12 Hot AI Startups That Brands Are Working With


by Adweek

Adweek— While buzzy AI startups like OpenAI and Stable Diffusion have caught marketers’ attention, many lesser-known gen AI startups have secured investments and contracts with major brands such as L'Oréal, ESPN, Pepsi, and Garnier. AI funding in the U.S. grew by 14% year-over-year in 2023, (OpenAI released ChatGPT in Nov. 2022), raising $42.5 billion across 2,500 equity rounds, per CB Insights. There is a ballooning number of gen AI startups—Dealroom counts some 1,200—which are solving problems...

Digiday—AI Briefing: How AI misinformation affects consumer thoughts on elections and brands. To boost its efforts around brand safety, IPG is adding more tools for identifying harmful content while also helping advertisers avoid appearing near it.

MSPoweruser—Meta AI now has a dedicated website for chats: meta.ai, expands to 12 other countries. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) announced today the expansion of its AI assistant, Meta AI, to over a dozen new countries outside the US. This update makes Meta AI available in English in countries like Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Singapore. Here is the full list of the countries where Meta AI is being released:  Meta AI has been improved with […]

VentureBeat—Dropzone AI gets $16.85M for autonomous cybersecurity AI agents that reduce manual work by 90 percent. Dropzone AI announced a $16.85 million Series A round led by Theory Ventures to help bring its cybersecurity AI agents to market.