Ramp spent $1.5 million on AI usage fees in one week. Then it turned what it learned into a product called Glass and raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation.
Same week, OpenAI built decision-making into its voice product, DeepSeek added search to its open model for $0.75 per thousand requests, and Meta held back its best model for its own coding tool.
Here is a test for any startup: imagine the sentence a bigger company would write in a release note about your product. If it fits in one line, you have a feature. If copying you takes years of customer outcome data or a utility’s permission, you have something else.
Last Week Ignite is up, with the rest of the week: Anthropic’s reported valuation reset, 3.7% inflation, and the power line that stalled a data center.
Full write up here: https://www.teamignite.vc/blog/the-week-everything-became-a-feature