AI and ResTech News: Weekly Round Up

📅 Edition: 21st Feb

The AI race is accelerating. Microsoft just redefined computing, and the OpenAI alumni network is making bold moves. Meanwhile, ResTech companies are leveraging AI to transform insights and decision-making.

🚀 AI Innovations Shaping 2025

➤ Microsoft’s Quantum Breakthrough 🔬
Microsoft has developed the world’s first topoconductor – a chip that could make quantum computers viable “in years, not decades.” Using Majorana particles, it stabilises qubits like never before, which could revolutionise AI and scientific research.

➤ Google’s AI Co-Scientist 🧬 
Google just unveiled an AI that proposes entirely new scientific hypotheses. It’s already helping to uncover treatments for leukaemia and liver fibrosis.

➤ NVIDIA & Stanford University’s AI Gene Editor 🏥 
Evo 2, a new AI model trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides, is now capable of editing genetic sequences across all domains of life – bacteria, plants, and animals. This could transform synthetic biology and medicine.

📊 ResTech & Market Research Updates

AI-driven research is redefining consumer insights. A fantastic lineup of ResTech companies showcased the latest in AI-driven research at Insight Platforms’ Demo Days:

➤ inca | Nexxt Intelligence
➤ Emporia Research
➤ quantilope
➤ EthOS
➤ Qualibee.ai (Acquired by OvationMR)
➤ Yasna.ai
➤ Inex One
➤ Discuss
➤ Bulbshare
➤ Caplena
➤ Recollective
➤ Tracksuit
➤ flowres.io
➤ incling
➤ response:AI
➤ TeenVoice
➤ YouScan Social Listening ✨
➤ Verve
➤ Market Logic Software
➤ AddMaple
➤ Civicom Marketing Research Services | Quillit AI

See the full lineup & insights from the event.

🛠️ Five AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

➤ Scrybe – AI-powered LinkedIn content in minutes 
➤ Fellow – AI meeting assistant for seamless collaboration
➤ Substrata – AI-enhanced sales & deal intelligence
➤ Pull Sense – AI for real-time code feedback & debugging
➤ You.com – A one-stop AI hub with 20+ models, including OpenAI, Gemini & DeepSeek

What’s the most exciting AI or ResTech breakthrough you’ve seen this week? Let me know.

Until next week!

Have a lovely weekend! 💃 🕺