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World Labs closes $1B investment backed by Nvidia, AMD and Autodesk
Artificial intelligence model developer World Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $1 billion in funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Autodesk Inc. and several others. The engineering software maker invested $200 million. Autodesk’s cash infusion will lay groundwork for an AI research collaboration ...
New AI startup Ineffable Intelligence reportedly raising $1B funding round
Ineffable Intelligence Ltd., a startup led by former Google DeepMind principal research scientist David Silver, is reportedly raising $1 billion in funding. The Financial Times on Tuesday cited sources as saying that Sequoia Capital is leading the round. DeepMind parent Alphabet Inc., Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. could reportedly chip in as well. It’s believed ...
Network observability startup Selector reels in $32M
Network observability provider Selector Software Inc. today announced that it has raised a $32 million funding round at a $375 million valuation. AVP led the investment. It was joined by Ansa Capital, Two Bear Capital, Sinewave Ventures, Singtel Innov8 and several others. The round comes about 14 months after Selector raised $33 million from a ...
Render raises $100M more for its AI-optimized cloud platform
Cloud startup Render Services Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million from investors at a $1.5 billion valuation. The capital was provided as an extension to a Series C round the company closed last January. Both deals were led by Georgian. Render’s latest raise also included contributions from Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, General ...
AI agent reliability startup Temporal raises $300M in funding
Temporal Technologies Inc., a startup with a cloud platform that makes artificial intelligence agents more reliable, has closed a $300 million funding round. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series D investment. Temporal stated in its announcement of the raise today that Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and several returning backers chipped in as well. The company ...
Palo Alto Networks acquires file security startup Koi for reported $400M
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is acquiring Koi Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises prevent their employees from downloading risky files. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. According to Calcalist, the transaction is worth $400 million. Tel Aviv-based Koi previously raised $48 million from Battery Ventures and other investors. The ...
Mistral AI acquires AI infrastructure startup Koyeb
Mistral AI SAS today announced that it has acquired Koyeb SAS, a startup with a cloud platform built to run artificial intelligence workloads. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. Paris-based Mistral develops an eponymous series of open-source large language models. It also has several paid offerings, including a cloud platform called Mistral Compute. The ...
India’s Neysa raises $1.2B to expand its AI-optimized cloud platform
Cloud startup Neysa Networks Pvt. Ltd. today announced that it will raise up to $1.2 billion in financing to build data center infrastructure. A consortium led by Blackstone will provide up to half the sum in the form of equity funding. According to TechCrunch, the deal is set to buy the investor group a majority ...
Alibaba releases multimodal Qwen3.5 mixture of experts model
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today released an artificial intelligence model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus at some tasks. The new algorithm, Qwen3.5, is available on Hugging Face under an open-source license. By default, Qwen3.5 is capable of processing prompts with up to 262,144 tokens. Developers can nearly quadruple that number ...
Grafana Labs reportedly raising funding at $9B valuation
Grafana Labs Inc., a startup focused on commercializing the open-source Grafana observability platform, is reportedly in talks to raise new capital. The Information today cited sources as saying Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund is expected to lead the round. It’s unclear how much funding Grafana Labs’ hopes to raise. However, the insiders did reveal that ...