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1 week ago2025 was the year AI got a vibe check | TechCrunch
Money was no object for the AI industry in early 2025. A vibe check crept in the second half of the year. OpenAI raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machine Labs raised individual $2 billion seed rounds before shipping a single product. Even first-time founders were raising at a scale that once belonged only to Big Tech.
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2 weeks agoMeta's Yann LeCun Targets 3bn Valuation for New AI Start-Up
Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun, is in early discussions to raise €500mn for a new artificial intelligence start-up, a move that would value the yet-to-launch company at roughly €3bn, according to people familiar with the matter. The venture, called Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), is expected to be formally announced in January. LeCun, a Turing Award winner and one of the pioneers of modern AI, will serve as executive chair.
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3 weeks agoLive Nasdaq Composite: Markets Attempt Gains but Lack Conviction
The markets are attempting gains this morning with all three of the major stock market averages seeing green out of the gate. Investors and traders have been battling some weak economic data, not least a skyrocketing unemployment rate, that has dampened sentiment in the final stretch of 2025. If they can hold onto today's gains, not only would it break the Nasdaq Composite's multi-day losing streak but momentum could shift in time for the year-end performance tally, which currently stands up 19.3% year-to-date.
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3 weeks agoSmall Models, Big Impact: NobodyWho Raises 2M to Challenge Big Tech with Local AI
Small Nordic startup NobodyWho promotes on-device Small Language Models as cost-efficient, secure, and sustainable alternative to large cloud LLMs, raising €2M pre-seed.
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2 months agoMercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C | TechCrunch
Mercor raised $350 million at a $10 billion valuation to scale its domain-expert model-training marketplace, expand reinforcement-learning infrastructure, and pursue an AI recruiting marketplace.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 months agoOpenAI's new agreement with Microsoft gives the AI startup more freedom on its quest to raise billions
OpenAI reorganized so its nonprofit controls a public benefit corporation, positioning the company to attract large investments and giving Microsoft a 27% stake.
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fromScalac - Software Development Company - Akka, Kafka, Spark, ZIO
3 months agoLast month in AI - September 2025
September featured record AI funding, major frontier model releases (trillion-parameter and multimodal), accelerating open-source parity, and infrastructure shifts toward gigawatt-scale data centers.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months agoAnthropic completes new funding round at $183 billion value
Anthropic has closed a deal to raise $13 billion from investors in a new funding round that nearly triples its valuation to $183 billion, including dollars raised a larger-than-expected haul that makes the artificial intelligence company one of the most valuable startups in the world. The financing, one of the largest to date for an AI company, was led by investment firm Iconiq Capital alongside co-leads Fidelity Management and Research Co. and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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