Generative AI

20 stories about Generative AI
Eikona founders

Eikona raises $5 million Seed to build a new GenAI framework for customer communication

04.12.25|CTech
The Israeli startup’s RLHF-driven system evolves every message, from imagery to microcopy, based on how individual users respond.
חיילים חיילת יחידה 9900 אמ"ן מודיעין

IDF unveils new AI command as Israel prepares for the next decade of warfare

02.12.25|CTech
With divisions for AI, spectrum control and long-term planning, the IDF retools its digital backbone for multi-domain operations.
Judah Hetz

The new logic behind today’s oversized Israeli Seed rounds

01.12.25|Judah Taub
"Starting off with tens of millions of dollars and a high valuation you will need to grow into, isn't a feature or a bug but rather a strategy. And, both founders and VCs should be fully aware of what it implies," writes Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures.
טום לייטון מנכ"ל אקאמי

“We won’t buy out of panic”: Akamai CEO takes measured approach to AI deals

30.11.25|Meir Orbach
Tom Leighton says the company’s Israeli cyber arm is powering its fastest growth, but warns that discipline, not hype, will guide future acquisitions.
ניקול לוין בכירה בחברת AI

The AI battle has moved: It's no longer about who's smartest, but who owns the stage

25.11.25|Nicole Levin
The performance gap between AI models has nearly vanished. Now the winners are those who control where we already spend our time online.
ניקול לוין בכירה בחברת AI

Silicon Valley adopts the work culture China banned

27.10.25|Nicole Levin
As tech layoffs shift power to employers, 996 spreads through San Francisco startups.
ניקול לוין בכירה בחברת AI

The AI renaissance: Your boss didn't fire you because AI does your job better

22.10.25|Nicole Levin
"Instead of fearing an apocalypse that's not materializing, we should embrace the intellectual golden age actually happening while maintaining skepticism toward sensationalized headlines designed to obscure some CEO's economic decisions," writes Nicole Levin.
לילך דנביץ' דירקטורית אסטרטגיה ושותפויות NTT ישראל

$40 billion will be gone by 2027 – and your bank account could be next

10.09.25|Lilach Danewitz
Generative AI is putting banks in serious crisis, making it impossible for them to distinguish between reality and forgery; Israel can lead the global effort to prevent a world where we lose our digital identity.
מייסדי Aim Security מימין מתן גץ ו אדיר גרוס

Cyber unicorn Cato acquires Aim Security for $350 million amid AI cyber arms race

03.09.25|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli startup, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, gives Cato access to advanced AI security teams and tools.
צוות פיינקון

AI database startup Pinecone weighs sale amid rising competition

31.08.25|CTech
According to The Information, Oracle, IBM, MongoDB and Snowflake are seen as possible suitors for the Israeli-founded AI infrastructure firm.
מייסדי Aim Security מימין מתן גץ ו אדיר גרוס

Cyber unicorn Cato Networks in advanced talks to acquire Aim Security for $350-400 million

28.08.25|Sophie Shulman, Meir Orbach
Deal would mark second major AI–cybersecurity acquisition after SentinelOne’s $250M Prompt deal.
ניקול לוין בכירה בחברת AI

The doom scale: How SF house parties are deciding the future of AI investment

25.08.25|Nicole Levin
Why Silicon Valley's party small talk about the apocalypse is now driving billion-dollar investments. 
מוסף עצמאות 30.4.25 מייסדי Decart מימין משה שלו וד"ר דין לייטרסדורף

From stealth to $3.1 billion in less than a year

07.08.25|CTech
With tools that can generate and edit video in real time, the Israeli startup is betting on a future where AI doesn’t just create content, it interacts with it live.
Decart founders

Decart hits $3.1 billion valuation on $100 million raise to power real-time interactive AI

07.08.25|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup’s Mirage and Oasis models aim to cut GPU costs and bring human-like interaction to enterprise AI agents.
מייסד ומנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן בוועידה ב סן פרנסיסקו 2.6.25

OpenAI in talks for $500 billion valuation via secondary sale

06.08.25|Omer Kabir
The move would make it the most valuable startup in history, eclipsing SpaceX and ByteDance.
Orri Streichman , Rotem Shacham , Ran Levitzky , Shelly Hod Moyal

What VCs really want: The five pillars for building a successful AI startup

04.08.25|Elihay Vidal
CTech's exclusive survey reveals the five critical factors that determine which AI startups will secure funding and dominate the next decade.
פרופ' יואב שוהם מייסד משותף AI21 Labs

OpenAI lit the spark, but real agents require more than hype

22.07.25|Yoav Shoham
"If we continue blurring definitions, ignoring challenges, and chasing hype, the term “agent” will lose its meaning before the technology even matures," writes Prof. Yoav Shoham, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of AI21.
Decart founders

Decart launches real-time AI tool for live video transformation

17.07.25|CTech
The startup says its Mirage system can change video style instantly while preserving motion.
חברת Cyera מימין תמר בן אילן מייסד-שותף ו-CTO החברה  יותם שגב  מייסד שותף וCEO

"A return to the good years": How FOMO is driving a new Israeli tech boom

17.07.25|Sophie Shulman
Foreign funds and serial founders fuel multi-billion-dollar raises, defying conflict and crisis.
GenAI map

Mapping Israel’s $20B GenAI boom: 342 startups and counting

17.07.25|Elihay Vidal
New Remagine Ventures report charts explosive growth and the rise of agentic AI systems.