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Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (opens theinformation.com)
Utopai, an AI film studio with more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation.
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Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels (opens techcrunch.com)
Daytona is building a cloud that gives every agent its own computer; it says founders of Stripe, Perplexity, Datadog and Mercor are angels.
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AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment (opens siliconangle.com)
Bristol Myers Squibb led the Series E at a $3 billion valuation.
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Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear (opens techcrunch.com)
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
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OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO (opens techcrunch.com)
The round would value OpenAI at $1.25 trillion, the highest valuation ever for a private company, ahead of its IPO.
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DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions (opens techcrunch.com)
Reportedly one of China's largest funding rounds, days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek's technology.
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Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you (opens techcrunch.com)
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year. SiliconANGLE reported the round as $25M.
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Exclusive: Slingshot Raises $27M In Seed Funding To Build An Insurer For Those Small Policies Sold At Checkout (opens news.crunchbase.com)
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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Ex-OpenAI science chief Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M for drug chemistry (opens siliconangle.com)
Kevin Weil, formerly OpenAI's science lead, is building a chemistry contract research organization; TechCrunch says human chemists will train robots for lab tasks.
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Robotics startup Enact Intelligence nabs $30M funding round (opens siliconangle.com)
Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence today announced that it has raised $30 million in pre-seed funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Yann LeCun, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers.
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