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Upstage CEO Sung Kim told reporters in Seoul that a US directive restricting foreign access to Anthropic's advanced AI models underscores the need for South Korea to develop sovereign AI capabilities. Anthropic disabled …
David Silver, the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has chosen Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence, which aims to build a 'superlearner' AI system. The deal, announced …
AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer apps, Trimbox and QR Code Reader, bringing its total buyouts to seven in the past year. The company pays users for their data, including receipts, emails, and photos…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek closed its first outside funding round at roughly $7bn, valuing the company between $52bn and $59bn. Founder Liang Wenfeng contributed 20 billion yuan of his own money to maintain control, while T…
Upstage CEO Sung Kim cited Anthropic's compliance with US export controls by disabling its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide as evidence that countries must develop sovereign AI capabilities. Kim argued that dependen…
Optiak, a startup building a modular operating system for enterprise AI, raised €4m ($4.7m) in a pre-seed round led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures, Plug and Play EMEA Fund, and Mission. The compan…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) defines forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) as cross-functional teams that embed with customers to deploy AI solutions, a model that predates the generative AI boom. Taimur Rashid, managing direct…
Malaysian messaging platform Respond.io raised $62.5 million in Series B funding led by Camber Partners, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors. The company, which processes 2 billion messages p…
Upstage launched a new corporate structure integrating its AI models, agent platform Timely, and internet portal Daum's operator AXZ, aiming to create a unified AI ecosystem. CEO Kim Sung-hoon announced the move as a ste…
DeepSeek is raising $7 billion at a $50 billion valuation, the largest AI funding round in China, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally contributing 40% of the round and owning 90% of the company. The funds will be used …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek completed a funding round of more than $7 billion, pushing its valuation above $50 billion, with investors including Tencent and Contemporary Amperex Technology. The round is among the largest…
The AI revolution is shifting the tech industry's center of gravity from traditional FAANG companies (Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) to AI-native organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA. Developers are in…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on the "20VC" podcast that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang taught him to "always stay on your toes" with a mentality that Nvidia could be "30 days away from going out of business," and that E…
YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated "slop" content, leading faceless creators to hire hosts or show their own faces to comply with new policies. Some creators have lost significant revenue, while others adapt by usi…
OpenAI projected $34 billion in spending on R&D, sales, and marketing in 2025 as it prepares for an IPO that could value it at $1 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The AI company reported $13 billion in revenue…
Berlin-based audit AI firm Cortea raised €12m (£10.3m) in a funding round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from former KPMG global head of audit Larry Bradley, to expand into the UK market. The company's AI-powere…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared two founder lessons from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the '20VC' podcast, emphasizing Huang's mentality of being 30 days from going out of business and Musk's …
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European countries and French pol…
OpenAI's losses surged to $38.5 billion in 2025, up from $5.09 billion in 2024, as spending hit $34 billion against $13.07 billion in revenue, according to audited financial documents. The massive losses were driven by $…
Apple's Mac mini with M4 chips is facing severe shortages due to high demand from AI developers and component constraints, with wait times of up to three months. The company is expected to refresh the lineup with M5 chip…