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Having a "steady job" thing is becoming riskier than becoming an entrepreneur. AI21 just cut 60% of their team. 180 down to 70. It's hard but this might be the forcing function that creates financial independence for many of the employees there. If you're at AI21 Labs (or anywhere else) and you've been thinking about starting something in AI agents, model optimization, web data, enrichment, or anything that touches real-time web access, this is your sign. We're opening a dedicated track in Massive's startup program for builders going independent after recent layoffs at AI21, Block , Atlassian , Oracle , Coinbase , ZoomInfo , and Meta : Up to $10,000 in free Massive credits toward your new ventures. You don't need a pitch deck just send us some info on what you're building. If that's you, send me a DM or apply to our startup program (🔗 in comments). Choose any of the tracks and just some details about which company you're coming from. If you know someone affected, send them our way. The agentic web is being built right now. The infrastructure is here. The hard part is deciding what to build. This program gives entrepreneurs the resources they need to experiment until they find product-market fit.

The concentration of VC dollars in AI is insane! $1.7 Trillion is the combined valuation of major AI companies today and Anthropic is raising at a $900B valuation. Six months ago, when I posted this same list, it was $1 trillion. A 70% jump in half a year. Bloomberg reported yesterday that **Anthropic is in talks to raise $30B at a $900B+ valuation. If that closes, Anthropic alone moves from $380B to $900B, and the total list crosses $2.2 trillion. Full ranking of private AI labs by valuation: OpenAI — $852B Anthropic — $380B* (in talks at $900B+) xAI — $250B** Databricks — $134B SSI Inc. — $32B Perplexity — $20B Mistral AI — $14B Thinking Machines Lab — $12B DeepSeek AI — $10B Reflection — $8B Cohere — ~$7B World Labs — $5B Hugging Face — $4.5B Kimi (Moonshot AI) — ~$4.4B Black Forest Labs — $3.25B **xAI merged into SpaceX in Feb 2026. $250B was its standalone valuation within the deal. A few things stand out: The top 2 are worth $1.23 trillion. More than the other 13 combined. If Anthropic closes at $900B, the top 2 alone clear $1.75T. Three new labs cracked the list since December: Perplexity, DeepSeek, World Labs. SSI went from stealth to $32B with around 20 employees and zero revenue. Biggest movers in 6 months: Anthropic (+107%), OpenAI (+70%). These models run on web data and web access. That's exactly what we do at Massive .

A few people asked yesterday: "What's the difference between Massive's /ai endpoint and just calling OpenAI's API directly?" Fair question. Quick demo below. OpenAI gives you GPT's completion. One model, one viewpoint. Whatever country your server happens to live in. Likely tied to some info about you and your preferences (from chat history of IP address). Massive /ai gives you what real users see: the live answer from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Copilot, queried from any of 195 countries through residential IPs. If you're building an AEO tool, an agent that grounds in current AI consensus, or a brand monitoring product, this is the data layer you couldn't get anywhere else. You should be running hundreds of queries weekly to see all the citations (which the LLMs are scraping for their training). Then, you can make a hit list of how to improve your ranking. Try it w the link in the first comment. First 100 signups still get $50 in credit.