In March 2024, Microsoft paid Inflection AI $650 million.
A founder shut down last month after 22 months and $1.8 million in burn.
Fourteen startups in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch crossed a million dollars in annualized revenue before Demo Day.
The venture capital industry just had its best half-year on record. If you're raising a seed round, you wouldn't know it.
Baseten processes your inference calls. Together AI hosts the open-weight models you fine-tuned.
June AI walked out of stealth on August 3 with 20 million in the bank. The press release called it a pre-seed round.
Every founder pitch deck has a "risks" slide, and for twenty years the honest version was always the same: "We might run out of money before we...
Pablo Palafox has a PhD in AI and deep learning from the Technical University of Munich. He did research at Meta.
A founder closes a $3M seed round in March. The pitch deck shows a Series A in Q4 next year — 18 months out.
Four months.
Two hundred founders walked into a survey. Nearly all of them admitted the work almost destroyed them.
Somewhere around March, "AI" became the most popular word in layoff memos.
Three years ago, the startup obituary was predictable. "We ran out of money.
Adam Field, the Chief AI Officer at Tungsten Automation, rewrote a personal productivity app this month — one that had been built and refined over twenty years.
Most crypto startups want to be the face of something. The exchange, the wallet, the protocol.
ElevenLabs is worth $11 billion. OpenAI ships real-time voice.
Somewhere in North Austin, a Starbucks is getting a new parking lot. The excavator doing the grading has no one in the cab.
When employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta all write personal checks to the same startup, the signal isn't subtle.
Eighteen months ago, Prime Intellect was two founders with a thesis most VCs would have laughed out of the room: train frontier-class AI models on GPUs...
Ant Group runs Alipay.