Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21st, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model designed to run long-running software agents on user-controlled hardware. The model ac…
Christina Qi, former hedge fund manager of Domeyard LP, raised $97 million in Series B funding for her market data startup Databento, which aims to rival Bloomberg by offering cheaper, usage-based fin…
Sail Research raised $80 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the startup at $450 million. The company builds infrastructure for long-horizon AI age…
Nearly 90 venture capital firms and money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a WIRED analysis of PitchBook data, revealing an unusual overlap between the rival AI labs. …