Welcome to Startups Weekly \u2014 Haje<\/a>\u2018s weekly recap of everything you can\u2019t miss from the world of startups. Sign up <\/span><\/i>here<\/span><\/i><\/a> to get it in your inbox every Friday.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Well, folks, it looks like Techstars\u2019 drama<\/a> just got a new plot twist. CEO Ma\u00eblle Gavet is making her exit<\/a>, leaving co-founder David Cohen to swoop back in and save the day \u2014 or at least try to. Gavet\u2019s three-and-a-half-year tenure was a roller coaster of controversy, from employee exodus to shutting down accelerator programs faster than you can say \u201cpivot.\u201d<\/a> Despite an $80 million deal with JPMorgan<\/a> turning into a Titanic-level disaster and losing $7 million in 2023, she insists she wouldn\u2019t trade the experience for anything. As for Cohen? He\u2019s excited about his return as CEO.<\/p>\n Linktree just hit 50 million users<\/a>, proving that everyone and their grandma now has a link-in-bio. From a humble 2.7 million in 2019 to this astronomical number, they\u2019re basically the popular kid at school that everyone wants to sit with. Linktree is rolling out social commerce features so creators can slap storefronts on their pages and earn commissions from big brands like Adidas and Sephora. With over $300 million in monthly sales already flowing through those links, it\u2019s clear they\u2019re not messing around. <\/p>\n Looks like OpenAI\u2019s latest chatbot, Sky, did its best Scarlett Johansson impression and got hella busted<\/a>! The AI voice was flirting too closely with ScarJo\u2019s iconic voice. OpenAI swears it wasn\u2019t trying to re-create her sultry tones from \u201cHer,\u201d but the internet couldn\u2019t help but notice the uncanny resemblance. CEO Sam Altman even tweeted \u201cher\u201d because, well, why wouldn\u2019t you, really? Now that Johansson has lawyered up faster than you can say \u201cdeepfake,\u201d OpenAI yanked Sky\u2019s voice from its product, while the legal machinations are rumbling around to find a solution to this mess.<\/p>\n OpenAI, meanwhile, doesn\u2019t seem to be hurting all that much. ChatGPT\u2019s mobile app just hit a revenue jackpot with the launch of GPT-4o. Despite promising free access on the web, OpenAI decided to nudge mobile users toward a $19.99 monthly subscription if they wanted in on the action. Plot twist: People are shelling out more than their Netflix subscriptions for it<\/a>. In its first week alone, net revenue spiked by 22%, raking in up to $900,000 daily and totaling a whopping $4.2 million from May 13 to 17.<\/p>\n Bonjour! In the latest episode of \u201cHow Much Money Can We Throw at AI,\u201d French startup H just snagged a cool $220 million in seed funding<\/a>. Yes, you read that right \u2014 seed funding<\/em>. With a founding team that boasts more ex-Google DeepMind employees than a Silicon Valley reunion, H is aiming to revolutionize productivity with their \u201cfrontier action models.\u201d Translation: They\u2019re building robots to do our jobs better than we can. Remind me why I\u2019m sitting here typing this newsletter with my actual literal fingers? What is this, the 1920s?<\/p>\n Welcome to the job market in 2023, where instead of flipping burgers, you could be programming a robot to do it for you. Brian compiled a list of 81 robotics companies that are hiring<\/a> faster than you can say \u201cartificial intelligence.\u201d From humanoids that might steal your job (or make your coffee) to drones ensuring your Amazon packages arrive before you\u2019ve even clicked \u201corder,\u201d there\u2019s never been a more thrilling \u2014 or terrifying \u2014 time to dive into robotics. So go on, apply now and secure your place in the brave new world of mechanical overlords \ud83e\udd16.<\/p>\nMost interesting startup stories from the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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