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Perplexity and the price of an answer
An AI search company made the footnote its calling card. Now it is asking a harder question: who should pay when the internet does your homework?
Dust Wants Your AI Agents in the Group Chat
Dust turns scattered company context into shared AI work - useful for teams ready to build repeatable agents, provided they watch the credit meter and keep humans in the loop.
Freepik Put Every AI Model Behind One Counter
The former stock-library staple assembled image, video, audio, upscaling and workflow automation under one roof. Then it changed its name to Magnific. Here is what creators actually gain, what the credit meter complicates, and who should pay.
Poe Put Every AI in One Tab. Now Watch the Meter.
Poe is the tempting answer to AI-tab fatigue: one lively marketplace for models, bots and tiny apps. The catch is a point meter that turns every ambitious prompt into a small budgeting decision.
Wald.ai
Wald.ai is a Palo Alto-based context intelligence company that lets enterprises use generative AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok without leaking sensitive data. Its context-aware DLP engine uses specialized small language models to detect and redact confidential information in real time, then restores it in the response, giving regulated industries a governed, single-pane way to adopt AI without blocking it. Founded in 2023 by Vinay Goel and Ritesh Ahuja, the company closed a $4M seed round in December 2024.
Bedrock Analytics
Bedrock Analytics is an Oakland-based B2B SaaS company that turns the messy syndicated sales data CPG (consumer packaged goods) brands buy from sources like NielsenIQ and Circana into clear, automated selling stories. Built 'by CPG people for CPG people,' its cloud platform harmonizes retail data and uses a multi-model AI stack (ChatGPT, Claude, Llama) to generate visualizations, insights, and AI-driven sales decks - helping brand sales teams win shelf space and category reviews. The company tracks more than $100 billion in CPG sales across 80+ categories every month.
Exaforce
Exaforce is a San Jose cybersecurity company building an Agentic AI SOC platform. Its multi-model AI engine and a crew of agents called Exabots handle detection, triage, investigation, and response so security teams stop drowning in alerts and start finding the real breaches.