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1 week agoGoogle teams up with Accel to hunt for India's next AI breakouts | TechCrunch
"The thought process is building AI products for billions of Indians, as well as supporting AI products built in India for global markets," Prayank Swaroop, a partner at Accel, told TechCrunch. India is an appealing market with the world's second-largest internet and smartphone base after China and its deep engineering talent. Still, it's also country that lacks frontier model development and hasn't produced many companies pushing the technical frontier of AI, where development remains concentrated in the U.S. and China.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month agoOpenAI restructures into public-benefit firm, Microsoft takes 27% stake
OpenAI restructures into a public-benefit corporation valued at $500bn, lifting capital-raising constraints while keeping Microsoft’s ~27% stake and partnership through 2032.
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1 month 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.
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2 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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