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AI startups Cohere, Aleph Alpha to merge with $600M in new funding
Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to lead a funding round into the combined company by making a $600 million “structured financing commitment.” CNBC reported that the Series E deal, which is ...
AWS inks multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Meta
Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers on AWS’ Graviton family of internally developed central processing units. According to the company, Meta will purchase access to tens of millions of Graviton ...
DeepSeek open-sources V4 large language model series
Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises two LLMs on launch. There’s the flagship V4-Pro and a smaller model called V4-Flash that trades off some output quality for lower hardware usage. Both algorithms are based on a mixture of ...
Software artifact management startup Cloudsmith raises $72M
Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured $72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the company’s previous raise last year. Cloudsmith stated in its funding announcement today that the venture fund was joined by other existing ...
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 with advanced math, coding capabilities
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthropic PBC released its latest LLM. OpenAI is offering the model in two flavors: a standard version and a more capable, significantly pricier edition ...
Omni raises $120M round for its AI analytics platform
Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a $120 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm, Redpoint Ventures and others. Building a business intelligence dashboard historically ...
Google Cloud inks AI infrastructure deal with Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued in the “single-digit billions.” Thinking Machines is an artificial intelligence startup led by Chief Executive Mira Murati, former chief technology officer ...
Google launches AI research agents powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google LLC has released two artificial intelligence agents that can generate research reports about user-specified topics. The agents made their debut on Tuesday. Deep Research and Deep Research Max are the successors to an AI research tool that Google introduced in December. The tool used Gemini 3 Pro, which at the time was the company’s ...
SpaceX partners with Cursor on AI training, floats potential $60B acquisition
SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According to SpaceX, the partnership agreement gives it the option to buy Cursor for $60 billion by year’s end. If the space launch provider opts against an acquisition, it will ...
Octen raises $10M in seed funding to speed up AI agent search queries
Octen, a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence agents to search the web, launched today with $10 million in seed funding. Square Peg led the investment. It was joined by Singapore-based venture capital firm Argor and a group of AI researchers. An AI agent that requires the ability to browse the web can theoretically ...