Isomorphic Labs closes a $2.1B Series B led by Alphabet and Thrive Capital — the largest non-frontier-lab AI round of the week, affirming vertical AI-for-science as a tier-1 category.
Anduril's $5B Series H at $61B — led by Thrive and a16z — nearly doubles its June 2025 valuation in under 12 months, with total funding at $6.82B and a 2027 IPO on the table.
Bloomberg reports Anthropic is in early talks for a $30B+ raise at a $900B valuation — potentially the largest single AI funding round in history if completed.
Granola Series C: $125M at $1.5B valuation (6× up from $250M), 250% Q-growth. Enterprise clients: Cursor, Lovable, Mistral, Vanta, Asana. Local capture wins market.
Moonshot AI's Kimi chatbot hit $200M ARR and secured ~$2B in new funding at a $20B+ valuation, led by Meituan's venture arm.
Blitzy secures a $200M Northzone-led round at a $1.4B valuation for its autonomous vibe-coding software development platform.
CopilotKit's $27M raise (Glilot Capital, NfX, SignalFire) bets on agentic UI as the next frontend paradigm — connecting humans and AI agents at the interface layer.
Trump proposes cutting NSF budget from $9B to $5B/year. Yann LeCun and others warn of projected impacts: decimated basic research, far fewer PhD graduates, and a broken technology innovation flywheel.
Haun Ventures raises $1B across two funds expanding into AI agents and fintech — signaling convergence between crypto-native VC and the agentic AI investment category.
DeepInfra's $107M Series B, co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, funds expansion of its 190+ open-model inference cloud amid surging enterprise demand for open-source model hosting.
Featherless.ai raises $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures to grow its 30,000+ open-model serverless inference platform.
JuliaHub raises $65M Series B led by Dorilton Capital to build agentic tools for designing complex physical products like cars and aircraft.
Actively, an AI sales agent startup challenging Salesforce, secures $45M Series B at $250M valuation co-led by TCV and First Harmonic.
Sereact closes $110M Series B led by Headline VC for software enabling industrial robots to handle novel untrained tasks — a breakthrough for flexible manufacturing AI.
ComfyUI closes $30M at $500M valuation, cementing its position as the leading node-based orchestration layer for AI image, video, and audio production.
Mistral AI's Series D round values the company at $12B, with funds targeting European sovereign infrastructure.
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