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A16Z publishes a report, with Mercury Data, on the first 50 companies AI Startups pay for; OPENAI leads, followed by anthropic, folds, freepik and elevenlabs– Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz published his first IA spending report in partnership with the firm Fintech Mercury.
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