Recent AI startup news indexed by AI Market Watch.
Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问) released a free AI college application assistant agent specifically built for China's 12.9 million Gaokao examinees on June 10, 2026. The agent, which Qwen descri...
GreatAsic raises $6.9M pre-Series A from Vertex Ventures, Ehsan Kapital, and Gobi Partners. GreatAsic Technology Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia-based fabless custom chip design company, has raised US$6.9 million...
## Barcelona-based THEKER raises €73M Series A for AI-native industrial robotics Barcelona-based THEKER, an AI robotics startup building generalist robots for industrial production, has raised a €73 m...
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails that silently throttled researchers and rivals using the model for distillation. The company admitted it deployed a covert safeguard in Claud...
Genspark raises $100M Series B extension at $2.6B valuation Agentic workplace startup Genspark has closed a $100 million Series B extension funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to $2.6 bil...
Lovable signs multi-year Google Cloud deal, expanding AI coding infrastructure 5x. Lovable, the Stockholm-based AI app builder and vibe coding platform, has signed a multi-year expanded deal with Goog...
Botanu emerges from stealth with platform to manage AI agent ROI, revealing enterprises spend $186M annually on AI with little proof of return. Botanu, a New York- and San Francisco-based startup foun...
Xingyuanzhi Robot raises ¥1 billion in 10 months for embodied AI brain technology Xingyuanzhi Robot, a Chinese startup focused on embodied AI "brain" technology, has raised ¥1 billion (approximately $...
Coram raises $35M Series B to retrofit security cameras with AI detection Coram AI, a Bay Area startup founded in 2022 by former Lyft and Zoox autonomy leaders, has raised $35 million in Series B fund...
Happiest Minds Technologies announced the launch of Rel(AI)Build, a proprietary agentic AI development platform, alongside the Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a structured methodology integratin...
Jedify raises $24M Series A to give enterprise AI agents business context. New York-based Jedify has closed a $24 million Series A round led by Norwest, with strategic participation from Snowflake Ven...
xAI sued by former engineer alleging retaliation for Grok safety concerns A former xAI engineer, Devin Kim, has filed a lawsuit against xAI and its parent company SpaceX, claiming he was fired in Sept...
