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Upscale AI reaches a $2 billion valuation after completing a funding extension round.

George Hotz argues that the AI industry's 'doom' narratives are a deliberate tactic to justify inflated valuations, contrasting technical progress with hype-driven fear and calling for accountability.

AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly raising $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, just months after its previous mega-round, highlighting the enormous investor interest in the inference layer of AI.

General Intuition, a startup building a foundation model for training AI agents in spatial-temporal reasoning using video game data, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, with backing from Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt.

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus has reached a $41 billion valuation, marking a major milestone.

Musk's incentive targets at SpaceX are extremely ambitious, including a company valuation of $7.5 trillion, building a permanent Mars city of 1 million people, and operating data centers in space that consume more than 1000 times the electricity of all data centers on Earth.

Lin Junyang, former head of Alibaba's Qianwen team, closed his AI lab's first financing round at a $2B post-money valuation, with Gao Rong and Sequoia China each investing $100M and Tencent adding $20M. The lab will focus on world models and embodied intelligence rather than general LLMs.

SpaceX's valuation increased by 20%, pushing Elon Musk's net worth to $1.3 trillion.

SpaceX's valuation surpassed $2.7 trillion, passing Amazon, driven by its IPO and acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor.

SpaceX went public on Nasdaq on June 12, 2026 with a $2 trillion market cap. This article deeply analyzes its valuation logic, business segments, profitability uncertainty, and short-term ownership structure, concluding that the current valuation is overpriced and a mean reversion toward fundamentals is likely in the medium term.

SpaceX became a publicly traded company with a $1.8 trillion valuation, driven largely by its perceived AI potential rather than traditional space business, according to its S-1 filing.

Mistral AI is reportedly in early talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its previous valuation, reflecting its growing significance as a European AI sovereign alternative.

Questions the mismatch between SpaceX's valuation and revenue, suggesting it might be the biggest bubble in history.

This article critically analyzes SpaceX's forecasted revenue of $3.4 trillion by 2040, arguing that while the required 41.5% annual growth rate is not historically unprecedented, it becomes highly unlikely when starting from SpaceX's already large revenue base, as demonstrated by statistical comparisons with other major companies like Tesla, Amazon, and Cisco.

Anthropic has secretly filed its S-1 for an IPO, with a potential valuation of $965B, making it the first frontier AI lab to formally launch an IPO, with OpenAI following suit shortly after. This could redefine the valuation anchor for the AI industry.

Anthropic's valuation surpasses OpenAI's as both AI giants file for IPOs, highlighting the market's high valuation of AI software compared to traditional retail like Walmart.

Brendan Foody, co-founder of AI talent platform Mercor, publicly accuses Sequoia of using dual-pricing valuation tricks where the lead investor gets a lower valuation while a higher headline price is announced, drawing pushback from Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC the company plans to go public in 2028, regardless of how the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI perform. He discussed AI spending trends and the importance of model cost efficiency.

Moonshot AI is reportedly seeking a large funding round at a $30 billion valuation, reflecting the intensifying competition in China's AI sector.

Anthropic is moving toward a public IPO filing after raising $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, with co-founder Daniela Amodei citing the need for capital to train frontier models and serve inference at scale. The company reported $47 billion in annualized revenue as of May 2026, and has partnered with xAI for $1.25 billion per month in compute capacity rather than building its own data centers.