AI News Archive

The full archive of AI startup and funding news tracked by AI Market Watch. Page 40 of 49.

• Physna has unveiled its Physical AI search engine and opened API access to accelerate model training on 3D data. By normalizing CAD and scans into consistent geometry, the platform delivers a trainingJan 15, 2026
• Zhipu AI has launched GLM-Image, a state-of-the-art model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend Atlas 800T A2 hardware. This breakthrough drove shares up 17% to HK$222.60, nearly doubling its HK$116.20 IPJan 15, 2026
• Mannheim-based osapiens has reached unicorn status following an 85.8 million euro Series C led by Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek. This valuation underscores thJan 15, 2026
• Aikido Security has achieved unicorn status after raising 60 million dollars in a round led by DST Global. Reaching a 1 billion dollar valuation in just three years makes it Europe’s fastest cybersecuJan 15, 2026
• RISA Labs has raised 11.1 million dollars in Series A funding led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Ventures to scale its AI operating system for oncology. Its BOSS Console uses agentic AI to automate thoJan 15, 2026
• Aikido Security has reached a 1 billion USD valuation following a 60 million USD Series B round led by DST Global. 🚀 Serving over 100,000 teams, the platform consolidates legacy tools to reduce securiJan 15, 2026
• Defense Unicorns reached a 1 billion dollar valuation following a 136 million dollar Series B led by Bain Capital. The startup enables secure software updates for air gapped military systems like fighJan 15, 2026
• OpenAI has signed a landmark $10 billion deal with Cerebras to secure 750 megawatts of computing power through 2028, specifically targeting faster inference for reasoning models. This strategic shiftJan 15, 2026
• Upstage is finalizing the acquisition of the portal Daum via a 200 billion won stock swap with Kakao subsidiary AXZ. 🇰🇷 This represents a systemic shift where an AI startup absorbs a legacy internet gJan 15, 2026
• Ultralytics launched YOLO26, a vision model with an end-to-end, NMS-free architecture for edge hardware. This release improves CPU inference speeds by up to 43 percent, removing the post-processing boJan 15, 2026
• Zhipu AI has launched GLM-Image, the first state-of-the-art multimodal model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips. Utilizing the Ascend 910C processor delivering 800 TFLOPS at FP16, the model demonJan 15, 2026
• VoiceRun raised 5.5 million dollars in seed funding led by Flybridge Capital to build a code-native voice agent factory. By replacing brittle no-code tools with developer-first infrastructure, the plaJan 15, 2026
• RISA Labs secured 11.1 million USD in funding co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Ventures to scale its AI operating system for oncology. This investment highlights the rise of vertical AI agents thaJan 15, 2026
• Cast AI has reached a 1 billion dollar valuation via Pacific Alliance Ventures, becoming Lithuania’s 5th unicorn. The new OMNI Compute platform creates a unified control plane for AI inference acrossJan 15, 2026
• Skild AI raised 1.4 billion dollars in a SoftBank-led round, tripling its valuation to over 14 billion dollars. The funding scales Skild Brain, the first omni-bodied model that operates diverse hardwaJan 15, 2026
• Sweep raised 22.5 million dollars in Series B funding led by Insight Partners to scale its agentic AI platform for business systems. 📈 The startup embeds autonomous agents directly into Salesforce andJan 15, 2026
• Skild AI has raised 1.4 billion dollars at a 14 billion dollar valuation, tripling its value in only 7 months. The startup reached 30 million dollars in revenue in late 2025, fueled by its Skild BrainJan 15, 2026
• Skild AI has secured a 1.4 billion dollar Series C round led by SoftBank and Nvidia, tripling its valuation to 14 billion dollars in seven months. This surge reflects a systemic shift toward universalJan 15, 2026
• Zhipu AI has launched GLM-Image, the first state-of-the-art multimodal model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend Atlas 800T A2 chips. Utilizing the MindSpore framework, this milestone proves China can eJan 15, 2026
• Temporal Technologies is in advanced talks to raise capital at a 5 billion dollar valuation, doubling its worth in just three months with Andreessen Horowitz leading the round. This surge highlights tJan 15, 2026
• Hupo AI, Meta’s first early-stage investment in Asia, has raised 14 million USD in Series A funding led by DST Global Partners to scale its enterprise sales coaching platform. The startup has demonstrJan 15, 2026
• HEN Technologies has secured 20 million USD in Series A funding to accelerate the deployment of its Fluid-IQ predictive AI platform. Led by O'Neil Strategic Capital, this investment marks a systemic sJan 15, 2026
• Vista AI secured 29.5 million dollars in Series B funding from a consortium including Cedars-Sinai and Intermountain Health. This capital fuels the expansion of its automated MRI platform from cardiacJan 15, 2026
• Listen Labs has secured 69 million dollars in Series B funding, valuing the AI startup at over 500 million dollars. The platform has conducted 1 million interviews for brands like Microsoft, cutting rJan 15, 2026
• AI security startup depthfirst has secured 40 million dollars in Series A funding led by Accel to scale its agentic defense platform. The company is building General Security Intelligence to autonomouJan 15, 2026
• Novee has raised 51.5 million USD in Seed and Series A funding only eight months after its launch. Founded by Israeli intelligence veterans, the platform uses autonomous AI agents to conduct continuouJan 15, 2026
• Mal secured a 230 million USD seed round led by BlueFive Capital, the largest in MEA history. This AI-native bank targets the 7 trillion USD Islamic finance sector to serve 1.9 billion people globallyJan 15, 2026
• Skild AI raised 1.4 billion dollars in a round led by SoftBank, reaching a 14 billion dollar valuation. 🚀 This capital scales the Skild Brain, a foundation model that controls any robot morphology viaJan 15, 2026
• Liquidnitro Games has secured 19.1 million USD in Series A funding led by Northpoint Capital to scale its AI-driven game production platform. 🕹️ By integrating AI into the core of live services and deJan 14, 2026
• Converge Bio raised 25 million dollars in Series A funding led by Bessemer, bringing its total financing to 30 million dollars. 🚀 The platform has completed 40 programs, achieving 4 to 7 times higherJan 14, 2026
• Harmattan AI has reached a 1.4 billion USD valuation after a 200 million USD Series B led by Dassault Aviation. This capital will scale industrial manufacturing for autonomous ISR and electronic warfaJan 14, 2026
• AiderX secured 6.82 million dollars in Pre-Series A funding to scale AI infrastructure for customer behavior prediction. This 10 billion KRW round highlights a shift toward on-premise AI that prioritiJan 14, 2026
• Meta-backed Hupo raised 10 million dollars in Series A funding led by DST Global Partners to scale its AI sales coaching for the BFSI sector. The platform provides real-time conversational analysis foJan 14, 2026
• The Pentagon will integrate xAI Grok and Google AI into its classified networks by late January 2026 to leverage 20 years of battle-hardened data. Secretary Pete Hegseth is driving this systemic shiftJan 14, 2026
• Flywheel has secured 27.5 million dollars in new equity funding to scale its AI-driven medical imaging platform. This investment targets the data curation bottleneck, where researchers currently spendJan 14, 2026
• Proxima (formerly VantAI) raised $80 million in seed funding led by DCVC and Nvidia to advance AI-driven proximity therapeutics. The startup designs drugs to control protein interactions, specificallyJan 14, 2026
• Onebrief raised 200 million USD in Series D funding at a 2.15 billion USD valuation and acquired Battle Road Digital to integrate AI mission planning with wargaming. This follows a record 7.7 billionJan 14, 2026
• Harmattan AI has raised 200 million dollars in Series B funding led by Dassault Aviation, reaching a 1.4 billion dollar valuation. This capital scales the production of autonomous drones, with 4,000 uJan 14, 2026
• Resolve AI hit a 1 billion dollar valuation in a Series A led by Lightspeed. With 4 million dollars in ARR, the 250x multiple underscores a pivot from SRE tools to fully autonomous agents. The platforJan 14, 2026
• 1X has officially released its physics-grounded World Model to empower the Neo humanoid robot with autonomous self-learning capabilities. By processing internet-scale video and prompts, the 20,000 USDJan 14, 2026
• Alibaba-backed PixVerse has launched a real-time AI video tool that allows users to direct character actions instantly during generation. With a $40 million ARR and 16 million monthly active users, thJan 14, 2026
• Harmattan AI has reached a 1.4 billion dollar valuation after a 200 million dollar Series B led by Dassault Aviation. This capital scales production of ISR and electronic warfare systems, including 3,Jan 14, 2026
• AMI Labs, founded by AI pioneer Yann LeCun, is reportedly raising 700M Euro at a 5B Euro valuation to develop the first world model for business. This approach moves beyond LLMs to create AI that undeJan 14, 2026
• Sandstone has raised 10 million dollars in a seed round led by Sequoia Capital to build an AI system of record for in-house legal teams. Led by former McKinsey consultant Nick Fleisher, the startup byJan 14, 2026
• Quantum software startup Haiqu raised 11 million dollars to launch its hardware-aware operating system, targeting a 100x reduction in computational costs. This reflects a shift toward software orchestJan 14, 2026
• Zepo Intelligence has closed a 15 million dollar seed round to scale its agentic social intelligence platform against the 1,200% surge in AI-driven social engineering attacks. With 5x year-over-year rJan 14, 2026
• Flip has secured 20 million USD in Series A funding to scale its vertical voice AI, bringing total capital to 31 million USD. Achieving an eight figure ARR with 3x annual growth, the company focuses oJan 14, 2026
• Harmattan AI has secured a 200 million dollar Series B led by Dassault Aviation, valuing the startup at 1.4 billion dollars. This investment signals a systemic shift as legacy aerospace adopts agile AJan 14, 2026
• Converge Bio secured 25 million USD in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to scale its generative AI platform for biological data. Backed by Meta and OpenAI executives, the startup hasJan 14, 2026
• WitnessAI raised 58 million dollars in strategic funding led by Sound Ventures to scale its security platform for the agentic era. As enterprises move from chatbots to autonomous agents, WitnessAI isJan 14, 2026
• ElevenLabs has reached $330 million in annual recurring revenue, showcasing a remarkable acceleration in the voice AI sector. While reaching the first $100 million ARR took 20 months, the jump from $2Jan 14, 2026
• WebAI has reached a 2.5 billion dollar valuation after a funding round led by Time Ventures. By running AI locally on devices, the platform allows firms to bypass high cloud costs while ensuring totalJan 14, 2026
• Deepgram raised 130 million dollars in Series C funding at a 1.3 billion dollar valuation to scale its real-time voice AI platform. The company also acquired OfOne, which handles 95 percent of drive-tJan 14, 2026
• X Square Robot has raised 140 million USD in Series A++ funding to industrialize general-purpose embodied AI. Backed by ByteDance and Alibaba, the company is scaling its WALL-A foundation model to briJan 14, 2026
• AI chip startup Etched has raised 500 million USD in a funding round led by Stripes, reaching a valuation of 5 billion USD. The investment accelerates the deployment of Sohu, a specialized ASIC hard-wJan 14, 2026
• Swiss legal AI startup Ex Nunc Intelligence has secured 2.15 million dollars in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Spicehaus Partners to scale its Silex platform. The system differentiates itselfJan 13, 2026
• SDT secured 20.6 million dollars to scale AI-quantum hybrid infrastructure, targeting the massive compute demands of the generative AI era. By integrating quantum processing units with high-performancJan 13, 2026
• Yann LeCun is launching AMI Labs, poaching top researchers from Meta and Google DeepMind to build world models beyond LLMs. Targeting a 3 billion Euro valuation, the startup uses Joint-Embedding PrediJan 13, 2026
• Multiply Labs is scaling robotics-driven biomanufacturing to industrialize cell therapy production. By integrating NVIDIA Physical AI and GR00T models, the company has reduced manufacturing costs by 7Jan 13, 2026
• India is set to unveil its first wave of indigenous foundational AI models at the India AI Impact Summit this February 15-20. Startups like Sarvam AI and Gnani.ai are debuting models ranging from 14BJan 13, 2026
• X Square Robot secured USD 143 million in its A++ round, becoming the first Chinese humanoid startup backed by ByteDance, Meituan, and Alibaba simultaneously 🤖 Raising 3 billion yuan across 9 rounds,Jan 13, 2026
• Accelsius secured 65 million dollars in Series B funding from Johnson Controls and Legrand to scale liquid cooling for gigawatt-class AI factories. This investment marks a systemic shift as air coolinJan 13, 2026
• Corgi Insurance raised 108 million USD at a 630 million USD valuation to launch the first AI-native, full-stack carrier for startups. Controlling the policy lifecycle via AI helped the firm reach overJan 13, 2026
• India is set to debut its first homegrown foundational AI models from startups like Sarvam and Gnani.ai at the IndiaAI Impact Summit this February. Backed by the 10,372 crore INR IndiaAI Mission, thesJan 13, 2026
• London-based Verna raised 4 million dollars to scale its AI platform that converts biodiversity data into active restoration projects. The startup reached 1 million dollars in annual recurring revenueJan 13, 2026
• Spirit AI has open-sourced Spirit v1.5, the top-ranked model on the RoboChallenge Table30 benchmark. By utilizing a unified Vision-Language-Action architecture, the model shifts the training paradigmJan 13, 2026
• Dassault Aviation has led a 200 million dollar Series B funding round for French defense startup Harmattan AI, valuing the unicorn at 1.4 billion dollars. The capital will integrate sovereign AI intoJan 13, 2026
• Swiss startup Ex Nunc Intelligence raised 1.8 million Euro in a pre-Seed round to scale Silex, its proprietary legal AI infrastructure. Silex uses a custom stack to integrate public laws with secure,Jan 13, 2026
• Applied Brain Research (ABR) has closed an oversubscribed seed funding round to commercialize its TSP1 state space accelerator chip. This silicon enables full on-device voice AI at under 30mW, deliverJan 13, 2026
• Zepo Intelligence raised 12.8 million Euros to scale its agentic social intelligence platform, addressing a 1200 percent surge in AI-driven social engineering that cost 1 trillion dollars in 2024. TheJan 13, 2026
• Cast AI reached a 1 billion dollar valuation following strategic funding, bringing its total capital raised to 180 million dollars. The new Omni Compute platform, with Oracle Cloud as its partner, makJan 13, 2026
• French defense tech reaches a new milestone as Harmattan AI secures a 200M dollar Series B led by Dassault Aviation, hitting a 1.4B dollar valuation. This alliance signals a systemic shift toward soveJan 13, 2026
• Owkin has launched an agentic AI infrastructure for drug discovery through partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. The flagship Pathology Explorer agent achieves 23.7% higher accuracy using 5x fewer pJan 13, 2026
• Basecamp Research has launched the EDEN AI models for programmable gene insertion, supported by a strategic investment from Nvidia NVentures. Developed with Microsoft and Nvidia, these GPT-4 scale modJan 13, 2026
• Harmattan AI has reached a 1.4 billion dollar valuation after securing a 200 million dollar Series B led by Dassault Aviation. This move integrates a sovereign autonomy stack into combat platforms likJan 13, 2026
• Tallinn AI startup Flashka secured 1 million Euro in pre-seed funding after hitting 1 million users and top App Store rankings in Italy and Spain within a year. By tripling recurring revenue in just tJan 13, 2026
• CtrlB has secured 2.5 million USD in seed funding led by Chiratae Ventures for its pivot into the data observability sector. By offering data ingestion at 0.2 USD per GB, the startup directly addresseJan 13, 2026
• Sophont Inc. has secured 9.22 million dollars in seed funding to develop multimodal foundation models for the healthcare industry. Led by CEO Tanishq Abraham, the startup leverages self-supervised leaJan 13, 2026
• X Square Robot secured 140 million dollars in a Series A++ round, becoming the only startup backed by ByteDance, Meituan, and Alibaba. 🤖 This triple backing signals a systemic shift toward universal rJan 13, 2026
• Bluecopa has raised 7.5 million dollars in Series A funding to scale its AI-led finance automation platform globally. Led by Analog Partners, this round brings the startup total to 11.6 million dollarJan 13, 2026
• Cloudforce closed a 10 million dollar Series A led by Owl Ventures and Microsofts M12 to scale nebulaONE. This sovereign AI platform serves 3 million users at 90 institutions like Oxford, providing seJan 13, 2026
• Seattle-based Spangle AI, led by former Amazon and Bolt executives, secured 15 million dollars in Series A funding at a 100 million dollar valuation. The platform uses ProductGPT and autonomous SellerJan 13, 2026
• OpenAI has acquired health-tech startup Torch for $60 million to accelerate its "unified medical memory" capabilities. This deal follows the launch of ChatGPT Health and secures a team with deep experJan 13, 2026
• X Square has raised 1 billion yuan ($143 million) in a funding round led by ByteDance and HongShan Capital, bringing its total recent capital to over $280 million. The investment signals a strategic pJan 13, 2026
• Harmattan AI reached a 1.4 billion dollar valuation after a 200 million dollar Series B led by Dassault Aviation. This partnership signals a pivot from disruption to symbiosis, where AI startups moderJan 13, 2026
• Smartan debuted its AI injury prevention platform at CES 2026, using computer vision to reduce training injuries by 42 percent in pilot programs. By providing clinical-grade biomechanical analysis witJan 12, 2026
• Oman-based eMushrif secured 7.5 million USD in a funding round led by Jasoor Ventures to scale its AI and IoT school transportation platform in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Currently serving 150,000 studJan 12, 2026
• MagicCube secured 10 million dollars in funding with Verifone as a strategic investor to scale its Software Defined Trust platform. 🚀 The company is integrating hardware-grade security into software fJan 12, 2026
• Zepo Intelligence has secured 15 million dollars in Seed funding led by eCAPITAL to scale its Agentic Social Intelligence platform. The system counters the surge in AI-driven multi-channel attacks byJan 12, 2026
• Kepler Communications successfully launched 10 next-generation satellites via SpaceX, establishing the first operational tranche of its AETHER optical relay network. These 300kg satellites create a hiJan 12, 2026
• Birdfy unveiled OrniSense at CES 2026, the first LLM-powered AI for birdwatching. The system provides reasoned identification for 150+ species, shifting from simple image matching to biological analysJan 12, 2026
• FotoCube and Chitech debuted their AI Family Calendar at CES 2026, shifting AI from personal mobile devices to shared home hubs. The proactive 15-inch display has already achieved 100,000 shipments anJan 12, 2026
• Influencer marketing pioneer Ted Murphy launched COEY at CES 2026 to automate global content creation. The firm targets The Content Crossover, where 50% of web content will be AI-generated by 2028. UsJan 12, 2026
• Hyundai subsidiary Motional has set a 2026 target for Level 4 robotaxi commercialization in Las Vegas, introducing its new Large Driving Model (LDM). 🚕 This AI-driven architecture leverages 2 millionJan 12, 2026
• China's X Square Robot secured 1 billion yuan ($143.3 million) in a Series A++ round from a rare alliance including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Meituan. 🤖 This funding, totaling over $280 million within mJan 12, 2026
• Ulta, Nordstrom, and Walmart are scaling beauty automation as 10Beauty and LUUM secure 1,000+ location commitments. 10Beauty delivers a $35 manicure in 45 minutes, while LUUM’s lash tech triples appoiJan 12, 2026
• Bengaluru-based DoppelIQ has launched AI digital twins for B2C brands, achieving behavioral prediction accuracy between 80% and 95%. The system replaces traditional eight-week survey cycles with real-Jan 12, 2026
• Andrew Dai and Yinfei Yang, former leaders from Google Gemini and Apple, have launched Elorian to tackle the core issue of visual reasoning for AGI. The startup is seeking a $50 million seed round toJan 12, 2026
• Japanese deep-tech startup Sora Technology raised an additional $2.5M, bringing its total funding to $7.3M to scale drone-AI solutions across Africa. Their predictive AI models identify malaria breediJan 12, 2026
• Coforge has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI-native firm Encora for 2.35 billion USD. This landmark all-stock deal integrates over 9,000 specialists, creating a global powerhouse with 2.5 bJan 12, 2026