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Yann LeCun raised $1.03 billion in seed funding for AMI Labs, betting that world models — not transformers — are the path to AI that understands physical reality.
Generalist AI closed a $400 million round at a $2 billion valuation — backed by NVIDIA, Bezos, and Fei-Fei Li — to build foundation models that run across any type of robot hardware.
Anthropic filed a confidential IPO prospectus with the SEC on June 1, becoming the first major frontier AI lab to formally begin the public markets process — and leaping ahead of rival OpenAI.
Cognition AI, maker of the Devin AI software engineer, has closed a $1 billion funding round at a $26 billion valuation, co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC.
Fireworks AI, which helps enterprises deploy and run AI models at scale, is in active talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, with Index Ventures set to co-lead.
Anthropic is paying Elon Musk's xAI $1.25 billion per month for access to the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis — a $45 billion, three-year compute commitment revealed in SpaceX's S-1 SEC filing.
Healthcare AI company Commure secured $70 million at a $7 billion valuation to scale its revenue cycle management platform, which runs 85% of tasks autonomously across 500+ health organizations.
Parallel Systems reached $100 million in total funding and is moving to commercial operations in 2026 with autonomous battery-electric railcars running on existing freight infrastructure—targeting the drayage market overlooked by autonomous trucking.
Anthropic is negotiating a $30 billion funding round at a $900 billion pre-money valuation — nearly triple its February 2026 Series G — that would be the largest private funding round in history.
Google.org is funding AI literacy training for 100,000 filmmakers through Sundance — the largest institutional investment to date in AI education for independent and underrepresented creators.
AI data center demand is funding renewable energy projects at record pace — and simultaneously overwhelming the transmission infrastructure needed to deliver that power.
Moonshot AI, developer of the open-weight Kimi model series, closed a $2 billion round led by Meituan's venture arm — reaching $200 million ARR as global demand for open-source AI alternatives accelerates.
Legal AI platform Legora has reached a $5.6 billion valuation in its latest funding round, intensifying its rivalry with Harvey AI as institutional law firms commit serious capital to AI-assisted legal work.
OpenAI has closed a $122 billion funding round—one of the largest private fundraises in the history of technology—to fuel compute infrastructure buildout, model development, and an expanding enterprise product suite.
Bret Taylor's Sierra is raising nearly $1 billion in new funding as regulated industries—banking, insurance, healthcare—commit serious capital to autonomous AI agents in customer-facing roles.
Anthropic is racing to close a $50 billion funding round at a valuation above $900 billion, giving investors just 48 hours to commit.
Recursive Superintelligence, a 20-person London lab founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI researchers, raised $500M from Google GV and Nvidia at a $4B valuation — to build AI that designs, trains, and evaluates AI without human researchers in the loop.
The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rule on April 13 prioritizing grant applications that incorporate AI literacy — the federal government's first formal tie between AI competency and K-12 funding.
The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rule on April 13 making AI literacy a scored criterion in federal grant applications—the first time AI fluency has been embedded in federal education funding.
AV startups raised $21.4 billion in Q1 2026—up 262% from all of 2025—led by Waymo's record $16 billion Series D at a $126 billion valuation, signaling renewed investor confidence in autonomous deployment.