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AI programming assistant hot with investors, sources say Cursor developer Anysphere is raising funds at $10 billion valuation
March 9 news, the recent AI programming assistant field of investment fever continues to climb, the related enterprise valuation continues to set a new record. According to Bloomberg, Anysphere is in talks with venture capital firms and plans to raise money at a valuation of nearly $10 billion (note: currently about 72.4 billion yuan). Anysphere is the developer of Cursor, an artificial intelligence programming assistant, which closed a $100 million funding round just three months ago, valuing the company at $2.5 billion at the time. According to the New York Times, the investment round...- 771
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Robotics company "Interdynamics" completes $500 million Series A round of financing with participation from Alibaba and others
On March 6, LimX Dynamics, a body-building intelligent robotics company, announced that it has recently completed the A+ round of financing, and has completed a cumulative total of 500 million yuan of Series A financing in six months. According to the introduction, its A series financing in the industry and financial aspects of the head of the organization's strategic support, a number of old shareholders continue to follow the investment, strategic industrial investors including Alibaba Group, China Merchants Venture Capital, Shang Chip Capital, Azure Capital, Lenovo Venture Capital, Pisan Times, the NAIAS Group, well-known financial investors are Gaojie capital, Oasis Capital, Ming potential Venture Capital, Fenrui Capital, Nanshan War New ...- 972
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Anthropic closes $3.5B Series E as valuation rises to $61.5B
March 4, 2011 - Anthropic, an AI modeling company touted as one of OpenAI's most important competitors, announced today that it has completed a total of $3.5 billion (note: currently about 25.511 billion yuan) in Series E financing, with the company's post-investment valuation rising to $61.5 billion (currently about 448.257 billion yuan). Anthropic's round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participants including Cisco, Salesforce's investment...- 618
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AI Model Claude 3.7 Sonnet Just Released, Sources Say Anthropic Rises to $3.5 Billion in New Funding Round
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is in the process of finalizing a $3.5 billion (note: currently about 25.383 billion yuan) funding round, valuing the company at $61.5 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Initially, Anthropic planned to raise $2 billion, but investors have now agreed to commit a larger sum. Potential investors in the round include Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Bessem...- 791
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DeepSeek Sources: Funding News is a Rumor
February 20 news, according to tencent technology reports, in response to the foreign media said "DeepSeek for the first time to consider raising external funds" news, DeepSeek related people to dispel rumors, financing news are rumors. 1AI noted that the foreign media The Information published an article last night that DeepSeek will consider external financing for the first time, and e-commerce giant Alibaba and China Investment Corporation are interested in participating in the investment. The report mentions that its AI models have become so popular that it has to increase its resource investment to meet the significantly increased demand, so it has led to internal discussions... -
"AI Programming" is Hot: Startup Codeium Raises New Funding Round, Pushing Valuation to $2.85 Billion
February 20, 2011 - AI-driven programming startup Codeium is raising a new round of funding at a valuation of $2.85 billion, according to a report today in TechCrunch, valuing the company at $2.85 billion (note: currently at about 20.757 billion yuan). The funding round comes just six months after Codeium announced the completion of its Series C funding round. At the time, the company received $125 million in funding, valuing the company at $1.25 billion (currently around RMB 9.104 billion). Sources familiar with the matter said that Codeium is currently...- 947
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Musk's xAI Seeks $10 Billion in Funding, Valuation Expected to Hit $75 Billion, Sources Say
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is seeking about $10 billion (note: currently about 72,654 million yuan) in financing, a round that is expected to value the company at $75 billion (currently about 544,904 million yuan), Bloomberg said today, citing people familiar with the matter. Existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Valor Equity Partners are in discussions to participate...- 968
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AI Burning War: Softbank's Masayoshi Son's Highly Leveraged Financing to Pry Out $500 Billion Stargate Project
February 11 news, Bloomberg today (February 11) published a blog post, reported that SoftBank (SoftBank) Group founder Masayoshi Son in order to participate in the "Stargate" (Stargate) project, will use a complex, highly leveraged project financing model. "The Stargate program, which is designed to boost U.S. development in the AI field, was founded by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and investment firm MGX, and is expected to involve a total investment of as much as $500 billion (note: currently about 3.65 trillion yuan). Reports suggest that Masayoshi Son is considering adopting...- 1.1k
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3D Generative Large Model Company Shadow Eyes Technology Closes Tens of Millions of Dollars in Series A Funding, Led by Meituan Dragonball and ByteDance
On January 13th, according to Lightsource Capital, Shadow Eyes completed a new round of tens of millions of US dollars in Series A financing, which was led by Dragonball and ByteDance, followed by Sequoia Seed China Seed Fund and Kijiji Venture Capital, with Lightsource Capital acting as the exclusive financial advisor. The financing will be used for ShadowEye to further explore the frontiers of 3D macromodeling, and to promote the commercialization of Hyper3D series of products in the global market, with Rodin as the core of 3D generated macromodel. Rodin realized $1 million in 45 days after its launch (note: the current...- 2.2k
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Anthropic, OpenAI's strongest rival, to raise $2 billion, valuation soars to $60 billion
Anthropic, the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, is in talks for a new round of funding that would value the company at $60 billion, a sharp climb from about $16 billion less than a year ago, people familiar with the matter said, according to The New York Times. The round, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, is expected to inject $2 billion into Anthropic, the sources said. Since its founding in 2021, Anthropic has grown from Menlo Park...- 2.4k
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Musk's xAI Announces $6 Billion Series C Funding Round With NVIDIA, AMD, and Other Participants
On December 24th, xAI, the generative artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, announced the completion of a $6 billion (currently about RMB 43.82 billion) Series C funding round. The round attracted participation from a number of leading investment firms and tech giants, including A16Z, BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and Vy Capital, among others. Noteworthy...- 1.8k
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Big Model Unicorn Step Star Has Closed Series B Funding Totaling "Hundreds of Millions of Dollars," Says Source
According to 36 krypton "intelligent emergence" reported today, big model unicorn step leap star has completed the B round of financing, the total financing amount reaches hundreds of millions of dollars. The financing has the participation of state-owned capital, strategic and financial investors, the core investors include Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Company Limited and its fund, and strategic and financial investors include Tencent Investment, Wuyuan Capital, Qiming Venture Capital and so on. The financing is used to continue to invest in basic model research and development, strengthen multimodal and complex reasoning capabilities, and increase coverage of C-end application scenarios through products and ecology. Jiang Daxin, CEO of StepStar, once said, "Unimodal - multimodal...- 2.2k
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AI Programming Assistant Cursor Raises Another $100 Million in Four Months, Valuation Soars 6.5x, Says Source
Anysphere, the developer of artificial intelligence (AI) programming assistant Cursor, recently closed a $100 million Series B funding round at a post-transaction valuation of $2.6 billion (currently around Rs. 18.974 billion), TechCrunch reported on December 22nd, with sources familiar with the matter revealing. The round was led by longtime shareholder Thrive Capital. It's worth noting that Anysphere just closed a $100 million Series B round of funding just four months ago from Andreessen Horowitz (a16...- 2.3k
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Smart Spectrum AI Secures $3 Billion in Funding, Doubles Commercialization Revenue by 2024, Sources Say
According to Intelligent Emergence, AI unicorn "Wisdom Spectrum" recently completed a new round of financing in the amount of 3 billion yuan. New investors include a number of venture capitalists and state-owned enterprises, and old shareholders such as Junlian Capital continue to follow the investment. According to the report, this round of financing will be used for the further research and development of the large model of Wisdom Spectrum's base, which will be upgraded from answering questions to solving complex and multi-modal tasks, so as to better support the development of the industry ecosystem. The report also mentioned that Smart Spectrum has achieved over 100% growth in commercialization revenue since 2024. "For an enterprise services company to achieve several hundred million dollars of ARR (annual recurring revenue), it usually takes nearly ...- 1.6k
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ChatGPT Advanced Speech Patterns Creator "Goes His Own Way": New Company Valued at $200 Million to Build Emotional AI Voice Interaction
Alexis Conneau, a former OpenAI researcher, is the latest to launch WaveForms AI, which has received $40 million in seed funding from a16z, with a focus on audio AI interactions. Team of Stars Founder Alexis Conneau has extensive experience in voice AI, having led the development of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode at OpenAI. Team Vision WaveForms AI's vision is to...- 2.1k
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Xiaomi's first, with the body of a large model company Xiaoyu Zhizao completed a hundred million yuan A round of financing
December 10 news, according to 36 Krypton news, millet invested in the first large model robotics company -- Beijing Xiaoyu Zhizao Technology Co Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Xiaoyu Zhizao) to complete the 100 million yuan A round of financing. Note: "Embodied intelligence" refers to the integration of artificial intelligence into robots and other physical entities, giving them the ability to perceive, learn and interact dynamically with the environment, is one of the directions of development of artificial intelligence technology. The news said that this round of financing is exclusively invested by the Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund, which is following the angel round of Xiaomi Group, Prof. Wang Tianmiao, Beijing Zhiyuan Research Institute and other 100 million yuan of investment, Xiaoyu Zhizao again...- 2.8k
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Galaxy General, a Body Intelligence Company, Announces Another $500 Million Strategic Round of Funding, Closing $1.2 Billion in Cumulative Financing
Galaxy General, a company in the field of embodied intelligence, announced on November 20 that it has completed a RMB 500 million strategic round of financing. Note: Embodied Intelligence refers to the integration of artificial intelligence into physical entities such as robots, giving them the ability to sense, learn, and dynamically interact with their environment. In June of this year, Galaxy General publicly unveiled its first embodied large model robot, Galbot (G1), a wheeled, two-armed humanoid robot with a collapsible body. Officially, Galbot combines two legs into a single one for greater stability and efficiency of movement than foot-and-leg robots that can't bend and flex...- 4.4k
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Flash Technology: Wins Tens of Millions of Yuan in Series A Financing, AI Shooting Glasses Launch Set for December 19th
November 20 news, flash extreme technology today announced that the completion of tens of millions of yuan A round of financing, led by the light far investment, the future light cone frontier science and technology fund, the edge of the AI leading listed enterprises Yun Tian Reed Fei followed the investment, the leap for the capital as the exclusive financial adviser. We learned that the financing funds will be mainly used for the market expansion, AI technology research and development, and talent team construction of Flash AI shooting glasses. Flash technology said: "last year, the internal decision to enter the field of AI hardware, plans to use one year to develop and launch a long-lasting battery life, high-definition shooting, audio-visual texture and AI capabilities and other aspects of a very strong...- 1.5k
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NetEase Cloud Music Founder Starts Up Again, AllSouls Closes $10 Million Pre-A Round, Says It Will Release World's First AI Game Generation Platform
All Souls SEELE announced on November 18th that it has completed a $10 million Pre-A round of financing. This round of financing was led by Baidu Ventures, with investors including Meitu Investment, Fukun Venture Capital and other organizations, and continued support from long-time shareholder Webtime Information S&T. Founder and CEO Wang Shimu is the founder of NetEase Cloud Music, and also served as general manager of Tencent NBase innovation business and head of Tencent News. AllSpirit claims that SEELE AI revolutionizes and simplifies the game development process. Unlike the tedious programming in traditional development... -
Former executives of Xiaopeng Peng line venture into AI companion robots, completed ten million yuan angel round of financing
November 5 news, the former Xiaopeng robot product design head Sun Zhaozhi entrepreneurial establishment of Shanghai Luo Bo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has completed in the middle of the year ten million yuan RMB angel round of financing, invested by industry stakeholders. According to public information, Sun Zhaozhi is the former head of product design of Xiaopeng robot (Pengxing Intelligence), and has served as responsible person for interior design of Xiaopeng Automobile, product leader of DDT car building project, and founder of XID Lab user experience design studio. Team, Luo Bo intelligent team other members mainly from byte jump, Huawei, DJI, Shangtang, MiniMax, Bubble Mart and other technology...- 2.6k
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Buddy.ai Raises $11 Million to Help His Daughter Learn English!
Ivan Crewkov, an entrepreneur from Siberia, accidentally discovered the great potential of AI education from his daughter's experience of learning English after he failed to enter the smart speaker market. Buddy.ai, the AI company he founded for children's English education, recently received $11 million in seed round financing led by BITKRAFT Ventures, and its AI technology and business model, which focuses on solving the pain points of children's English learning, has gained the recognition of capital. Crewkov's entrepreneurial path is quite dramatic. in 2014 he moved to the United States with his family, ready for the smart speaker project...- 3.6k
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AI search company Perplexity seeks new round of funding valued at perhaps $8 billion
Perplexity, an artificial intelligence search company, is seeking a new round of funding of about $500 million, which would value the company at $8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on October 20th. People familiar with the matter said that the company has already mentioned these figures in talks with investors, but the exact terms may change and the financing may not be finalized. If this round of financing is successful, it will be Perplexity's fourth round of financing in a year, and the company's valuation will be doubled. The company was reportedly valued at $5. 2 billion in January of this year, and by this...- 2.8k
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Humanoid Robotics Company StarDrive Era Closes Nearly $300 Million Pre-A Round: Alibaba Co-Leads, Lenovo Chases Investment
StarDrive Era, a body intelligence company, announced on October 16th that it has recently completed a Pre-A financing round of nearly 300 million RMB. The round was led by Clearstream Capital, Yuanjing Capital, and Alibaba, followed by Ceyuan Capital, and continued by veteran shareholders Lenovo Venture Partners, Century Jinyuan, Jinding Capital, Zeyu Capital, and Tsingtao Tiancheng, with China Renaissance continuing to serve as the exclusive financial advisor for the round. According to the company, this round of financing will mainly accelerate the native breakthrough research and development of embodied intelligence technology and the commercialization of universal humanoid robots, as well as continue to consolidate the company's talent, technological barriers and market leadership. The round of financing also...- 3.8k
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39 AI startups in the U.S. to break $100 million in funding by 2024 Detailed list here
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies continue to dominate the startup investment market in 2024. Despite some voices in the market suggesting that enthusiasm for AI is starting to wane, data shows that investors remain confident in the space. In the third quarter of this year, AI companies raised a total of 18.9 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 28% of all venture capital investment. among them, OpenAI even completed a round of financing as high as 6.6 billion U.S. dollars on October 2, becoming the largest single-round financing case in history. The following is the foreign technology media Techcrunch collated 2024 so far fundraising...- 7.7k