How Did AI Deals Top $1B At NeurIPS? 💸🤖🚀

TL;DR

• NeurIPS startups signal $1B+ post-conference deal flow
• Governments push AI skilling, aim 80% adoption
• New trading and infra tools target cost, latency
• Rising valuations cluster around infra and agents

HEADLINES

NeurIPS 2025 Expo draws 500+ AI startups, $1B+ deals 📈🔗

Google For Startups India wraps AI-first Startup School today 🎓🔗

Japan Cabinet Office targets 80% public AI usage 🇯🇵🔗

SK hynix wins GSA awards amid AI chip boom 🏆🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

TradingTop launched global AI trading intelligence platform 📊🔗

Google Cloud unveiled quantum AI integrations for future cloud ⚛️🔗

Google For Startups completed Startup School: Prompt To Prototype 🚀🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

TradingTop offers AI-powered multi-market trading intelligence 📈🔗

Google Agent Development Kit lets developers ship production AI agents 🧰🔗

SpeakDuo matches learners with AI-assisted conversation partners 💬🔗

METRICS

NeurIPS 2025 Expo hosts 500+ AI startups this week 📊🔗

Post-NeurIPS funding projected >$1B in follow-on rounds 💵🔗

Flex tripled payment volume to $3B annually 📈🔗

Salesforce Agentforce surpassed $540M ARR in latest quarter ⚙️🔗

BENCHMARKS

Japan AI Plan targets 80% of citizens using AI 📘🔗

Google–Scaler Startup School notes <2% of 180k Indian startups AI-native 📊🔗

UrbanAI NeurIPS Workshop frames cities as 70% of emissions, energy use 🏙️🔗

NTT NeurIPS Acceptance highlights 24.5% overall paper acceptance rate 📄🔗

INFRA & COSTS

AI Memory Demand drives new global DRAM supply crisis 💽🔗

CyberPowerPC warns of PC prices on 500% RAM inflation 🖥️🔗

Axiado raised $100M for AI data-center chip 🔌🔗

BluWave-ai launched Data Center Autopilot to shave power costs ⚡🔗

VALUATIONS

Flex valued around $500M after Series B 🏷️🔗

Harvey legal AI platform hits $8B valuation ⚖️🔗

Together AI valued at $3.3B after $305M raise 📌🔗

Duvo.ai secured $15M seed, backing AI retail workforce 🛒🔗

POLICY

Japan Government drafts basic program to boost AI use ⚖️🔗

WhatsApp to ban ChatGPT-like bots from 2026 📵🔗

NeurIPS 2025 Panels stress EU AI Act high-risk compliance 📚🔗

SOVEREIGN

India Science Ministry touts funding to catalyse deep-tech, AI private sector 🏛️🔗

Indian Army IAIP 2025 opens AI, cyber, drone internships 🪖🔗

Dynamics AI Institutes convene UrbanAI smart-city workshop at NeurIPS 🌆🔗

SECTORS

Data Centers deployed AI Autopilot for grid-aware operations 🏭🔗

Telecom ran AI voice-call assistant, exposed user data 📱🔗

Retail Finance adopted AI trading intelligence for global investors 💹🔗

Smart Cities explore AI traffic, energy optimization 🚦🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Vinayak J. hosted hackathon building AI agents with ADK 🤝🔗