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Payments giant Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup providing a unified API for over 400 AI models, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition comes just three mo…
Higgsfield, an AI video platform founded by Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation, more than quadrupling its January valuation of $1.3 billion in seven months. Invest…
Higgsfield AI, the generative video platform founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, is in advanced talks to raise between $300 million and $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $5 billion, with Goldman Sachs…
Higgsfield, an AI video start-up founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, has been valued at $5.4 billion after a funding round backed by Goldman Sachs and Intel Capital. The company targets marketing content for…
Hong Kong-based 'neo-cloud' provider Antimatter is betting on Chinese open-weight AI models to rival US providers like CoreWeave, helping businesses cut costs and gain data sovereignty. The company expects revenue to 'gr…
Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch, though Stripe has not confirmed the deal. OpenRouter provides developers with a …
SCX.ai will debut on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday under the code SCX following a fully underwritten $40 million IPO, becoming Australia's first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastruc…
Stripe Inc. has agreed to terms to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a developer of a single access point to more than 400 AI models, for over $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah and Lo…
Stripe has finalized a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, about five times the $1.3 billion valuation OpenRouter raised at in May, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition, which Stripe has not confirmed, po…
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, marking Stripe's largest known bet on AI infrastructure. OpenRouter, which has 8 million global…
Anthropic's potential initial public offering valuation depends on its projected 2028 revenue of $190-200 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The AI company, backed by Amazon and Google, is reportedly…
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, which raised a $113 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation in May, claims 8 m…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a three-year-old AI routing platform, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which is yet to close, values Op…
Stripe Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, for approximately $10 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal, reported on July 23, 2026, would value OpenRouter at over seven times its …
Stripe Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire AI firm OpenRouter for over $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, just months after OpenRouter raised money at a lower valuation. The final price could change,…
Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, warns that AI agents are bypassing products like Canva and Notion entirely, citing Canva's growth cut from 30% to 20% for 2026 as a symptom of a broader shift. He advises founders to test…
Andrew Ng's AI Fund analyzed 10,000 job postings to create a skills map identifying four core AI engineering skills that determine team efficiency, with implications for founders raising capital in a $510 billion venture…
Anthropic's preliminary second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5 billion, more than double the $4.73 billion reported for the first quarter and up from $787 million in Q2 2025, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg N…
Anthropic, creator of the Claude chatbot, is priced at a 41% probability of launching the largest IPO of 2026, according to prediction markets, with market liquidity at $27.3K and 137 days remaining. The company's privat…
A growing gray market for unused AI inference credits is emerging, with brokers buying and reselling credits from startups at steep discounts, according to a new report. The report estimates tens of millions of dollars i…