AI News Archive
The full archive of AI startup and funding news tracked by AI Market Watch. Page 1 of 49.
- NeuralKart raises INR 2.35 Cr seed round for AI insurance and industrial safety platformsJul 24, 2026
- Meetsocial launches Marvy 2.0 agent OS for cross-border marketing enterprisesJul 24, 2026
- Thira raises $21M seed round led by Madrona for enterprise AI agents targeting back-office automationJul 24, 2026
- Fundamental Technologies raises MUFG strategic investment, enters Japan with Large Tabular Model NEXUSJul 24, 2026
- Sierra acquires Takeoff, launches Horizon platform for long-horizon enterprise agentsJul 24, 2026
- Taketaka raises $13M follow-on for global AI logistics platform ARGO, total funding tops $33MJul 24, 2026
- Yuanchuanwei (元川微) raises hundreds of millions yuan Pre-A for LPU inference chips, led by ex-Huawei veteranJul 24, 2026
- Genesis AI seeks $500M to build universal robot brain, signaling VC shift to software over hardwareJul 24, 2026
- CARPL.ai Raises $10M Series A Led by IFC to Expand AI Healthcare PlatformJul 24, 2026
- Telli Raises $15M Seed to Build Voice AI Agents for Customer OperationsJul 24, 2026
- Corgi raises again at $4B valuation, third round in eight weeks as AI insurance startup seeks cashJul 24, 2026
- Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter for ~$10B, consolidating AI infrastructure access layerJul 24, 2026
- Ropedia raises $30M pre-Series A to build data infrastructure layer for physical AI and robotics trainingJul 23, 2026
- Humanoid Becomes Europe's First Humanoid Robotics Unicorn with $152M Series AJul 23, 2026
- Pendo launches Agent Toolkit to bridge product behavior data with AI agent autonomyJul 23, 2026
- Sierra Acquires Takeoff to Expand AI Agent CapabilitiesJul 23, 2026
- Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation led by Sequoia for AI inference chipsJul 23, 2026
- RevComm raises 3.35 billion yen in Series B first close for voice analysis AI 'MiiTel'Jul 23, 2026
- K25.ai doubles valuation to $200M in Amber-backed Series AJul 23, 2026
- Prosper Medical raises $16M seed for AI concierge care platformJul 23, 2026
- ServiceNow invests $40M in Indian AI banking startup BusinessNext at $700M valuationJul 23, 2026
- ESTsecurity unveils AI agent-driven security strategy with K-AI product roadmap for second-half 2026Jul 23, 2026
- Acrab launches GELIX 1 edge AI chip and personal edge AI systemJul 23, 2026
- Asuene raises ¥13.5B Series D led by BlackRock-Temasek JV, marks BlackRock's first Japan startup investmentJul 23, 2026
- OpenAI model escapes sandbox, hacks Hugging Face; Zhipu AI GLM 5.2 used in forensicsJul 23, 2026
- Upstage launches Solar Open 2, a 250B-parameter MoE foundation model for AI agents on 2 GPUsJul 23, 2026
- Mistral in talks with Samsung at €20B valuation amid competitive disruption from Moonshoot's Kimi K3Jul 23, 2026
- Glow emerges from stealth with $180M Series A, $1.2B valuation for AI endpoint securityJul 22, 2026
- Klaimee raises $5.5M seed to insure autonomous AI agents with pre-bind testingJul 22, 2026
- AMD invests up to $5B in Anthropic, secures tens of billions in AI chip supply dealJul 22, 2026
- OpenAI launches Presence platform for enterprise realtime voice agents and chatbotsJul 22, 2026
- NetApp acquires DataPelago to bring GPU-accelerated processing to storage layerJul 22, 2026
- OpenRouter seeks acquisition as China-US token distribution strategies divergeJul 22, 2026
- RevComm closes ¥3.35B Series B first close, cumulative funding hits ¥8.6BJul 22, 2026
- Sakana AI tops Japan H1 2026 startup funding ranking as AI investment surgesJul 22, 2026
- Sajwo raises $21.4M Series A and credit facility for AI cross-border commerce expansionJul 22, 2026
- 1872 opens autonomous steel factory in Cincinnati, raises $15M seed from SpaceX alumniJul 22, 2026
- Sugon 8000: China's first domestic 100,000-GPU cluster debuts at WAIC, achieves full utilization in first weekJul 21, 2026
- OpenAI models breached Hugging Face infrastructure during cyber benchmark testJul 21, 2026
- PropulsionAI launches Fay enterprise agent for operational workflowsJul 21, 2026
- FuriosaAI nears completion of 800 billion won Series D, valuation at 4 trillion wonJul 21, 2026
- MediWorkAI raises investment from Korea Investment Accelerator for medical AI data and validation platformJul 21, 2026
- Moonshot AI targets up to $50B valuation in final funding round before Hong Kong IPOJul 21, 2026
- CuspAI raises $450M at $2.6B valuation for AI materials discovery, enlists Nvidia, Meta, Samsung in foundry coalitionJul 21, 2026
- Moore Threads links 256 GPUs into single MTT C256 system at WAIC 2026Jul 21, 2026
- Colossal Biosciences seeks funding at $20-30B valuation for AI-driven de-extinction techJul 21, 2026
- Robopoet raises RMB 100M pre-A for embodied intelligence hardware in ShanghaiJul 21, 2026
- CuspAI raises $450M Series B at $2.6B valuation for AI-driven materials discoveryJul 21, 2026
- 30 Sundays raises $6.7M from Bessemer to expand AI-powered travel platformJul 21, 2026
- SkyPilot launches from stealth with $20M seed to become the neutral orchestration layer for AI computeJul 21, 2026
- Meshy raises $400M Series B, enters unicorn club for AI 3D generationJul 21, 2026
- Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved, sidestepping fair-use precedentJul 21, 2026
- Motif Technologies’ Motif-3 LLM ties DeepSeek V4 Pro with AAII score of 44Jul 21, 2026
- Plazza Raises $15M Series A to Solve India's Pharmacy Inventory Gap with AIJul 21, 2026
- Etched's Funding Rounds Signal Shift in AI Investment Toward Custom SiliconJul 21, 2026
- Neo raises $100M seed and Series A for agentic securityJul 21, 2026
- Veriqus Group Raises ₹387 Cr to Build AI-Led Wealth Management Platform in IndiaJul 20, 2026
- CuspAI raises $450M at $2.6B valuation, launches AI Materials Foundry with Nvidia and MetaJul 20, 2026
- Empirical Security raises $25M Series A for AI-driven exposure managementJul 20, 2026
- Hugging Face repels AI-powered cyberattack on production infrastructure using open-weight model GLM 5.2Jul 20, 2026
- Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers for universal inference softwareJul 20, 2026
- Natural raises $30M Series A to build payment rails for autonomous AI agents, challenging StripeJul 20, 2026
- Moonshot AI pauses new Kimi subscriptions after K3 launch overwhelms compute capacityJul 20, 2026
- CuspAI raises $450M to launch AI Materials Coalition with 48 industry partnersJul 20, 2026
- Sensesbit raises €1M to bring AI-powered sensory intelligence to food industryJul 20, 2026
- Vorflux raises $15M seed for AI-native autonomous software engineering platformJul 20, 2026
- Sonata emerges from stealth with $7M seed for AI preventive healthcare platformJul 20, 2026
- Runta Raises $20M Seed for AI Agent Runtime InfrastructureJul 20, 2026
- Red Bear AI raises hundreds of millions RMB in Series A+, valuation nears RMB 3BJul 20, 2026
- Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model approaches US frontier performance, narrowing gapJul 20, 2026
- General Intuition unveils foundation model for embodied AI trained on millions of hours of video game dataJul 20, 2026
- HiDream.ai (智象未来) unveils vivago R1, claims world's first unlimited-length video generation AI agent at WAIC 2026Jul 20, 2026
- Ant, Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu Launch Enterprise AI Agent Platforms at WAIC 2026Jul 20, 2026
- Nums AI raises $3M seed round for tabular foundation model as enterprise data AI heats upJul 20, 2026
- Nums AI raises $2.7M to build tabular foundation model for structured dataJul 20, 2026
- AWS launches $1B Forward Deployed Engineering division to accelerate enterprise AI agent production deploymentJul 19, 2026
- Oracle partners with IMSA Labs to launch Cloud and AI Studio for motorsports technologyJul 19, 2026
- NVIDIA invests $50M in legal AI startup Legora, signals inference-era vertical pushJul 19, 2026
- ModelBest (面壁智能) Raises $7 Billion in H1 2026, Reaches $28B Valuation as China's Largest Edge AI UnicornJul 19, 2026
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Open-Weight Model 'Inkling'Jul 19, 2026
- Anthropic in talks with Meta for up to $10B compute resource lease dealJul 19, 2026
- Hong Kong Cyberport launches 3,000 PFLOPS AI supercomputer, $3.6B fund to boost Chinese AI globalizationJul 19, 2026
- LIG AQUBE and CJ ENM Join Gyeonggi AI Cluster Open Innovation Program for PoC FundingJul 19, 2026
- Netflix invests $587M in Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for post-production toolsJul 19, 2026
- Biren Technology bets on optical 'supernodes' to bypass AI cluster scaling limitsJul 19, 2026
- Black Lake Technologies named SAIL Award finalist, showcases industrial AI agents at WAIC 2026Jul 19, 2026
- OpenEvidence nears $30B valuation as healthcare AI platform proves vertical specialization can outrun general-purpose modelsJul 19, 2026
- Alibaba’s T-Head open-sources SAIL software stack to challenge Nvidia CUDA dominanceJul 19, 2026
- DeepSeek valued at ~$52B, begins external fundraising and IPO preparationsJul 18, 2026
- DeepPrinciple closes nearly $140M Series A, largest AI4M funding round in ChinaJul 18, 2026
- Citadel Securities invests $400M in Crypto.com at $20B valuationJul 18, 2026
- Moonshot AI technology announcement triggers global AI and semiconductor selloff, leverage ETFs crashJul 18, 2026
- Tether releases fine-tuning framework for BitNet b1.58 LLM targeting edge devicesJul 18, 2026
- Walden Robotics raises $300M at $1.1B valuation for robotics AI in energy-climate sectorJul 18, 2026
- Ant Mijian releases HOP 3.0 agent architecture at WAIC 2026Jul 18, 2026
- Alipay launches industry-first AI subscription solution for developers at WAIC 2026Jul 18, 2026
- Cribl acquires CardinalOps to add AI threat detection to data infrastructure platformJul 18, 2026
- Cohere pushes enterprise AI total-cost-of-ownership model as operational costs become key competitive differentiatorJul 18, 2026
- DeepSeek targets $74B valuation in new funding round ahead of potential onshore IPOJul 18, 2026
- STEPX unveils Neo, the 'world's first' native large-model AI smartphone at WAIC 2026Jul 18, 2026