AI Funding Pulse

Stability AI's $76M Series B attracted Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, and EA as investors, signaling a shift from licensing pacts to...

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation, more than 50% above its prior $20B round.

Key drivers:

• Perplexity's annualized...

Nvidia raised AI chip server prices by over 15% amid memory cost increases, exposing inefficiencies where firms use GPUs at just 5-15% capacity.

This...

Oracle is funding its AI cloud buildout through $43 billion in debt financing, $5 billion in equity, and $75 billion in customer-prepaid or supplied GPUs, creating an unusually transparent capital model tied to large contracts.

Liner secures $38M Series C funding led by LB Investment to advance AI agent technology and global enterprise expansion. This growth-stage round underscores investor focus on applied AI products for business scaling.

Gatik's $200 million Series D highlights the commercial traction in applied AI for logistics, with the company scaling driverless trucks from dozens...

South Korean AI services platform Wrtn Technologies raised funds at a $870 million valuation, signaling expanding momentum for AI startups in international markets like South Korea.

Keenable raised $26M in seed funding led by Accel to build independent web search infrastructure for AI systems.

• Nvidia beat consensus four straight quarters yet stock fell each time, averaging 5.31% two-day decline
• Q3 guidance consensus at record $104B;...

Hugging Face is exploring a sale at a $13 billion-plus valuation, nearly tripling its $4.5 billion mark from the 2023 round after reaching $100...

BlueField-4 DPU accelerates AI factory infrastructure with up to 800 Gb/s throughput, 64 Arm cores, and 128 GB memory, offloading networking, storage,...

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation above $30 billion, deepening its existing backing of the search startup.

• Revenue...

Lambda's talks for a £2.1 billion pre-IPO round at £8.7 billion+ valuation, after securing a £678 million debt facility, show sustained investor...

Nvidia is vertically integrating into energy infrastructure through a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure to speed up AI factory...

Nvidia is notifying major customers of price increases above 15% on AI chip servers shipping early next year, covering Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin...

Nvidia is extending its reach into AI infrastructure by acquiring a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a 2024 startup that secures power and...

Relativity Networks raised $22M in SAFE funding—more than double its target—from investors including Rhapsody Venture Partners and Bell Ventures to...

Is Nvidia funding AI startups or propping up its own chip demand?

• Perplexity surge: Revenue hit $750M annualized while seeking over $30B valuation...

Nvidia is exploring a technical partnership, investment, or acquisition with Korean inference startup Rebellions, mirroring its 2025 Groq deal that...

Hugging Face's exploration of a $13B+ sale underscores the premium on neutral open-source AI platforms, tripling its 2023 $4.5B valuation. Hosting...