Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🧪 OpenAI’s next $1.6B AI acquisition
• 2. 📈 Make McKinsey-grade decks with Xavier AI
• 3. 🌍 How this restaurant chain expanded into the US thanks to AI
• 4.  🔥Scale your LinkedIn with Linked Agency
• 5. 💡 Partner Perspectives
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🛑 OpenAI to route sensitive chats to GPT-5
• 8. ⚡ Anthropic jumps from $61B to $183B 
• 9. 📑 Recommended resources

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❓Wednesday’s Partner Perspective: How much risk are investors willing to carry when one company—ie. NVIDIA—is anchored in both the AI boom and the US–China tech rivalry? Scroll down to read what Kyle Mair, Director of Partnerships at The AI Report, thinks ⬇️

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OpenAI’s next $1.6B AI acquisition

🚨 Our Report 

OpenAI is about to acquire Statsig, an AI product testing start-up which specializes in A/B testing and using real-time data to improve products, for $1.6B—which is one of the biggest acquisitions it’s ever made.

🔓 Key Points

• As part of the acquisition, Statsig’s CEO, Vijaye Raji, who believes that working with OpenAI “to build AI-powered experiences…with the tools we built at Statsig…is meaningful,” will join OpenAI as CTO of Applications.

• Raji will report to the CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo—the former Instacart CEO, who OpenAI poached in May, but just started a few weeks ago—and will oversee product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.

• The acquisition is pending regulatory review, but once it’s approved, all Statsig employees will move across to OpenAI. Until then, Statsig will “continue operating independently and serving its customer base.”

🔐 Relevance 

This latest acquisition marks OpenAI’s 3rd this year (well, technically, it’s 2nd: In May, they successfully acquired Jony Ive’s AI device start-up (IO), and attempted to acquire AI coding platform, Windsurf, but failed, allowing Google to swoop in and secure a licensing deal), demonstrating its commitment to fuel growth in new areas, particularly applications, as they feel that “bringing Statsig’s experimentation platform in-house will accelerate product development across the Applications organization.”

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NVIDIA Q2 Earnings: Why the Market Reacted Negatively

By Kyle Mair · Director of Partnership at The AI Report
The AI Report Partner Perspectives Column

How this restaurant chain expanded into the US thanks to AI

• Jamaican-born restaurant chain, Juici Patties, faced supply chain disruptions as it tried to expand into the US market.

• Its distribution centers often ran out of supplies, disrupting service. They needed precise supply forecasting to reduce waste and manage costs.

• It implemented an AI system that analyzes POS data and external factors (eg. weather/customer trends), and forecasts demand, by location.

• As a result, its distribution centers remained stocked and, as they could forecast demand, it adjusted opening times to get consistent sales.

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• Following a recent serious safety incident, which saw ChatGPT fail to detect acute mental distress, OpenAI is planning to re-route “sensitive conversations” to its most advanced reasoning model—GPT-5-thinking.

• Last week, OpenAI acknowledged that its safety systems were flawed: Its less-advanced models can often validate potentially harmful user statements, which can lead to catastrophic outcomes, including suicide.

• It’s also planning to introduce new parental controls next month, which will allow parents to connect to their children’s accounts and enforce “age-appropriate rules” so they have control over how ChatGPT responds. 

• Claude-maker, Anthropic, has raised $13B in a Series F funding round, led by Fidelity Management and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which has valued the start-up—post-funding—at $183B.

• Anthropic will use the funding to “grow its enterprise adoption, deepen safety research, and support international expansion,” after reporting a jump in ARR from $1B to $5B this year, thanks to increased enterprise adoption.

• The start-up last raised funds earlier this year, in March, when they successfully raised $3.5B, which gave them a (post-funding) valuation of $61.5B. So this latest valuation demonstrates remarkable growth.

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