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

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide, team joins ChatGPT
Aug 9, 2026OpenAI

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide, team joins ChatGPT

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that converts prompts, notes, documents, or research into editable presentations. The acquisition closed earlier this year, though the announcement came a few...

AMD has finalized a deal to acquire Taalas, a Canadian AI semiconductor startup that directly embeds...
Aug 8, 2026Taalas

AMD has finalized a deal to acquire Taalas, a Canadian AI semiconductor startup that directly embeds...

AMD has finalized a deal to acquire Taalas, a Canadian AI semiconductor startup that directly embeds AI models into circuitry, bypassing general-purpose GPUs for specialized inference tasks. The acqui...

AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that hardwires specific AI models into cus...
Aug 7, 2026Taalas

AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that hardwires specific AI models into cus...

AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that hardwires specific AI models into custom silicon for inference. Taalas, founded in 2023, has raised $219 million in venture funding. The...

Klaviyo acquires AI customer success startup Agency in acqui-hire reunion with founder Elias Torres
Aug 6, 2026

Klaviyo acquires AI customer success startup Agency in acqui-hire reunion with founder Elias Torres

Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. Terms w...

NuPlay, the enterprise AI startup led by former Myntra and Cult.fit CEO Mukesh Bansal, plans to clos...
Aug 3, 2026NuPlay AI

NuPlay, the enterprise AI startup led by former Myntra and Cult.fit CEO Mukesh Bansal, plans to clos...

NuPlay, the enterprise AI startup led by former Myntra and Cult.fit CEO Mukesh Bansal, plans to close another acquisition within 6–12 months following its recent purchase of Verloop.io. The company is...

ADA acquires Algonomy to expand beyond customer data into AI-led marketing action
Aug 3, 2026ADA

ADA acquires Algonomy to expand beyond customer data into AI-led marketing action

ADA, an AI-driven customer experience and marketing company, has acquired India-based Algonomy, adding over 400 global brand clients and deeper retail technology capabilities. The acquisition marks AD...

Aug 1, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic acquires Coefficient Bio for ~$400M to expand AI-driven biotech capabilities.

Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a startup developing an AI platform for biotech tasks such as drug research planning, for approximately $400 million. The acquisition marks Anthropic's entry in...

Nscale acquires Anyscale for $1.65B to own more of the AI compute stack
Jul 30, 2026Anyscale

Nscale acquires Anyscale for $1.65B to own more of the AI compute stack

British AI neocloud Nscale has acquired Anyscale, the software startup behind the open-source Ray framework, for $1.65 billion, Bloomberg reported. Anyscale builds a platform for scaling AI workloads...

Jul 29, 2026OpenRouter

OpenRouter’s ~$10B acquisition talks with Stripe signal AI infrastructure consolidation

Financial data indicates that payments giant Stripe may acquire three-year-old AI startup OpenRouter for approximately $10 billion, a 70% premium over its last private valuation. OpenRouter operates a...

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
Jul 29, 2026Cyera

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

Cyera, a data security company valued at $12 billion after a recent $600 million raise, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion, mostly in cash. Oasis, fou...

Cognition acquires AI assistant startup Poke in low nine-figure deal to boost Devin's personality
Jul 24, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition acquires AI assistant startup Poke in low nine-figure deal to boost Devin's personality

Cognition, the AI coding startup behind the Devin software engineering agent, has acquired Poke—the consumer AI assistant known for its friendly, conversational interaction style—in a deal valued in t...

Midjourney acquires Co-Star app to build its first dedicated applications
Jul 24, 2026Midjourney

Midjourney acquires Co-Star app to build its first dedicated applications

Midjourney has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, with Co-Star founder Banu Guler joining the AI startup as chief design officer. Guler will remain in charge of Co-Star operations while...

Sierra acquires Takeoff, launches Horizon platform for long-horizon enterprise agents
Jul 24, 2026Sierra

Sierra acquires Takeoff, launches Horizon platform for long-horizon enterprise agents

Sierra has acquired AI agent startup Takeoff and launched Horizon, a joint platform for long-running, outcome-driven enterprise agents. Takeoff grew from $0 to nearly eight figures in annual recurring...

Jul 24, 2026OpenRouter

Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter for ~$10B, consolidating AI infrastructure access layer

Stripe is reportedly in negotiations to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model routing startup that provides a unified API gateway to dozens of large language models, for roughly $10 billion. The deal would...

Jul 23, 2026Sierra

Sierra Acquires Takeoff to Diversify Its AI Agent Business

Sierra, an AI customer service startup, has acquired agent startup Takeoff to expand its AI agent capabilities and diversify its business offerings. The deal reflects ongoing consolidation in the AI a...

NetApp acquires DataPelago to bring GPU-accelerated processing to storage layer
Jul 22, 2026DataPelago

NetApp acquires DataPelago to bring GPU-accelerated processing to storage layer

NetApp (NTAP) has acquired DataPelago, a startup specializing in AI data infrastructure. The deal brings DataPelago's Nucleus universal data processing engine into NetApp's portfolio, enabling GPU-acc...

Jul 22, 2026OpenRouter

OpenRouter, the leading API aggregation platform for large language models, is reportedly seeking an...

OpenRouter, the leading API aggregation platform for large language models, is reportedly seeking an acquisition by a major tech company, just two months after raising a $113 million Series B at a $1....

Cribl acquires CardinalOps to add AI threat detection to data infrastructure platform
Jul 18, 2026Cribl

Cribl acquires CardinalOps to add AI threat detection to data infrastructure platform

Data infrastructure startup Cribl has acquired CardinalOps, an AI-driven threat detection company that previously raised $40 million, in a deal valued at approximately $100 million. The acquisition br...

Netflix Paid $587 Million Cash for Ben Affleck's AI Startup InterPositive
Jul 17, 2026InterPositive

Netflix Paid $587 Million Cash for Ben Affleck's AI Startup InterPositive

Netflix disclosed in a July 2026 regulatory filing that it paid approximately $587 million in cash to acquire InterPositive, the AI production startup founded by Ben Affleck. The deal, announced in Ma...

Netflix acquires Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for ~$587M
Jul 17, 2026

Netflix acquires Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for ~$587M

Netflix disclosed in an SEC filing that it paid approximately $587 million to acquire InterPositive, the AI startup co-founded by Ben Affleck, in March 2026. The deal, first reported by The Hollywood...