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$220M/yr
T3
PhotoRoom
AI product photos: one-tap background removal and white-background shots, built only for small e-commerce sellers
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#2
$155M/yr
T3
PictureThis
Snap a photo to ID plants + care advice: "a plant expert in your pocket"
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#3
$56M/yr
T3
HeyGen
AI avatars: clone your face and voice, batch-generate talking-head videos in any language
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#4
$500M/yr
T3
Cursor (Anysphere)
AI code editor: $500M/yr in 3 years, zero marketing spend
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#5
$125M/yr
T3
ElevenLabs
AI voice cloning: a few minutes of audio perfectly replicates a voice
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#6
$500M
T3
Monica → Manus (Butterfly Effect)
The benchmark for Chinese teams going global: started as a browser extension, leveled up into a phenomenon-level AI agent
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#7
$36M
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Genspark (MainFunc)
General-purpose AI agent: $0 to $36M ARR in 45 days
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#8
$650M
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CaseText / CoCounsel
An AI assistant built for lawyers, sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M in cash
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#9
$1.6B
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Palantir (the ontology layer, and the bootcamp sales motion behind it)
$1.6B in a quarter growing 85%, 150% net revenue retention, and a sales motion that compresses a year-long enterprise cycle into a five-day workshop on the customer's own data.
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