Google launches AI startup fund offering access to new models

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launches AI startup fund offering access to new models

Sundar Pichai, C.E.O. of

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and Alphabet, speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. 

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will begin a new fund aimed at investing in artificial intelligence startups, the company announced Monday.

Through a fund it calls the “

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,” eligible startups will get

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investment, early access to AI models, and hands-on

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from

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researchers, engineers and go-to-market specialists, the company said in a blog post on Monday. They will also get credits to use on

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Cloud.

“Select startups get the opportunity to seek direct investment from

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to fuel growth and scale AI development,” the blog post states.

The fund comes as the company tries to get more exposure to the latest AI companies and trends. It also comes as hot AI startups seek alternate funding as the IPO market remains mostly dry amid economic woes.

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and

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, OpenAI’s principal investor, are backing generative AI startups with hefty investments as well as developing their own technologies.

Earlier this year,

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invested more than $1 billion in generative AI startup Anthropic, which builds on

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’s past investments of $2 billion in Anthropic and 10% ownership stake in the startup, as well as a large cloud contract between the two companies.

The fund will support founders with Gemini models, according to the application page.

“We work closely with ambitious startups across all stages to quickly enable groundbreaking 0-to-1 products and features, providing early access to

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’s advanced AI models, expertise, and potential funding to bring audacious AI ideas to life,” the fund’s mission reads.

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