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On November 3, Hippocratic AI, a U.S.-based generative AI medical unicorn, announced the completion of a $126 million (roughly Rs. 897 million) round of C financing, with participation from CapitalG, an independent growth fund under Google parent company Alphabet. This round of financing also makes...

Arithmetic power has become the core engine that drives the continuous evolution of the AI industry. With the rapid rise of the domestic large model system, the construction of an autonomous, controllable and sustainable domestic arithmetic ecological closed loop, so that the domestic arithmetic platform is deeply adapted to the domestic AI ecosystem, has become the consensus of the industry and the key direction. It is gratifying that...

On October 29, Karan Goel, founder and CEO of U.S.-based speech-generation startup Cartesia, announced the launch of a new speech model, Sonic-3, on social platform X. He also disclosed that it had completed a $100 million (roughly Rs. 712 million) financing round, which NVIDIA...

OpenAI's Japanese bidder Sakana AI has been revealed to be raising $100 million (Rs. 700 million) at a valuation of $2.5 billion (Rs. 17.8 billion), compared to $1.5 billion in September last year, The Information reported, citing people with knowledge of the...

On October 17, AI video enterprise Aishi Technology announced the completion of RMB 100 million B+ round of financing, co-invested by Fosun Ruizheng, Tongchuang Weiye, Shunxi Fund and other co-investments. The company's products PixVerse and Pat Me AI serve C-end public and professional creators, and the current user scale has exceeded...

On September 22, local time, NVIDIA announced that it will gradually invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to build AI data centers with a power capacity of 10 gigawatts (gigawatts) to train and run next-generation models. Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's founder and CEO, introduced the build...

NVIDIA and Intel today announced a collaboration to develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products to accelerate applications and workloads in hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets. NVIDIA will invest $5 billion (approximately Rs. 35.5 billion) in Intel common stock at $23.28 per share...

Blacksmith, a developer of AI programming tools, has announced the completion of a $10 million (roughly Rs. 71 million) Series A round of funding, which was funded by Google Ventures (GV) In May this year, Google Ventures also participated in the company's seed round of financing...

On September 12, U.S. AI data labeling startup Micro1 announced the completion of $35 million (equivalent to about 250 million yuan) in Series A financing, with a post-investment valuation of $500 million (equivalent to about 3.5 billion yuan). This round of financing was led by 01 Advisors, an organization led by former X...

On September 10, AI video generation enterprise Aishi Technology announced the completion of more than 60 million U.S. dollars in Series B financing, led by Alibaba and followed by investors such as Dachen Caixin, Shenzhen Venture Capital, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Hunan Dianguang, Giant Network and Antler. It is reported that this is the domestic video birth...

On August 15, Canadian AI unicorn Cohere made two major official announcements in one breath: new financing and personnel changes. The company officially announced that it received $500 million (equivalent to about 3.6 billion yuan) in new financing, and its valuation grew from $5.5 billion (equivalent to about 35.9 billion yuan) to $6.8 billion (equivalent...

According to foreign media TechCrunch combing reports, this year the United States a total of 36 technology startups successfully among the new unicorn camp, they are widely distributed in AI, biomedicine and other cutting-edge fields, each valuation exceeded the $1 billion mark. According to public information statistics, these 36 unicorns in this...

Every day, billions of users around the world use apps, websites, and digital interfaces built with Figma's support, such as Google Maps to navigate, Uber to take a cab, JetBlue to check in for a flight, Netflix to watch a show, Duolingo to learn a language,...

On June 23rd, Galaxy General, a star company of humanoid robots, announced the completion of a RMB 1.1 billion financing, led by Ningde Times and Ningde Times' Puquan Capital, and followed by China Development Bank's CDB Sci-Tech, Beijing Robotics Industry Fund, and Jiyuan Capital. This is this year with the intelligent track...

On June 20, Shanghai-based medical AI startup Lianzhi Intelligence announced the completion of its Series A financing with a total scale of RMB 1 billion. The financing was co-led by Efonda Private Equity Fund Management Co. and Shangguo Investment Management, and co-funded by Shanghai Lianhe, Shengshi Capital, Baofeng Investment, Su Venture Capital, Junwei Venture Capital, Qingsong Capital, Zhangjiagang...

In the first half of this year, the "big model six tigers" in the wisdom spectrum, MiniMax, zero one million things, Baichuan Intelligence, step leap star five companies, a total of 13 AI executive changes were exposed, of which 12 out, 1 new entry, and the first half of the domestic large manufacturers of AI talent changes in the number is not comparable to the number of large domestic manufacturers (domestic...

Meta is in talks with Scale AI for a more than $10 billion investment. This would be the largest outside AI investment ever made by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company. Publicly available information shows that Scal...

Photo Credit: Airwallex In the midst of a cold winter of investment and financing in the primary market, the fintech track has added another heavy financing - Airwallex, a global fintech unicorn, has recently announced the completion of a $300 million Series F round of financing, with a post-investment valuation of $6.2 billion. Investors include Squar...

With models pretty much rolled up, hardware has become another battleground in the AI space. After Google teased the upcoming Android XR devices with Gemini AI integration at the I/O conference yesterday, OpenAI is also sitting on the sidelines, and today the official...

Image Credit: Granola AI-powered note-taking tool Granola is gaining momentum. The startup has seen a surge in users since launching a year ago, largely thanks to VCs and word-of-mouth among its founders, but a major driving factor seems to be people expanding its use to...