Together AI, the San Francisco startup built on making open-source AI models cheaper and faster to run, has raised $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation.
Joulent, a three-year-old Houston energy startup, just became one of the most consequential names in the AI infrastructure race - not for chips or models, but for power.
Neko Health, the preventive-health startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, has raised $700 million as it prepares to open its first US clinics.
Chai Discovery, a San Francisco startup that builds AI models to design new drug molecules from scratch, has raised $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation.
HiDream.ai, a three-year-old Beijing generative AI company, has closed a RMB 1.5 billion (about $222 million) Series C, pushing its valuation past unicorn status.
MiniMax has shipped an AI video model that no longer treats sound as an afterthought, generating up to 15 seconds at native 2K with synchronized stereo audio.
AMD has trained a competitive large language model end to end on its own silicon, then handed over nearly everything: weights, data, training code, and checkpoints.
Y Combinator has open-sourced QM, an internal multi-agent system that the accelerator says now touches its accounting, legal, events, and engineering work.
Chamath Palihapitiya is stepping back into a full-time operating role and bringing $135 million with him, to build enterprise software with coordinated AI agents.
About 20 million AI chips now hum inside data centers worldwide, a number on pace to double roughly every nine months, according to Epoch AI.
A new paper introduces UniTac, described as the first unified multimodal model built specifically for the tactile domain, able to both understand touch and generate it.
A new benchmark called NavSpace, accepted to ICRA 2026, found that even the best multimodal AI systems fail spatial-instruction tests more often than they pass.
A review in the journal MedComm argues AI has pushed robotic surgery past a threshold, with machines beginning to sense, reason, and act with limited autonomy.
A federal judge has refused to block Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI nudify apps, clearing the way for the law to take effect despite a challenge from xAI.
The Justice Department has planted itself in a Mississippi pollution fight, arguing a citizen suit against xAI threatens the federal government's entire AI buildout.