AI Builder Pulse

Major AI Funding Rounds

• 🔥 Baseten Series F: Baseten raised $1.5 billion in Series F at up to $13 billion valuation for its AI inference and...

Funding Highlights

• 🔥 Convey: Convey raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz for its AI teammates product.
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AI Model Releases

• 🔥 GLM-5.2 Release: GLM-5.2 has been released with open weights, running via MLX on Mac hardware with 1M context and...

Major AI Fundings

• 🔥 Genspark.ai: Raised $100M in Series B extension at $2.6B valuation for its agentic AI workspace platform.
• 🔥 NewCore:...

Meta introduces AI Mode on Facebook, a dedicated search tab that uses Meta AI to surface answers drawn from public posts across the platform.

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Two emerging startups are carving out alternatives in AI infrastructure:

• AttoTude closed $52M Series C (total $143M) to commercialize its...

DeepSeek lands China's largest-ever startup round at $7.4 billion, already erasing $600B in US value.

• OpenAI's 2025 losses jumped nearly 8X with...

AI startup funding is splitting sharply along two lines in 2026.

• Mega rounds dominate: Large deals are reshaping the landscape as founders face...

Developers are turning to local models and new tools to preserve coding skills amid heavy AI assistant use.

• High-engagement HN thread explores...

OpenRouter Fusion API earns 201 points on Hacker News.

Genspark.ai raised $100M in a Series B extension, bringing the round to $485M at a $2.6B post-money valuation. This massive round for the Palo Alto-based agentic AI workspace startup underscores strong investor appetite for AI productivity tools.

NewCore emerged from stealth with $66M at a $300M valuation to treat AI agents as distinct enterprise identities rather than borrowed human logins or...

Railway's $100M Series B marks AI-native cloud platforms as an emerging infrastructure category for builders. The funding targets faster code generation and deployment workflows.

Europe's push for AI sovereignty faces steep geopolitical and technical hurdles in securing enough owned compute to train frontier models.

Salesforce's $3.6B acquisition of Fin aims to strengthen Agentforce by integrating its team and tech for building custom AI agents that automate enterprise tasks. The deal signals rapid consolidation in the AI agent space for customer service.

The 2025 seed market split sharply: AI startups captured 42% of global dollars with faster closes and higher valuations, while non-AI rounds shrank to...

MW raised $21M in seed funding to scale its Living Home platform, which merges residential construction with AI to create homes designed for physical AI.

The Trump administration's decision to ban Anthropic's cybersecurity models was retaliatory, not about any AI jailbreak. It sends a clear signal: the AI industry is no longer immune from U.S. government interference.

Legal AI is consolidating into a two-platform race, with Legora actively hiring, opening offices, and buying research technology to become the European leader.

Minerva launches an AI-native consumer marketing platform for brands, backed by $20M from The General Partnership and Topology Ventures.