Meet These Innovative Startups from the WebSummit 2025 in Qatar
As the sun began to rise over the city of Doha earlier this week, WebSummit 2025 in Qatar was opening its doors to welcome both thought leaders and curious explorers of technology.
WebSummit is bringing together some of the brightest minds in tech and innovation in an environment beaming with entrepreneurship and joyful discovery.
From February 23 to 26, the WebSummit Qatar 2025 overflows the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre. With over 1,500 startups and 600 investors, it is a melting pot of innovation and creativity.
A key highlight was the much-anticipated talk by Hollywood star Will Smith of the i, Robot and Men in Black fame on February 24, where he'll share his insights alongside author Jay Shetty.
This summit is shaping up to be a cornerstone event for tech enthusiasts and investors alike.
WebSummit sheds spotlight on some of the world’s most groundbreaking ideas, among them mind-blowing tools for AI-augmented creativity—and robots, robots, robots...
The Dream Machine
Take, for example, the newest AI image generation models from Luma Labs, Luma Photon and Photon Flash. They debut an innovative architecture that delivers ultra-high quality at a fraction of the cost. Move over, OpenAI!
Luma Labs is building the Dream Machine.
In large-scale double-blind evals, Luma Photon outperforms every model on the market in quality, creativity and understanding while “being radically more efficient”. Luma Labs’ new models max out at 10x the efficiency that became the industry standard.
Luma Photon consistently beats competition in the overall weighted preference scores from pairwise preference evaluations over a set of diverse prompts. Evals and metrics were purpose-fit for creative use cases and it shows.
Luma Photon - 1.5 cent / 2MP 1080p image
Photon Flash - 0.4 cent / 2MP 1080p image
Robots, robots, robots…
Move over, R2D2, here comes a new generation of robots.
The ExR-2 from ExRobotics performs industrial inspections. It runs AI software from Energy Robotics, a startup from the German city of Darmstadt. The ExR-2 is the yellow fella.
ExRobotics beefed up the ExR-2 up with thermal cameras and other sensors so it can check inspection points such as thermometers, pressure gauges or valves in industrial machinery using its machine vision. The ExR-2 can also monitor noises, detect leaks and map the concentration of gases in the air.
The AI supplied by Energy Robotics reports back to the control center. Here, human inspectors can make informed decisions without exposing themselves to health risks.
R2D2, move over.
The red fella is an autonomous inspection robot made by ANYbotics, a spin-off of ETH Zürich.
Clearly, the race is on.
Let’s hope it leads us all to greener pastures.
Web Summit in Qatar brought 25.000+ attendees, or two thirds more than expected—and that says a lot!
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