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DeepSeek is in preliminary talks to raise new funds at a roughly $71 billion valuation, a $19 billion increase from its $52 billion valuation set six weeks ago in May, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab…
OpenAI-backed Chai Discovery closed a $400 million funding round at a $3.8 billion valuation on July 14, tripling its price tag in seven months. The Index Ventures-led round positions the company as AI infrastructure for…
SpaceX and Amazon, founded by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos respectively, now command a combined market value of roughly $4.5 trillion, but a new Fortune report by Amanda Gerut reveals that Amazon generated $716.9 billion in …
Flex raised $70 million in a Series B1 round led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing its total equity to $180 million, to expand its AI-native private bank for high-net-worth business owners globally. The company's Flex …
Fountain 0 and director Ash Koosha, known for the AI-generated docu-drama 'Dreams of Violets,' are releasing 'Odysseus: The Fall,' a 135-minute AI-generated movie based on Homer's epic, available to rent or buy from Foun…
AI startup Reflection AI has signed a computing agreement worth over $1 billion with cloud provider Nebius Group NV to secure access to NVIDIA Corp.'s GB300 AI chips through 2029. The deal, announced Tuesday, underscores…
Anthropic released usage data from 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions across 600,000 organizations on July 7, showing software development accounted for just 8.7% of usage. Forty-eight hours later, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an operating system designed…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is considering a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation, just six weeks after closing a $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The company's valua…
Reflection AI, the open-source frontier lab founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, has signed a multi-year computing agreement with Nebius worth more than $1 billion for Nvidia…
Flex, an AI-driven financial platform for mid-market businesses, doubled its valuation to $1.2 billion after raising $60 million in Series B funding led by Portage Ventures, up from $500 million earlier this year. The co…
Venture-backed firms are acquiring support, finance-ops and managed-services providers and re-platforming them around AI agents, shifting to outcome-based pricing that creates governance and continuity risks for enterpri…
Flex, an AI-driven private bank for high-net-worth business owners, raised $70 million in a Series B1 round, doubling its valuation to $1.2 billion in six months. The funding will support Flex's global expansion into pri…
Project44 announced it is splitting into two focused businesses: project44, serving enterprise shippers as a decision intelligence platform, and LSP44, a dedicated, profitable, AI-native infrastructure business for logis…
Richard Sutton, co-winner of the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning, announced Monday he is leaving John Carmack's startup Keen Technologies to launch his own AI startup, Oak Lab, with collabora…
A tech commentator argues that the biggest danger of AI is that builders use it to avoid reality, building excessive products without user feedback. The only way to win in the AI era is to relentlessly chase truth by fac…
Kazakhstan's AI-Sana program has produced working AI products from universities, including EnergyDronesAI for solar panel defect detection, KMG.AIAN for oil and gas data analysis, and ZhanCare.AI for telemedicine, with m…
Iconic Games, a team of AI researchers and game-makers, has released Pressure Point, the first public showcase of its Digital Actor technology, which uses a cascade of ASR, LLM, and TTS models to enable real-time, improv…
Nebius Group has agreed to sell more than $1 billion in computing power to Reflection AI, a US-based AI research lab founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou. The deal add…
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round, signaling that investors still see room for another winner in the AI video generation space.