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PaXini, an embodied-AI startup, has completed a RMB1 billion strategic funding round, bringing its cumulative fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, the company announced on Aug. 3. The round was co-led by an unnamed global cons…
Shanghai-based AI-chip startup Fangqing Technology has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation above RMB10 billion, according to a report published on Aug. 4 by 21st Century Business Herald. The report …
AI² Robotics, a Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker founded in April 2023, is considering a Hong Kong IPO after raising over $890 million in funding, with a valuation of roughly $3 billion. The company, led by CEO Yandon…
SoftBank Group Corp. is expected to post a net profit of 148.4 billion yen (US$941.2 million) for the April-June quarter, with analysts focused on how it will fund its over US$60 billion commitment to OpenAI and related …
OpenAI is a deeply mismanaged company with no real competitive advantage, as models become commodities and differentiation is price, according to a Hacker News commenter. The commenter argues OpenAI's broad efforts are a…
MVNT, a Seoul-based dance AI startup co-founded by CEO Joon Jung and choreographer Choi Youngjun, is seeking $10 million in a pre-Series A round, as reported by Business Insider on August 4. The company aims to build AI …
An engineer seeking marketing advice for their product asked the Hacker News community for growth hacking tips in the AI era, noting that their initial marketing efforts did not work well. The post, submitted by user ara…
Audeara (ASX:AUA) announced that its chip-level AI audio licensing partnership with China-based Optek Microelectronics has moved into commercial production across two customer programs, marking the first revenue-generati…
Chinese labs are giving away frontier-grade AI models at a fraction of the cost of US rivals, squeezing smaller American AI startups out of the market. DeepSeek's V4-Pro runs a standard coding benchmark for about $1,071 …
Youngjun Choi, a choreographer behind K-pop routines for BTS and Seventeen, co-founded startup MVNT with CEO Joon Jung to build an AI system for programmable dance. MVNT, which raised $200,000 in seed funding from Mashup…
AI startups captured 81% of the record $297 billion in global venture capital deployed in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook and OECD data, leaving smaller funds, including crypto-focused VCs, competing for just 19% of the …
Alibaba-backed 3D AI startup Vast is weighing a Hong Kong IPO, with Bank of America and China International Capital Corp working on the potential share sale, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company behind Tripo…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years for cloud services and chips, a deal representing over 40% of Google's reported cloud revenue backlog. Googl…
AI consultants are advising companies to treat expensive frontier models like costly consultants, using them for strategic planning while delegating routine tasks to cheaper models, as a cost-saving measure amid concerns…
Blackstone is considering a new funding round for Nvidia-backed AI coding firm Factory that would value the San Francisco-based startup at more than $3.5bn, sources told City AM. The deal would mark Factory's third fundi…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is reportedly seeking greater access to Nvidia's advanced Blackwell GPUs to develop its next-generation AI model, highlighting the growing importance of computing power in the global AI race. …
SCX.ai, an Australian AI infrastructure company, is seeking to raise $40 million through a fully underwritten IPO ahead of its proposed ASX listing under the code SCX, positioning itself as Australia's first listed pure-…
Pathos AI, a New York City-based AI-driven drug development company, agreed to license the experimental breast cancer drug JSKN016 from China's Jiangsu Alphamab Biopharmaceutical for an upfront payment of $125 million, w…
More venture capital firms are expanding into deep tech, prompting investors to seek startups with stronger technological barriers to entry, as Singapore ramps up support for the sector and artificial intelligence commod…
Zenity Ltd., an Israeli AI security startup, announced a $125 million Series C funding round led by Norwest, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Qumra Capital, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Vertex…