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AI Computing Startup Secures $340 Million Seed Funding! Valued at $3.18 Billion Just Two Months After Launch, With Investment from Jeff Bezos

On December 8, Unconventional AI, an AI computing power company established just two months prior, announced the completion of a $475 million (approximately RMB 3.356 billion) seed round financing, achieving a valuation of $4.5 billion (approximately RMB 31.8 billion). This funding was led by...

AI video generation platform Pollo AI secures $14 million in seed funding, with over 6 million monthly active users.

Last Thursday, AI video generation platform Pollo AI announced the completion of a $14 million (approximately RMB 98.97 million) seed round of financing. This round was led by GaoCheng Capital with participation from ZhenFund, marking Pollo AI's first institutional funding since its launch in September 2024. ...

Legal AI Rising Star Harvey Secures $160 Million in Funding, Valuation Soars to $8 Billion

On December 4, U.S.-based AI legal technology company Harvey announced it had raised $160 million (approximately RMB 1.131 billion) in Series F funding, achieving a valuation of $8 billion (approximately RMB 56.573 billion). This funding round comes just five months after its previous financing, during which the company...

OpenAI Acquires Neptune to Deepen AI Model Training Tool Portfolio and Enhance Learning Mechanism Insights

On November 3, OpenAI announced its acquisition of Neptune, a Polish startup specializing in AI model training tools. The two companies have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition through a stock swap, with some Neptune employees joining OpenAI. Although OpenAI did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction...

Valuation Doubles in a Year: Data Analytics Firm Databricks Seeks $5 Billion in Funding

Today, The Information has learned from investor filings and people familiar with the matter that AI data analytics platform Databricks is in talks for a new funding round worth up to $5 billion (approximately RMB 35.4 billion). In this round, Databricks' valuation...

With a wild 2 million in 6 days, why is this AI app exploding all over the internet?

“Lingguang”, completely on fire. Last week, Ant Group released the full-modal universal AI assistant Lingguang, perhaps one of the biggest surprises in the AI application track at the end of 2025. Lingguang's downloads showed accelerated growth, and on the first day of the launch, Lingguang's downloads exceeded 200,000, and on the fourth day exceeded 100...

AI Music Generation Platform Suno Raises $250 Million in Funding, Valued at $2.45 Billion Leads to New Industry Thoughts

Last night, U.S.-based AI music creation platform Suno announced the completion of a $250 million (roughly Rs. 1.777 billion) round of C financing, valuing the company at $2.45 billion (roughly Rs. 17.415 billion), up from a $500 million (roughly Rs. 3.554 billion) valuation in May last year,...

AI video dark horse Luma AI closes $900 million funding round to build 2GW smart computing cluster

Early this morning, US-based AI video startup Luma AI made an announcement that it has completed $900 million (roughly Rs. 6.397 billion) in Series C funding. According to sources, Luma AI's valuation has reached about $4 billion (about Rs 28.432 billion). This round of financing...

Google Gemini 3 release that tops the list: crushing the competition was praised by Musk, training relies on TPU to show strength

Early this morning, Google's strongest reasoning model, Gemini 3, was finally unveiled, a model that encompasses a wide range of native multimodal, reasoning, and Agent capabilities. The Google DeepMind research team says it is the world's most advanced multimodal understanding model, Google's most powerful Agent programming and atmosphere...

Japan's AI upstart Sakana AI secures $135 million in funding, soaring valuation opens a new journey of two-front strategy

On November 17, Japanese AI unicorn Sakana AI announced the completion of $135 million (about RMB 960 million) in Series B financing, valued at $2.635 billion (about RMB 18.73 billion), bringing the total financing to about $347 million (about RMB 24...