Together AI Raises $800 Million Series C at $8.3 Billion Valuation—Annual Bookings Hit $1.15 Billion as Enterprises Ditch Closed Models for Open-Source
Together AI just hit $1.15 billion in bookings without ever building its own foundation model. The $8.3B valuation proves something OpenAI and…
GitLab Survey: 78% of Developers Code Faster with AI—But Software Delivery Hasn’t Accelerated
78% of developers write code faster with AI tools. Yet 79% say their organization’s software delivery speed hasn’t improved. The…
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Hits 82.4% on GPQA Diamond—Beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 by 6.1 Points on Graduate-Level Science Reasoning
Google just seized the reasoning crown from OpenAI with a 6.1-point margin on graduate-level science problems. The company that spent 18…
Straiker Raises $64 Million Series A on June 29—Agentic Security Startup Grows Revenue 15× in Under a Year Protecting Fortune 500 AI Agents
A security startup protecting AI agents from AI agents just grew revenue 15× in under a year. The category didn’t exist 24 months…
Anthropic Launches Claude Tag on June 23—Slack AI Agent Writes 65% of Product Team’s Code, Runs on Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic just revealed that 65% of its own product team’s code comes from an AI agent—and they’ve opened that same system to…
Google DeepMind’s GenCast Beats ECMWF ENS on 97.2% of 1,320 Weather Targets—AI Forecasts 15 Days in 8 Minutes, Outperforms Europe’s Gold Standard by 12.6% on Extremes
Europe’s operational weather forecasting system—the one MeteoSwiss and national meteorological services actually rely on—just got beaten…
Generalist AI Raises $400 Million at $2 Billion Valuation—NVIDIA and Bezos Back Physical AGI Startup’s 99% Success Rate Robot Models
A robotics company founded in 2024 just raised $400 million by solving the problem that has stalled physical AI for decades: teaching robots…
Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs
A diffusion-based language model just hit 700+ tokens per second while matching GPT-4.1 Nano on benchmarks. The speed gap between diffusion…
Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8-10 Billion—Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI Chip Startup Valuation Triples in One Year
Qualcomm just offered 3x last year’s valuation for a RISC-V chip startup. The bid tells you more about NVIDIA’s moat than…
DeepSeek Launches Janus-Pro-7B on January 27—Open-Source 7B Model Beats DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion on GenEval and DPG-Bench
A 7-billion-parameter open-source model just outperformed DALL-E 3 on two major image generation benchmarks. DeepSeek dropped Janus-Pro-7B on…
