Cognition Raises $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation
Devin maker Cognition has raised more than $2 billion, giving the coding-agent company a $48 billion valuation as enterprise adoption accelerates.
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Mistral Raises €3 Billion to Expand Sovereign AI
Mistral’s record European funding round gives its open-weight strategy unprecedented capital, while tying Samsung and Europe more closely to frontier AI.
Gimlet Labs Raises $300M for Distributed AI Inference
Gimlet’s large Series B backs software that pools heterogeneous accelerators as inference buyers seek alternatives to fixed GPU clusters.
Together AI, HUMAIN Plan 250MW Saudi AI Data Center
The partners say the project will nearly triple Together AI’s capacity and support more than $5 billion in annualized revenue.
Lambda Borrows $1 Billion for Microsoft GPU Lease
The short-dated private debt will finance Nvidia chips leased to Microsoft, deepening AI infrastructure’s reliance on asset-backed credit.
Entertainment Majors Back Stability AI’s $76M Round
EA and three global music groups participated in Stability AI’s Series B, tying its next phase more closely to licensed creative production.
Generalist Raises Another $200M for Robot Intelligence
The robot-model developer reportedly secured its second major financing in two months as capital crowds into embodied AI.
Hugging Face Explores Sale at $13 Billion Valuation
The open-model hub is reportedly testing buyer interest, raising questions over who could own a critical layer of AI infrastructure.
Nvidia Weighs Perplexity Investment at $30B Valuation
The chipmaker is reportedly discussing an equity investment as Perplexity’s agent-led revenue growth drives a steep valuation increase.
Veeda Raises $90M to Build Robot Training World Models
The former Nvidia researchers aim to create simulated worlds where robots can learn safely through large-scale trial and error.
Groq Raises $350M Series A After Earlier $650M Financing
Groq’s latest official financing is a $350 million Series A led by Disruptive, with planned participation from Nvidia, bringing its recent funding to $1 billion.
Higgsfield Raises $400M at a $5.4B Valuation
The generative-media company has secured a major round to scale its video and image platform amid intensifying AIGC competition.
Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter for More Than $8 Billion
The reported agreement would combine AI model routing, usage metering and payments in one powerful infrastructure provider, although the companies have not publicly announced the deal.
METR Secures $71 Million to Scale Independent AI Tests
The nonprofit evaluator will expand research on autonomous capabilities and AI-driven self-improvement while rejecting lab funding.
Databricks Raises $5 Billion at a $190 Billion Valuation
Investor demand pushed Databricks far beyond its initial funding target as AI infrastructure spending continues to concentrate.
Anthropic buys $10B of compute from six-month-old Volta
The six-year deal routes Anthropic through a 133MW hydro-powered Norwegian site running Nvidia Vera Rubin systems, operated with Bitdeer.
Trae co-creator's coding-agent startup lands third round
Chinese startup Tokens Infinity, founded by the ByteDance executive behind MarsCode and Trae, closed a third round within a year for its enterprise coding-agent stack.
Cyera to buy Oasis Security for $1B to police AI agents
The data-security firm signed a letter of intent for the non-human identity startup, its third acquisition this year, as enterprises scramble to govern agent access.
DeepSeek pauses $1.5B round after Liang transcript leaks
The Chinese lab halted its second raise near a $71B valuation after a leaked four-hour investor briefing by founder Liang Wenfeng went viral.
AgiBot kicks off Hong Kong IPO as top humanoid maker by shipments
Shanghai humanoid maker AgiBot has formally begun its Hong Kong listing process, backed by world-leading 2025 shipments and a valuation target near US$6 billion.
Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B from a16z for industrial robotics
Travis Kalanick's rebranded Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by a16z — with Uber joining — to automate heavy industries from manufacturing to mining.
Mistral lands Microsoft pact as Samsung weighs €1B investment
The French lab expanded its Microsoft partnership to build sovereign European AI infrastructure, while Samsung reportedly weighs up to €1B at a €20B valuation.