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<ul><li>Glean hit $100M annual recurring revenue (ARR) in November, growing 203% YoY.</li><li>A battle royale to own enterprise AI is emerging between AI-centric startups Glean, Writer and Hebbia.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Glean hit $100M ARR in November 2024, up 203% YoY, valued at $4.6B for a 46x revenue multiple.</li></ul>

Glean hit $100M annual recurring revenue (ARR) in November, growing 203% YoY.A battle royale to own enterprise AI is emerging between AI-centric startups Glean, Writer and Hebbia.Sacra estimates that Glean hit $100M ARR in November 2024, up 203% YoY, valued at $4.6B for a 46x revenue multiple.

<ul><li>Perplexity plans to raise at an $8-9B valuation, up from $3B at the time of its August Series C.</li><li>Perplexity's upside case lies in being a product company with more degrees of freedom than either Google or OpenAI.</li><li>Perplexity focuses on the most complex queries (10-11 words), monetizing them at a higher ARPC through prosumer subscriptions ($20/month), enterprise seats ($40/seat/month), and premium-priced ads ($50 CPM to Facebook's ~$14).</li></ul>

Perplexity plans to raise at an $8-9B valuation, up from $3B at the time of its August Series C.Perplexity's upside case lies in being a product company with more degrees of freedom than either Google or OpenAI.Perplexity focuses on the most complex queries (10-11 words), monetizing them at a higher ARPC through prosumer subscriptions ($20/month), enterprise seats ($40/seat/month), and premium-priced ads ($50 CPM to Facebook's ~$14).

<ul><li>Claude 3.5 Sonnet has blown the doors open for Anthropic's API business, growing 5x this year to date to $664M ARR.</li><li>OpenAI's ChatGPT continues to dominate, growing a Sacra-estimated 2.5x this year to date to $2.9B ARR.</li><li>OpenAI's 4x YoY growth to $4B matches and exceeds Meta, Google & AWS’s.</li></ul>

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has blown the doors open for Anthropic's API business, growing 5x this year to date to $664M ARR.OpenAI's ChatGPT continues to dominate, growing a Sacra-estimated 2.5x this year to date to $2.9B ARR.OpenAI's 4x YoY growth to $4B matches and exceeds Meta, Google & AWS’s.

Cerebras Systems / Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>Cerebras generated $250M of revenue in 2023, up 200% year-over-year, their growth accelerating with the rise in AI compute demand from big enterprises training models on their proprietary data.</li><li>Cerebras (2015) designed its Wafer-Scale Engine chip to vastly accelerate training on the compute-intensive BERT models used in scientific deep learning, finding product-market fit with national labs like Argonne and Livermore working on protein folding, climate prediction, and molecular dynamics.</li><li>With GPTs ascendant (vs BERT models), Cerebras and Groq are both repurposing their chips to move into the $150B and growing market of LLM and AI model training to take on Nvidia.</li></ul>

Cerebras generated $250M of revenue in 2023, up 200% year-over-year, their growth accelerating with the rise in AI compute demand from big enterprises training models on their proprietary data.Cerebras (2015) designed its Wafer-Scale Engine chip to vastly accelerate training on the compute-intensive BERT models used in scientific deep learning, finding product-market fit with national labs like Argonne and Livermore working on protein folding, climate prediction, and molecular dynamics.With GPTs ascendant (vs BERT models), Cerebras and Groq are both repurposing their chips to move into the $150B and growing market of LLM and AI model training to take on Nvidia.

<ul><li>The once-open web that Google first indexed in the late 90s is fragmenting into a patchwork of walled gardens, with AI companies forging data partnerships to guarantee their ability to scrape the most valuable media and news content, from Conde Nast (OpenAI) to TIME (Perplexity) to Axel Springer (Microsoft) to Reddit (Google).</li><li>With every company launching AI apps based on proprietary data, AI-native search API companies like Exa (Lightspeed, $22M raised), Tavily (14K GitHub stars), Jina AI (Canaan Partners, $39M raised) and Perplexity have become a key component of the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stack alongside vector databases like Pinecone (A16Z, $138M raised), enabling companies to supplement their data with data from the public web.</li><li>Our customers often bring their own LLM and prompt. We definitely think about those things too, but the vast amount of the value of our whole search system comes from the retrieval, not from the LLM.</li></ul>

The once-open web that Google first indexed in the late 90s is fragmenting into a patchwork of walled gardens, with AI companies forging data partnerships to guarantee their ability to scrape the most valuable media and news content, from Conde Nast (OpenAI) to TIME (Perplexity) to Axel Springer (Microsoft) to Reddit (Google).With every company launching AI apps based on proprietary data, AI-native search API companies like Exa (Lightspeed, $22M raised), Tavily (14K GitHub stars), Jina AI (Canaan Partners, $39M raised) and Perplexity have become a key component of the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stack alongside vector databases like Pinecone (A16Z, $138M raised), enabling companies to supplement their data with data from the public web.Our customers often bring their own LLM and prompt. We definitely think about those things too, but the vast amount of the value of our whole search system comes from the retrieval, not from the LLM.

Will Bryk, CEO Of Exa, On Building Search For AI Agents

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