Mistral Raises €3 Billion at €21 Billion Valuation — Largest Ever European Tech Funding Round, Led by Samsung
Mistral AI closed a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion — the largest equity raise ever by a European tech company — with Samsung Electronics leading, positioning Mistral as the sovereign, open-weight AI alternative.
Anthropic Expands Support for Scientists Working on AI Research
Anthropic announces expanded support for scientists and research institutions working on AI safety, alignment, and capabilities research.
Stability AI Closes Series B Backed by Music and Gaming Giants
Stability AI closes its Series B at $232M total funding under new leadership — with Electronic Arts, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group among the investors backing its licensed-data generative AI strategy.
Stability AI Closes Series B with Entertainment Giants — EA, Sony, Universal, Warner Back the Company
Stability AI closes its Series B funding round with backing from Electronic Arts, Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, bringing total funding to $232M.
Prentis AI Lab Co-Founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus Raising $100M at $1B Valuation
Prentis, a stealth AI lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation. The company builds computer-use agents for office workflows and claims its in-house Hive-32B model beats frontier APIs at one-tenth the cost.
Anthropic Reaches $965 Billion Valuation With Record $65 Billion Funding Round
Anthropic closed a record $65 billion funding round that lifted its valuation to $965 billion, briefly surpassing OpenAI in July 2026. Existing investors led the round, underscoring confidence in Claude's enterprise traction.
China's Moonshot AI Seeks $30 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking up to $2 billion in new funding at a $30 billion valuation, a roughly sevenfold jump since December 2025.
Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation for Secretive 'Universal' AI Interface
AI lab Hark, founded by robotics entrepreneur Brett Adcock, raised $700M in Series A funding to build a universal AI personal assistant with custom hardware, backed by Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Salesforce.
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
Hark raised $700M in a Series A for its secretive universal AI interface, with first multimodal models due this summer and dedicated hardware devices to follow.
The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy
The Path raised a $14.3 million seed round and claims its AI therapy model scores 95 on the Vera-MH safety benchmark — versus a top score of 65 for consumer chatbots.
Recursive Superintelligence Raises $650M to Build Self-Improving AI
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence emerges from stealth with $650 million to create AI that autonomously improves itself without human intervention.
AI Startups Capture Record $242B in Q1 2026 Funding
Global AI investment reaches $300B as startups lead the charge in artificial intelligence innovation.
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway, the San Francisco cloud platform that amassed two million developers without marketing, raised a $100 million Series B led by TQ Ventures to fund its sub-second AI-native deployments and own data centers.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Listen Labs closed a $69 million Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500 million valuation, scaling its AI-powered customer interview platform past one million interviews and 15x annualized revenue growth in nine months.