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A 23-year-old's AI assistant startup just hit a $2.5 billion valuation after raising $250 million
Instinct, the life-organising AI app from Spear Street Technology, closed a $250 million Series B round this week. The app is still invite-only, and privacy worries are already swirling.
Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.
This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software
Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it is solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.
These AI-powered glasses want to replace your hearing aid
Legato has raised $12 million to build hearing-assistance technology into ordinary-looking eyeglass frames, targeting the 40 million Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss who never seek treatment.
Indian startup Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses find customers, not just build websites
The Bengaluru-based startup wants its AI agent to run ads, manage social media and grow a business from scratch, but it is still burning through cash to get there.
Replit's CEO Will Talk About What Happens When Anyone Can Build Software
Amjad Masad is bringing Replit's story to a major tech conference stage. Behind it sits a company whose revenue run-rate is closing in on a billion dollars and a valuation that tripled in six months.
General Intuition se acerca a una valoración de $6 mil millones mientras los inversores apuestan por IA que entiende el espacio físico
La startup está entrenando agentes de IA para moverse en el mundo real, no solo para responder preguntas. Una nueva ronda de financiación podría valorarla en $6 mil millones antes de que llegue un solo dólar de inversión externa.
The DOJ Is Investigating a16z Over Board Seats at Competing Companies. Here Is What That Means.
A rarely used antitrust law from 1914 is at the centre of a federal probe into whether Andreessen Horowitz crossed a line by placing partners on the boards of rival firms.
Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space
The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.
Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
A startup called Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to roll out a type of fiber cable that sends data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines. The idea: give AI data centers room to breathe without paying a speed penalty.
Wispr raises $280 million and sets its sights on meetings, not just dictation
The AI dictation startup is now valued at $2 billion and just launched a new voice model that it says will cut speech errors by two-thirds.
La startup francesa Kog dice que sus GPUs existentes pueden ejecutar IA diez veces más rápido. Así es cómo.
Kog afirma que solo el software puede acelerar dramáticamente la inferencia de IA en los chips que las empresas ya poseen. Eso podría importar mucho si funciona a escala.
Databricks quería recaudar $1 mil millones. Los inversores ofrecieron $15 mil millones. Se llevó $5 mil millones.
La empresa de datos de IA cerró una ronda de financiamiento de $5 mil millones con una valoración de $190 mil millones después de que un informe de noticias filtrado desencadenara una avalancha de llamadas de inversores que nunca solicitó.
Una startup que verifica código escrito por IA saltó de una valoración de $60 millones a $550 millones en menos de un año
Blacksmith recaudó $45 millones para resolver un problema que las herramientas de codificación por IA crearon silenciosamente: ¿quién verifica el código que escriben las máquinas?
Accel Recauda $550 Millones para India en Semanas, Apostando a que la IA Impulsará la Próxima Ola de Startups del País
La firma de capital de riesgo cerró su nuevo fondo India mientras más de la mitad de su fondo anterior permanecía sin invertir, señalando una confianza inusualmente fuerte de los inversores en aplicaciones de IA y software empresarial indio.