Extropic, a startup founded by physicist Guillaume Verdon, published a case for thermodynamic computing on July 29th, arguing that AI scaling will eventually be constrained by electricity and cooling …
Corgi, an AI insurance startup founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan, tripled its valuation to $4 billion in eight weeks after closing a Series B extension, according to Forbes. The San Francis…
AI-powered insurance startup Corgi closed a Series B extension at a $4 billion valuation in July 2026, its third funding round in approximately eight weeks, according to Forbes. The two-year-old compa…
Louis Castricato, founder of Overworld, pivoted from large language model research to diffusion world models that generate real-time physical simulations on consumer hardware. The company raised $4.5 …
An Associated Press feature profiles a wave of startups and researchers shifting focus from language models to 'world models' that learn physical space and interaction. Computer scientist Louis Castri…
Architect Labs, a Palo Alto startup, emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round to develop an AI system that designs and verifies custom chips end-to-end. The company aims to democratize chip …
Nvidia is backing Hydra Host, a startup that raised $100 million in Series A funding to build a marketplace for renting GPU capacity, effectively commoditizing Nvidia's own chips. The company, founded…