OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.
OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.

OpenAI just showed off Jalapeño, its first home-grown AI chip, built with Broadcom. It is designed for inference, not training. And it is the clearest sign yet that the company most dependent on Nvidia wants a way out. OpenAI has a chip now. On Wednesd…

Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders
Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders

For the past several years, the artificial intelligence industry has been moving toward an uncomfortable reality: the most powerful models, infrastructure, and capabilities are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of well-funded com…

A Princeton grad’s $30M AI detector is selling to Superhuman
A Princeton grad’s $30M AI detector is selling to Superhuman

Superhuman, the company that used to be Grammarly, just bought GPTZero, the startup that catches AI writing. The contradiction is the point. As the internet fills with machine-made text, proving something is human is becoming a product. There is a neat…

Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush
Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush

Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that “inaccurate”. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US reindustrialisation have become. Here is a number, and a…

Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software
Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 y…

Menlo Ventures raises $3bn on the back of one Anthropic bet
Menlo Ventures raises $3bn on the back of one Anthropic bet

Menlo Ventures has raised $3bn, the biggest haul in its 50-year history. It is funded, in effect, by a single bet on Anthropic that is now worth about $14bn. Most venture funds are sold on a promise. Menlo Ventures’ new $3bn is sold on a receipt. The f…

Zhipu weighs multibillion-dollar raise after 2,000% surge
Zhipu weighs multibillion-dollar raise after 2,000% surge

A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing’s Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic’s vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese …

Compri secures €3.2M to build AI-powered procurement teams

Compri, a Milan-based startup developingAI-powered procurement software for industrial companies, has raised €3.2million in a seed funding round led by Picus Capital, bringing its totalfunding to more…

The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI
The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstructured, which limits its use by AI models.  To understand this challenge, consider the foundation of the web itself. The web was not designed…

Tecno’s EllaClaw AI agent wants to clean up your phone and run your errands

Tecno’s EllaClaw agent moves past chatbot replies and starts doing real work, from clearing RAM and saving battery to hailing rides and shopping inside your apps, all while keeping you in control.