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Anthropic's most advanced AI model, Fable 5, accounts for only 11% of enterprise spending on the company's tools, according to data from fintech firm Ramp. Enterprises are opting for cheaper models like Opus 4.8, which s…
Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame Technology will open share subscriptions on September 2 for a 6 billion yuan ($892.21 million) initial public offering on Shanghai's STAR Market, according to a regulatory filing. The Shangha…
Hugging Face's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $150 million after a 50% increase in two months, driven by demand for paid compute, storage, and subscriptions, according to Salesforce Ventures. The company, which ra…
Generalist AI Inc., a startup developing AI software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding, with 8VC leading the round and participation from unnamed existing investors. The company's previous $400 mi…
Embedd Ltd., a physical artificial intelligence chip infrastructure startup, has raised $2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Seedcamp, with participation from Cocoa, Connect Ventures, 2100 Ventures, Vesna Capi…
Sierra, the customer-facing AI platform, announced it is opening an office in Seoul, South Korea, to serve the country's complex businesses. The company, which partners with one in three of the world's leading banks and …
The Renaissance IPO ETF (NYSEARCA:IPO), which tracks the largest US-listed IPOs from the past three years, is positioned to gain exposure to the 2026 IPO class, including SpaceX's June listing that raised $86 billion, wi…
Payment data from Ramp shows that Anthropic's most advanced AI model, Fable 5, accounts for only 11% of total enterprise spending on Anthropic models two months after launch, breaking the previous trend of customers quic…
Quintessent, a Santa Barbara, California-based photonics startup led by Alan Liu, raised a $40 million Series A led by Cycle Capital and began sampling its QCOMB-1310-08-08-200-EVK, an eight-wavelength quantum-dot comb l…
Naïve has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding to build autonomous company infrastructure, including Vetta, a production-ready harness for long-horizon AI agents that only bills while working, saving progress and sle…
Payloop, an Austin-based AI margin software company co-founded by CEO John Kim, has sold $4,533,992 of a planned $6,533,992 equity round, leaving $2 million unsold, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities an…
Lambda, the San Francisco AI cloud infrastructure provider founded by brothers Stephen and Michael Balaban, is in talks to raise up to $3 billion at a valuation of $12 billion or more, according to Bloomberg, positioning…
Stripe Inc. agreed to pay $7.5 billion to acquire OpenRouter, a platform that routes API requests across more than 400 AI models from over 80 providers, a price roughly 5.7 times OpenRouter's $1.3 billion valuation from …
Lambda, the GPU cloud computing company, is in talks to raise up to $3 billion in new funding as it prepares for a potential IPO in the second half of 2026. The company has raised approximately $2.36 billion in total equ…
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion at a valuation of up to $12 billion or more, a round that could set the stage for an initial public offering …
Nvidia Corp. is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI Inc. at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, a more than 50% jump from the $20 billion valuation the AI search startup finalized about a year ago, according to The Inform…
Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Cycle Capital, with participation from Goldman Sachs, Susquehanna International Group, Osage University Partners, and others, to…
Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value the AI developer platform at $13 billion or more, nearly tripling its $4.5 billion 2023 valuation, according to Business Insider. The company has retained a bank to gauge…
OneTriangle, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company, launched hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash inference on August 24 at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, with CEO Hannah Chung claiming it is the "f…
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform that raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation in August 2023, is reportedly exploring a sale at a price around $13 billion, nearly triple its previous valuation. The platfor…