards compute power

Meet Europe’s third unicorn of 2023

Synthesia has raised a $90m Series C round to scale its automated video software