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Less than two months after its last funding round, Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with investors to raise an additional $10 billion. Sources told the Wall Street Journal today that Coatue Management and GIC are set to lead the round. It …
Articul8 reels in $35M+ for its AI application platform
Articul8 AI Inc., a startup that helps companies build artificial intelligence applications, has closed the first tranche of a $70 million funding round. TechCrunch reported today that the investment was worth over $35 million. Adara Ventures led the deal with participation from …
AI evaluation startup LMArena raises $150M at $1.7B valuation
LMArena, a startup that helps artificial intelligence developers benchmark their models’ output quality, has raised $150 million in early-stage funding. The company announced the Series A investment today. The round was led by Felicis and UC Investments, the University of California system’s …
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20B funding round backed by Nvidia and Cisco
Large language model developer xAI Corp. today announced that it has raised $20 billion in late-stage funding. The Elon Musk-backed company says that Nvidia Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. participated in the Series E round. They were joined by Valor Equity Partners, …
Data center startup DayOne closes $2B+ funding round
DayOne Data Centers Ltd. has raised a Series C funding round worth more than $2 billion to finance its construction efforts. The Singapore-based company announced the investment on Monday. Coatue led the raise with participation from several other institutional investors including Indonesia’s …
Broadcom debuts new chips for powering Wi-Fi 8 access points
Broadcom Inc. today debuted a trio of chips designed to power wireless access points based on the upcoming Wi-Fi 8 standard. The current version of the networking technology, Wi-Fi 7, was developed mainly with performance in mind. It provides more than quadruple …
Qualcomm debuts new chips for robots and Windows laptops
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today debuted the Dragonwing IQ10, a system-on-chip optimized to power humanoid robots. The company announced the module at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas alongside several new processors for connected devices and laptops. According to Qualcomm, the Dragonwing …
Nvidia debuts Rubin chip with 336B transistors and 50 petaflops of AI performance
Nvidia Corp. today announced a new flagship graphics processing unit, Rubin, that provides five times the inference performance of Blackwell. The GPU made its debut at CES alongside five other data center chips. Customers can deploy them together in a rack called …
Nvidia introduces open-source AI models for humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles
Nvidia Corp. has released more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence models designed for autonomous systems such as self-driving cars. The algorithms, which are all available under an open-source license, made their debut today at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas. They’re …
Banking software startup Knight Fintech raises $23.6M round led by Accel
Knight Fintech Pvt Ltd, a Mumbai-based startup that helps banks issue loans, has closed a $23.6 million funding round. The Economic Times reported late Thursday that Accel led the investment. It was joined by IIFL, Rocket Capital, Prime Venture Partners, 3One4 Capital, …