Startups
OpenAI Nears a $30 Billion Raise at a $1.25 Trillion Valuation, Reports Say
OpenAI is reportedly close to a $30 billion round at a $1.25 trillion valuation — down from the $1.4 trillion pitched earlier…
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Flapping Airplanes Raises $1 Billion at a $6 Billion Valuation to Train AI With Less Data
Flapping Airplanes raised $1B at a reported $6B valuation to train AI with less data and squeeze far more work out of…
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A Robot Hand That Can Feel Helped Eka Robotics Reach a $1.45 Billion Valuation
Eka Robotics closed a $150M Series A at a $1.45B valuation for a force-sensing gripper and model that pick 1,500 objects an…
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Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at a $6.2 Billion Valuation to Scale Open-Weight AI Chips
Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation — more than double its late-2024 mark — to scale chips for open-weight…
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Oxide Raises $445 Million to Build More of the Cloud Computers It Cannot Make Fast Enough
Oxide raised a $445 million Series D led by Eclipse — working capital for a profitable hardware company whose order backlog outruns…