AI Funding
We read the AI industry through money: funding rounds, valuations and investor logic — what bets venture capital places on models, infrastructure and applications.
We read the AI industry through money: funding rounds, valuations and investor logic — what bets venture capital places on models, infrastructure and applications.
Sabi announced on October 9, 2026, that it has raised $50 million, with investors including Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, DST Global, and forme...
The Oct 9 AI briefing rounds up the past 24 hours, with speed and agents as the thread. OpenAI added an Ultrafast tier that sells GPT-6.1 Sol speed at...
SoftBank Group is reportedly seeking to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf investors to expand its artificial intelligence investments. The Financial ...
OpenAI's annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, according to financial documents shared with investors and reported by the Financial Times on ...
Arena announced on October 8, 2026, in an official blog post that it has closed a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation. The round was co-...
Waymo announced on October 8, 2026 that it had closed a $5 billion term loan, the first debt financing for the Alphabet-owned self-driving company. It...
Manus's parent company Butterfly Effect announced on October 8, 2026 that it has closed a new funding round of more than $500 million (about RMB 3.36 ...
Nous Research's open-source agent Hermes has landed funding that changes how it can play. On October 7, 2026, Nous Research announced a $90 million Se...