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07 May 2026

Moonshot AI raises $2 billion at $20 billion valuation as Chinese AI labs attract major investors

Moonshot AI, creator of the popular Kimi chatbot, has closed a $2 billion funding round at a $20 billion valuation, led by Meituan's venture arm. The Beijing-based AI lab has raised $3.9 billion in just six months, with annual recurring revenue surpassing $200 million. The deal signals surging investor appetite for Chinese AI startups as they compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Corgi doubles valuation to $1.3B in four months as AI insurance carrier expands into trucking

Y Combinator-backed Corgi raised $160 million in Series B funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, just four months after closing its Series A at $630 million. The AI-native insurance carrier is expanding from startup insurance products into trucking, applying its AI underwriting layer to compress quoting cycles from weeks to minutes.

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OpsMill raises $14M Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy for AI agents

Paris-based OpsMill has closed a $14M Series A round led by IRIS to expand its Infrahub platform, which provides AI agents and engineering teams with a single trusted view of enterprise IT infrastructure. The platform is already in production at TikTok and has helped one European cloud provider cut deployment times from five days to fifteen minutes, addressing a critical gap as enterprises race to automate network operations.

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06 May 2026

Ethos Raises $22.75M from a16z for AI Expert Network with Voice-Powered Onboarding

London-based Ethos has secured $22.75 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its AI-driven expert network. Founded by ex-DeepMind and McKinsey alumni, the platform uses voice-powered onboarding to create rich professional profiles, matching domain experts with companies more effectively than traditional networks like GLG.

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DeepSeek valuation surges to $45 billion as China's Big Fund leads first investment round

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab known for cost-effective large language models, is raising its first venture capital funding at a valuation that skyrocketed from $20 billion to $45 billion in just weeks. China's state-backed semiconductor fund is leading the round, signaling Beijing's strategic push for AI self-sufficiency amid US technology restrictions.

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Anthropic weighs $50bn funding round for near $1tn valuation as revenue explodes to $45bn

Anthropic is considering raising tens of billions this summer to fund a massive expansion in computing capacity, potentially valuing the AI company at $900bn pre-money. The Claude maker's annualized revenue run rate is expected to cross $45bn imminently—a fivefold jump from $9bn at year-end 2025. CEO Dario Amodei revealed the company experienced 80x growth when it had planned for just 10x, creating severe compute constraints.

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Blitzy Raises $200M at $1.4B Valuation to Deploy Thousands of AI Coding Agents

Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, secured $200 million at a $1.4 billion valuation to expand its AI-powered platform that deploys thousands of coding agents in parallel. The Cambridge-based company claims its system autonomously completes months of software work and delivers a 5x increase in engineering velocity for Global 2000 enterprises wrestling with legacy codebases.

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ElevenLabs adds BlackRock, NVIDIA, Jamie Foxx as investors after surpassing $500M in revenue

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs revealed new investors joining its $500 million Series D funding round, including BlackRock, NVIDIA, Wellington, and celebrities Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria. The company surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue and maintains an $11 billion valuation, driven by enterprise deployment of AI voice agents across major businesses.

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Krutrim abandons AI model ambitions, pivots to cloud services after leadership exodus

Krutrim, India's first GenAI unicorn founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, is shifting from AI model development to cloud services after facing funding constraints and losing key leadership. The company laid off over 200 employees, scrapped its Bodhi 1 chip, and discontinued its Kruti AI assistant. Despite claiming ₹3 billion in revenue, questions remain about its reliance on parent company Ola's ecosystem.

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IREN Acquires Mirantis for $625M to Strengthen AI Cloud Infrastructure Management

AI data center operator IREN announced plans to acquire cloud infrastructure specialist Mirantis in a $625 million all-stock transaction. The deal combines IREN's massive GPU capacity with Mirantis' Kubernetes-based management tools, aiming to streamline AI workload deployment. But industry observers question whether neoclouds can succeed where others have failed.

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05 May 2026

CopilotKit Raises $27M as Tech Giants Adopt Its Protocol for App-Native AI Agents

Seattle-based CopilotKit has raised $27 million in Series A funding for its AG-UI protocol that enables AI agents to work inside applications with dynamic interfaces. Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have adopted the open-source standard, which now sees millions of installs weekly and is used by over half of Fortune 500 companies.

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ReFiBuy raises $13.6M seed round to help brands compete in AI-driven shopping era

Raleigh e-commerce startup ReFiBuy, led by serial entrepreneur Scot Wingo, has closed a $13.6 million oversubscribed seed round to accelerate its Agentic Commerce Optimization platform. The company helps brands and retailers prepare product catalogs for AI shopping agents as Bain projects agentic commerce could reach $300 billion to $500 billion in U.S. sales by 2030.

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04 May 2026

Haun Ventures raises $1 billion for crypto and AI agents after stablecoin exits deliver returns

Katie Haun's venture firm has raised $1 billion split between early and later-stage funds, expanding beyond crypto into AI agents and financial infrastructure. The move follows successful exits from Bridge's $1.1 billion Stripe acquisition and BVNK's $1.8 billion Mastercard deal. Haun targets the intersection where autonomous software meets regulated finance, betting AI agents will need financial plumbing before better models.

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Sierra raises $950M as AI agents race intensifies with Fortune 50 clients and rapid growth

Bret Taylor's Sierra closed a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, pushing its valuation above $15 billion. The company hit $150 million in annual recurring revenue in just eight quarters and now serves over 40% of Fortune 50 companies. The raise signals intensifying competition as enterprises rush to deploy AI agents for customer service, with an estimated $400 billion market shifting toward automation.

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02 May 2026

AI chipmaker Cerebras targets $3.5 billion in IPO backed by massive OpenAI partnership

Cerebras Systems is preparing to sell 28 million shares at $115 to $125 each, targeting a $26.6 billion market cap in what could be 2026's largest tech IPO. The AI chipmaker's wafer-scale chips compete directly with Nvidia, and its $20 billion OpenAI deal anchors investor confidence despite customer concentration risks.

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