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The Ukrainian app maker plans to offer locally hosted AI models through its subscription app store and is already experimenting with credit-based pricing for AI operations.
Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June, TechCrunch reports.
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler, TechCrunch reports.
Base Power's $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries, TechCrunch reports.
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pen testing.
Managers are capitalizing on investors' desire to 'hedge' against US market bets, the FT reports.
The new capital includes a $400 million seed fund, a $900 million venture fund, and $700 million added to its growth vehicle, bringing Index's total deployable capital to $3.5 billion.
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites - here's what the deal means.
The new round, which closed late last week, more than doubles Stability's valuation from two years ago. The company says the capital will fund a multi-modal video model and a self-hosted enterprise tier.
The startup's low-latency voice AI platform for financial services, healthcare, and contact centers brings its total funding past $21 million.
A special-purpose vehicle called AI XPV will finance Anthropic's compute expansion by funding Google's custom TPU fleet. The structure is a template for the next phase of AI infrastructure.
The startup's flagship product Archie automates mechanical, electrical, thermal, and systems design, one of the first agentic AI plays aimed at hardware engineering rather than code.
Anthropic is in a critical IPO window, having brought in OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to lead Claude pre-training. The combination of 「intercepting compute, absorbing the toolchain, and recruiting Karpathy」 intensifies the offensive against OpenAI.
Forbes has released the 2026 AI 50 list, with listed companies raising a cumulative $305.6B, of which OpenAI and Anthropic together account for $242.6B, approximately 80% of the list's total. Other listed companies include Physical Intelligence, Mistral, Suno, and Reflection.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly addressed the open weights controversy: he expressed concern about China's AI development, but is not opposed to the open weights route itself, advocating instead for safety audits and export controls to address risk.
AI voice company Fish Audio has announced a $50 million seed round to build high-quality AI voice models for creators and enterprises, covering audiobooks, podcasts, dubbing, and game NPC voice scenarios.
European tech companies raised a combined €7.5 billion in March 2026, compared with €7.8 billion in February. The quarter overall shows a 「fewer deals, larger average size」 reset, with billion-dollar rounds such as Cloover as representative cases.
Karpathy's switch + $65B Series H + the critical IPO window: Anthropic's three-step combination is building a moat. This article deeply analyzes the capital layout, Karpathy's strategic value, and 2027 IPO valuation projections.
OpenAI's largest acquisition to date brings an in-house inference chip team in-house, signaling a direct challenge to NVIDIA's grip on AI compute.
Exa, formerly known as Metaphor Systems, has closed the largest Series B in AI history with a bold mission: building the first AI-native search engine that could challenge Google's dominance.
From AI-powered drug discovery to autonomous construction robots, YC's latest batch showcases the cutting edge of startup innovation. We picked the ten companies to watch.