While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model…
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round |
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series…
Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent |
Meta and Snap rolled out new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and an AI…
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on |
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos. That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model…
Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions |
In 2017, Respond.io set out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps. Today Respond, with…
Unastella, a South Korean rocket startup that launched from home, raises $24M |
As SpaceX counts down to what could be the largest IPO in history, the race to build the next generation of launch vehicles is heating…
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory |
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to…
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses |
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn.…
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data |
Asia’s push into physical AI is being fueled by the same manufacturing prowess that made the region a global industrial powerhouse. Across South Korea, Japan,…
China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets |
Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage…