Lin Junyang AI Lab Closes Round at $2B Valuation
Lin Junyang's AI lab closes funding round at $2B valuation. Lin Junyang, lead behind the Qwen line, launches new venture. Open source community expects significant contributions.
AI funding covers the investments, grants, and fundraising rounds that enable startups and labs to build and scale their models. Ex.: Mistral AI raised €600M in 2024 to accelerate its research.
Lin Junyang's AI lab closes funding round at $2B valuation. Lin Junyang, lead behind the Qwen line, launches new venture. Open source community expects significant contributions.
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invest $310 million in Odyssey ML, a 3D world model startup valued at $1.45 billion. IQT fund and Google's Jeff Dean join the round. World models are emerging as the next major AI bet after language models.
DeepSeek closes a funding round exceeding $7 billion, among the largest in the AI sector. Record amount for the Chinese startup specializing in language models.
Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1 billion and partners with Google Cloud to pursue superintelligence ambitions. The partnership provides cloud infrastructure for large-scale model training.
DeepSeek raises 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first external funding round, reaching a $50 billion valuation.
Hydra Host raises $100 million led by Kindred Ventures to develop AI-dedicated data centers and accelerate expansion.
Mistral in talks to raise 3 billion euros, targeting a valuation of 20 billion euros.
An AI open-source tool repository was archived overnight after the project raised $7.3M in seed funding. Exact reasons for the archival remain unclear from available details.
Prometheus, physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj in late 2025, raises $12B Series B at $41B valuation. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs participate in the round.
Mistral AI is negotiating a funding round of approximately 3 billion euros at a valuation of around 20 billion euros to fund its European AI expansion.
Prometheus, Jeff Bezos's startup, raises $12 billion with a $41 billion valuation to develop its engineering AI.
Supermicro raises up to $7 billion to finance AI server production. Despite this major funding round, the stock price declines on the market.
Prometheus, Jeff Bezos' AI startup, raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation. Launched last November with $6.2 billion seed funding, the company has no public product yet. Bezos deems sharing details premature.
French startup Mendo raises €12 million to accelerate AI adoption in European enterprises. The funding aims to deploy its solutions across European companies.
Minerva raises $20 million and partners with OpenAI for its AI marketing platform. The startup integrates OpenAI's models into tools designed for marketing teams.
Google DeepMind announces a $10M funding call for multi-agent AI safety research.
Databricks approaches a valuation of $165 billion in an upcoming funding round.
Moonshot AI is in discussions to raise up to $2 billion, which would value the company at $30 billion. This funding round would strengthen the Chinese startup's position in the large language model race.
Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind the Kimi chatbot, targets a $30 billion valuation in a new funding round, more than six times its late-2025 worth.
Lassie raises $35 million from Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate development of AI agents for automating SME operations.
Benchmark raises $2 billion for its first growth fund, marking a new chapter for the venture capital firm.
DeepSeek is reportedly preparing a $7 billion funding round with Tencent and CATL, which would be one of the largest recent AI funding rounds in China.
AI music startup Suno raises $400 million, doubling valuation to $5.4 billion while facing lawsuits from major record labels.
Alphabet plans to raise up to $80 billion to strengthen its AI infrastructure amid global competition.
Mecka AI raises $60 million to accelerate AI robot development. The funding supports training of AI-based robotic models.
Choose France 2026 displays €93 billion in announced investments, of which €45 billion are firm contractual commitments. SoftBank accounts for half the volume.
Anthropic has confidentially filed a draft IPO registration with the SEC. The Claude maker is valued at nearly $1 trillion after its latest funding round. OpenAI is also preparing for an IPO.
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 form to the SEC, marking the first step toward a public offering. No financial details or timeline disclosed.
SoftBank commits €45 billion in France for AI data center development in an initial phase, with €75 billion potential subject to expansion. The project targets up to 5 GW capacity.
Anthropic raises $65 billion in Series H funding, reaching a $965 billion valuation. No European public funds participated in the funding round.
H1 raises $40 million from CVS despite SaaS investment slowdown. The funding comes amid broader contraction in enterprise software investment.
Nvidia invests $300M in Decart, a startup focused on world models and software optimization. Nvidia's participation aims to control an optimization layer capable of running on its chips and those of competitors.
Corgi raises $106 million just three weeks after its first Series B, reaching a $2.6 billion valuation.
Anthropic raises $65 billion in Series H funding, reaching a $965 billion valuation. One of the largest funding rounds in the AI sector.
Anthropic raises $965B Series H and launches Opus 4.8 with Dynamic Workflows and ultracode. Major funding expansion and new model capabilities.
Anthropic reports annualized run-rate revenue of $47 billion as of May 2026, up from $9 billion end-2025. Growth accelerates: $14 billion in February, $30 billion in April. Metric disclosed during $65 billion Series H funding round.
Anthropic raises $65 billion in Series H at a $965 billion valuation. Annualized revenue reaches $47 billion according to CFO Krishna Rao. The company will invest in safety research, computing capacity, and expanding its Claude product lineup.
Anthropic raises $65 billion in Series H funding at $965 billion post-money valuation. This major funding round reflects continued investor confidence in the company's AI development trajectory.
Cognition raises $1B in Series D at $26B valuation. The company behind Devin, an AI coding agent, positions code as an uncapped TAM market.
Cognition, maker of AI coding agent Devin, raises over $1 billion at a valuation exceeding $26 billion. The funding round reflects massive investor interest in AI coding agents, despite ongoing debate about their real-world value.