August 8, 2024

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Hot: Digital health AI M&A

For digital health M&A deals in 2024, 1 of every 2 acquisitions are AI-driven platforms. 

The AI megatrend is everywhere.

We break down the digital health M&A landscape here.

Not: OpenAI co-founder retention

This week, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman left for rival AI startup Anthropic. 

OpenAI’s president and another co-founder Greg Brockman also announced he would be taking an extended leave. 

Is this live footage of Anthropic (blue/yellow) and OpenAI (red/yellow)?

The genAI landscape is still emerging and a lot is still up for grabs — check out our map of 430+ startup contenders here.

Hot: 6G momentum

The emergence of 6G communications could help drive the transition to more automated and connected factories.

While we are still years away from this next-gen tech, major players are working hard to make it a reality.

For example, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, and Qualcomm collaborated with Purdue University on a 6G roadmap last year.

And earlier this year, Nvidia released a research platform to accelerate the development of 6G tech.

Learn more about 6G evolution and the factories of the future in this report.

Not: Big tech's fintech products

Big tech companies are pulling back from launching their own financial products.

For example:

• Google scrapped its plans to offer bank accounts in 2021
• Amazon closed most of its cashierless checkout stores last year
• This past June, Apple discontinued its Pay Later installment payments service (just one year post-launch)

They’ve pivoted to embedding themselves in financial transactions on others’ platforms and supporting financial infrastructure in other ways.

Dive deeper into the strategic shift in our big tech in fintech report.

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