The Next Unicorns: 7 Top AI startups from the HF0 Residency
Aug 21, 2025 · 22:16
Diego Rodriguez (Krea) presents an AI creative suite that generated 1M images/day for a Fox ad, while OpenHome debuts the first AI smart speaker with 10K developers and 500 free dev kits. Josh’s Coframe made $20M for a travel firm by making websites adaptive, and Eugene’s Featherless AI built QWERTY 72B without transformer attention, claiming scale is dead in favor of reliability. Jonas Bauer’s Upside uses LLMs to structure enterprise data, Lengyue’s OpenAudio introduces S1, the first instructable voice model beating ElevenLabs, and Alex Atallah’s OpenRouter provides a single API for all LLMs, growing 10–100% monthly.
