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• LayerX Raises $100M to Automate Japan’s Back Offices with AI

• $1B India-U.S. VC Alliance Targets Deep Tech Surge

• From Hollywood to Hardware: Runway’s Generative AI Enters Robotics Arena

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LayerX Raises $100M to Automate Japan’s Back Offices with AI

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: OpenAI is rolling out its largest AI model yet, GPT-4.5, to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, following a Pro-only release last week. The model promises more knowledge and emotional intelligence, but its high costs and mixed benchmark performance raise questions about long-term usage.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• GPT-4.5 is now available to ChatGPT Plus users, with the full rollout expected in 1–3 days. Pro subscribers received early access last week.

• It’s OpenAI’s biggest model to date, trained with more data and compute than any previous release.

• Despite its size, GPT-4.5 lags behind competitors like DeepSeek and Anthropic in reasoning benchmarks.

• OpenAI is charging premium rates for API access: $75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens—15–30x more than GPT-4o.

💡 Why This Stands Out: GPT-4.5 pushes the envelope on scale and subtlety, with OpenAI claiming it demonstrates stronger world knowledge, better emotional intelligence, and fewer hallucinations. Yet, its underwhelming benchmark results and steep API pricing reveal a tension between innovation and usability. As AI models grow more advanced, the real challenge may be making them efficient—and affordable—at scale.

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$1B India-U.S. VC Alliance Targets Deep Tech Surge

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: Eight major U.S. and Indian venture firms — including Accel, Celesta Capital, and Premji Invest — have formed the India Deep Tech Investment Alliance, pledging over $1 billion over the next decade to back Indian-domiciled deep tech startups. The rare, coordinated effort aims to address chronic underfunding in the sector and deepen U.S.–India technology ties.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• $1B+ pledge over 10 years from eight VC/PE firms to fund Indian deep tech startups across AI, semiconductors, quantum, space, biotech, and more.

• Members include Celesta Capital, Accel, Blume Ventures, Gaja Capital, Ideaspring, Premji Invest, Tenacity Ventures, and Venture Catalysts.

• Alliance formation is unprecedented — moving beyond deal-by-deal co-investment to formal capital coordination and policy engagement.

• Launch aligns with India’s new ₹1T ($11B) Research, Development, and Innovation (RDI) scheme requiring local incorporation.

• Beyond funding, the alliance offers mentorship, market access, and coordinated government engagement; Celesta Capital chairs initially.

💡 Why This Stands Out: This coalition signals a strategic shift in how global capital engages with India's tech ecosystem. By aligning with New Delhi’s policy priorities and pooling long-term private capital, investors are creating infrastructure for deep tech innovation at scale. The move may catalyze a wave of startups that build in India but scale globally. Could this be the model for future cross-border tech investment?

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From Hollywood to Hardware: Runway’s Generative AI Enters Robotics Arena

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: Runway, best known for its generative video tools, is now extending its simulation models into robotics and autonomous vehicles—signaling a strategic shift beyond entertainment and into real-world training applications.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• Runway’s world models, including the Gen-4 video model and Runway Aleph editor, are now being used to simulate real-world environments for robotics and self-driving systems.

• The company is seeing growing inbound interest from robotics and AV firms looking to use its models for scalable, cost-effective training.

• Simulation advantages include precise control over variables, enabling repeatable testing of actions and edge cases—something hard to replicate in physical settings.

• Rather than launch a separate product line, Runway will fine-tune existing models and has formed a dedicated robotics team to support this effort.

• Backed by over $500 million from investors like Nvidia and Google, Runway is leaning into its core thesis: simulation as a foundation for broad industry impact.

💡 Why This Stands Out: Runway’s pivot underscores a growing convergence between generative AI and robotics, where realistic world simulations can accelerate development cycles and lower costs. As synthetic data gains traction, simulation-first approaches may reshape how intelligent systems are trained. Will generative AI become the new training ground for machines learning to navigate the physical world?

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