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13 concise briefings covering funding.
TechCrunch AI
24 Aug 2026
General Intuition is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre‑money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six. The startup says it builds a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time as it pushes into robotics (TechCrunch).
TechCrunch AI
05 Aug 2026
Anthropic has reportedly agreed to a $10 billion partnership with AI cloud startup Volta. The deal continues Anthropic’s recent pattern of forming cloud partnerships, according to TechCrunch AI.
TechCrunch AI
29 Jul 2026
Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its AI detection software, TechCrunch reports. The startup released a new AI text detector called Pangram 4 and an AI image detection model in research preview.
Data Center Dynamics
15 Jul 2026
Emerald AI, backed by Nvidia, is reportedly seeking to raise an additional $100 million in funding. The move could value the company at over $1 billion, according to Data Center Dynamics.
Data Center Dynamics
15 Jul 2026
The University of Granada will expand its supercomputing infrastructure with a second AI system financed by a €3.5 million Eunomia project. The funding comes through the European Eunomia programme, according to Data Center Dynamics' report.
TechCrunch AI
14 Jul 2026
PixVerse, a startup building generative video technology, has raised $439 million in new funding. The company says it will use the capital to expand its world model product and broaden its customer reach across regions.
Data Center Dynamics
10 Jul 2026
TeraWulf is seeking $3.5 billion in debt financing, reportedly to fund construction of a data centre for Anthropic. The financing is expected to be led by Morgan Stanley, according to the report.
TechCrunch AI
09 Jul 2026
Ollama, an open-source toolkit that helps developers run AI models locally, has raised $65 million in new funding. The project has amassed significant GitHub traction with roughly 176,000 stars and nearly 17,000 forks, and reports close to 9 million users.
Data Center Dynamics
23 Jun 2026
Nvidia menyertai pusingan pembiayaan $190 juta untuk Upscale, startup cip suis rangkaian AI. Ekstensi Series A‑1 itu meningkatkan penilaian Upscale kepada $2 bilion, menurut Data Center Dynamics.
Data Center Dynamics
19 Jun 2026
Aston Power memperoleh $20 juta untuk menambah skala platform tenaga persendirian bagi pusat data. Pembiayaan diketuai oleh TDK Ventures dan JLL Spark Global Ventures.
VentureBeat AI
22 Jan 2026
Railway, platform awan dari San Francisco, mengumumkan pembiayaan Siri B sebanyak US$100 juta untuk mengembangkan infrastruktur yang direka khusus bagi aplikasi AI. Syarikat itu mendakwa mampu menyediakan deployment dalam kurang satu saat, menurunkan kos berbanding penyedia awan tradisional dan kini mengendalikan berjuta-juta deployment sebulan. Railway juga memilih untuk membina pusat data sendiri sebagai strategi integrasi menegak.
OpenAI News
19 Feb 2026
OpenAI memperuntuk US$7.5 juta kepada The Alignment Project untuk membiayai penyelidikan bebas mengenai penjajaran AI. Langkah ini bertujuan mengukuhkan usaha global bagi menangani risiko keselamatan dan sekuriti AGI.