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Samsung co-led a $231M funding round for Euclyd, a Dutch AI chipmaker aiming to rival Nvidia's GPUs with a new architecture.
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Samsung co-led a $231M funding round for Euclyd, a Dutch AI chipmaker aiming to rival Nvidia's GPUs with a new architecture.

Temporal raises $550M Series E to expand operations and invest in AI-era software reliability, with OpenAI, Snap, and NVIDIA as customers.

Nvidia led or co-led $1.3B in AI startup rounds in August, participating in nine deals of $5M+ each, per Crunchbase data.

NVIDIA Inception 2026 offers AI startups free cloud credits, training, and investor access to accelerate product development.

Cognition secures $2B to advance AI-driven software engineering, with NVIDIA among its investors.

Emerald AI, backed by Nvidia and Digital Realty, raises $150M but faces grid power constraints in Virginia.

NTT's IOWN fund invests $12 million in Spanish startup iPronics, its first investment to advance optical AI tech.

Nvidia led a $3.5B round for nscale, part of a $9.2B AI funding week with 46 rounds across sectors.

European AI startups attracted €677.1M in August, with the UK leading at €1.4B across all sectors, per tech.eu's monthly report.

iPronics raises $125M Series B for silicon photonics in AI infrastructure, with NVIDIA joining the round.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang credits OpenAI's new Astra model as a sign of artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrival, sparking debate.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google released AI model updates this week, while Nvidia acquired Hugging Face for $12.9B.

Nvidia reportedly in talks to invest $2.5B in Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, at a $40B+ valuation.

Nvidia licenses AI models from Poolside for $6B, invests $1B, valuing the startup at $12B pre-money.

Hugging Face founders Clement Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf each gain $1.8B net worth in Nvidia's $13B acquisition.

Superluminal Medicines raises $60M Series B to advance AI-driven obesity drug into clinical trials by year-end 2026.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is as essential as electricity, urging adoption at G20 Innovation Ministerial.

AfterQuery raises new round at $3.2B, just 5 months after $300M valuation, per Forbes.

Anthropic targets a $2T IPO valuation, 31x its July annualized revenue, as it faces challenges in compute, regulation, and competition.

Anthropic signs a $35B cloud deal with Lambda to expand AI computing capacity, backed by Nvidia's chips and data centers.

G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill features OpenAI's Sam Altman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk discussing AI's global impact.

OpenAI's Jalapeno chip, designed with AI, shows superior total cost of ownership over Nvidia's Blackwell in initial tests, per 247 Wall Street.

Nvidia's record $442B single-day gain propels it to a $5.5T valuation, while investors navigate AI's upside and dollar risk.

OpenAI quietly acquires 30,000 Mac Minis for AI training, while Nvidia's RTX Spark AI-PC chips sell out before launch.

Anthropic leads as the dream employer for tech workers, outpacing Meta and Apple, while OpenAI and NVIDIA also rank high.

OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, built with Broadcom, delivers 1.5x to 1.9x more AI work per watt than Nvidia's GB200 and GB300 systems.

Three Korean AI unicorns—Wrtn, Liner, and Wonik Robotics—raised nearly $500M combined, showcasing the country's growing AI ambitions.

Nvidia may invest in Perplexity's $30B+ funding round, boosting its valuation by 50% from last year's $20B.

NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face, the 'GitHub of AI', for $12.9 billion, a major move to expand open-source AI ecosystem.

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity during a funding round that could value the AI startup at over $30 billion, a 50% jump from its last valuation.

Callosum, a UK-based AI startup, raises a $100M seed round to build an interoperable AI compute platform, partnering with NVIDIA, Intel, and others.

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local version of its AI agent platform, running on Nvidia hardware with no cloud dependency.

OpenAI reports its Broadcom custom chip delivers better AI training performance than Nvidia's offerings, per a new internal test.

Nvidia invests in Cloverleaf Infrastructure to boost AI data center growth, part of its broader push into AI ecosystem infrastructure.

Dell launches the Pro Max with GB300, a 20 PFLOPS desktop workstation for trillion-parameter AI models, targeting enterprise AI teams and research labs.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Mercor at a $20B valuation, doubling its October valuation, to support its open-source Nemotron models.

British AI-chip startup Fractile is in advanced talks to raise funds at a $6.5B valuation after securing a deal with Anthropic.

The sovereign AI market is projected to grow from $40B in 2025 to $148B by 2032, driven by strategic national AI initiatives.

ALL IN 2026 will gather 7,500+ AI leaders including Cohere, Mistral, NVIDIA, and OpenAI in Montreal.

Safe Superintelligence gains priority access to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin chips as global AI investment hits $243.9B in 2025.

Groq raises $350M to expand its AI cloud infrastructure, pivoting from chipmaking to compete with Nvidia-backed neoclouds.