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The Next Unicorns: 7 Top AI startups from the HF0 Residency
Takeaway
HF0 residency showcase: bets are converging on AI-native consumer hardware (smart speakers), creative tooling, and adaptive personalized web experiences.
Summary
- Lightning pitches from HF0 residency: Korea (AI creative suite, 25M users, broadcasting Fox ads days after signup) on AI traffic-vs-cars metaphor and Tower of Babel.
- OpenHome: open-source LLM-driven smart speaker — 500M smart speakers sold yearly but still terrible UX; gives away 500 free dev kits to attendees, 10K developers on platform.
- Coframe (Josh, ex-$2B founder): adaptive, personalized, 'living' internet replacing today's static web; built #1 GitHub autonomous coding agent before pivoting.
- Format is fast back-to-back founder pitches highlighting consumer-AI, voice, and adaptive-web bets.
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Original description
HF0's Demo Days are usually hilariously oversubscribed and have never before been aired publicly. For the first time, they are joining the AIE stage to pitch AI Engineers. https://www.hf0.com/ Timestamps 00:15 Diego Rodriguez - Krea 03:02 OpenHome 06:09 Josh - Coframe 07:31 Eugene - Featherless AI 10:39 Jonas Bauer - Upside 13:48 Lengyue - OpenAudio 18:48 Alex Atallah - OpenRouter