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<ul><li>Friend has raised $2.5 million in a seed round in July 2024.</li><li>Friend uses a direct-to-consumer hardware sales model with no recurring subscriptions.</li><li>Meta, Apple, and Google are rapidly integrating AI companionship features into mass-market devices like glasses, earbuds, and smartphones.</li></ul>

Friend has raised $2.5 million in a seed round in July 2024.Friend uses a direct-to-consumer hardware sales model with no recurring subscriptions.Meta, Apple, and Google are rapidly integrating AI companionship features into mass-market devices like glasses, earbuds, and smartphones.

<ul><li>Oura accelerated for the second year in a row, growing 120% YoY after growing 79% YoY in 2023 and 10% in 2022.</li><li>Oura sold 1.3M rings in 2024 (~$390M hardware revenue, 80% of overall) and doubled paying subscribers to 2M (~$110M subscription revenue, 20% of overall).</li><li>From its initial wedge in sleep tracking (2015), Oura has expanded into readiness &amp; recovery (2018), cycle tracking (2022), stress (2024), and most recently metabolic health (May 2025).</li></ul>

Oura accelerated for the second year in a row, growing 120% YoY after growing 79% YoY in 2023 and 10% in 2022.Oura sold 1.3M rings in 2024 (~$390M hardware revenue, 80% of overall) and doubled paying subscribers to 2M (~$110M subscription revenue, 20% of overall).From its initial wedge in sleep tracking (2015), Oura has expanded into readiness &amp; recovery (2018), cycle tracking (2022), stress (2024), and most recently metabolic health (May 2025).

<ul><li>Three form factors for AI agents are emerging—browser-based &amp; mobile apps (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) with easy distribution and app-level integrations, native apps with OS-level integrations & OS forks (Perplexity Assistant, Granola, Wafer) that unlock deeper awareness across a user’s apps and data but face distribution challenges, and purpose-built AI hardware devices (Friend, Rabbit) with novel interaction patterns.</li><li>OpenAI’s hardware projects and Perplexity’s new Android assistant are attacking the OS-level AI assistant layer where Google and Apple’s app store–based business models—built on developers giving up a 30% cut in exchange for distribution—make it structurally difficult for Google and Apple themselves to route users around apps entirely.</li><li>Android’s open ecosystem structure represents a huge opportunity for AI-first computing, with custom assistants (Perplexity), launchers (Microsoft Launcher), and full-on forks (Wafer, /dev/agents) potentially providing Samsung and the 96% of non-Google Android OEMs with the firepower to build the first AI-native smartphone experience.</li></ul>

Three form factors for AI agents are emerging—browser-based &amp; mobile apps (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) with easy distribution and app-level integrations, native apps with OS-level integrations & OS forks (Perplexity Assistant, Granola, Wafer) that unlock deeper awareness across a user’s apps and data but face distribution challenges, and purpose-built AI hardware devices (Friend, Rabbit) with novel interaction patterns.OpenAI’s hardware projects and Perplexity’s new Android assistant are attacking the OS-level AI assistant layer where Google and Apple’s app store–based business models—built on developers giving up a 30% cut in exchange for distribution—make it structurally difficult for Google and Apple themselves to route users around apps entirely.Android’s open ecosystem structure represents a huge opportunity for AI-first computing, with custom assistants (Perplexity), launchers (Microsoft Launcher), and full-on forks (Wafer, /dev/agents) potentially providing Samsung and the 96% of non-Google Android OEMs with the firepower to build the first AI-native smartphone experience.

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<ul><li>Oura generated $225M in revenue in 2023, up 53% year-over-year.</li><li>Oura grew 53% to ~$225M in 2023 with the growth of their subscription product, the launch of B2B sales, and the expansion of their online and in-store retail footprint.</li><li>Oura’s future vision hinges on becoming a comprehensive health hub and digital identity platform for people who aren’t in the Apple Watch ecosystem.</li></ul>

Oura generated $225M in revenue in 2023, up 53% year-over-year.Oura grew 53% to ~$225M in 2023 with the growth of their subscription product, the launch of B2B sales, and the expansion of their online and in-store retail footprint.Oura’s future vision hinges on becoming a comprehensive health hub and digital identity platform for people who aren’t in the Apple Watch ecosystem.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on top of CoreWeave and Lambda Labs’s GPU cloud products.</li><li>Companies use cloud GPU hosts Together AI, CoreWeave, and Lambda Labs to use Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units (GPUs) to train AI models on their datasets, fine-tune them, and deploy them into production.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annualized revenue in April 2024, up 2095% year-over-year, with 90% of revenue coming from sales of bundled on-demand GPU compute and training via Together Inference and ~45% gross margin.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on top of CoreWeave and Lambda Labs’s GPU cloud products.Companies use cloud GPU hosts Together AI, CoreWeave, and Lambda Labs to use Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units (GPUs) to train AI models on their datasets, fine-tune them, and deploy them into production.Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annualized revenue in April 2024, up 2095% year-over-year, with 90% of revenue coming from sales of bundled on-demand GPU compute and training via Together Inference and ~45% gross margin.

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Wearable AI companion pendant designed to provide real-time conversational support, encouragement, and companionship without subscriptions

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TL;DR: Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on...

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