OpenAI Reportedly Nears $30 Billion Pre-IPO Funding
OpenAI is reportedly seeking a $30 billion bridge round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, underscoring the capital demands of frontier AI.
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Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion for open-model chips
Tenstorrent reached a $6.2 billion valuation after raising $1.5 billion to scale inference hardware for open-weight models and video generation.
Anthropic Commits 5% of Shares to Public Benefit Fund
Anthropic will place 5% of its equity in a wholly owned fund, tying future public-benefit spending to the company’s growth and governance.
Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy as Disney Deal Emerges
Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy while pursuing a Disney transaction, exposing the financial strain facing consumer AI platforms built on costly engagement.
Nvidia Weighs Deeper Tie-Up With Reflection AI
Nvidia is reportedly considering an acquisition, acqui-hire or larger investment in Reflection AI, tightening its control over open-model talent.
TypeSafe Raises $870 Million at a $7.5 Billion Valuation
TypeSafe secured a huge Series A weeks after launching Jev, betting that structured decision models can automate software more efficiently than chat models.
Biohub Leads $1.8 Billion Push for AI Virtual Cells
Biohub, Google, Meta and U.S. agencies are pooling funding and biological datasets to build models that predict cellular behavior.
DeepSeek reportedly seeks $12 billion before 2027 IPO
DeepSeek is reportedly nearing an $12 billion funding round backed by Tencent and CATL, underscoring the capital race behind Chinese AI.
FieldAI完成7亿美元融资，估值达100亿美元
FieldAI据报已完成7亿美元Series C融资，估值达到100亿美元，用一套自主系统覆盖人形机器人、无人机和工业机器人。
Stability AI Rebuilds Around Licensed Music Creation
Stability AI is redirecting its business toward professional music tools after securing label-backed funding and releasing new audio models.
AMD Agrees to Buy World Labs for $8.2 Billion
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s spatial-intelligence startup in an all-stock deal, bringing world-model research directly into its hardware strategy.
Anthropic IPO Filing Exposes AI’s Costly Growth Model
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows rapid revenue growth alongside heavy infrastructure spending and unusually explicit warnings about frontier-model risks.
Nscale Secures $3.36 Billion Ahead of U.S. IPO
British AI cloud provider Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in convertible financing, underscoring the capital intensity of frontier inference infrastructure.
Anthropic Signs $11.6 Billion Akamai Cloud Deal
A seven-year CPU-heavy infrastructure contract gives Anthropic more capacity while tying Akamai’s future growth directly to Claude demand.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha Sign Definitive Sovereign AI Merger Agreement
Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive merger agreement, creating a Canada-Germany AI group aimed at regulated and sovereign deployments; final financial terms were not disclosed.
Factory Raises $200 Million at a $5 Billion Valuation
The coding-agent startup is expanding from task automation into a model-flexible software factory spanning enterprise development, testing, security and release.
Anthropic Reportedly Picks Nasdaq for Potential IPO
Anthropic has reportedly selected Nasdaq for a potential listing that could value the AI company near $2 trillion, though key terms remain unconfirmed.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI IPO in 2026 Would Be Ill-Advised
Sam Altman says taking OpenAI public in 2026 would be unwise, pushing any potential listing beyond this year.
Zhipu Announces $5 Billion Financing for Next-Generation GLM
Zhipu says it has completed roughly $5 billion in financing, directing the capital toward next-generation GLM models and the infrastructure needed to deploy them.
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.
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.