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M&A activity in the AI industry. Acquisition news, mergers, and buyouts involving artificial intelligence companies.

Meta's acquisition of AI wearables startup Limitless is a major strategic 'acqui-hire' move to accel...
Dec 7, 2025

Meta's acquisition of AI wearables startup Limitless is a major strategic 'acqui-hire' move to accel...

Meta's acquisition of AI wearables startup Limitless is a major strategic 'acqui-hire' move to accelerate its shift toward ambient computing. Limitless, valued at $368 million in 2023 and maker of the...

Meta Platforms has acquired the AI wearables startup Limitless, valuing the Denver-based firm at $36...
Dec 7, 2025

Meta Platforms has acquired the AI wearables startup Limitless, valuing the Denver-based firm at $36...

Meta Platforms has acquired the AI wearables startup Limitless, valuing the Denver-based firm at $368 million in its last funding round. This aggressive move signals Meta's full commitment to the next...

Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B in cash and stock, gaining Photonic Fabric for optical inte...
Dec 3, 2025

Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B in cash and stock, gaining Photonic Fabric for optical inte...

Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B in cash and stock, gaining Photonic Fabric for optical interconnects in AI data centers. This solves bandwidth bottlenecks, enabling 100x faster chip-to-memory...

Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B upfront ($1B cash + 27.2M shares). Photonic Fabric integrat...
Dec 3, 2025

Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B upfront ($1B cash + 27.2M shares). Photonic Fabric integrat...

Marvell acquires Celestial AI for $3.25B upfront ($1B cash + 27.2M shares). Photonic Fabric integrates optical interconnects to fix AI memory bandwidth walls, enabling million-GPU clusters. Projects $...

Marvell acquired Celestial AI for $3.25B, integrating Photonic Fabric for optical interconnects in A...
Dec 3, 2025

Marvell acquired Celestial AI for $3.25B, integrating Photonic Fabric for optical interconnects in A...

Marvell acquired Celestial AI for $3.25B, integrating Photonic Fabric for optical interconnects in AI data centers. This tech cuts power use by 2x vs copper, slashing latency for rack-scale AI cluster...

Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos for a reported $2 billion to rapidly scale its custom silicon d...
Nov 28, 2025Rivos

Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos for a reported $2 billion to rapidly scale its custom silicon d...

Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos for a reported $2 billion to rapidly scale its custom silicon development efforts, specifically its in-house Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chips....

Jeff Bezos has returned to an operational role as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup wit...
Nov 20, 2025Project Prometheus

Jeff Bezos has returned to an operational role as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup wit...

Jeff Bezos has returned to an operational role as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup with a monumental $6.2 billion in funding, making it one of the best-capitalized early-stage companies...

PowerLattice emerged from stealth with a $25 million Series A, backed by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsin...
Nov 18, 2025PowerLattice

PowerLattice emerged from stealth with a $25 million Series A, backed by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsin...

PowerLattice emerged from stealth with a $25 million Series A, backed by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, for its AI power delivery chiplet. This technology promises to cut AI compute power consumption...

Mbodi AI is collapsing the 'robot tax'—the steep cost of reprogramming industrial robots—by enabling...
Nov 14, 2025Mbodi AI

Mbodi AI is collapsing the 'robot tax'—the steep cost of reprogramming industrial robots—by enabling...

Mbodi AI is collapsing the 'robot tax'—the steep cost of reprogramming industrial robots—by enabling real-time skill acquisition via natural language. Their platform, using generative AI and agent orc...

InterDigital's acquisition of AI startup Deep Render is a seismic shift for video technology. Deep R...
Nov 3, 2025

InterDigital's acquisition of AI startup Deep Render is a seismic shift for video technology. Deep R...

InterDigital's acquisition of AI startup Deep Render is a seismic shift for video technology. Deep Render's AI-native compression is reportedly up to 5 times (5x) more efficient than the widely-used H...

InterDigital's acquisition of AI startup Deep Render signals the end of traditional video codecs. Th...
Nov 3, 2025

InterDigital's acquisition of AI startup Deep Render signals the end of traditional video codecs. Th...

InterDigital's acquisition of AI startup Deep Render signals the end of traditional video codecs. Their pioneering AI-native compression technology promises up to 10x better efficiency, a breakthrough...

InterDigital is fundamentally challenging decades-old video standards like MPEG with the acquisition...
Nov 2, 2025

InterDigital is fundamentally challenging decades-old video standards like MPEG with the acquisition...

InterDigital is fundamentally challenging decades-old video standards like MPEG with the acquisition of AI-native compression pioneer Deep Render. Deep Render's neural network approach achieves a repo...

The $10M seed funding for KapKap, an AI-native Web3 platform, confirms a critical market shift: AI i...
Nov 1, 2025

The $10M seed funding for KapKap, an AI-native Web3 platform, confirms a critical market shift: AI i...

The $10M seed funding for KapKap, an AI-native Web3 platform, confirms a critical market shift: AI is building directly on decentralized infrastructure. This is not just a technology merger; KapKap's...

The era of autonomous corporate agents is here. Lyzr AI just secured an $8 million Series A entirely...
Oct 31, 2025Lyzr

The era of autonomous corporate agents is here. Lyzr AI just secured an $8 million Series A entirely...

The era of autonomous corporate agents is here. Lyzr AI just secured an $8 million Series A entirely driven by their in-house AI agent, "Agent Sam," which handled investor Q&As and automated the dilig...

AI biodefense startup Valthos emerged from stealth with $30 million in seed funding, notably backed...
Oct 26, 2025Valthos

AI biodefense startup Valthos emerged from stealth with $30 million in seed funding, notably backed...

AI biodefense startup Valthos emerged from stealth with $30 million in seed funding, notably backed by OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital. This marks a critical pivot as major AI developers active...

Elon Musk’s xAI has escalated the AI frontier by hiring key world modeling experts, Zeeshan Patel an...
Oct 12, 2025xAI

Elon Musk’s xAI has escalated the AI frontier by hiring key world modeling experts, Zeeshan Patel an...

Elon Musk’s xAI has escalated the AI frontier by hiring key world modeling experts, Zeeshan Patel and Ethan He, from Nvidia. This talent acquisition, combined with the projected $20 billion funding an...

Periodic Labs just emerged from stealth with a massive $300 million seed round, backed by a16z and N...
Oct 4, 2025Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs just emerged from stealth with a massive $300 million seed round, backed by a16z and N...

Periodic Labs just emerged from stealth with a massive $300 million seed round, backed by a16z and Nvidia, to "build AI scientists." This funding shatters seed-stage records and signals a critical shi...