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Cognition Raises $2B at $48B Valuation as AI Coding Market Stays Competitive

Cognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, roughly doubling its $26 billion valuation from four months earlie...

[Autonomous Agents] [Compute Constraints] [AI coding assistants] [venture funding] [Cognition Devin]
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Mistral Lands €3B Samsung-Led Round at €21B Valuation to Build European Sovereign AI

Mistral AI raised €3 billion (~$3.58B) at a post-money valuation above €21 billion in a Series D led by Samsung Electronics, with EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity as co-leads and participation from a16z, Nvidia,...

[Mistral AI] [Compute Scaling] [sovereign ai] [samsung] [Europe] [venture funding]
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AfterQuery Hits $3.2B Valuation Training AI Agents on Expert Professional Workflows

AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round valuing it at $3.2 billion, roughly a 10x jump from its $300 million Series A five months earlier, making it Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn according...

[AI Agents] [Y Combinator] [Training Data] [venture funding] [expert data labeling]
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General Intuition Nears $6B Valuation Round to Push Spatial Foundation Model Into Robotics

General Intuition, a startup building a foundation model that trains generalized agents to navigate space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, S...

[Robotics] [Foundation Models] [Physical AI] [world models] [venture funding]
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Parallel Web Systems Raises $100M Series B at $2B Valuation for AI Agent Infrastructure

Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, raised $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia, just five months after its Series A. The startup provides web search and research...

[AI Agents] [Infrastructure] [venture funding] [web search APIs] [Parag Agrawal]
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Former DeepMind Researcher Launches $5.1B Reinforcement Learning Startup to Build Self-Learning AI

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation to develop a "superlearner" AI that learns without human data using reinforcement learning....

[DeepMind] [Reinforcement Learning] [venture funding] [self-learning AI] [alphazero]
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Cognichip Raises $60M to Use AI for Accelerating Semiconductor Chip Design

Cognichip has raised $60 million to develop deep learning models that assist engineers in designing computer chips, aiming to reduce development costs by over 75% and cut timelines by more than half. The company uses pro...

[AI Infrastructure] [Semiconductor] [venture funding] [chip design] [deep learning]
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Yann LeCun's AMI Labs Secures $1.03B to Develop World Models as Alternative to LLMs

AMI Labs, cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to develop world models based on Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). Unlike traditional large langua...

[world models] [venture funding] [yann lecun] [JEPA] [fundamental AI research]
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