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Teen founder Giulio Greco has raised $3.2 million at a $40 million valuation for his AI game development startup ForgeGUI, which crossed 300,000 users since launching in March. The seed round was led by Verdict Capital w…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charges for latency and up…
GMEX Robotics Corp. has entered a definitive share-purchase agreement to acquire MediaMeta.ai, a Singapore-based developer of AI and human behavioral modeling technology, for a combination of cash and common shares. The …
Moonshot AI raised $3.5 billion at a $35 billion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report. The funding round underscores strong investor appetite for Chinese AI startups despite geopolitical tensions.
Encore AI, a startup that analyzes customer interactions to train AI voice agents, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8. Founded in 2022 by CEO Dvir Ginzburg, the company rebranded from Insait IO and n…
Ionic Digital, a bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure company, is set for a direct listing on Nasdaq under the ticker IOND on July 28 with a post-money valuation of approximately $2.4 billion, making it the largest dir…
ChipAgents has secured an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, expanding its Series A round to $134 million, as the company's AI agents for semiconductor design are deployed at over 120 chip companies including…
Cloud observability company groundcover raised $100 million in Series C funding led by One Peak, with participation from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors, to scale its AI-era observability platform…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with roughly 25% of the original research authors departing the company, including Nobel laureate John Jumper who joined Anthropic. The remaining rese…
ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors and a partner of Nvidia, has raised $60 million, bringing its total funding to roughly $134 million in under a year. The company aims to use au…
Recursive, Richard Socher's AI lab, has committed about $410 million to a multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services, roughly two-thirds of its total $650 million raised. The company, which employs about 25 peopl…
GrubMarket, a South San Francisco food technology company, confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC on July 28 at a $4.5 billion valuation, signaling that investor appetite for AI-driven real-economy companies extend…
Chrono Innovation, a Montréal-based software development agency, has launched Launchpad, an AI-powered platform that uses agents to slash project discovery and quoting from weeks to minutes, co-founder Philippe Gratton a…
Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, announced a $200 million investment from Insight Partners on July 28. The company, founded by former US Defense Department engineers Riley Kilmer and E…
Eliyan Corporation closed a $145 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by Seligman Ventures and joined by Cisco Investments and Lumentum, to expand from electrical chiplet interconnects into electro-optical lin…
Google Deepmind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors to projects involving Gemini, enzyme design, nuclear fusion, and genomics, while near…
Bloomberg LP is acquiring Canoe Intelligence, an AI-driven platform that automates private markets data collection, in a deal announced July 29. The acquisition brings AI-powered document processing for over 44,000 priva…
Cavdo AI, a new startup, has launched a fast, minimal AI assistant with a modern UI designed for professionals. The product was announced on Hacker News by the Cavdo-Ai account.
Eliyan Corp., a Silicon Valley-based chip interconnect startup, raised $145 million in Series C funding led by Seligman Ventures, with Cisco Ventures and Lumentum participating, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The comp…
Eliyan, a maker of chiplet interconnect technologies for AI, raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Cisco Investments and Lumentum. The funding will expand the com…