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Funding and deals

Funding rounds, valuations, IPOs and acquisitions among AI companies.

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October 20264 items

10.24Reports of Screen Issues Emerge After iPhone Duo Launch, Cause Not Confirmed10.22DeepSeek Reportedly Raises New Funding Round of Approximately $150 Billion, Company Yet to Confirm10.09SpaceX's Valuation Vision and Spectrum Acquisition Progress10.01Flow Completes $50 Million Series B Funding, Targeting Hardware Engineering Collaboration Workflow

September 20262 items

09.29AMD Plans to Acquire World Labs, Fei-Fei Li to Serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist09.07Anthropic's $1.6 Trillion Valuation is a Model Projection, Not a Confirmed Valuation

August 20267 items

08.21Anthropic IPO Expectations Heat Up, But Prospectus, Fundraising Scale, and Financial Figures Remain as Unverified Information08.17Reports of Stripe's Acquisition of OpenRouter Circulated by Multiple Bloggers, Highlighting the Infrastructure Value of the Model Routing Layer08.11Electricity and GPUs Are Evolving from Computing Equipment into Financeable, Revaluable Infrastructure Assets08.10Kimi's Valuation Surges Over 10x in a Year, FOMO Grips Primary Market08.10OpenAI Splits Top-Tier Model Product Lines, Acquires HTML PPT Company Nextslide08.08Multiple Bloggers Report OpenAI's Acquisition of NextSlide, Making AI-Generated Editable PPTs a Visible Product Direction08.05News on DeepSeek, Kimi, and SSI Funding and New Models Should Still Distinguish Between Reports and Confirmations

July 202616 items

07.29Kimi K3's Market Signals Extend from Model Buzz to Funding Expectations07.27ChangXin Memory Tech's STAR Market IPO Surpasses Tencent in Market Cap; Domestic Lithography Machine Enters Small-Batch Production07.27NVIDIA in Talks to Provide $250B Financing Guarantee for OpenAI Data Center07.26Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star, Forms Consumer Product Team07.25DeepSeek Pauses Second Funding Round07.24Cognition Acquires Poke: Devin Enters the Era of Always-On General-Purpose Agents07.24AI Chip Company Etched Completes $300 Million Series C Funding, Valuation Exceeds $10 Billion07.22World Labs Acquires SceniX to Enter Robotics Field07.19Rumor: Anthropic to Acquire Robotics AI Company Physical Intelligence—The Next Step After the "Digital Hand"07.15DeepSeek Annualized Revenue Reaches $4-5 Billion, Launches Second Funding Round and Prepares for Shanghai IPO07.15One Year After Cognition's Acquisition of Windsurf: ARR Grows from $73M to $5B07.13Former ByteDance Intern Tian Keyu Secures Tens of Millions in Funding for Startup07.10MiniMax Completes $2 Billion New Funding Round, Founder Vows Not to Take Salary Until AGI is Achieved07.10Ollama Completes $65 Million Series B Funding, Shifts Towards Hybrid Inference07.02SiliconFlow Files for IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange07.02Unitree IPO Registration Approved

June 202619 items

06.29Jia Yangqing Leaves NVIDIA, Just One Year After Lepton AI Acquisition06.27DeepSeek's Funding and DSpark Acceleration Framework Enter Discussion Simultaneously06.25Qualcomm Acquires AI Computing Firm Modular for Approximately $3.92 Billion in All-Stock Deal06.17SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60 Billion, Officially Launches Origin Code Hosting Service and 1.5 Trillion Parameter Model06.16SpaceX Acquires Cursor in $60 Billion All-Stock Deal, Integrating into SpaceX/xAI Ecosystem06.16DeepSeek Completes 50 Billion Yuan First Round Financing with Rare Structure: Five-Year Lock-Up, Liang Wenfeng's Effective Control06.15Zhipu GLM-5.2 Open-Sourced + Stock Surges 48%; Former Qianwen Lead Lin Junyang's New Lab Valued at $2 Billion06.15SpaceX Market Cap Breaks $2.11 Trillion on Second Day of Listing, Passive Buying Flows In06.12SpaceX Completes Largest IPO in History at $75 Billion06.12OpenAI Acquires Ona to Complete Codex Execution Layer Capabilities06.09OpenAI Files Confidential S-1 for IPO, Valued at $852 Billion; Anthropic Valued at $965 Billion06.06Anthropic Former Researchers Found Mirendil, Valued at $1 Billion to Advance AI Self-Development06.05Supabase Raises $500M at $10B Valuation, Employee Stock Option Policy Draws Attention06.04SpaceX Files IPO Amendment, Valuation at $1.77 Trillion Sets Record06.02Anthropic Files S-1 for IPO; MiniMax and Zhipu AI Apply for A-Share Listings06.02Former Huawei Pangu Model Lead Wang Yunhe Starts AI Agent Company Valued at $100M06.02Dreame Technology Initiates Pre-IPO Financing with 70B RMB Valuation06.01VAST Completes Nearly $200 Million Funding, Valuation Reaches $1 Billion06.01Unitree Robotics IPO Approved on STAR Market; OpenAI Recruits Robotics Engineers

May 20267 items

05.29Anthropic Valuation Hits $965 Billion, Surpassing OpenAI, ARR Soars to $47 Billion05.29Cognition Raises Over $10 Billion, AI Coding Agent Commercialization Enters Boom Period05.28Cognition Raises $1 Billion at $26 Billion Valuation05.27Changxin Technology STAR Market IPO Approved, Plans to Raise 29.5 Billion Yuan05.23Anthropic Cybersecurity Project Uncovers Over 10,000 Vulnerabilities; Nearly Trillion-Dollar Funding Rumored05.21Manus Founders Consider Raising $1 Billion to Buy Back Company from Meta05.12AI Era Startup Observations: Shifting Product and Funding Logic

April 20264 items

04.27Foreign Investment Security Review: Manus Acquisition Banned by Law04.25DeepSeek V4 Open Source and Vast Valuation Gap Between Chinese and Foreign AI04.22SpaceX and Cursor Deep Collaboration: Potential $60 Billion Acquisition or $10 Billion Compute Binding04.01OpenAI Completes $122 Billion Funding Round, Valuation Reaches $852 Billion