Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, raised more than $700 million for a secretive AI-powered device and interface push.

Anduril raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation, highlighting investor demand for AI-backed defense technology.

Kodiak AI disclosed a $100 million raise at a steep discount, sending its shares lower after hours.

OpenAI is reportedly set to commit up to $1.5 billion to a new $10 billion joint venture with private equity firms to scale enterprise AI.

AI research startup NeoCognition has raised a $40 million seed round to develop AI agents capable of becoming experts in any domain through human-like learning.

Jeff Bezos' stealth AI startup, Project Prometheus, is close to raising $10 billion in a new funding round at a $38 billion valuation, per the Financial Times.

AI chip startups challenging Nvidia raised $8.3 billion globally in 2026, with new rounds for Euclyd, Fractile, Axelera, and Olix signaling intense competition.

Sequoia Capital's new leaders have raised a $7 billion fund, the firm's largest, to deepen investments in AI giants including OpenAI and emerging startups.

Some of OpenAI's own backers are questioning the company's $852 billion valuation as it shifts focus to enterprise markets to fend off growing competition.

Nvidia-backed Firmus Technologies raises $505 million in a Coatue-led round, valuing the Australian AI data center builder at $5.5 billion.

AI cloud firm CoreWeave has raised $8.5B in a GPU-backed loan facility supported by a Meta deal, funding a major expansion of its compute capacity.

OpenAI has completed the largest private funding round in Silicon Valley history, raising $122B at an $852B valuation ahead of an expected IPO.

Sycamore announced a massive $65 million seed round to build an operating system for secure, autonomous enterprise AI agents.

Startup Qodo raised $70 million in Series B funding to build AI agents for code review, testing, and governance in production environments.

ScaleOps secured $130 million to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure optimization in real time.

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400 million ahead of its IPO, valuing the company at $2.34 billion as it plans U.S. expansion.

OpenAI is sweetening its joint venture pitch to PE firms including TPG and Bain Capital with a 17.5% guaranteed minimum return, early model access, and a $4B capital commitment target.

OpenAI has closed one of the largest private funding rounds in history at $110 billion, with Amazon investing $50 billion and Nvidia and SoftBank each contributing $30 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation.

UK-based autonomous driving software startup Wayve secured $1.2 billion in new funding from a coalition of automotive and tech giants, signaling strong industry confidence in its AI-first approach to self-driving.

Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30B investment in OpenAI as part of a massive funding round valuing the AI startup at $730B, replacing the previous $100B commitment.