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Artificial intelligence hardware startup Starcloud Inc. today announced that it has raised $250 million in funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. Investment firm Manhattan West led the deal. It was joined by more than a dozen other backers, including Nvidia Corp. and Cisco …
DeepSeek debuts multimodal language model competitive with Opus 4.8
DeepSeek today debuted a new addition to its flagship V4 series of large language models. On launch, V4 Flash Vision Exp is only available via the Chinese startup’s paid developer platform. The company may release a free version later on given that …
Broadcom reportedly seeking up to $100B in debt financing for AI chip deal
Broadcom Inc. is reportedly seeking to borrow up to $100 billion as part of a new artificial intelligence chip financing deal. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the debt is intended to support the growth efforts of Anthropic PBC and unnamed …
Waymo details the custom chip in its autonomous driving system
Waymo LLC today shared new details about the computing module that powers its autonomous taxis. The Alphabet Inc. unit operates about 4,000 vehicles in 11 U.S. cities. Most are based on the Jaguar I-Pace crossover, while the rest are Zeeker minivans and …
AI workload optimization startup Callosum raises $100M
London-based artificial intelligence startup Callosum Ltd. today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding. Atomico led the seed investment with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the U.K. Sovereign AI Fund. The deal follows a $10.25 million raise in February. Callosum …
Marvell shares jump 9.8% on Google chip design deal
Marvell Technology Inc. today disclosed that it has won a contract to design artificial intelligence chips for Google LLC. The deal also extends to other areas. Notably, Marvell has issued a warrant that will enable Google to purchase about 59 million units …
Application reliability startup Temporal reportedly in talks for $500M funding round
Temporal Technologies Inc., a fast-growing developer tooling provider, is reportedly in talks to raise about $500 million from investors. Bloomberg on Tuesday cited sources as saying that the round could value the company at more than $12 billion. That’s more than double …
Amazon to significantly expand the availability of its Prime Air drone delivery service
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to expand the availability of its Prime Air drone delivery service significantly. The company currently offers aerial deliveries in cities across Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska and Texas. It will bring Prime Air to metropolitan areas …
Cybersecurity concerns prompt OpenAI to pause some AI training runs
OpenAI Group PBC recently paused some of its artificial intelligence training workloads over concerns that they could cause cybersecurity issues. The ChatGPT developer disclosed the move in a blog post published today. According to the company, the pause is part of a …
Velaura AI raises $110M to develop power-efficient AI chips
Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, today announced that it has raised $110 million in funding. Seligman Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mayfield and more than a half-dozen others. Velaura …