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Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here. The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats,...

This week's Picture of the Week looks at Skild AI's quadruped robots, which will be trialled in the airside terminal at Pittsburgh...

Chai Discovery, the AI company building a computer-aided design suite for molecules, today announced a collaboration with GSK.

TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago, has raised...

LOS ANGELES (October 8, 2026)—Ashurst Perkins Coie is proud to congratulate longtime client World Labs, a leading spatial intelligence...

Every software company has to become an AI company, or they'll perish,” SAP's Sean Kask said in Turin, explaining its Prior Labs bet.

Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones...

LATENT, from Galbot, Tsinghua and collaborators, won an IROS 2026 entertainment paper award. In the paper, a Unitree G1 returned forehands...

Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet Inc. company using artificial intelligence to discover drugs, is in early talks to raise new funds at a...

French company also open to investing in data centres in the Emirates.

Reflection, Mistral are releasing new options that they say rivals models from China.

Liquid AI builds personal AI around device-level context, efficient models and continuous improvement, helping agents work within fixed...

Ivo has launched a super-affordable 'open-source model for contract work'. Branded as Sage, it was built in partnership with River AI by...

Rivercell, a Paris-based BioTech and AI company building proprietary cell-response data infrastructure and a world model that predicts how...

Nous Research CEO Dillon Rolnick, in white shirt in center, posed with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in dark outfit next to Rolnick,...

Nvidia stock in focus as backed startup Reflection AI launches Beam to take on Chinese rivals like DeepSeek and Kimi. Here's what to know.

The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4...

Physical Intelligence allegedly overstayed its Mission lease, months after it expanded into unleased areas and improved them without...

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

Sam Altman-backed Merge Labs has a new competitor in the race to build a brain-computer interface powered by ultrasound.

Sources say Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is close to raising at...

For the past few years, the AI safety conversation has been overwhelmingly dominated by software. We worry about large language models...

Key takeaways from Source interview with Unconventional AI [un]C…

A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system that could...

Bloomberg Intelligence says Chinese AI models trail US rivals by just 3% on benchmarks, down from 15%, after DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash launch.

Discover Taku, the new semi-humanoid AI robot by Dyna Robotics designed to handle laundry, slicing vegetables, and store shelving in...

When Xaira Therapeutics debuted in 2024 with a gobsmacking $1 billion in funding, a natural expectation would have been for a flurry of...

Prime Intellect launches Prime Inference, serverless and reserved serving for open models, running GLM-5.3 on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72.

The Pittsburgh International Airport will soon have tech from one of the city's hottest robotics startups roaming around.

MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework reduces coding agent evaluation costs by using a language model to rank candidates, achieving 35.1%...

San Mateo, Calif.-based Generalist is an AI robotics company founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Pete Florence and Andy...

General Intuition has raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation as the AI company begins making its foundation models available to...

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPU on CoreWeave accelerate agentic AI for companies including Cognition, extending a nearly decade-long...

DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) has publicly released software developed with Huawei Technologies Co. for programming AI chips, highlighting its...

Black Forest Labs' open-weights 7B FLUX 3 Action leads Nvidia's RoboLab-120 leaderboard on 42.9%, with Nvidia's 16B Cosmos3-Nano-Policy...

Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it would acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI startup, World Labs, in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion,...

Luma AI COO Caroline Ingeborn says generative AI could help bring more film and television production back to Los Angeles by lowering costs...

Dyna Robotics has launched Dyna 2.1, a semi-humanoid robot designed to autonomously complete full commercial work such as laundry shifts,...

Liquid AI d1 returns calibrated probabilities for classification, routing and scoring in 1 call with 0 output tokens.

H Company's Holo4 computer-use models click, code and call tools, scoring 85.2% on OSWorld at $0.08 per task.

AI lab PrismML, founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica, has developed a version of its tiny language models...

By Yifei Zhu For decades, the cerebellum, a major structure of the hindbrain located at the back of the skull beneath the cerebrum and...

AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in an $8.2...

Christopher Manning — the Stanford NLP professor whose career has tracked language models from n-gram statistics to GPT-3 — used this...

Will AI agents trigger a SaaS collapse? Discover why deep workflows, enterprise data, and specialist platforms still matter.

Thinking Machines Lab selects Crusoe Managed Inference to run production workloads, including Inkling and GLM models, on dedicated NVIDIA...

Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by Sept. 25 to save up to $200.

Nvidia-backed Skild AI teaches robots new tasks from a single video.

It would be a brave or foolhardy investor who set out today to build a new Walmart, Uber or Amazon. Yet in the world of AI models,...

Liquid AI's on-device Liquid Context now runs on Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU. A new draft model speeds up its vision model's decoding by up to...

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark drafter speeds vision-language decoding up to 3.13x on Apple silicon and 2.66x on NVIDIA H100.

Lila Sciences said on September 25, 2026, that its AI-directed laboratory proposed, synthesized and screened 2,942 catalysts for green...

Investors are funding AI companies at the research stage, before a finished product or clear revenue model exists. The strategy rests on...

With little help from frontier labs, independent researchers are piecing together how AI agents coordinate in internet backwaters to access...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 24, 2026--Edison Scientific announces agreement with Springer Nature, bringing trusted research into Kosmos.

PRNewswire/ -- Xisiid Intelligence, an AI neo-lab exploring new paradigms for next-generation artificial intelligence, announced the...

Key takeaways from The Information interview with Core Automation co-founder and CEO Jerry Tworek (September 2026):. Why he left OpenAI.

The AI Lab PrismML — founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica — has created a version of its tiny language...

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the German AI startup best known for its FLUX image and video models, is pushing deeper into robotics with FLUX 3...

Physical Intelligence, a $12 billion robotics startup, leases 233500 square feet in Mountain View near Google's headquarters for offices and...

Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup launched by former Anthropic PBC researchers, is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a...

LawZero wants the backing of more countries and donors as it tries to show rule-following systems can compete with ChatGPT and Claude.

On September 20, 2026, Beijing-based AI lab StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a 600-billion-parameter reasoning model that posted one of the...

After testing S1 at NVIDIA's Houston factory, the Pittsburgh startup says the new software cuts training time to just hours and could...

Skild AI co-founder Abhinav Gupta discusses the company's S1 model and plans to scale robotic software production at the AI Horizons Summit.

SAP completed the acquisition of Prior Labs in July 2026. Purchase price: not disclosed (SAP May PR: "Terms of the deal were not disclosed")...

Artificial intelligence laboratory PrismML has released the Bonsai 2 27B language model, a compressed version of Alibaba's open Qwen3.8 27B...

Thinking Machines Lab, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research startup, has signed a 21,500-square-foot lease at 79 Fifth...

Plus: Gilt Groupe's New York mafia; Eclipse backs manufacturing AI startup Noetive.

PRNewswire/ -- Today, at ALL IN, Canada and Germany announced funding of up to CAD $300 million for LawZero to develop a fundamentally new...

Cognition AI is an applied AI lab focused on building end-to-end software agents that act as collaborative AI teammates.

In a post published on his public WeChat account, DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu said he expects AI to soon surpass him at the work he loves.

One Israeli vendor, Irregular, links AI testing incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta in 2026. Here is what the disclosures confirm.

If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.

Talent, capital and customers need different kinds of proof. Eight frontier labs and fourteen category labs mapped by public positioning.

AI lab Inherent was founded by DeepMind alumni and has been backed with $50m from VCs such as Index and Radical.

Emulate was founded in August by Jack Parker-Holder, Matthew McGill and Philip Ball of DeepMind's world-model team.

Index and Lightspeed in talks to back the Genie creators at a $3.7bn valuation.

Diogo Almeida's lab launches Jev, a 'System One' model priced at $42 per billion input tokens.

An industrial AI model for physical industries, co-founded by Meta veteran Amir Frenkel and Dan Barak; Craft Ventures and Westly Group joined.

Seed led by DCVC.

Founded by former leaders from Anthropic, Mirendil is the latest AI startup targeting scientific breakthroughs in biology and materials...

More than 60 paying customers and $50M recognised since deployments began ten months earlier; company-reported figures.

Skild AI Inc., a fast-growing startup that develops software to help robots learn tasks, has reached $100 million in recurring revenue...

On August 14, 2026, legendary Google engineer Jeff Dean announced his departure from the company he had served for years, co-founding Discovery Loop with O.

What's the deal? An interview with Robin Rombach, co-founder of Black Forest Labs, explains why the Freiburg-founded AI company was...

Engram turns raw agent interactions into structured, durable, permission-scoped memory served through Weaviate's vector database,...

The NSA, FBI and CISA are targeting six Chinese labs including DeepSeek and Alibaba, and advising AI providers to alter suspicious...

Veeda AI, the Toronto-headquartered startup founded by computer vision researcher Sanja Fidler weeks after her departure from Nvidia.

The NSA, FBI and CISA named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI, alleging that they extracted large volumes of data...

Skild AI's S1 robotic foundation model harnesses NVIDIA technologies spanning synthetic data generation, model training, simulation and...

Y Combinator's latest Paper Club session brings together researchers from Snorkel, Inception Labs, and Anthropic to argue that data — not...

Xaira TherapeuticsCEO: Marc Tessier-Lavigne Based: South San Francisco, CA Founded: 2024There's a translation problem between drug discovery and preclinical...

A sweeping agreement with startup Poolside aims to build an open AI ecosystem in the U.S. to compete with Chinese heavyweights and American...

River AI, the full-stack AI company founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has announced US$1.1 billion in funding, led by General...

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

Today, Hark announced that the company is partnering with AT&T to bring the next generation of AI-native consumer devices to market.

Leading Chinese robotics and embodied artificial intelligence firm Beijing Galbot Co Ltd launched its first three overseas fully autonomous...

After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile...

The startup founded by former Google AI search employees raised $43 million to help companies build their own specialized AI models.

A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, unveiled what they've built on their own: an AI model that...

Inherent, a London AI startup founded by DeepMind alumni, says its Faraday agent built on a 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model outperformed...

Deep Cogito, a post-training research lab focused on reinforcement learning and self-improvement, today announced a $43 million Series A led...

CuspAI launches the AI Materials Foundry, uniting global tech leaders, compute and data to accelerate novel materials discovery with its...

The company that owns the late Carl Sagan's intellectual property rights sued AI startup Luma AI in California ​federal court on Tuesday for...

The multiyear agreement gives Merge Labs access to Butterfly's ultrasound-on-chip technology to develop less-invasive neural interfaces.

Ex-OpenAI researchers Yash Patil, Rhythm Garg and Linden Li founded Applied Compute to deliver custom open-source AI for modern enterprises.

Appian is experiencing accelerating growth, driven by its differentiated AI-powered business process automation platform.

Anthropic reportedly ended talks to acquire Decart AI for $6 billion after due diligence, though the companies could still pursue a future...

Axiom Math researchers used AI to verify the 246 theorem on prime numbers, a big step toward using math to ensure AI-generated code is...

AI startup Discovery Loop is seeking to raise funds again ​at a valuation of $50 billion, ‌the Business Insider reported on Friday,...

Cartesia expands Voice AI capabilities with Sonic-3.6, featuring improved natural delivery and multilingual updates across new locales.

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.

Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation.

Insider Brief Physical Superintelligence (PSI), founded by Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, launched with $58...

Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI startup launched earlier this year by ex-Google DeepMind AI researcher David Silver,...

The reinforcement-learning lab valued at $5.1B retroactively elevates six senior researchers.

Laurent Sifre, the last remaining member of H Company's founding team, is also leaving the Paris-based startup. Indeed, Sifted reports that...

H Company's NeoMME packs text tokens and raw image patches into one bidirectional Transformer for visual document retrieval.

Adaption Labs' Invent a Dataset generates training-ready instruction and preference rows from a task description, no seed corpus.

More than 3x the $12B seed valuation; Nvidia weighing a ~$2.5B cheque.

From $545M in March 2025 to $8B in October 2025 to $25B in March 2026.

Raising $350M at a $3.25B valuation 15 months after founding, on ~$50M annualised revenue.

TQ Ventures led; total funding passes $56M.

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2026 — Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight foundation model built for agentic...

Inherent, a London-based AI lab founded by alumni of Google DeepMind, has announced that its AI agent, Faraday, has surpassed larger models...

A non-exclusive licence, 109 staff hired, and $1B invested at $12B pre-money. 'Neo labs are just going out of favour.'

Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the...

Unchanged since the record $2B seed; co-founders Zoph and Metz returned to OpenAI in January.

How Harvey and Applied Compute built a specialized model that delivers higher-quality legal document analysis at lower cost.

Startups building their own models must spend limited funding to secure enormous clusters.

Verena Puhm, a former Luma AI exec and filmmaker, has launched LA-based production company Matriarch.

Core Automation, an AI continual learning model developer founded this year, is looking to raise up to $500 million in new funding,...

Project Prometheus, the physical AI company helmed by Jeff Bezos, leased 100000 square feet in Oakland for its operations.

Decart is an AI lab's AI lab.

As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs...

'Maybe they'll even acqui-hire a neolab like SSI or Thinking Machines.'

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's personal-AI lab; AMP PBC co-led, Nvidia and AMD strategic.

Dyna Robotics has introduced DYNA-2, a robot foundation model it says was trained on more than 1 million hours of first-person human video.

Applied Compute, a year-old startup that helps companies run and customize open-source models with their own data, is discussing a new...

Prime Intellect open-sources Prime Agent, an MIT-licensed self-improving RLM harness that scores 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3 with Opus 5.

The rogue AI attacks involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all tied back to a small Israeli startup named Irregular.

AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self-improving AI research,...

On August 5, 2026, a founding team comprised of some of the world's leading experts in artificial intelligence and distributed...

RadixArk has secured a $100 million seed round at a $400 million valuation, as demand for AI infrastructure continues to grow.

Chinese entrepreneurs launch AI labs focused on world models; venture capital follows.

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in...

Volta emerged from stealth, saying it is focused on helping AI labs, AI-native companies and enterprises access dedicated AI infrastructure.

Jeff Bezos has backed CuspAI, a startup using AI to discover new chip materials. Learn how its technology works, what is proven and where...

On July 14, a start-up with Caltech roots, PrismML, released Bonsai 27B, a free artificial intelligence (AI) model compressed enough to run...

Status as of August 2, 2026: no Reflection AI open model has been released.

Arena CEO Anastasios argues that open-source AI models will command a $100 billion market and data will become a trillion-dollar industry,...

Simile is building the statistical mirror image of an AGI. While frontier labs pour capital and compute into models that reason like...

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 pioneers unified multimodal generation—beating Seedance 2.0 and Grok Imagine.

SAP will pay Prior Labs more than $1 billion over the next four years to help it scale. Plus, more billions raised by Under 30s.

Hark's $700M Series A was filled by strategics: Nvidia, AMD Ventures, ARK, Brookfield, Intel, Qualcomm, Salesforce. A Thinking Machines co-founder stepped down and joined OpenAI.

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based...

Flapping Airplanes, a research-focused startup that's trying to find ways to use less data to train AI models, is in talks to raise capital...

With help from Kelsey Brugger. This is a headshot of Yash Patil. Yash Patil | Applied Compute handout. Yash Patil is the CEO of Applied...

Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil, co-founders of Core Automation, argue on the podcast Training Data that the transformer architecture has...

Max Welling is a computer science professor at the University of Amsterdam and the co-founder of CuspAI, a UK-based start-up aiming to...

Most of the $650M raise goes to a multi-year AWS commitment.

An equity investment plus a 10x compute boost as part of a strategic partnership.

LTM today announced a strategic partnership with Cognition, the AI lab behind the software engineering agent Devin.

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead Ilya Sutskever,...

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

Genesis AI is in talks to raise $500M at a $3B valuation, a 28x markup from its 2025 seed round, with Premji Invest expected to lead the...

The AI ecosystem in China is probably much better than people thought."

Quasa #QUA #prismml PrismML is a U.S.-based AI research company (with strong Caltech origins) focused on a critical challenge: how to...

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M.

Customization is what enables developers to take a general model and tailor it to use cases, domains, languages, and more.

Learn about X-Energy joining Project Prometheus to support AI-accelerated deployment of advanced nuclear energy technology.

The Prior Labs acquisition gives SAP specialized tabular models, but its €1 billion investment must now deliver measurable business results.

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Poolside AI has built something that sounds more like a SpaceX production line than a traditional AI lab: a "Model Factory" that runs 10000...

Former Xbox engineering VP Jared Palmer has left Microsoft years ahead of Project Helix's release and is now serving a similar role at AI...

Latent Labs has launched Latent-Y, a groundbreaking AI-driven drug design agent, offering researchers free daily access and on-demand...

Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now...

The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has chosen Amentum to enter negotiations for a phased lease to...

During WAIC 2026, we conducted a group interview with Richard Sutton, a pioneer in reinforcement learning and the 2024 Turing Award...

CuspAI raises a $400M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, backed by Bezos Expeditions and Kleiner Perkins, to scale its AI “search engine for...

Organizations in the public sector and elsewhere are leading efforts to expand AI literacy in their workforces. Several trends are emerging...

The AI Materials Foundry brings together a global network of data, labs, compute and scientific expertise, orchestrated by a single agentic...

SAP has completed the acquisition of Prior Labs, the pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs). Read the news.

K3 might undermine the conventional wisdom that U.S. firms can maintain their extended lead by simply outspending Chinese competitors on...

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun's world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the...

Sakana AI is advancing AI progress by building more capable systems not only by scaling individual models, but by orchestrating many open,...

Andrew Dai left Google's DeepMind and within five months raised $55 million for Elorian AI at a $300 million valuation, before the startup...

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first in-house AI model Wednesday morning,...

Today, Latent Labs launches Latent-Y, its lab-validated drug design agent, to researchers worldwide through the Latent Labs Platform.

Elorian, founded by the ex-Google Brain and DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, believes that learning from, and reasoning about, images is...

Prime Intellect raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation, with rival AI founders like Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas and...

The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor interest in using artificial intelligence to tackle problems...

PrismML says its compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen model uses up to 15 times less memory, potentially advancing Apple's AI push.

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in...

Radical Ventures led, at a $1B valuation.

Backed by NVIDIA, Poolside AI has launched its lightweight, local-ready Laguna XS 2.1 model alongside a flagship enterprise variant to...

See how Odyssey cut infrastructure costs up to 4.4x on Crusoe Cloud and scaled its Explorer launch to hundreds of thousands of users with...

Rhoda AI will move its R&D hub to a 71000-square-foot Sunnyvale facility, providing the $1.7 billion startup enough space to triple its...

PRNewswire/ -- Cognition, the AI lab behind the software engineering agent Devin, today announced Devin Security Swarm, to help security...

On 27 June 2026, Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR) was added to both the Russell 1000 Defensive Index and the Russell 1000 Value-Defensive...

a16z and Kleiner Perkins co-led at a $1B valuation; Nvidia joined.

Some call it a dangerous path to runaway AI, others call it vibe research.

Edison Scientific and biotech investment firm Population Health Partners entered a strategic partnership to leverage AI agents in drug...

CEO Misha Laskin confirmed the round closed at a $25B pre-money valuation in April.

What's the deal? London-based AI lab Inherent has emerged from s…

Unconventional AI Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence architecture that could improve the power efficiency of image generation...

Unconventional AI is asking investors to believe that a two-month-old chip company can cut AI inference power by 1,000 times.

Meta's Superintelligence Labs has hired three founders and additional team members from AI security startup Virtue AI. Amid a swell of AI...

Meta is bringing the three co-founders of AI safety pioneer Virtue AI—Bo Li, Dawn Song, and Sanmi Koyejo—into its Fundamental AI Research...

General Intuition, an AI lab that uses gaming content for training, raised $320 million in Series A funding at a $2.3 billion post-money...

The UK government has announced funding for two new artificial intelligence research labs based at the University of Oxford and UCL.

a16z leads Mirendil's Seed round.

The UK government has announced up to £60 million in funding for two new artificial intelligence research labs that it said will focus on...

Engram co-founders Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin argue the industry's obsession with ever-larger context windows and retrieval-based...

Mirendil raises $200 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins to make AI that can do the job of an AI engineer.

Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK's position...

Minister makes case for “forward-facing” academic research infrastructure. The UK government has funded two fundamental AI research...

Two new research labs led by Oxford and University College London are to share up to £60m in government funding to develop breakthroughs in...

Discover how artificial intelligence is reshaping software testing and learn the essential AI engineering skills needed to advance your tech...

Loft Orbital is working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test the use of artificial intelligence on spacecraft to improve Earth...

AI memory startup Engram raised nearly $100 million in a bid to improve model efficiency and curb skyrocketing costs.

Startup Odyssey has secured a Series B funding round of $310 million. The Palo Alto-based AI lab is one of a growing number of companies...

Aaru says it can predict our choices without asking us. Plus: lessons from the Asia Economic Summit and the realities of AI infrastructure...

Building on our body of research supported by our Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB), we collaborated with Applied Compute to post-train a frontier...

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 generates roughly 1,000 tokens per second and scored 90 on the AIME 2026; Google's recent DiffusionGemma hits...

Vaswani will work on Nvidia's Nemotron open models; 'taking Ashish away from AMD was also a motivator.'

QUA #poolside #Quasa Poolside (featured on Quasa.io/projects/poolside) is a frontier AI lab building the most capable foundation models and...

Fields Medal team and global mathematicians stress the value of following proofs step by step amid rapid AI advances. AI startup Math Inc.

Quasa #QUA #zyphra Zyphra (featured on Quasa.io/projects/zyphra) is a full-stack open superintelligence company building sovereign,...

General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time,...

What's the deal? Core Automation, an AI model developer founded in late March 2026 by former OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek, is seeking to raise between...

Amazon and Nvidia back the self-driving veterans' world-model lab.

NEA: the next venture-scale AI companies will be research-first labs that own a domain corpus and an RL and verification loop. 86 labs mapped across 14 categories.

CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge materials-AI startup, is reportedly raising $400M led by Jeff Bezos's family office at a $2.6bn valuation,...

Joon Sung Park, founder and CEO of Simile, argues that the AI models powering ChatGPT and Claude — despite their superhuman performance on...

Following a rigorous evaluation of the infrastructure market and a historic $1.1 billion seed round, Ineffable Intelligence enters agreement...

PRNewswire/ -- Genesis AI, a global full-stack robotics company, and LG CNS, a leading Korean AI Transformation (AX) company,...

Genesis AI, the French robotics startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, unveiled its first general-purpose robot ​on Tuesday,...

China's DeepSeek raised more than $7.4 billion in its first round of fundraising to support its costly development of artificial...

Project Prometheus is Jeff Bezos' stealth AI startup focused on automating manufacturing with world models, targeting industries like...

The startup joins peers MiniMax and Zhipu AI on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Deedy Das's valuation table, based on media reports and rumours.

Safe Superintelligence Inc. has raised $6 billion in total funding and reached a $32 billion valuation since its June 2024 founding,...

The Next Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence. As the world enters the era of artificial intelligence, Japan has a unique opportunity to reclaim its position...

H Company, the French startup specializing in agentic AI, has joined Nvidia's Nemotron coalition. The announcement was made during Nvidia's...

Radical Ventures led at a $2B valuation.

Artificial intelligence research startup Lila Sciences Inc. is in talks to raise about $2 billion at an expected valuation of about $8.5...

The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek will secure external investments totaling 6 billion euros for the first time to remain competitive.

Wondering what do after Grounded's Oak Lab? After finding BURG.L under the Oak Tree, players need to reach the Southeast Hedge Lab.

The next AI race is in the physical world, according to Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Luma AI listened. The company is announcing the launch of...

Axiom Math, a $1.6B AI unicorn, is building a formally verified library of economic theorems — and already found gaps in the foundations of...

StepFun's Step 3.7 Flash is drawing attention because it pairs open weights with strong claimed benchmark performance and lower active...

Inherent emerged from stealth with a seed co-led by Index and Radical.

LeCun left Meta in November 2025 and closed a $1.03B round at $3.5B valuation; full breakdown of AMI Labs investors, thesis,...

On May 28, 2026, Inherent Laboratories (Inherent), a London-based AI lab, emerged from stealth and announced a $50 million Seed round led by...

Cognition, an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, announced it has raised more than US$1 billion at a US$26 billion...

Trajectory, a San Francisco, CA-based research and product lab building a platform for continual learning, raised $15M in Seed funding.

Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by the venture...

"We are gathered today for what I hope will be a founding moment." From the outset, Thomas Reynaud, CEO of Iliad, set the tone at a press...

A group of AI researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Superintelligence Labs announced on Wednesday...

Last week, Brett Adcock's new startup, Hark, raised a $700 million Series A at a $6 billion valuation. Parkway Venture Capital led the round...

StepFun, the Shanghai-based AI lab, released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime. It is an end-to-end real-time speech large language model with fully...

On Deedy Das's 'Ultimate list of AI neolabs: May 2026', 63 labs strong.

With stratospheric funding and a slew of founding talent from OpenAI, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab seemingly had everything an A.I....

Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, raises $700M, aiming to compete with OpenAI, Apple, Google, and Meta in AI hardware innovation.

Data science alum goes from Tesla to AI start-up Symbolica.

Founded in 2024, Goodfire is trying to fix AI's black box problem — increasingly important as AI systems take on high-stakes tasks in...

Gasgoo Munich- On May 15, Bowintec announced it has closed a Pre-A funding round worth nearly 300 million yuan.

Incyte and Edison Scientific have signed a collaboration to employ Edison's AI scientist Kosmos in Incyte's drug discovery and development...

Google DeepMind and Edison Scientific are on an ambitious mission to build the AI scientist. These platforms propose to automate the...

One of the world's most contentious AI companies just took its first outside investment. The check came from the Chinese government.

Artificial Intelligence Lab Zyphra Raising $500 Million To Challenge Nvidia Dominance.

Luma AI, a generative video startup, ranks No. 35 on CNBC's 2026 Disruptor 50 list.

Lila Sciences, a "superintelligence platform" with a focus on scientific advances, ranks No. 25 on CNBC's 2026 Disruptor 50 list.

Decart's valuation hits nearly $4 billion as investors pour capital into startups making AI computing more efficient.

Jeff Bezos's Project Prometheus closes a $10B round at $38B valuation. BlackRock, JPMorgan anchor the physical-AI bet. Inside the deal.

Microsoft and SpaceX are locked in a bidding war for Inception Labs, a startup founded by Stefano Ermon, a co-inventor of diffusion models.

Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the ZAYA1 model family, released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview — a preview of its early work in...

GGV's read of Deedy Das's neolab market map: nine of the top ten raised seeds above $1B on revenue under $10M; 95% are in San Francisco.

Poetiq's latest benchmark claim is simple but important: the next AI advantage may come from the system around the model, not only the model...

Recursive Superintelligence, led by Richard Socher with ex-Meta FAIR director Yuandong Tian.

GV and Greycroft led; Nvidia and AMD Ventures joined at a $4.65B valuation.

A London-based AI startup set up just months ago, which believes it's pursuing the fastest path to surpassing human intelligence,...

Nvidia will partner with British startup Ineffable Intelligence to develop new AI systems, the companies announced in Wednesday.

Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba's Qwen models, is seeking to raise several hundred million dollars for his new AI lab,...

A&O Shearman advises SAP on strategic AI acquisitions, including Dremio and Prior Labs, strengthening SAP's enterprise AI and data...

Periodic Labs, which plans to push breakthroughs in physics and chemistry using artificial intelligence, has seen its valuation jump sixfold...

In partnership with Wing VC's 2026 Enterprise Tech 30 list, Yash Patil, Co-Founder & CEO of Applied Compute, joins Nasdaq's Kristina Ayanian...

Deedy Das: a neolab is a pre-revenue scale startup working on long-term AI breakthroughs, usually with a $1B+ valuation. There are now 63 of them.

Insider Brief RadixArk launched with $100 million in seed funding at a $400 million valuation, led by Accel and Spark Capital, with backing...

Genesis AI, a French robotics startup backed by former ​Google CEO Eric Schmidt and telecoms tycoon Xavier Niel, on Wednesday unveiled an AI...

Simon Kohl has a precise way of describing what Latent Labs is doing, and it does not involve hedging. "I want to help transform biology...

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding.

Poolside introduces Laguna XS.2, a powerful open-source AI coding model that runs locally and rivals top industry systems.

Flying Fish Partners' Geoff Harris, Frank Chang and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo). The venture world is still digesting the...

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek released a version of its long-awaited V4 large language model on Friday.

Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia and Google; a $5.1B valuation and Europe's largest seed.

Our series about transformer alternatives starts by exploring the comeback of RNNs. We dive into DeepSeek v4 and GPT 5.5.

TLDR: In 1997, Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion. In 2016, AlphaGo's Move 37 showed AI could generate creative strategies no human...

Sooth Labs, a new artificial intelligence lab founded by former Meta Platforms Inc. employees, is raising about $50 million in funding to...

A new AI startup called Core Automation, founded by an ex-OpenAI researcher, is snatching top talent from Anthropic and Google DeepMind.

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Group founded by former engineers at DeepMind and OpenAI secures $4bn valuation in deal with Google's venture arm and Nvidia.

Gradium, a Paris-based voice AI startup spun out of the nonprofit research lab Kyutai, has launched with $70 million in new funding from prominent backers...

The founder of Axiom Math discusses why some researchers prefer to work for neolabs and weighed in on the AI talent wars.

Elorian AI, a newly launched multimodal reasoning research and product lab, has raised $55 million to advance the next frontier of...

Jeff Bezos's A.I. startup Project Prometheus recruits elite engineers from OpenAI and xAI to drive next-phase A.I. automation.

PrismML unveils a 1-bit LLM that compresses model weights to reduce memory, latency, and energy use. The Bonsai models aim to enable...

Founded in 2025 by two 23-year-olds; a $650M valuation.

Xaira Therapeutics today announced the appointment of Dr. Rachel Lane as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Operations,...

In talks to raise $2.5B at $25B pre-money.

A fivefold jump in six months from the $1.3B seed.

A secretive AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock shared new details about what it believes is a novel marriage of...

Today, Latent Labs launches Latent-Y, an AI agent that autonomously designs therapeutic antibodies from a text prompt, compressing weeks of...

AI startup Zyphra hit a $1 billion valuation and subleased the 44th floor of Salesforce Tower, securing a better deal in San Francisco than...

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Autoscience, a Silicon Valley developer of an automated AI research lab, raised $14 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst.

Artificial intelligence startup Autoscience Institute has launched with $14 million in seed funding to automate research into new machine...

Since raising a mind-boggling $1 billion in 2024, AI-driven Xaira Therapeutics has remained largely silent on where that money is being put...

Xaira Therapeutics, a company built to transform drug discovery through AI, today announced X-Cell, its first virtual cell model.

By Jayujyoti Mullick. Sara Hooker, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Adaptation Labs in the United States, said the company's...

Former Anthropic researchers, including CEO Behnam Neyshabur and CTO Harsh Mehta, have launched Mirendil, a startup developing AI for...

Axiom Math announced $200M in new funding to advance AI code verification, using formal mathematical proofs to ensure AI-generated code is...

The team behind Aaru is attracting brands including McDonald's and EY by betting AI bots can predict human behavior better than humans can.

Cathay co-led at a $3.5B pre-money valuation, Europe's largest seed at the time. CEO Alexandre LeBrun: 'In six months, every company will call itself a world model to raise funding.'

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 10, 2026 — Unreasonable Labs today announced it has launched from stealth and closed a $13.5 million funding round...

Palo Alto-based Rhoda AI, a developer of foundational artificial intelligence robotics models, said today it has raised $450 million in...

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In early February, the startup Simile, which aims to build AI models that simulate the emotional reactions of humans, was at the center of...

AI startup Inception Labs launches the first diffusion-based reasoning AI model. It's fast and cheap. Unlike conventional language models,...

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Marble, the first product, lets anyone create spatially coherent 3D worlds; valuation about $5B per Bloomberg.

Black Forest Labs, Freiburg, $3.25B.

Moonlake AI, a frontier research lab building multimodal reasoning models, today announced the open beta launch of its first world modeling...

Moonlake AI is an Nvidia-backed video game coding tool. Zero code experience required.

480M seed at $4.48B valuation makes Humans& 2nd-largest seed in VC history. Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic team building "human-centric" AI.

The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO,...

There's been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting...

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Yann LeCun backed this AI startup... tune in to find out why.

Data centers built to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) services are springing up as fast as Wall Street can finance them.

Fundamental raises $255M Series A with a new take on big data analysis ... An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Goodfire—the AI research lab using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design...

Former Cohere execs Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy; Emergence Capital led.

Flapping Airplanes announced its public launch with $180 million in seed funding to pursue a research-driven approach to artificial...

StepFun says its lightweight model Step 3.5 Flash aims to redefine efficiency and reasoning in China's growing AI race.

A 10x return on a $1.5B-$5B entry needs a $28B-$100B exit; the downside is acqui-hire protected for VCs, not for employees.

Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk's brain-chip company Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage.

A less-than-one-year-old A.I. startup just crushed the ARC A.G.I. benchmark, beating Anthropic and Google with only six people and $40000.

A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched yesterday, and a Sequoia partner has an interesting take on why they stand out.

The wave of so-called AI neolabs seeking breakthroughs they think incumbents like OpenAI will miss continues to rise. Core Automation, an AI...

Flapping Airplanes is one of a wave of new startup research labs drawing intense interest from investors, the latest chapter in the AI race.

Lightspeed led a $300M Series A for the AlphaChip creators Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini.

AI startup funding deals in January 2026, including Humans&, Inferact, and Emergent, with insights into key investment trends.

In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

Yann LeCun left Meta late last year to launch his own startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, focused on building “world models” that...

A group of artificial intelligence researchers today launched Inferact Inc., a new startup that will commercialize the open-source vLLM...

San Francisco-based startup Cartesia, which builds real-time voice AI agents, is launching operations in Bengaluru with a $2.5 million...

A pattern is emerging in the AI infrastructure world: popular open source tools are transforming into venture-backed startups worth hundreds...

Logical Intelligence, a start-up that claims to have made a breakthrough in developing a more advanced AI model, has appointed Yann LeCun to...

AI startup Humans& lands massive $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, GV. Ex-OpenAI researchers target next-gen multi-agent systems.

Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI; a product expected early in the year.

Merge Labs is a “research lab” dedicated to “bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability.

Bengio spent years warning of advanced AI's risks. Now he sees a path to safer AI. His nonprofit LawZero has a new board to help him build...

SoftBank led; Nvidia Ventures, Macquarie Capital and Jeff Bezos participated.

Moonlake AI is on Forbes' 2026 30 Under 30 - AI list. Read more about Moonlake AI, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.

Update from December 25, 2025: Poetiq has raised the bar even higher on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark. The AI startup achieved a 75 percent...

More than $10 billion has flowed into a new wave of AI research labs betting on different architectures.

Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech,...

Government body OASES helps mainland China's Xunfei Healthcare and Galbot access top doctors and scientists, funding and strategic partners.

The CEO of the $39B humanoid startup Figure AI has reportedly launched a new artificial intelligence lab called Hark with $100 million of...

Edison Scientific Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup building autonomous AI scientists to help accelerate...

The waitlist is removed and fine-tuning capabilities expand.

Moonlake AI, an applied research lab building models for real-time interactive content, today unveiled its Generative Game Engine (GGE).

Discover how Inception Labs' diffusion model, Mercury, makes LLMs faster and more cost-efficient than traditional autoregressive models.

Among sectors for new unicorn creation in November, AI once again led. The largest number of companies hailed from the data and model side...

Naveen Rao's two-month-old startup, at a $4.5B valuation.

Gradium, the first company to spin out of the Kyutai open-source lab in Paris, just announced a $70 million seed funding round.

Poetiq's groundbreaking AI breakthrough surpasses Google's model, achieving 50% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark through innovative...

Neolabs operate more like private research institutions founded by former OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic and Google Brain researchers.

Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint...

We at Sequoia are so excited to partner with co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, leading their very first round from the...

$3.25B post-money.

Tencent Cloud is joining forces with US start-up Cartesia to bring low-latency, humanlike voice AI to markets from Southeast Asia to Africa.

Harmonic, the artificial intelligence lab leading the development of Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), achieves unicorn status with the...

Valued upwards of $4 billion.

See how Moonlake AI lets teams and creators build simulations and games faster with AI agents that plan tasks, generate assets,...

Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers,...

Deedy Das: 9 of these 10 neolabs have $1B+ valuations at the seed, likely under $10M in revenue, founded by ex-model-lab researchers.

Before we get to today's column, Steph and Sri broke news Tuesday night about a flurry of investments VCs are making in so-called “neolabs,”...

In just over a month, $2.5 billion of investments made or discussed into five research-focused startups, called neolabs.

Menlo Ventures led; Andrew Ng and Andrej Karpathy added angel money.

Additional reporting by Iain Martin and Richard Nieva. Humans& will train AI models to be better at collaborating with humans.

Discover how Cartesia's $100M funding and Sonic-3 technology are revolutionizing real-time voice artificial intelligence for a truly human...

Moonlake AI came out of stealth this month and announced it raised $28 million in seed funding to democratize world-building.

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek ... At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a

Nvidia led at an $8B valuation.

Analyst(s): Ray Wang Publication Date: October 6, 2025. IBM and AMD are partnering with Zyphra to build one of the largest generative AI training clusters...

IBM and AMD announced a collaboration to deliver advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company based...

Valuation above $600M; Nvidia and Amazon among backers.

Scaling the AI Science Factory.

More than $400M at a $10.2B valuation.

Harmonic, an AI lab developing Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), has announced a $100 million Series B funding round,...

Harmonic AI, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Robinhood Markets Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev, has raised $100...

Co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures.

Reported by the Financial Times; the final valuation was $12B.

Yoshua Bengio, one of the world's most prominent computer scientists, is launching a new artificial intelligence lab called LawZero.

Goodfire has brought together a set of the strongest AI researchers and engineers to discover why AI models behave the way they do.

Greenoaks led with $500mn.

Kleiner Perkins led.

Founders Fund led.

Oumi PBC, an artificial intelligence laboratory established in partnership with researchers from some of the world's most prominent...

Bellevue-based artificial intelligence lab Oumi launched Wednesday with $10 million in seed funding. Oumi's platform is designed for...

A new AI lab with legendary founders and unique ideas.

François Chollet, a former Google engineer and the creator of the widely-used Python deep learning framework Keras, has co-founded Ndea,...

Program synthesis in tandem with deep learning.

On Dec. 12, Cartesia AI announced a $27 million seed round and is wrapping up the year with its “State of Voice AI” report, which highlights...

Magic, a generative AI coding startup, has raised $320 million in a funding round led with participation from ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

In February 2020, I attended my last conference before the pandemic broke out at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

This innovative model has already achieved a remarkable feat: the creation of a new Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), a process that would...

A startup called EvolutionaryScale, founded by ex-Meta researchers, has raised $142 million for its AI-powered protein-generating tech.

EvolutionaryScale, a frontier AI research lab for biology, launched today with ESM3, a milestone AI model capable of generating novel...

$33 million in total funding for category-theory deep learning.

Early access with a disclosed $21 million Series A.

The privately-funded French AI lab Kyutai aims to conduct open-source AI research. It already has a total budget of $330 million.

This new lab called Kyutai will be a privately-funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence.

CMA CGM invests €100 million in Kyutai, an open-science AI research lab co-founded with iliad and Schmidt Futures.