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State of AI Report
The State of AI Report is an annual analysis of the most interesting developments in AI across research, industry, politics, and safety. Co-authored by Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, it's one of the most comprehensive yearly summaries of where the field stands.
The AI $100M Revenue Club
Gradient Flow's catalog of AI companies that had reached $100M ARR as of 2022 — a useful snapshot of which AI businesses had achieved meaningful scale before the generative AI wave. The list skews toward computer vision, cybersecurity, and vertical AI applications.
Generative AI: A Creative New World (Sequoia Capital)
Sequoia Capital's October 2022 essay framing generative AI as a new creative platform wave — arguably the most-cited VC framing of the early generative AI moment. Published right as Stable Diffusion proliferated and just before ChatGPT, it set the terms for how VCs discussed the space for the next two years.
The Vector Database Index
Gradient Flow's landscape map of vector databases — published in 2022 when the category was forming, covering Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Chroma, Milvus, and others. A useful historical snapshot of the vector DB market at the moment it became strategically important.
14 Big Data Startups You're Going To Be Hearing About
Business Insider's 2013 list of 14 big data startups to watch — a market snapshot of the venture-backed companies building the infrastructure, analytics, and tooling layers of the emerging big data stack. A time capsule of which companies the industry thought would matter.