Tag: consumer-ai

Stability AI raised fresh capital after a cash crunch and is rebuilding around licensed creative tools, enterprise services, and entertainment partnerships.

Synthesia scaled from $40M to roughly $140M ARR and raised at a $4B valuation. We examine enterprise contracts, avatars, billing discipline, and profit.

Character.AI serves millions of users while adding ads, limits, subscriptions, and interactive media. We examine its post-Google economics and profit.

Suno raised at a $5.4B valuation while moving toward licensed music partnerships. We examine subscriptions, generation cost, rights payments, and profit.

Pika is expanding from video into agents and low-cost audio models. We examine funding, consumer pricing pressure, creator payouts, compute efficiency, and profit.

Ideogram has moved from closed image generation toward open weights, APIs, and enterprise design workflows. We examine funding, pricing, and profit.

Perplexity has crossed $750M in annualized revenue while committing heavily to cloud compute. We examine subscriptions, enterprise pricing, agents, and profit.

Midjourney is the rare generative-AI company reported to be profitable and self-funded. We examine subscriptions, licensing, compute, video, and legal risk.

Runway's business more than doubled in 2026 while enterprise NRR exceeded 300%. We examine video inference, credits, world-model research, and profitability.

ElevenLabs surpassed $500M ARR in 2026. We examine voice-agent pricing, falling unit costs, enterprise adoption, foundation-model research, and profit.