Transfyr launched on August 26 with $25 million in seed funding to capture hands-on laboratory work and convert it into machine-readable data for AI and robots. General Catalyst led the round, with pa…
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup, last valued at $4…
Cognition, the AI coding company led by CEO Scott Wu, is in early talks with investors about a financing that could value it at $40 billion or more, Bloomberg reported on August 11. The proposed valua…
Erebor Bank, the digital national bank co-founded by Oculus founder and Anduril Industries chief Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise approximately $1.5 billion at a valuation of at least $8 billion, n…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software to turn prompts, notes, documents and research into editable slide decks, and has folded its entire team into ChatGPT's development. The de…
WindBorne Systems, a startup using the world's longest-flying weather balloons and AI forecasting models, has raised a $37 million Series B round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, valuing the c…
Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab founded by Ben Spector, Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith, is in talks to raise a new financing round at a reported $5 billion valuation, according to Forbes. Index…
Agon, a London startup building synthetic combat arenas for defence AI, emerged from stealth with $30mn in seed funding split between a $7mn pre-seed and a $23mn seed round. Backed by Lakestar, Lux Ca…
Act Security emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $60 million in funding, arguing that AI has made traditional patching obsolete. The Israeli startup, founded by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty…
GlossGenius rebranded as Genius AI on July 21, closing a $44 million Series D led by Lux Capital at a $1.15 billion valuation. The company, which serves over 125,000 in-person service businesses acros…
Glow emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to advance a prevention-first approach to endpoint security. The funding round was led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Green…
SkyPilot, co-founded by Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and UC Berkeley researchers, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital to build a neutral orchestration …
Glow emerged from stealth on July 22 with a $180 million all-equity Series A and a $1.2 billion valuation, backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, Swish V…
Glow Security Inc. exited stealth mode as a unicorn after raising $180 million in Series A funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. The AI-native endpoint security startup, co-led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts,…
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with participation from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean,…
Zongheng Yang and Ion Stoica launched SkyPilot on Tuesday with a $20 million seed led by Lux Capital, turning a UC Berkeley open-source project into a commercial control plane for AI teams running GPU…
SkyPilot emerged from stealth on July 21 with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, backed by personal checks from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, Hugging Face CEO …
SkyPilot, a startup cofounded by Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica and Zongheng Yang, publicly launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with Coatue and Amplify Partners also p…
OpenAI released new conversational voice models, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, featuring full-duplex capabilities for more natural turn-taking and live translation. The company is replacing its Adva…
Monogram, co-founded by Eren Bali, launched a visual AI iPhone app and announced a $40 million seed round led by DST Global and Lux Capital. The app generates interactive visual interfaces from AI res…