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Meta has begun unwinding its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese AI startup Manus after Beijing demanded divestiture on national security grounds, cutting off data access and preparing for full separation. The move highlights China's tightening control over AI technology and foreign investment.
Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus aims to develop an 'artificial general engineer' AI to aid in designing physical products across industries, with a $12 billion funding round and $41 billion valuation.
Jeff Bezos has launched Prometheus, a $41B AI startup that aims to revolutionize engineering and manufacturing by training on physical world data, with backing from major investors including JPMorgan and BlackRock.
Axiom's Series A announcement was discussed in a Latent Space podcast episode, highlighting their concept of Verified AI for scaling agentic superintelligence.
A visit to DeepSeek's headquarters reveals its modest origins, young team, and unique culture. The company, operated out of a hedge fund, focuses on staying small and remains unconcerned about AGI risks, instead prioritizing societal concerns like job loss.
24-year-old Carina L Hong raised $64M to build an AI that outperforms the world's best mathematicians, aiming to advance mathematical superintelligence and shape next-generation AI.
Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $900 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI, and released a new AI model called Mythos that excels at finding software flaws.
Gojiberry AI launched a new website, replacing a quick Framer template that still performed well with over 400,000 visitors.
Anthropic raises $65 billion in Series H funding, reaching a $965 billion valuation and surpassing OpenAI. The funding will go toward safety research, computing capacity, and Claude Code development.
The YC 2026 list reveals that the big opportunities in AI startups are just beginning, not in repeating chatbots, but in solving the most difficult, heavy, slow, yet highly valuable industry problems.
Yann LeCun leaves Meta to found AI company AMI, focusing on world models based on Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). He believes LLMs are not the path to human-level intelligence and criticizes the current paradigm for lacking prediction and planning capabilities.
Nvidia announces a partnership with Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI startup founded by former DeepMind scientist David Silver, to develop reinforcement learning systems for superintelligence. The startup raised a record $1.1 billion seed round.
After being laid off from Meta, Yuandong announced a new direction, raising $650 million to found neolab Recursive_SI with a valuation of $4.65 billion. In an interview, he shared insights on AI trends, LLM limitations, reinforcement learning, and research freedom.
Former Meta FAIR Director Tian Yuandong, together with several top AI scientists, officially announces new company Recursive, dedicated to building recursive self-improving superintelligence, and has secured over $650 million in funding with a valuation of approximately $4.65 billion.
It is rumored that Tencent negotiated an investment with Liang Wenfeng (DeepSeek). Tencent initially demanded a 20% stake but was rejected, ultimately accepting 2%, sparking industry discussion about shifts in the AI competitive landscape.
Recursive Superintelligence, a new startup aiming to automate knowledge discovery with self-improving AI, has launched with over $650 million in funding led by GV and Greycroft.
PitchDrop.ai is a new AI-powered tool designed to serve as a pitch advisor for presentations.
Moonshot AI, the maker of the Kimi chatbot, has reached a $20 billion valuation following a funding round led by Meituan, marking a quadrupling of its value in just a few months.
Canada awarded a single AI startup $240M in grants, exceeding 66% of the total funding received by 107 companies over 7 years, highlighting significant concentration of government AI investment.