Higgsfield in Talks for $300-500M at $5B Valuation—4× Jump in Six Months on $500M ARR
A 15-month-old AI video startup just quadrupled its valuation to $5B in six months. The revenue growth is even faster—$200M to $500M ARR in…
Kuaishou’s Kling AI Raises $2.8 Billion at $15 Billion Valuation—Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu Back AI Video Unit as ARR Surges from $240M to $500M in 3 Months
Tencent just invested $200 million in a direct competitor to its own Hunyuan video model. That single fact tells you everything about the…
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…
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…
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…
Definely Raises $30M Series B Led by Revaia—Legal AI Workflow Startup Attracts Clio on June 16, 2025
Clio just invested in a company that automates the work Clio’s own customers do manually. That’s not competition—that’s…
Harvey Raises Second $300M Round of 2025 at $5 Billion Valuation—Legal AI Startup Closes Series E on June 23
Two $300 million rounds in six months. Harvey just proved that legal AI has crossed from experiment to enterprise category, and the velocity…
Meta Takes 49% Stake in Scale AI for $14.3 Billion—CEO Alexandr Wang Joins Superintelligence Team as Scale Operates Independently
Meta paid $14.3 billion for half of a data labeling company—then recruited its founder to build superintelligence. The price tag reveals…