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FUNDING · 39 stories

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Capital flows shaping the AI industry: venture rounds, acquisitions, IPOs, and the valuations that signal where the market is placing its bets.

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Meta is quietly building a cloud business to sell AI compute — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / 10 min ago

Meta is quietly building a cloud business to sell AI compute

Etched books $1B in chip orders, hits $5B valuation — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / yesterday

Etched books $1B in chip orders, hits $5B valuation

Amazon Holds the Power Lead in AI Infrastructure Through 2030 — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / 6 days ago

Amazon Holds the Power Lead in AI Infrastructure Through 2030

Mirendil Raises $200M Seed to Bring AI to Scientific Research — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / 6 days ago

Mirendil Raises $200M Seed to Bring AI to Scientific Research

Engram raises $98M to separate memory from reasoning in AI — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 25

Engram raises $98M to separate memory from reasoning in AI

SpaceX lands third outside compute customer, this one trains open-source models — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 24

SpaceX lands third outside compute customer, this one trains open-source models

Baseten closes $1.5B round at $13B on open-model inference bet — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 20

Baseten closes $1.5B round at $13B on open-model inference bet

DeepSeek Made Its Investors Promise Not to Poach Its Staff — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 20

DeepSeek Made Its Investors Promise Not to Poach Its Staff

Google Opens Its TPU Business to Rivals, Starting With Anthropic — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 20

Google Opens Its TPU Business to Rivals, Starting With Anthropic

DeepSeek Raises $7.4B, Becomes China's Most Valuable AI Startup — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 18

DeepSeek Raises $7.4B, Becomes China's Most Valuable AI Startup

Oracle stock drops 11% as AI capex bill hits $55.7B — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 13

Oracle stock drops 11% as AI capex bill hits $55.7B

NVIDIA to back OpenAI's 10 GW Ohio data center lease — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 12

NVIDIA to back OpenAI's 10 GW Ohio data center lease

Google Is the Silent Backstop on Anthropic's $35B Chip Lease — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 11

Google Is the Silent Backstop on Anthropic's $35B Chip Lease

OpenAI files confidential S-1 eight days after Anthropic — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 10

OpenAI files confidential S-1 eight days after Anthropic

Google rents 110,000 GPUs from SpaceX at $11B annual run-rate — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 9

Google rents 110,000 GPUs from SpaceX at $11B annual run-rate

Generalist AI closes $400M to scale action-native robot models — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 6

Generalist AI closes $400M to scale action-native robot models

DeepSeek's $7.4B debut round signals a generational bet — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 5

DeepSeek's $7.4B debut round signals a generational bet

Alphabet raises $80B in stock to fund AI compute expansion — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 3

Alphabet raises $80B in stock to fund AI compute expansion

Anthropic files confidential S-1 with SEC for IPO — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 3

Anthropic files confidential S-1 with SEC for IPO

Ex-DeepMind lab Inherent raises $50M seed for science-AI platform Faraday — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / Jun 2

Ex-DeepMind lab Inherent raises $50M seed for science-AI platform Faraday

Anthropic closes $65B Series H at a $965B valuation — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 30

Anthropic closes $65B Series H at a $965B valuation

ByteDance moves to design its own chips to escape supply constraints — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 30

ByteDance moves to design its own chips to escape supply constraints

Mistral CEO confirms plans to design custom chips — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 30

Mistral CEO confirms plans to design custom chips

Cognition raises $1B+ at $26B valuation as Devin hits $492M ARR — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 29

Cognition raises $1B+ at $26B valuation as Devin hits $492M ARR

Trajectory launches to give AI feedback loops physical-world grounding — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 29

Trajectory launches to give AI feedback loops physical-world grounding

OpenRouter doubles to $1.3B valuation as multi-model routing goes mainstream — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 28

OpenRouter doubles to $1.3B valuation as multi-model routing goes mainstream

xAI orders staff to avoid Cursor employees as acquisition risk grows — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 28

xAI orders staff to avoid Cursor employees as acquisition risk grows

Anthropic's path to profit runs through falling compute costs — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 26

Anthropic's path to profit runs through falling compute costs

Anthropic's consulting arm makes its first acquisition — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 22

Anthropic's consulting arm makes its first acquisition

Cursor reaches $3B annualized revenue with a SpaceX call option looming — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 22

Cursor reaches $3B annualized revenue with a SpaceX call option looming

Manus founders weigh $1B raise to reverse Meta acquisition — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 22

Manus founders weigh $1B raise to reverse Meta acquisition

OpenAI topped $5.7B in Q1 revenue, ahead of Anthropic for that quarter — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 22

OpenAI topped $5.7B in Q1 revenue, ahead of Anthropic for that quarter

Anthropic commits $45 billion to SpaceX for three years of compute — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 21

Anthropic commits $45 billion to SpaceX for three years of compute

Anthropic's Q2 revenue is projected to reach $10.9 billion — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 21

Anthropic's Q2 revenue is projected to reach $10.9 billion

OpenAI eyes September IPO after Musk lawsuit dismissed — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 21

OpenAI eyes September IPO after Musk lawsuit dismissed

OpenAI launches Reserved Instances for AI compute — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 20

OpenAI launches Reserved Instances for AI compute

Anthropic acquires Stainless to bring SDK generation in-house — featured image for AI Insiders
Funding / May 19

Anthropic acquires Stainless to bring SDK generation in-house

Featured image for: Anthropic in talks to raise $30B at a $900B valuation
Funding / May 19

Anthropic in talks to raise $30B at a $900B valuation

Featured image for: Dust raises $40M Series B from Sequoia for multiplayer agent infrastructure
Funding / May 19

Dust raises $40M Series B from Sequoia for multiplayer agent infrastructure

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