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South Korea Bets $3.5B on a Homegrown Frontier AI Model
South Korea pledges KRW 4.7 trillion to develop a sovereign frontier model by early 2027, joining the global race to build state-backed AI infrastructure.
Jordan Hale13 hours ago
Funding Rounds
VC deals, seed rounds, and late-stage raises shaping the AI economy.
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Minerva Humanoids Launches Oil Rig Robots After US-China Ban
Minerva Humanoids raises $10M to build VR-piloted robots for oil rigs and bomb squads, with Chinese competitors banned from the US market.
Jordan Hale1 days ago
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Minerva Humanoids Raises $10M for Bomb Disposal Robots
Minerva Humanoids exits stealth with $10M led by General Catalyst, deploying Roger for EOD and offshore oil rigs. First paid pilots launch fall 2026.
Jordan Hale1 days ago
Funding 13 min
RobCo Doubles Valuation to $1B Amid Physical AI Boom
RobCo's $40M secondary sale lifts its valuation from $500M to $1B as physical AI demand surges. Europe's industrial robotics unicorn just went mainstream.
Jordan Hale2 days ago
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Flow Engineering Raises $50M to Replace Hardware CAD
Flow Engineering raised $50M at a $750M valuation to bring AI agents into hardware design, where CAD, simulation, and requirements never worked together.
Jordan Hale6 days ago
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OpenAI Signals $1.4 Trillion Value in New $30B Round
OpenAI targets $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, deferring its IPO even as annualized revenue surges past $40 billion and grows 70% since July.
Jordan HaleSep 30, 2026
Funding 12 min
Anthropic Files IPO and Signals 518 Billion Compute Bet
Anthropic S-1 discloses $518 billion in decade-scale infrastructure commitments as it targets a $2 trillion IPO valuation after November elections.
Jordan HaleSep 30, 2026
Funding 12 min
Instinct Raises $1B for Personal AI Agents at $10B
Instinct raised $1B at a $10 billion valuation on Monday, a four-fold jump in thirty days, as personal AI agents enter a winner-take-all race.
Jordan HaleSep 29, 2026
Funding 12 min
Anthropic S1 Reveals 1088% Growth at $8B Annual Loss
Anthropic filed its S-1 showing $4.59B in 2025 revenue, $8.06B in operating losses, and $518B in cloud commitments, eyeing a $2 trillion IPO.
Jordan HaleSep 29, 2026
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Temporal Signals $12.55B Agent Infrastructure Surge
Temporal's $550M Series E at $12.55B proves durable execution is the critical agentic AI layer, as NDR exceeds 200% and customers hit 4,300.
Jordan HaleSep 15, 2026
Funding 12 min
SoftBank Raises $11.9B Loan, Bets $65B on OpenAI Future
SoftBank secures an upsized $11.87B loan from 20 banks to fund its $64.6B OpenAI bet, even as its own stock collapses 13% on AI fears.
Jordan HaleSep 15, 2026
Funding 13 min
Unitree Launches China's First Humanoid Robot IPO at $9B
Unitree prices its Shanghai IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, valuing China's first humanoid robot maker at $9 billion to raise $904 million.
Jordan HaleAug 9, 2026
Funding 13 min
Firmus Raises $2B to Build Nvidia-Backed AI Factories
Firmus secures $2 billion at a $10.5 billion valuation from Coatue, Nvidia, and Blackstone to build AI factories across Asia-Pacific.
Jordan HaleAug 9, 2026
Funding 13 min
Unitree Raises 904 Million in First Humanoid Robot IPO
Unitree's 904 million dollar IPO gives China its first publicly listed humanoid robot maker at a 9 billion dollar valuation, subscriptions open August 10.
Jordan HaleAug 9, 2026
Funding 14 min
Firmus Raises $2B With Nvidia to Build Asia AI Grid
Firmus secured $2B at a $10.5B valuation from Nvidia and Blackstone to build AI data centers across Asia-Pacific, doubling its valuation in four months.
Jordan HaleAug 9, 2026
Funding 11 min
Unitree Raises $9B IPO Backed by DeepSeek and Tencent
Unitree Robotics prices its $9 billion Shanghai IPO with DeepSeek and Tencent as backers, as the only profitable humanoid maker enters public markets.
Jordan HaleAug 8, 2026
Funding 13 min
Unitree Beats Western Robot Makers in $9B Shanghai IPO
Unitree priced its Shanghai IPO at $9 billion, 45% above forecast, becoming the first profitable humanoid robot maker to trade publicly.
Jordan HaleAug 8, 2026
Funding 12 min
Unitree Raises $904M in China's First Humanoid Robot IPO
Unitree's $904M Shanghai STAR Market offering becomes the first mainland IPO for humanoid robots as net profit surges 674% and US sanctions loom.
Jordan HaleAug 8, 2026
Funding 11 min
Unitree Raises $904M IPO with DeepSeek Robot Brain Deal
Unitree prices Shanghai STAR Market shares at $9B valuation as DeepSeek locks in $20.8M stake and joint humanoid AI model development pact.
Jordan HaleAug 7, 2026
Funding 14 min
Unitree Raises $904M as China's First Humanoid IPO
Unitree Robotics prices its STAR Market IPO at $904M, making it China's first mainland humanoid robot maker to go public with 60% gross margins.
Jordan HaleAug 7, 2026
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Unitree Raises $904M IPO as DeepSeek Joins Robot Push
Unitree priced China's first humanoid robot IPO at $904M on August 6, while DeepSeek invested $20.8M to jointly develop AI models for robots.
Jordan HaleAug 7, 2026
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Unitree IPO Beats FCC Ban With $7B Shanghai Listing
Unitree Robotics starts Shanghai IPO book-building August 5, raising $620M at a $7.4B target valuation despite a July FCC ban blocking US hardware sales.
Jordan HaleAug 6, 2026
Funding 13 min
Valar Atomics Raises $1B to Build Nuclear AI Reactors
Valar Atomics closes a $1.2B raise at $6B valuation, backed by Sequoia, after its Ward250 reactor first powered an Nvidia AI chip in July.
Jordan HaleAug 6, 2026
Funding 12 min
Unitree Signals Humanoid Profitability With $623M IPO
Unitree opens $623M IPO book-building on August 5, the first profitable humanoid robot maker to list. US bans won't stop the Shanghai market.
Jordan HaleAug 5, 2026
Funding 10 min
Horizon3 Signals AI Security Era with $250M Series E
Horizon3's autonomous AI hacker NodeZero raises $250M Series E at a $2B valuation, tripling in value as AI vs. AI threats reshape enterprise cybersecurity.
Jordan HaleAug 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Unitree IPO Beats Figure AI to Public Humanoid Market
Unitree opens STAR Market book-building August 5 at a 42 billion yuan valuation with audited profit, the first humanoid robot maker to list publicly.
Jordan HaleAug 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
Intrinsic Power Raises Seed for AI Power Orchestration
Intrinsic Power closes seed funding from Kyocera and Drive Catalyst to deploy power orchestration software in data centers as power availability, not GPUs, becomes the new bottleneck for AI scaling.
Jordan HaleJul 16, 2026
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Together AI Raises 800 Million Open Weight Inference
Together AI closes $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation with $1.15B annual inference bookings, signaling shift from closed APIs to enterprise-controlled open-weight infrastructure.
Jordan HaleJul 8, 2026
Funding 13 min
Sarvam Raises 234M Series B, Signals India AI Independence
Sarvam AI raises $234 million Series B at $1.5 billion valuation, with HCLTech leading as India pushes for domestic AI sovereignty independent of U.S. models.
Jordan HaleJun 30, 2026
Funding 12 min
THEKER Raises $85M to Replace Factory Robot Specialists
THEKER's $85M raise marks Europe's largest robotics Series A. The Barcelona startup's AI-native factory robots already run inside Inditex lines.
Jordan HaleJun 13, 2026
Funding 12 min
Mistral Raises 3B Euros to Challenge US AI Dominance
Mistral AI is seeking 3 billion euros at a 20 billion euro valuation, its biggest raise ever, as Europe's AI champion races US and Chinese rivals.
Jordan HaleJun 13, 2026
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EngineAI Launches IPO to Win the China Humanoid Robot Race
EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO at $1.5B, joining China's humanoid robotics wave as Unitree and AgiBot near public markets too.
Jordan HaleJun 12, 2026
Funding 12 min
Bezos Prometheus 12B Round Reveals the Artificial Engineer
Bezos reveals Prometheus is not a robot company but a 12B bet to build AI that designs and manufactures any physical product from jet engines to chips.
Jordan HaleJun 12, 2026
Funding 13 min
Neura Robotics Raises $1.4B to Build the AI Robot Era
Neura Robotics' $1.4B Series C backed by Nvidia, Amazon and Tether signals humanoid robots' shift from demos to a funded commercial economy.
Jordan HaleJun 11, 2026
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Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI with $965B IPO Filing 2026
Anthropic confidentially filed its IPO S-1 at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time and targeting a fall 2026 debut.
Jordan HaleJun 11, 2026
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SpaceX SPCX Breaks Nasdaq Fast-Track Record June 12
SpaceX prices at 135 a share on June 11 and could join the Nasdaq-100 in 15 days, forcing passive funds tracking QQQ to buy billions in SPCX.
Jordan HaleJun 11, 2026
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Cognition Raises 1B at 26B as Devin Wins Enterprise
Cognition's Devin AI engineer surpassed 492M in ARR and raised 1B at a 26B valuation, with Goldman Sachs reporting 3x to 4x productivity gains.
Jordan HaleJun 11, 2026
Funding 12 min
OpenAI Signals Tandem AI Research in Third Phase 2026
OpenAI filed a confidential IPO on June 9, 2026 with 900 million weekly users and a $852 billion valuation, while reframing AI as a partner to humans.
Jordan HaleJun 11, 2026
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ICEYE Raises 450M Euros for Sovereign Space AI Dominance
ICEYE raised Euro 450M at a valuation above 10B, doubling SAR satellite production to 100 per year by 2028 on 250M revenue and a 1.5B contracted backlog.
Jordan HaleJun 10, 2026
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Standard Bots Raises $200M to Build AI Robot Factories
Standard Bots raised $200M at $1B to scale AI-native US factory robots that need no coding, targeting 10% of all new American deployments by 2027.
Jordan HaleJun 10, 2026
Funding 12 min
OpenAI Reveals $852B S-1 One Week After Anthropic 2026
OpenAI's confidential S-1 targets a $1 trillion public valuation by September 2026, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the offering.
Jordan HaleJun 10, 2026
Funding 13 min
SpaceX SPCX Launches at 175T Amid Overvaluation Debate
SpaceX prices its SPCX IPO at $135 per share on June 11 for a $1.77T valuation, even as Morningstar warns the target price is nearly twice fair value.
Jordan HaleJun 9, 2026
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PhysicsX Raises $300M Signals Industrial AI Bet in 2026
PhysicsX raises $300M at a $2.4B valuation to replace slow physics simulations with AI models that cut engineering compute from days to seconds.
Jordan HaleJun 9, 2026
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AlphaSense Raises $350M and Beats $600M ARR in 2026
AlphaSense raises $350M at a $7.5B valuation with $600M ARR, serving 70% of S&P 500 firms and targeting AI market intelligence dominance.
Jordan HaleJun 9, 2026
Funding 13 min
SpaceX Signals 135 Dollar IPO Price Before SPCX Debut
SpaceX sets its IPO price at $135 per share for a $1.77T valuation and $75B raise on Nasdaq June 12, potentially the largest public offering in history.
Jordan HaleJun 8, 2026
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SpaceX Reveals First Financials Targeting $1.75T IPO in 2026
SpaceX's S-1 reveals $11.4B Starlink revenue and 70% gross margin targets as its $1.75T IPO roadshow begins. Morningstar says it's worth half.
Jordan HaleJun 8, 2026
Funding 13 min
OpenAI Signals September IPO Despite $14B Loss in 2026
OpenAI files for a fall IPO at up to $1 trillion despite projecting a $14B loss in 2026, as $1.4T in compute commitments define its growth model.
Jordan HaleJun 8, 2026
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Anthropic Raises $65B as Claude Surpasses $47B Run Rate
Anthropic's $65B Series H at $965B values Claude above OpenAI as run-rate revenue hits $47B, driven by 1,000 enterprise clients paying $1M-plus annually.
Jordan HaleJun 8, 2026
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OpenAI Signals $1T IPO Race to Beat Anthropic 2026
OpenAI's confidential S-1 targets a $1T public debut in Q4 2026, putting it in a direct IPO race against Anthropic's $965B filing a week later.
Jordan HaleJun 7, 2026
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AI Wins 80% of $300B Record Venture Quarter in 2026
AI claimed 80% of $300B in Q1 2026 VC as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised $188B alone to shatter every prior venture record.
Jordan HaleJun 7, 2026