Hot Off The AI Furnace - November 6

Synthesia joins AI Hot 100 Summit lineup, Call for talent, Apply to be a speaker

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AI Furnace
November 06, 2025

The AI Hot 100 Summit 2026 is back for its third edition on May 7th, 2026 in New York City. The only AI Summit built for real connections where startup innovation meets enterprise implementation.

 🔥 Hot Demo Alert: AI Video Giant Synthesia (now valued at $4B) is coming to The AI Hot 100 Summit

Synthesia, one of the world’s leaders in AI video generation, is coming to The AI Hot 100 Summit 2026 and Panayiotis Vitakis, SVP of Customer Success will be showcasing their groundbreaking technology.

Synthesia is redefining how teams create video content—no cameras, studios, or actors required. From training videos to marketing content, they’re proving that high-quality video can be made in minutes, not days, using AI.

Synthesia has raised over $500M with a $4B valuation (backed by NEA, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and FirstMark Capital). Today, more than 70% of the Fortune 100 are Synthesia customers, up from 40% two years ago.

Best known for its text to video platform, Synthesia focuses on enterprise-focused AI video use cases, including corporate training, marketing, and internal communications, supporting content creation in over 140 languages.

Panayiotis Vitakis (SVP of Customer Success at Synthesia) will be joining executives from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Haleon plc, Anthropic, Cursor, Eleven Labs, Adobe, Walmart, & more. at The AI Hot 100 Summit 2026.

Interested in joining the action? Showcase your brand alongside the biggest companies in AI or register now for early bird pricing to save $700+ on your pass.

A Call for Talent: Join the AI Hot 100 Summit Team

Strategy and Ops Interns

Interested in starting an AI company or joining an AI VC down the road? The AI Furnace is looking for 3 all-star Strategy & Ops Interns to join us to support the AI Hot 100 Summit on May 7th 2026.

We’re looking for 10x people with high agency, initiative and an ownership mindset with killer execution skills, willing to roll-up their sleeves and get shit done. Minimum 20 hours/week commitment - do not apply if you have multiple projects going on.

Skills we’re looking for: ranging from operations, research, outreach and sales, social media, software development, automations, database development and more.

Benefits for selected candidates:

  • Meet and interact with some of the hottest AI founders + startups in the world who have raised up to $100M+

  • Meet VC partners at Tier-1 VCs like a16z, Bessemer, Sequoia, and more

  • A chance to liaise and interact with Fortune 500 AI Executives, who manage the biggest AI budgets in the world

AI Hot 100 Volunteer

Are you a student interested in volunteering on the day of The AI Hot 100 Summit? Apply below.

Interested in Speaking at The AI Hot 100 Summit?

The AI Hot 100 will spotlight bold voices and transformative ideas redefining AI. If you’re driving AI innovation in enterprise, we want to hear from you. The call for speakers is filling fast. Applications are due on November 28 at 5 PM ET, but they're reviewed on a rolling basis, so the earlier you submit the better!

Make your mark on the most forward-thinking event in AI. Apply to speak today!  

Highlights from the 2025 Summit - “Buy vs Build: What Enterprises Actually Consider” w/ McKinsey, Crunchbase, Ringier AG, and Invisible Technologies

Listen to the CTO at Invisible Technologies talk about how AI Budgets from Two Years Ago Were Mostly a "Waste of Money."

Speakers: Petra Ehmann (Group Chief AI Officer, Ringier AG), Megh Gautam (Chief Product Officer, Crunchbase), Tey Bannerman (Former AI Partner, McKinsey & Co), Alexius Wronka (CTO, Data & Growth at Invisible Technologies).

Watch the full Buy vs Build Panel hosted at the AI Hot 100 Summit 2025, delving into what enterprises actually consider when deciding whether to build tech in-house or go with a vendor.

Are You an AI Startup That Has What it Takes? The AI Hot 100 is Now Accepting Startup Applications for 2026

The AI Furnace is curating a list of the hottest 100 AI startups from across the US and bringing them to the AI Hot 100 Summit in NYC on May 7, 2026, for a chance to get in front of Fortune 500 executives and partner level investors.

Startups range from pre-seed to Series D companies who are tier-1 VC backed and/or showing strong revenues on our list and we are opening it up for more.

Upcoming Events 📅

👀 ICYMI - Access the AI Hot 100 Market Report 2025

On July 10th, we dropped the 2025 AI Hot 100 Market Report by The AI Furnace. Here, we highlighted the Hot 100 startups building in AI in North America this year.

About The AI Furnace

The AI Furnace is a global network of 25,000+ AI founders, developers and researchers. It was started by Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, AI founders from NYC and London who started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco).

📢 Interested in sponsoring? Reach out to us at [email protected] to get your brand in front of 25k+ AI executives, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and AI leaders.