Nvidia Explores Equity Stake in Mercor at $20 Billion Valuation
Nvidia has held talks to invest in Mercor as part of a prospective funding round valuing the startup at $20 billion, following tens of millions in commercial payments last quarter.
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Nvidia has held talks to invest in Mercor as part of a prospective funding round valuing the startup at $20 billion, following tens of millions in commercial payments last quarter.
A new venture studio, Inevitable AI Group, has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop and launch numerous AI-native software companies.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
The biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.