AI News Archive

The full archive of AI startup and funding news tracked by AI Market Watch. Page 11 of 49.

• Gudtrip AI crypto weed vape review: absurd but apparently realMay 31, 2026
• MiniMax prepares for mainland China listing after Hong Kong IPO surgeMay 31, 2026
• Sarvam AI slashes Vision API price 67% after digitizing 35M documents in IndiaMay 31, 2026
• Geordie AI raises $30M Series A to govern autonomous AI agents in the enterpriseMay 31, 2026
• Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen 3.5 tops Hugging Face leaderboard, claiming four of top five spotsMay 31, 2026
• SAP acquires Prior Labs for €1B+ to build enterprise AI lab for structured dataMay 31, 2026
• Xiaomi announces permanent price cuts up to 99% on MiMo-V2.5 API, releases inference optimization reportMay 31, 2026
• SoftBank invests up to €75 billion in French data centers with 5 GW capacityMay 31, 2026
• Phoebe Gates' AI shopping app Phia raises $35.5M with celebrity backingMay 31, 2026
• Hexapro raises Series A for nano-porous AAO chip technologyMay 31, 2026
• Fireworks AI in talks for $15B valuation, riding inference token boom to unicorn statusMay 31, 2026
• Empora AI's two-person team builds 500k-line system in 2.5 months, signaling new startup efficiencyMay 30, 2026
• Dell Technologies crushes Q1 on AI server surge, stock jumps 33%May 30, 2026
• Huawei proposes Tau Scaling Law as chip-level workaround for US export controlsMay 30, 2026
• Samsung SDS and LG CNS compete for enterprise AI transformation marketMay 30, 2026
• Fireworks AI reportedly raising new round at $15B valuation, riding inference token boomMay 30, 2026
• Bajaj Finserv launches Finserv Intelligence with $180M-$240M AI startup investment fundMay 30, 2026
• DROOU launches free AI-powered insurance management app for Indian agentsMay 30, 2026
• Meta plans AI-powered pendant, four smart glasses models to stem Reality Labs lossesMay 30, 2026
• XCENA raises $135M for CXL-based memory chips targeting AI bottleneckMay 30, 2026
• Tencent Hunyuan launches Hy-Memory long-term memory plugin for OpenClaw AI agentsMay 30, 2026
• ByteDance developing custom AI CPUs to reduce reliance on US chipmakersMay 30, 2026
• Autodesk acquires MaintainX for $3.6B in enterprise AI workflow M&A waveMay 30, 2026
• BYD unveils 4nm automotive AI chip Xuanji A3, claims 2100+ TOPS and dedicated NPU architectureMay 30, 2026
• Upstate raises 560B won (~$420M) ahead of South Korea sovereign AI model selectionMay 30, 2026
• Google releases 9 demo videos of Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 from I/O 2026May 29, 2026
• Microsoft launches Copilot Health preview, integrating wearables and medical records with AI insightsMay 29, 2026
• Shift launches free NYC home cleaning service to collect first-person video data for embodied AI trainingMay 29, 2026
• Snowflake acquires Natoma to govern AI agent connections across enterprise systemsMay 29, 2026
• Xcena raises $135M Series B for in-memory AI chip targeting inference bottlenecksMay 29, 2026
• Anthropic pursues $36 billion debt financing to secure Google TPUsMay 29, 2026
• Tencent launches WorkBuddy productivity AI agent for global usersMay 29, 2026
• Ziyouliangji launches AI music platform Hitto to democratize song creation in ChinaMay 29, 2026
• Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, becomes most valuable AI company globallyMay 29, 2026
• Okestro launches Concerto AI inference platform to boost GPU utilization efficiencyMay 29, 2026
• Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAIMay 29, 2026
• Anthropic surpasses OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup at $900B, unveils Claude Opus 4.8May 29, 2026
• Mistral AI signs Airbus and BMW for industrial AI push into manufacturingMay 28, 2026
• Microsoft to release new coding AI model at Build conference, expanding foundation model familyMay 28, 2026
• Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation, cementing AI coding's fastest-ARR-ramp patternMay 28, 2026
• Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as most valuable AI startup with $965B valuationMay 28, 2026
• ByteDance develops custom CPUs for AI inference amid chip supply crunchMay 28, 2026
• Alibaba.com launches Accio Work AI agent platform for Korean SMEsMay 28, 2026
• Nonghyup Bank makes direct investment in AgileSoda to accelerate agentic AI bankingMay 28, 2026
• FuriosaAI and Broadcom co-develop 2nm AI accelerator targeting 2028 samplingMay 28, 2026
• FuriosaAI partners with Broadcom to build 2nm AI inference chip for agentic workloadsMay 28, 2026
• Axiom Math raises $200M Series A after 5 AI-generated math papers accepted in journalsMay 28, 2026
• AWS opens Alexa for Shopping agent to external retailers as Agentic Shopping solutionMay 28, 2026
• ElevenLabs launches Music v2 with in-track style switchingMay 28, 2026
• Geordie AI raises $30M Series A for agent governance platform, valued at $180MMay 28, 2026
• Snowflake signs $6B AWS Graviton chip deal, stock jumps 35% on AI product adoptionMay 28, 2026
• MiniMax teases M3 model with sparse attention, claiming 15.6x speed boost in long-context responsesMay 28, 2026
• Robinhood launches agentic trading system and credit card, signaling finance AI shiftMay 28, 2026
• Triomics raises $22M Series B for oncology-specific AI platformMay 28, 2026
• Fujitsu signs strategic partnership with Anthropic to deploy Claude across entire 100,000-employee workforceMay 28, 2026
• Robinhood lets users link AI agents like Claude and Cursor to trading accountsMay 27, 2026
• Rebellions partners with KB Financial Group to build on-premise AI inference infrastructure using domestic NPUsMay 27, 2026
• Pace raises $46M Series B for AI agents automating insurance back-office workflowsMay 27, 2026
• Airis Labs exits stealth with $31M Series B for AI-powered law enforcement intelligenceMay 27, 2026
• Axis Systems SWGI with Intel confidential compute hardware-locks AI workloadsMay 27, 2026
• Motif Technologies raises $17M Series B for proprietary Korean AI foundation modelsMay 27, 2026
• Ubase acquires voice AI startup ReturnZero to accelerate AI BPO transformationMay 27, 2026
• Human Archive raises $8.2M for training data infrastructure for physical AIMay 27, 2026
• Tensormesh raises $20M seed extension for KV-caching inference platformMay 27, 2026
• Visium closes first institutional funding to scale AI services for regulated industriesMay 27, 2026
• RevEng.AI raises $15M Series A for binary-level verification of AI-generated codeMay 27, 2026
• allO Raises €12M Series A for AI-Powered Restaurant Operating SystemMay 27, 2026
• Unitree fast-tracks Shanghai IPO targeting $6.2B valuation as embodied AI boom hits Chinese marketsMay 27, 2026
• Human Archive raises $8.2M to turn India’s gig workers into robot trainers for physical AIMay 27, 2026
• OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as new chief marketing officerMay 26, 2026
• altshare expands to US market as Q1 2026 data shows tighter capital selectivity for startupsMay 26, 2026
• Human Archive raises $8.2M to use India's gig workers for robotic training dataMay 26, 2026
• DeepSeek slashes flagship model price by 75% permanently, intensifying AI price warMay 26, 2026
• Stord raises $250M Series F at $3B valuation to deploy Physical AI across fulfillment networkMay 26, 2026
• OpenRouter raises $113M Series B at $1.3B valuation, highlighting model-gateway momentumMay 26, 2026
• China restricts overseas travel for top AI talent at Alibaba, DeepSeek, escalating tech retention effortsMay 26, 2026
• Alibaba Cloud Launches Qwen 3.7-Max Agentic AI Model in SingaporeMay 26, 2026
• 7AI launches PLAID ELITE agentic security operations serviceMay 26, 2026
• Flexprice Raises $1.5M Seed to Build Billing Infrastructure for AI CompaniesMay 26, 2026
• Imperagen appoints Guy Levy-Yurista as CEO after £5M seed round for AI enzyme engineeringMay 26, 2026
• Palantir approached by Japanese government for military AI system deploymentMay 26, 2026
• Quanscient raises €10M Series A for cloud-native multiphysics simulation platformMay 26, 2026
• IBM launches agent governance suite for multi-agent enterprise deploymentsMay 26, 2026
• Hitachi and Anthropic form strategic partnership targeting 100-trillion-yen physical AI marketMay 26, 2026
• Flexprice raises $1.5M seed to build open-source billing for AI-native companiesMay 26, 2026
• AI Data Partners appoints former METI official Kishi Hiroyuki as auditor for Japan AI data center JVMay 25, 2026
• AWL to showcase NVIDIA Jetson Thor-based multi-camera tracking at COMPUTEX 2026May 25, 2026
• Zoom realizes $1B profit from early Anthropic investmentMay 25, 2026
• freee launches AI-powered document search for legal compliance guideMay 25, 2026
• Hark raises $700M+ Series A for AI-dedicated device, valued at $6BMay 25, 2026
• Nexstain CEO Yang Byeong-seok builds local AI assistant 'Naia' after three startup attemptsMay 25, 2026
• Stilta raises $10.5M seed for AI agents that analyze patent litigation prior artMay 25, 2026
• abCoffee raises ₹61 Cr Pre-Series B for offline expansionMay 25, 2026
• SaaS-Bench reveals Claude Opus 4.7 achieves only 3.8% pass rate, exposing fundamental limits of computer-use agentsMay 25, 2026
• Ant Lingbo Technology's LingBot-VA accepted at RSS 2026, enabling real-time causal world modeling for robot controlMay 25, 2026
• Amdocs acquires Israeli AI agent startup Yess to accelerate telco agentic OSMay 25, 2026
• Lexroom raises $50M Series B to build data-first legal AI platform for European law firmsMay 25, 2026
• Pronto faces backlash over physical AI pilot recording customer homes without consentMay 25, 2026
• Primer raises $100M Series C to build AI payment operating layer, expand US footprintMay 25, 2026
• Anthropic raises over $30B at $900B valuation, nearing OpenAIMay 25, 2026