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Groq raised $650 million in June, led by Disruptive and Infinitum, to expand its AI inference cloud, following a $20 billion licensing deal with Nvidia that moved founder Jonathan Ross and other team members to Nvidia. T…
Groq Inc., an AI startup, announced it has raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive, with Nvidia Corp. planning to join later. The funding comes less than three months after Groq closed a $650 million ro…
EliseAI, a New York-based property management startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $3.7 billion valuation, with Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners leading the round. Founded in 2017, EliseAI sel…
Halluminate, an applied AI and data company, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $200k–275k/yr and equity of 0.15–0.30%. The role involves working directly …
An engineer joining an AI startup describes the gap between AI hype and real-world deployment, noting that the model is only 20% of the battle while the orchestration layer takes 80% of the effort. The engineer finds tha…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for $7 billion, a deal that values the AI model-routing startup at roughly 50 times its $140 million annualized revenue. OpenRouter, which facilitates 250 trillion tokens per month…
Anthropic told investors in a weekend update that its annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July, a sevenfold increase from a year ago, CNBC confirmed on Monday. The figure, first reported by Bloomber…
Anthropic's annual revenue run rate topped US$65 billion by the end of July, up from US$47 billion in May and about US$9 billion at the end of 2025, according to a person familiar with the matter. The AI startup, creator…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund lost roughly $30 billion in July after its two largest bets, a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron Technology, plunged 47% and 29% res…
AI automation startup Relay is shutting down, and founder Jacob Bank is returning to Google to lead product and developer relations for Chrome, according to TechCrunch's August 17th report. Free accounts closed on August…
AI coding startup valuations are soaring, with CodeRabbit raising $143 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, Lovable raising $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, and Cognition in talks to raise $1 billion at a $40 b…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July, a sevenfold surge from $9 billion at the end of 2025, setting the stage for an IPO expected as soon as September or October. The San Francisco-b…
Groq has raised $350 million to expand its neocloud data center footprint, integrating Nvidia-powered clusters alongside its proprietary Language Processing Unit (LPU) technology to offer a hybrid environment for develop…
Lanyon AI, a Princeton, New Jersey-based lab co-founded by applied mathematician Jonathan Gorard and computational physicists Ammar Hakim and James Juno, emerged from stealth on August 17 after closing a $10.6 million fi…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources familiar with the company's finances. The figure, sh…
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation in a Series A round led by Disruptive, with planned participation from Nvidia, as the company pivots to operating an Nvidia-powered AI cloud. The company has raised $1…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco-based AI-video startup founded in 2023 by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, raised $400 million in a Series B led by DST Global at a $5.4 billion valuation, quadrupling it…
Anthropic told investors its annualized revenue run rate climbed to $65 billion in July, up about sevenfold from a year earlier, according to CNBC.
Peripheral Labs, a Toronto-based AI startup, announced Monday it raised $8.7 million USD ($12.1 million CAD) in seed funding to accelerate its spatial intelligence technology for sports, bringing its total funding to $12…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $65 billion, more than seven times the $9–10 billion reported at the end of 2025, according to figures circulating ahead of a potential IPO. The company generated $4.…