·deepfakes
Humans finally get IP rights... to their humanity
Denmark plans to grant copyright over face, voice and body in 2025/26 — legal fines for deepfake misuse and platforms that ignore takedowns.
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Placy🦄 AI Startup Insights
Hi, I’m Sergey Osipov @s_osipov, cofounder of Placy (AI real estate agent). Launched about 20 startups and had some exits, including a unicorn IPO. Sharing here my observations and tips for AI founders. Join! #AI #Startup #PropTech
·marketplaces
Marketplaces start losing organic audience
Gartner predicts 25% drop in search volume by 2026 as users move to ChatGPT/Claude — marketplaces face bot-first traffic, pushing SEO/AEO over TV ads.
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·ai startups
Robots don’t need stock option plans, right?
Observation: despite automation, industry data show option pools growing; founders should reserve about 12% for team equity in AI startups.
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·ai agents
Realtors will pay marketplaces to show listings to robots
Thoughts on how Gemini Agent and AI agents will make aggregators obsolete, push marketplaces to APIs, and force new business models in real estate.
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·vertical ai
Vertical AI startups are not sexy anymore?
YC pushes founders toward full-stack AI companies (AI doing ~80% of work). Example: Placy — an AI sales assistant for real estate; platform vs tools debate.
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·placy
Video: answers to basic questions about Placy
Timestamps to a video where Sergey Osipov explains what Placy is, the team's achievements, 2025 plans, Cyprus choice, competition and the main challenge.
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·llms
2025: LLMs should prove reliability
Reflection on LLMs: 2024 showed broad capability but <90% reliability; 2025 focus is 99.9% quality. Includes OpenAI report 'AI in the Enterprise'.
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·ai
AI > AGI > Neurointerfaces — Singularity Is Nearer
Notes on Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer (2024): AGI forecast for 2029, falling compute costs, and a recommendation to listen on Audible.
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·seed round
How much to raise in a seed round?
Data snapshot: average seed round $3.5M while pre-money valuations rose from $12M to $16M — AI hype lifting startup prices.
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·google
Google's self-driving bicycle launches commercially in Cyprus
Google’s self-driving bicycle R&D (started in Amsterdam, 2016) moves to production; commercial launch debuts in Cyprus this April.
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·ai coding
90% of coding by AI — the startup shift
Anthropic and OpenAI claims: 90% of coding by AI; founders build full apps from prompts and costs fall from €50k to €500 — impact on devs, PMs and copilots.
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·Sesame
Sesame/Maya voice AI now open source
Sergey notes Sesame/Maya — a billion-parameter voice AI — released under Apache 2.0 with no paywalls or permissions; demo runs in your browser.
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