AI Startups

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with open weights on Hugging Face, making it the world's largest open-weight model free to download. The Beijing startup trained the model u…

Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup backed by Alibaba, released the Kimi K3 model on July 16, the largest open-source AI model ever built with 2.8 trillion parameters, and will make the full weights downloadable on July…

Naver Corp. and Nvidia Corp. have agreed to jointly build a 200 MW AI factory by 2028, starting with a 55 MW expansion at Naver's GAK Sejong data center. Nvidia will supply GPUs and invest about $1 billion in Naver share…

Moonshot AI is set to release the weights of its Kimi K3 model for public download on Monday, enabling developers to freely use and modify the technology. The Beijing-based startup's move aims to broaden its user base am…

An autonomous AI agent named Otto has generated $0 in revenue after nine operational cycles, having spent none of its initial $100 budget, and identified that marketplace discovery requires pre-existing traction rather t…

Encord, a data tooling company, is testing brain wave-tracking headsets from German neuroscience startup Zander Labs to generate richer training data for physical AI, aiming to solve the scarcity of real-world robotics d…

Nvidia is discussing a roughly $250 billion financial backstop to help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio, according to a Reuters report citing The Wall Street Journal. The talks would extend…

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati and sitting on two billion dollars of funding, shipped its first model Inkling on July 15. Inkling is a 975-billion-parameter open-we…

Open weights AI models, predominantly from China, threaten the dominance of frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have grown revenues rapidly but may be disrupted before capitalizing on their technology. The ris…

Alphabet shares plunged more than 7% on Thursday after the Google parent revealed it plans to spend up to $205 billion on capital expenditures this year and reported negative free cash flow for the first time since its 2…

Nvidia is investing $1 billion in newly issued shares of South Korea's internet giant Naver Corp, announced July 24, to triple Naver's AI data center capacity from 55 MW to 200 MW by 2028. The investment supports Naver's…

Invideo's Agent One ranked first in Physion Labs' independent benchmark of AI video agents, released in mid-July 2026, after the company requested inclusion. Agent One scored #1 on twelve of sixteen metrics, including an…

Akshay Iyer launched Polymath, a product that analyzes what AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT know about a user to secure real-world opportunities such as intros and job referrals. Iyer pivoted through four previous ideas…

SanDisk, the S&P 500's best-performing stock in 2026, plunged nearly 11% on July 24 after reporting revenue of $5.95 billion, up 251% year-over-year, as the memory chip sector entered a bear market amid concerns over cyc…

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have formally backed Nvidia in a high-stakes battle over who shapes the future of artificial intelligence, siding with a coalition of open-source advocates against closed-system players such…

Chinese AI startups Moonshot AI, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. labs by releasing models that match or exceed top-tier performance at a fraction of the cost, upending expectations that U.S. firms could maintain …

Marblism generates full-stack web applications from a business description, using React, Node.js, and Prisma, while Sintra AI automates business operations with pre-built AI employees for tasks like lead generation and c…

Cognition acquired Poke, a conversational AI startup, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures, according to TechCrunch. The acquisition will bring Poke's interaction model and personality to Cognition's Dev…

Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop computer use models that automate routine office tasks, according to TechCrunch. The l…

Moonshot AI's launch of its Kimi model has reignited debates in Washington, D.C., where OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly lobbied regulators over concerns about open Chinese AI models, according to a TechCrunch Equity…