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General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, is negotiating a new financing round at a reported $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to TechCrunch, just 60 days after announcing a $320 million Series A at a $2.3 bill…
XPENG's physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform, marking the largest single-round private capital raise for the company. The Chinese electric v…
OpenAI ran for four and a half years without launching a product and faced widespread skepticism for claiming AGI was possible, according to a breakdown of Sam Altman's conversation with David Senra. The playbook highlig…
Nvidia (NVDA) signed a $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside to build a powerful open-weight AI model and is considering an investment in AI service provider Perplexity, according to Investor's Business Dail…
General Intuition, the AI research lab spun out of gaming clip platform Medal, is in discussions to raise capital at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, with new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Al…
Hugging Face, the AI open-source platform, is reportedly exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, nearly tripling its $4.5 billion valuation from its 2023 Series D funding round. The startup …
General Intuition, a New York-based AI startup building foundation models for generalized AI agents, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Po…
Optics startup Quintessent has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Cycle Capital, with participation from Goldman Sachs XIG-Industry Ventures, Hina Liberty Capital, M Ventures, and Ciena. The company's …
China's AI race is shifting from model development to infrastructure and business sustainability, with Alibaba and Tencent pursuing contrasting strategies: Alibaba is rebuilding around AI infrastructure while Tencent int…
Nvidia is in discussions to invest in AI search startup Perplexity at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, according to The Information. Perplexity's annualized revenue has surpassed $750 million, more than tripling since …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted on the Founders Podcast that he and others in the industry were 'too ambitious' about the speed of AI adoption, saying the economy has 'so much inertia' and will adapt more slowly. The admi…
Anthropic, the AI startup valued at $965 billion, has introduced a hiring question asking candidates if they would support decisions that could hurt the company's stock value, underscoring its commitment to its safety mi…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands meeting in San Francisco that the company plans to go public in 2027 or sooner, framing the IPO as "another fundraise" rather than a finish line. Friar cited internal…
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, according to Business Insider. The startup, which last raised at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation in 2023…
Xpeng's robotics unit Dogotix raised US$900 million in a funding round that valued it at US$6.3 billion, with backers including Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings, IDG Capital, and Gaorong Ventures investing US$600 …
Tesla has lost another senior chip engineer, Shishuang Sun, to DensityAI, an AI hardware startup founded by former Tesla Dojo team members. Sun, who spent over five years as Tesla's AI hardware architect on Dojo and Auto…
Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) shares fell 21.09% in one week to $219.13 after a strong Q2, as investors weigh the AI cloud provider's 454.04% revenue growth against a $17.6210 billion debt load and $20–25 billion 2026 capex…
Anthropic, the private AI company preparing for an October IPO at a valuation of $2 trillion or more, faces a warning sign: spending on its most powerful and expensive model, Fable 5, has plateaued at about 11% of spendi…
XPeng's robotics business raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation of more than $6.3 billion, the largest single-round private financing in China's embodied AI industry, led by IDG Capital with participation fr…
M.G. Siegler's newsletter discusses NVIDIA's potential interest in acquiring part of Perplexity, and the stalled growth of Fable for Anthropic. The post is for paying subscribers only.