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AI is reshaping startups, making them leaner and more efficient. With AI agents handling tasks, companies hire less, need less funding, and leave investors with fewer options.

How are startups achieving this? —and how you can too. Plus, tools like Perplexity’s free Deep Research and ChatGPT’s upcoming models can help.

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• Perplexity Deep Research is Free and Great.

• How is AI Reshaping Tech Start-Ups?

  • How to Implement These AI Tools in Your Business

• GPT-4.5 To Launch Next Week, GPT-5 in May.

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• 📰 News and Trends.

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How is AI Reshaping Tech Start-Ups?

Start-ups in Silicon Valley are shifting from the traditional model of raising massive venture capital and hiring large teams to leveraging AI for efficiency. Companies like Gamma, founded in 2020, are using AI tools across operations, allowing them to scale with fewer employees while remaining profitable. Gamma, with just 28 employees, generates tens of millions in annual recurring revenue and serves nearly 50 million users.

This trend has led to a wave of "tiny team" successes, with companies like Anysphere reaching $100M in revenue with just 20 employees and ElevenLabs achieving the same milestone with around 50. AI-driven automation is dramatically lowering costs, with start-ups now needing one-fifth to one-tenth of the capital previously required to generate revenue.

Venture capital firms, which invested $97 billion in AI start-ups in 2024, are now facing challenges as these efficient companies need less funding. Investors worry about the long-term implications of AI-driven lean start-ups.

Some start-ups, like Runway Financial and Agency, have capped hiring at 100 employees, while others are focusing on generalists and AI-enhanced workers. The AI revolution is reshaping how start-ups operate, emphasizing lean growth, automation, and early profitability over headcount expansion.

How to Implement These AI Tools in Your Business

1. Identify areas for automation – Pinpoint repetitive or manual tasks that consume time.

2. Integrate AI gradually – Start with AI chatbots, marketing tools, or coding assistants to see immediate productivity boosts.

3. Leverage APIs – Many of these AI tools provide APIs, allowing easy integration into your existing systems.

4. Monitor efficiency – Track performance improvements using AI analytics dashboards.

5. Upskill your team – Train employees to work alongside AI tools effectively.

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Perplexity Deep Research is Free and Great.

Perplexity has introduced Deep Research, an advanced AI-powered tool that automates complex research tasks in finance, marketing, technology, health, and more. The tool, free for all users with daily query limits (Pro subscribers get unlimited access), performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and generates expert-level reports in just 2-4 minutes, saving users hours of manual work.

Key Features:

• AI-Powered Research: Uses search and reasoning to refine results dynamically.

• Comprehensive Reports: Synthesizes data into detailed summaries.

• Export & Share: Reports can be saved as PDFs or shared via Perplexity Pages.

Performance Benchmarks:

• 21.1% score on Humanity’s Last Exam, outperforming competitors like Gemini Thinking and DeepSeek-R1.

• 93.9% accuracy on SimpleQA, ensuring factual reliability.

• Completes research in under 3 minutes, with plans for even faster results.

📰 AI News and Trends

• True AGI Means 10% Economic Growth, Says Satya Nadella (AIM)

• Spotify will work with ElevenLabs to enhance its book narration department (Spotify)

• How a hedge fund manager, Wenfeng Liang took self-funded DeepSeek to the world stage (CraftedMinds)

• OpenAI says ChatGPT has over 400 million users (CNBC)

🌐 Other Tech news

• The US’s AI and Tech Safety Institute is being gutted by DOGE (Wired)

• Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house (TC)

• Apple launches new iPhone 16e: Here’s everything you need to know (9to5)

• Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip (CNBC)

• How to fight back in the war against spam texts. Don’t click on those texts (Vox)

• A new Apple modem is the first step in what could be a tense breakup between them and Qualcomm (TheInformation)

GPT-4.5 To Launch Next Week, GPT-5 in May.

OpenAI is set to release GPT-4.5 (Orion) next week, with GPT-5 expected in May 2025. GPT-5 will offer better reasoning with the o3 model and be free for standard users, while Plus & Pro tiers get advanced access.

Microsoft may unveil GPT-5 at Build 2025 as it expands AI across its ecosystem. Meanwhile, China’s DeepSeek challenges OpenAI with cheaper, high-performing models, pressuring OpenAI to prove its edge.