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RISC-V International CEO Andrea Gallo declared at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna that the open-standard instruction set architecture is now targeting data centers, edge AI, and space exploration, following the …
CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK-based materials discovery startup, raised $450 million in Series B funding on July 20, achieving a $2.6 billion valuation two years after founding. Kleiner Perkins and NEA co-led the round, with B…
Fireworks AI hit $1 billion in annual recurring revenue with 200 employees by betting on millions of specialized AI models rather than a single AGI, and founder and CEO Lin Qiao predicts token costs will fall 10x while u…
Meshy, a 3D generation platform, has raised nearly $400 million in Series B funding at a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, the company disclosed on July 20th. The round, backed by new investors including IDG Capital, …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weight model, on July 15. Within hours, Artificial Analysis scored Inkling at 41 on its Intelligence Index, making it the top-scoring open-weigh…
OpenAI has seen a resurgence of interest in secondary markets after releasing new models and its AI coding agent Codex, according to Dave McClure, founder and managing partner at Practical Venture Capital. While Anthropi…
Legal startups raised $2.1 billion globally in the first half of 2025, per Crunchbase, as investors race to back AI-driven companies in a sector transformed by ChatGPT. Business Insider asked venture capitalists to nomin…
Prior Labs, a European AI startup, has grown from a research project to a €1B-backed lab in 18 months, setting a new benchmark for deeptech in the region.
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI is seeking a pre-IPO financing round before pursuing a Hong Kong listing in 2027, Bloomberg reported on July 20. Lee plans to close the round around the publication of 01.AI's first annual results, tho…
Alex Hormozi argues that most founders are building AI companies they shouldn't, and the real opportunity lies in practical, reality-grounded businesses where reputation and credibility are the only moats AI can't erode.…
Emergent Ventures announced its 56th cohort of winners, including Thomas Haferlach of Berlin to build a payments and compute layer for the long tail of AI apps, and Alex Petropoulos and Max Reddel of Brussels to prepare …
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed GPU capacity to its limits, the company announced on X. The model, released on Friday as an open-weight system…
LlamaIndex is offering $100 in builder credits to every accepted participant at the You.com Agentic Hackathon in San Francisco on July 24, giving the data-framework startup a direct route into new agent prototypes built …
Moonshot AI has suspended new consumer subscriptions for Kimi after demand for its newly launched Kimi K3 model surged beyond projections, pushing its compute infrastructure close to capacity. The company said user reque…
Pointhound founder Jay Reno operated the travel startup with four full-time human staffers while 750,000 people used its products in 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported on July 19. Reno told the Journal that AI agents…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a ~2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model released in mid-July 2026, trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol overall but beats closed models on coding, agent, and engineering t…
China's open-weight AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 are closing the gap with frontier American labs, threatening to undercut the business case for billion-dollar closed models, according to guests on TWiT episode 1093. Th…
Open-source AI models are rapidly closing the gap with closed-source frontier models, as Moonshot shipped Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters) on July 16, Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8 (2.4T parameters) on July 19, and DeepSeek V4 gra…
Thinking Machines Labs, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first open-weight multimodal AI model, Inkling, a 952-billion-parameter Mixture of Experts system that processes both text and images. The mo…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model matches frontier proprietary models on coding benchmarks for the first time, scoring in the range of GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet on SWE-bench Verified. The sparse mixture-of-experts m…