A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI

If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at…

AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman, and other big names |

Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect, investigate, and take down identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B round…

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama |

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama |

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’ |

Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger…

Grubhub parent acquires restaurant rewards startup Claim |

Grubhub parent company, Wonder, announced that it has acquired Claim, a restaurant rewards app. Founded in 2021, Claim offers cash-back rewards for local restaurants that…

Retail startup Another raises a $2.5M seed to help sell excess inventory |

10:00 AM pst · January 20, Corina Marshall spent 11 years working in retail digital marketing and realized the industry was behind the times. Specifically,…

Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup |

Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it. This week, the startup finally confirmed…

This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027 |

Ryan Mitchell, the founder of a startup called Space Beyond, remembers looking at the night sky while camping at a state park and wondering what…

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM |

In Brief Posted: 2:42 PM ps · January 22, 2026 The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular…