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Personal Superintelligence is coming

$72B bet on the future of AI

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Eddie Yoon
July 30, 2025 • Read time: 5 minutes

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Wednesday.

Zuck told investors that superintelligence is coming sooner than expected.

Meta plans to invest up to $72 billion in AI this year, scaling its Superintelligence Labs and positioning AI as the company’s core growth engine beyond ads.

Zuck framed the company’s focus around personal superintelligence, AI built to help individuals create, connect, and achieve their goals.

The bold vision and massive investment sent Meta shares up nearly 10% after earnings, sparking a market-wide AI rally.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

Even the AI community is shocked by this video.

It’s a quick 35-second demo of what Runway Aleph can do.

It starts with a simple toy car clip…and morphs into something wild. The crazy thing is AI can now easily switch POVs. The even crazier thing is…this is just the start and I believe AI is going to get significantly better, much sooner than we think.

PS: I’m launching an AI creative community in less than 2 days. I’ll share the link here first. Keep an eye out.

💡 Here’s what you should know

💰 The numbers

  • Surge AI, in talks to raise $1B at a ~$25B valuation, gearing up to challenge Scale AI in data-labeling and model training pipelines.

  • Ramp raised a $500M Series E‑2 at a $22.5B valuation to power its autonomous AI agents in finance automation.

  • Fireworks AI is negotiating a round at a $4B post‑money valuation, expanding its GPU‑optimized cloud platform for AI developers.

  • Ambience Healthcare closed a $243M Series C at a $1.25B+ valuation, scaling its AI-driven ambient clinical documentation platform.

  • Observe raised $156M in a growth round led by Sutter Hill Ventures to scale its AI‑powered observability platform for monitoring and troubleshooting cloud systems.

  • Conversion raised a $28M Series A led by Abstract to modernize marketing automation and challenge legacy tools like HubSpot and Marketo.

  • Promptfoo raised an $18.4M Series A to grow its open‑source AI security and red‑teaming tooling for LLM deployments.

  • PlayerZero raised a $15M Series A to detect and fix AI‑generated code bugs, led by Foundation Capital with angels from Databricks, Dropbox, Figma, and Vercel.

🧠 Thought starters

The NYT just sold its soul to Alexa for $20M to $25M a year.

Okay, maybe that’s a little harsh…let’s start over.

Amazon will pay the New York Times $20M to $25M annually to feed Alexa its journalism.

Are media companies dying? Is this a desperation move?

Things to think about:

  • If NYT’s price is $25M per year, what about other publications?

  • Remember, NYT sued OpenAI for “theft” and then took Amazon’s check.

  • Everyone has a price. Who’s next?

Feels a little like Yelp and restaurants. If you’re not in the AI models, do you even exist?

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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