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Identity verification startup ID.me raises $340M at $2B valuation
ID.me LLC has raised $340 million in equity and debt financing to speed up its growth efforts. The McLean, Virginia-based identity verification provider announced the deal on Wednesday. The equity component of the transaction was led by Ribbit Capital with participation from Ares Credit, Moonshots Capital and Positive Sum. ID.me is now worth $2 billion, ...
Cybersecurity startup Sola Security closes $35M round backed by Microsoft
Six months after its seed funding round, cybersecurity startup Sola Security Ltd. today announced that it has received an additional $35 million from investors. Returning backer S32 led the raise. It was joined by Microsoft Corp.’s M12 startup fund, Sequoia Capital Chair Michael Moritz, New Era Capital Partners, S Capital and Glilot Capital Partners. The ...
Atlassian acquires AI browser developer The Browser Company for $610M
Atlassian Corp. is buying The Browser Company Inc., a startup that develops browsers with embedded artificial intelligence features. The companies announced the deal today. It values The Browser Company at $610 million, or about $60 million than the valuation it reportedly received last year following a $50 million funding round. Atlassian expects to close the ...
AI agent startup Sierra raises $350M in funding at $10B valuation
Updated with confirmation: Sierra Technologies Inc., an artificial intelligence startup with high-profile founders, is raising capital at a $10 billion valuation, the company confirmed Thursday. Sierra said it’s raising $350 million in the round. Greenoaks Capital is expected to lead the investment. The venture capital firm led a $175 million round for Sierra last year at ...
Nvidia backs $85M round for AI search startup Exa
Exa Labs Inc., a startup with a search engine that artificial intelligence models can use to browse the web, has raised $85 million in funding. Benchmark led the Series B round. The venture capital firm was joined by Nvidia Corp., Y Combinator and Lightspeed. Exa disclosed in its announcement of the round today that it’s ...
You.com raises $100M to help developers build AI applications
Artificial intelligence startup SuSea Inc., which does business as You.com, today announced that it has raised $150 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. Cox Enterprises led the Series C round. It was joined by several returning backers including Georgian, Norwest and Salesforce Ventures. You.com co-founders Bryan McCann (left) and Richard Socher (right) held ...
US limits TSMC’s ability to send chipmaking equipment to its fabs in China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has lost a license that allowed it to export American chipmaking equipment to its fabs in China. TSMC announced the development today. In 2022, the Biden administration rolled out regulations that limited exports of American chipmaking equipment to China. Making such shipments required companies to obtain a license under the so-called ...
Anthropic triples valuation to $183B in new $13B funding round
Anthropic PBC today announced that it has raised $13 billion in funding to support its artificial intelligence research and commercialization efforts. ICONIQ, Fidelity Management and Lightspeed led the Series F round. They were joined by more than a dozen other institutional backers. Anthropic is now worth $183 billion post-money, or about triple the valuation it ...
OpenAI previews new safety features for ChatGPT
OpenAI today announced plans to equip ChatGPT with new safety features that will enable it to respond in a more helpful manner if a user experiences mental or emotional distress. The first upcoming update will focus on the router component of GPT-5, the artificial intelligence system that powers ChatGPT. The router analyzes each user prompt and ...
Tencent open-sources Hunyuan-MT translation model series
Tencent Holdings Ltd. today open-sourced a new lineup of language models, the Hunyuan-MT series, that is optimized for translation tasks. The Chinese tech firm says that the algorithms significantly outperform Google Translate on a popular artificial intelligence translation benchmark. The Hunyuan-MT series comprises four models. The two flagship models, Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, both feature 7 ...