BusinessSwedish startup Lovable in talks to raise $300M at $13.2B valuationLovable, a Swedish "vibe-coding" startup, is reportedly negotiating a $300 million funding round that would value the company at $13.2 billion, double its December valuation of $6.6 billion.2 min read
BusinessGeneral Intuition raises $320M to train world models on gaming data as path toward AGIGeneral Intuition, a New York startup backed by Jeff Bezos and valued at $2.3 billion, closed a $320 million funding round led by Coatue with participation from Eric Schmidt and researchers from MIT and Google DeepMind.5 min read
BusinessMicrosoft trims workforce and shifts AI workloads to cut infrastructure costsMicrosoft is cutting about 4,800 jobs—roughly 2.1% of its workforce—while moving some Excel and Outlook AI tasks from OpenAI and Anthropic to its own MAI models, according to Bloomberg.2 min read
BusinessPrime Intellect raises $130M to sell a full-stack platform for building enterprise AI agentsPrime Intellect closed a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation to offer a turnkey platform that helps companies build and train their own AI agents.4 min read
BusinessAI startups report accelerating revenue milestones as ARR measures divergeSeveral AI-focused companies have reported not only growing revenues but accelerating pace in hitting annualized revenue milestones, though they use different ARR definitions.3 min read
BusinessGeneral Intuition aims for AGI by training world models on gaming dataGeneral Intuition, a Bezos-backed New York startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to develop world models for physical intelligence using gaming and limited real-world data.3 min read
BusinessSambaNova Raises $1B at $11B Valuation, Expands Partnerships with Intel and JPMorgan ChaseSambaNova Systems announced a $1 billion first close of its Series F at an $11 billion valuation, led by General Atlantic, with additional investors expected to join in a second close.3 min read
BusinessChinese AI startup DeepSeek develops in‑house chip to lessen Nvidia dependenceReuters reports that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is working on its own AI processor to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware.2 min read
BusinessCloudflare introduces paywall model to charge AI crawlers for web scrapingCloudflare has launched a system that lets its customers charge AI models and automated agents for scraping website content.2 min read
BusinessInvestors Shift Focus to Memory as the Latest AI Supply-Chain BottleneckInvestors have rotated through AI infrastructure opportunities — from models like OpenAI to chips and data centers — and are now concentrating on memory chips as a potential bottleneck.2 min read
BusinessMicrosoft shifts more Office AI to in‑house models as costs riseMicrosoft has begun routing a portion of Excel and Word prompts to its own MAI models as part of cost‑saving measures, Bloomberg reported.2 min read
BusinessDeepSeek develops in-house inference chip to reduce reliance on foreign processorsChinese AI firm DeepSeek has begun developing its own inference chip, a project started about a year ago aimed at running trained models more efficiently and reducing dependence on Nvidia and Huawei processors.3 min read
