xAI co-founder raises $1.1B for River AI to build an open AI stack — TFN
River AI has raised $1.1 billion just two months after leaving stealth. The Palo Alto startup wants firms…
NVIDIA challenger AMD commits $5B to Anthropic and wins Microsoft in the same week — TFN
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, with the capital released as the AI company hits…
Anthropic is in talks to lease $10B of compute from Meta to keep Claude running — TFN
Meta is in early talks to lease AI computing capacity to Anthropic in an agreement reportedly worth up…
Anthropic launches Claude Science, and Google and OpenAI are already racing to match it — TFN
Anthropic released Claude Science on Tuesday, a single workspace for scientific research. Anthropic is already using it for…
AI is supercharging the timeline from founding to unicorn status
Welcome to Eye on AI. AI reporter Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: AI is reshaping who builds, and how fast. The…
One year at Anthropic, then $200M at $1B: The researchers who just closed one of AI’s largest-ever seed rounds — TFN
Mirendil, a San Francisco-based AI startup founded by two former Anthropic researchers, has raised $200 million in seed…
The New Zealand founder who couldn’t sell his idea in 2014 just raised $500M at $10.5B, and Claude Code is his biggest customer — TFN
Supabase has raised $500 million in a Series F led by Singapore’s GIC at a $10.5 billion valuation…
Lovable deepens Google Cloud partnership as AI app builder surpasses 25 Million projects — TFN
Lovable has expanded its multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud, in a deal that involves a fivefold increase in…
Sam Altman’s OpenAI just made robotics its next frontier and it’s hiring to prove it — TFN
OpenAI is actively hiring robotics engineers as it revives its robotics ambitions, with an initial focus on robots…
What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic is almost the first $1 trillion private company in history
Two weeks ago, defense startup Anduril raised a Series H round—$5 billion at a $61 billion valuation, shocking…
Anthropic opens a Milan office: Here is what six European cities in under a year actually means — TFN
Anthropic is opening a Milan office this month, its sixth European base in under a year, as EMEA…
DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs eyes over $2B funding from Thrive and Alphabet — TFN
Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in advanced talks to raise more than $2 billion, with Thrive Capital…