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Supply chain AI startup Loop secures $95M investment
Loop Payments Inc. today announced that it has raised $95 million in funding to upgrade its supply chain optimization platform. Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund led the Series C round. They were joined by several other institutional backers, including J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners. The invoices that change hands when a ...
AI chip developer Cerebras Systems files to go public amid rapid revenue growth
Cerebras Systems Inc., the developer of the wafer-size WSE-3 artificial intelligence chip, today filed to go public. The move comes about 18 months after the company’s first attempt to list its shares. It filed for an initial public offering in September 2024, but withdrew the paperwork late last year. Cerebras explained at the time that ...
Anthropic launches Claude Design to speed up graphic design projects
The latest addition to Anthropic PBC’s product portfolio is Claude Design, a tool that enables users to generate visual assets with prompts. The company launched the offering into public preview today. It’s available to Claude users with Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriptions. The first component of the Claude Design interface is a “Let’s prototype” ...
Resolve AI raises $40M at $1.5B valuation to optimize production environments
Resolve AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises make their infrastructure more reliable, has raised $40 million in funding. DST Global and Salesforce Ventures led the investment. It comes as an extension to a $125 million Series A round that Resolve AI announced in early February. The company said today that it’s now valued at ...
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with coding, visual reasoning improvements
Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at coding tasks. Opus 4.7 scored 64.3% on the SWE-Bench Pro programming benchmark, nearly 10% higher than Opus 4.6. The new model also ...
Data center, consumer device chips boost TSMC’s revenue
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today posted first-quarter revenue and profit numbers that topped the consensus estimate. The company’s data center and consumer device chip businesses played a major role in the earnings beat. TSMC closed the first three months of the year with sales of 1.134 trillion new Taiwan dollars, or about $35 billion, a ...
Developer tooling startup Expo nabs $45M investment
Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding. Developers often implement web application interfaces using an open-source library called React. It organizes interface code into easily manageable modules and speeds up webpage loading times. In 2015, Meta Platforms Inc. open-sourced an ...
Hilbert nabs $28M to ease analytics projects for consumer-focused companies
Hilbert AI Co., a provider of analytics software for business-to-consumer brands, today announced that it has closed a $28 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Companies gather data about shoppers’ buying preferences to find ways of optimizing their sales and marketing efforts. The more customers a company has, the more information it can collect. ...
Parasail raises $32M for its pay-per-token inference cloud
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced that it has raised $32 million in early-stage funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures jointly led the Series A round. They were joined by several other funds including Samsung Electronics Co.’s startup investment arm. Renting graphics processing units from a cloud provider often requires companies to sign ...
Artemis reels in $70M to make breach remediation more efficient with AI
Six-month-old cybersecurity startup Artemis Global Technologies Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $70 million in funding. The capital arrived in two tranches. Felicis led the largest of the two transactions, a Series A round, with participation from First Round Capital and Brightmind, the firms that backed Artemis’ seed raise. The company’s investor roster also ...