Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation, with venture firm 8VC expected to lead the round. The news comes one month after Generalist raised $4…
Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting au…
Union Square Ventures (USV) argues that AI enables startups to obliterate, not just automate, existing markets by democratizing expertise, citing investments in Doctronic, Isembard, and Cofounder as e…
Gritt, an AI-powered robotics system, is building infrastructure on-site with top 10 U.S. EPCs today, claiming a 4X efficiency gain with no added labor. The company says 41% of the U.S. construction w…
Gritt has raised $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding for AI-powered robotic systems that attach to existing construction equipment to install solar panels up to four times faster tha…
Gritt launched out of stealth on July 21 with $32.4 million in total funding, including a $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures, to retrofit construction equipment like skid steers and forklift…
Gritt exited stealth Tuesday with $34 million in total funding, including a $26 million Series A round led by Obvious Ventures, to deploy AI-controlled robots that install solar panels. The startup's …
Robot Ventures is leading a $75 million Series B round into Nous Research, an open-source AI agent startup, at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation. The deal comes less than three months after Nous clo…
Agentic traffic on the web has surpassed human traffic for the first time in history, according to Union Square Ventures (USV). The venture firm argues that the AI opportunity will be owned by a broad…
Union Square Ventures (USV) argues that a 'rebel alliance' of open-source tools and increased competition at the model layer is fueling an agentic consumer explosion, creating opportunities for new ap…
CoinFund founder Jake Brukhman advocates for decentralized AI networks built on distributed GPU resources as a counterbalance to Big Tech's control over artificial intelligence. CoinFund has raised $1…
Generalist AI raised $400 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures, achieving a $2 billion post-money valuation. The San Mateo-based robotics startup, which builds general-purpose AI models …
AI music generation platform Suno raised $400 million in a Series D funding round led by Bond Capital, valuing the company at $5.4 billion. The funding more than doubles its previous $2.45 billion val…
Union Square Ventures (USV) is hiring two human analysts after a year-long experiment with AI agents proved insufficient for fully replacing human judgment in venture capital. The firm found that whil…
Suno, the AI song generator led by CEO Mikey Shulman, announced it raised over $400 million in Series D funding at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation. Bond Capital led the round, with participation f…
AI music startup Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, doubling its worth from seven months ago. The company, which generates songs from text prompts and has over two million subscribe…